Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 14, 2023

Value leaks undermine a buyer’s confidence in your solution, reducing your likelihood of closing — and even if you do win, you’ll have a harder time charging full price. Leaving a voicemail with a defeated attitude and an “aw shucks” tone is one of the quickest ways to expose a value leak and undermine your chances of closing.

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Closing Proposal Negotiation Discount 120

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Yes, you can discount your price as a way to close-out inventory or to get out of a particular business. Argue all you want about how this is a “close-out,” but sorry, it doesn’t validate the person who earlier paid full-price. This can have significant implications going forward.

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Discount Closing Margin Resources 181

Bernadette McClelland

AUGUST 1, 2022

Tim realised at the 11th hour on Saturday afternoon (well actually 15 minutes before the tyre joint around the corner closed), that we needed two new front tyres if we were going to drive up into the Rockies. He said, ‘It’s too late, they will be closing in 15 minutes and we won’t be able to do them.

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Margin Travel Outbound Sales Leadership 397

Sandler Training

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

but every team leader in every industry is, we believe, likely to be interested in the answer to a critical question about the year 2020: What can we do to improve closing ratios and margins this year? The post Three Strategies that Will Improve Your Team’s Closing Numbers in 2020 appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Closing Strategy Margin Industry 87

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

A salary-only plan might not align as closely with the company’s revenue goals, as there’s no direct correlation between sales success and compensation. When a sales rep’s pay is directly tied to the deals they close, many will be extra motivated to identify the best targets, make the extra calls, and work longer hours to get things done.

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Compensation Salary Commission Margin 118

Force Management

MARCH 9, 2023

Rising economic headwinds mean that many buyers are adopting more complex purchasing processes, and sales organizations are looking for any way to preserve vital margins. As a sales leader, you don't want your sellers resorting to discounting to close deals in this environment.

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Negotiation Margin Discount Competition 112

The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2021

This makes it interesting for them as they figure out how to close the deal, but what about the prospect? Now they will be a problem because most have a closed mind dead set against anything original or curious. Not just more deals, but deals at full price, value, and margins.

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SME Margin Video Quota 391

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Like the rest of the world, I’ve been paying close attention to how people are using Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the platform and rebranded it as X. src="[link] style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block; width: 650px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" title=""> Take Captain Creps for example ( @captaincreps ).

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Twitter Margin Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 88

Anaplan

MAY 4, 2022

Coupled with record-high shipping costs, finance and supply chain need to be more closely aligned than ever. Commodities prices are causing panic in procurement and finance teams.

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Margin Closing 52

MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Offering a discount to help motivate the prospect can often be a powerful inducement to close a few more sales. After you have offered a price and attempted to close on that price, you have to understand that you cannot just arbitrarily change it. However, when necessary, follow these steps: 1. Stand Firm 3x. Build Value 3x.

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Closing Discount Referrals Margin 303

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Your top- tier option should include all the bells and whistles, and generate larger margins. Three Options - Provide the prospect with multiple price and feature ranges to help uncover the unknown. The middle option should be your preferred offer. Your bottom-tier option should be for those customers who want to go cheap.

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Strategy Closing Proposal Decision Maker 297

The Brooks Group

JUNE 1, 2015

In order to maintain a healthy profit margin, you must reinforce the importance of value within your sales culture. Keep in mind these 6 tips for protecting profit margin: 1. Build a sales compensation plan that focuses on gross margin, not volume. Only hire salespeople who truly believe in the value of your product.

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Margin Compensation Hiring Lead Rank 40

Sales Evangelist

JULY 21, 2023

If you make it so that your prospect can add or subtract services to adjust the price, you can avoid losing deals by small margins. Are you struggling to close deals? Take some time to think through what you sell and define it well so that you can build things quicker. This is why we created TSE Sales Foundation.

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Closing Margin Survey LinkedIn 40

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 30, 2020

If a goal of your sales team is to make better deals, faster and at better margins, then you must read (and follow) these five tips: . And, when they see it, they often use hypothetical offers to test for interest in different aspects of your ‘offer’ in order to progress toward a close. Or, how does that compare with your margins?”

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Negotiation Margin Proposal Maximizer 279

Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

3- Analyze Your Time Usage: Look closely at your recent time allocation. By investing your time wisely, you can unlock 5-10 hours per week and increase your results by the same margin. For sales leaders , these may include coaching salespeople, conducting business reviews, and developing teams. Now is the time to take action.

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Cancellation Margin Distribution Consumer 177

Force Management

JUNE 22, 2022

As you work closely with company leaders to define opportunities to improve sales performance , you may find there is a lack of agreement cross-functionally on what's important to your buyer. When you correct this misalignment, it can lead to increased margins and market share.

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Buyer Margin Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 107

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Sales Training Article: Why Are Your Deals Bleeding Margin? By John Kenney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) This blog post is for those who sometimes find their sales teams negotiating against themselves, closing dirty deals to make quota, or finding their margin-rich transactions disintegrate at the end of quarter.

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Margin Negotiation Proposal Face-to-face 40

Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

When your high performance sales people are using this skill set "the close" becomes a process of reconfirming what has already been discussed and agreed to during the qualifying step of your sales process. This does not minimize the Closing DNA. Will meet with decision makers - They will meet with decision makers prior to presenting.

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Outsourcing Services Closing Hiring Decision Maker 171

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

What Does Sales Closing Phrases Really Mean? The phrase “Always Be Closing” does not mean to be always closing the deal. What this means is that you need to be closing on the sale. But how do you actually close? The 12 Most Impactful Sales Closing Statements. How would you close a sale?

