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6 RevOps Strategies to Get You Through Economic Hardship

The Spiff Blog

There are many factors that indicate whether or not a piece of software is essential. Dig into software usage data to gain a better understanding of how teams are using the tools your organization pays for. Software license optimization is one of the quickest methods for identifying and correcting cost inefficiencies.

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6 Reasons to Walk Away from a Deal

Sales Hacker

If the buyer is this far along their buying cycle, you’ve missed the opportunity to influence their thinking, and winning the deal is going to be a long shot. Many software and hi tech equipment manufacturers have a no bid policy for ‘blue bird’ RFIs and RFPs (i.e.

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You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Why Sales Competencies and Sales Readiness Are Best Buds

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Supportive buying cycle know-how: Supportive buy cycles relate to the mindset of how you buy as a consumer and, therefore, how you expect your customers to buy. The ability to control emotions: You’re not focusing on your commission check from last week or the deal that you didn’t get.

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MBO Examples to Kickstart Your Sales Team Engagement

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MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization. Software Sales. As a result, you might see a traditional organizational goal for those in software sales stated as something like “Sell 1,000 units of new product.”

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Sales Tips: WHY Do Your Salespeople Hate CRMs?

Customer Centric Selling

Decades ago, while selling clients their first business computer systems, I learned a valuable lesson: Software is only as good as the data that’s entered. Implementing software within sales organizations such as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a significant undertaking ( What is CRM?

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Turn Sales Teams into CPQ Sales Teams

Cincom Smart Selling

In fact, the whole notion of sales performance management software has a long and not always positive history. You provide a product or service to be sold, Sales adds its time and expertise and then they sell the product at a profit in the form of commission paid. They offer a variety of approaches to “helping” Sales do a better job.

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Turn Sales Teams into CPQ Sales Teams

Cincom Smart Selling

In fact, the whole notion of sales performance management software has a long and not always positive history. You provide a product or service to be sold, Sales adds its time and expertise and then they sell the product at a profit in the form of commission paid. They offer a variety of approaches to “helping” Sales do a better job.