Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2018

Make it happen by building positive relationships with the right people inside the customer organization. If you’re a sales manager or CEO, send this to the entire sales team and put them on notice that they will be held to account. If you’re an individual sales contributor, address all of these issues now to save your career.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Find out what they are and how to easily avoid them. Here are the most common errors, along with some advice on how to avoid them. Failure to Research the Customer In today's information-rich business world, customers expect you to know the following before you contact them: Who they are. Who their customers are.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Timothy is basically starting with the premise that the way we work, the 9–5, forty year grind, is rarely in alignment with what we want to get out of life. The 9–5, forty year grind is rarely in alignment with what we want to get out of life Click To Tweet. I found that there were three types of ideas in the book: 1.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 13, 2012

These businesses rely on being sticky and keeping their customers. When customers leave it’s painful and expensive. But a less talked about (and arguably more important) goal is ensuring your customers remain customers. Let’s look at some of these ways to keep customers paying and improving your bottom line: 1.

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Don on Selling

DECEMBER 2, 2018

And finally, many companies, both small and large, prefer having salespeople work remotely in defined territories to save on travel expenses when visiting important customers or prospects, or attending trade shows. Working in sales is tough enough without having to also work remotely from your main office. You may feel isolated.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2019

These are the people who you see standing in front of 4 or 5 computers other than their own every day helping their peers — and they still manage to get their own work done. Of course, Scott is referring to emotional intelligence (EQ), analogous to IQ. This is the traditional mindset when looking for new team members. Future Closers.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Sales Training Article: Learn How to Turn Rejection into Success in 5 Steps By Geoffrey James, Inc. If you're afraid that people (customers, employees, coworkers, colleagues, etc.) will reject you, you'll avoid making difficult calls and your fear will make you less effective. The fear of rejection is the bane of success.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Also — and perhaps most importantly — both can also easily be derailed if one of the people involved says something really off-putting or stupid while it's happening. Both involve coordination, finesse, some degree of grace, and a reasonable amount of back-and-forth. You won’t find a better product out there.” Trust me.” “Trust me.”

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LeadFuze

JUNE 1, 2021

Every business needs copywriting skills and copywriting examples for their marketing strategy in order to create compelling content and get the attention of potential leads or customers. Copywriting is the process of going from an idea to content that will resonate with (and most importantly, convert) readers.

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Apptivo

APRIL 11, 2023

Challenges of choosing the right Field Service software 5. When a customer calls for a repair, the company can easily schedule technicians with the necessary skills and availability using this software. What is field service management software and why is it important? Who can use FSM software? Who can use FSM software?

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Growbots

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If you don’t make any mistakes along the way, it means you’re playing it safe and sooner or later you will stagnate. Acquiring new customers is a collective effort. So if other “parties” (think marketing, product development, customer success), do their jobs well, and sales don’t, it might eventually lead to frustration.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 27, 2016

So, whether you are a beginner looking to start out on the right foot or a veteran looking to review best practices and get re-inspired , the first step to becoming a champion of cold calling is to avoid the following six common misconceptions that can kill technique and tank sales numbers. Or because of their inclusion on a rented list.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2022

Stress makes you stupid. In my newsletter several weeks ago, I hypothesized that we may experience a recession. It is our job as leaders and sales professionals to prepare for such an eventuality. You don’t want to be caught off guard and find yourself in the dangerous place of being reactive. So, what to do? Don’t panic.

Lead Rank 84

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Growbots

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If you don’t make any mistakes along the way, it means you’re playing it safe and sooner or later you will stagnate. Acquiring new customers is a collective effort. So if other “parties” (think marketing, product development, customer success), do their jobs well, and sales don’t, it might eventually lead to frustration.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2018

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. Bonus read: 4 Ways to Ask Indisputably Better Probing Questions in Sales. Another way to view this is from the perspective of a two-year-old. You can waste time asking questions with little context or those you already know the answers to. Why do they care?

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