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Closing Discount Banking Follow-up 52

A Sales Guy

MARCH 20, 2012

Deals don’t always make sense, the margins can be too thin, the customer too demanding, the chance to be successful too small. We’ve told our manager it’s going to close. Bad deals suck the life out of margins. Just because someone wants to buy, doesn’t mean we have to sell to them. Bad deals suck.

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Closing Margin Face-to-face Commission 114

The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

If your pipeline was running over the brim with opportunities, you could care less how long it takes to close. If they had planned an overhaul of their materialize management, one that would add capacity and margin. The real problem is the lack of time, but a lack of viable opportunities and deals.

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Discount Quota Face-to-face Margin 297

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Meanwhile, key post-purchase discussions, such as “ensuring ongoing renewals” and “expanding lifetime value,” finished near the bottom across all measures, often by significant margins. The accompanying chart shows just how closely responses from marketers and salespeople track with each other in the revenue question.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing 237

The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Confident salesperson = Higher margins. When you play the game of closing deals with the lowest price, you’re saying to yourself and to your customers that you don’t have a point of difference. Cheap price = Cheap salesperson. What you’re saying is there is no difference in what you’re offering than what your competitors […].

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Discount Margin Selling Skills Closing 230

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This is a difficult situation for many salespeople as they may already have cut their margins right back. Be aware of what your margins are and stick closely to them. What if you’ve already offered a discount and the prospect says ‘you’ve got to increase that discount?’. So what can you do?

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Discount Margin How To Prospecting 199

Force Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Our April episodes cover sales fundamentals that reps can implement right now to improve win rates and margins. Review each episode below, and encourage your sales reps and managers to listen in.

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Margin Influencer Competition Closing 79

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 1, 2023

“I just closed a deal with a 60 percent gross margin!” What’s the net margin? The salesperson looked confused and asked, “Net margin, what’s the difference?” But the net margin is what you take home after taxes.” On a typical deal, we hold about a $500 net margin.” “So,

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Margin Decision Maker ROI Hiring 62

The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2013

As memories of the holiday season begin to fade and the last of the Boxing Day (week, month) sales come to a close, retailers begin another annual ritual, the “Inventory Clearance Sale” Makes sense, retailers want to clear old and non-selling inventory, freeing up cash, so they can reinvest it in more profitable inventory.

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B2B Margin Retail Pipeline 244

The Sales Hunter

MAY 31, 2013

When you do this, you will be able to close faster and at better profit margins. Blog Closing a Sale Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation benefits closing customer service outcomes sales techniques sales tip video sales tip' ” Sales Motivation Blog. .

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Benefit Video Customer Margin 187

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

Research shows that final negotiated prices correlate more closely with who establishes the price range. Apply the wrong advice to your sales negotiations and you’ll drive down margins, slow the sales process and lose deals you could have won. Here are five of the most common bad pieces of sales negotiation advice we hear: 1.

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Negotiation Maximizer Salary Face-to-face 218

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

Closing delays. Anyone who knows how a company’s economic engine works, knows that if you pay a salesperson $150,000 and they generate $1 million at a 40% margin, the company will get a return of $250,000 on their investment. We have already seen these factors occur across the board: Low QoQ GDP. High interest rates.

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Revenue Hiring Decision Maker Cancellation 156

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 16, 2013

You are about to close and then the customer asks for a price discount. If you rely on a price discount to close a sale once, you will do it again and again. You risk so much when you give into the temptation to close a sale by discounting price. Sure, you’re tempted. But don’t do it!

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Discount Closing Video Motivation 187

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Unless you’re doing something really wrong, the gross margin dollar yield in these transactions is in excess of the transaction cost, even when you include the cost of your direct sales force. . Margin Decreases as Deal Size Shrinks. This means that larger transactions with better margins are subsidizing the smaller ones.

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Channels Strategy Margin Ideal Customer Profile 69

Sales Evangelist

MARCH 24, 2020

How To Close More Deals Using Videos Throughout The Sales Process Closing deals using videos is now becoming a very effective tool in the sales process. They examine a company’s sales structure to figure out how to build it in a way that’s scalable, repeatable, a high probability yield, high-margin, and high-growth.

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Video Sales Process Closing How To 52

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

And it can be the difference between selling at a low margin short-term and selling at a high-margin long-term. Too many salespeople are what I refer to as tactical salespeople. Opportunity, however, lies in being a strategic salesperson. I believe the difference is huge!

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Margin Motivation Objections Competition 249

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2018

As a former CMO and CCO in large technology companies, I’ve worked closely with a lot of marketing teams and agencies. The top priority for every marketing leader should be making every effort measurable and impactful (using the same metrics expected from sales: revenue margin and cashflow). The commission model for marketers.

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Commission Marketing Compensation Margin 180

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The marginal cost of doing more of the same is close to $0. Rather than thinking, “What do we need to change about what we do to more effectively engage and help our customers,” they keep doubling down doing what is less and less effective and is driving customers away. And technology promotes that.

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Retail Scale Margin Promotion 111

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Margin compression is a huge obstacle to overcome in a down economy. Consider switching up your compensation plan if you have a product with tightening margins or if margins need to be defended. One thing you can try is to comp your reps on profit margin instead of on revenue. Adjust Your Compensation Plan.

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Hiring Salary Margin Compensation 103