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5 Deal Disasters to Avoid in Future Sales

Sales Hacker

Essential collateral: buyer personas, deal milestone timelines. Essential collateral: plays or scripts with qualifying questions that round out the buying team. Essential collateral: email templates, marketing content, buyer personas, sales tech. Essential collateral: buyer personas and UVP. The average deal now has 5.8

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5 Steps to a Precise Internal Sales Diagnostic

Sales and Marketing Management

From a higher level, how do prospect profiles and sales collateral make their way to the sales team, and do those tools help drive sales? Knowing which parts are negotiable and which are not helps leaders recognize opportunities to offer discounts. Pricing : How much the product costs is just the tip of the iceberg.

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6 Ways to Generate Urgency in B2B Sales

Janek Performance Group

Establish Credibility Through Case Studies and Testimonials Effective sales collateral starts with the collaboration of your sales and marketing teams. Collateral stays with buyers when meetings and calls end. Special discounts, one-time-offers, and other time-sensitive promotions can be great incentives to create urgency.

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Use Mobility to Empower Your Sales Organization

Sales and Marketing Management

Quote approvals and price calculation - Due to the fact that important discount or quote approvals can often be lost in the email inbox of sales and finance executives, delays are often introduced in the sales cycle. Today’s customers expect immediate answers, so equip your sales person to provide them.

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3 Ways to Use Mindtickle and HubSpot to Improve Sales Readiness and Team Performance

Mindtickle

Day after day, you plan your conversations, prep your sales collateral, make dozens of calls, face a lot of rejection, and, hopefully, make progress on moving prospects down the funnel. They can see any discounts that helped close the deal, and offer that same discount or something even better to show that they appreciate repeat business.

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The Definitive Guide to B2B Employee Engagement and Brand Awareness

Zoominfo

Messaging should be built into every sales call, every piece of marketing collateral, every new hire orientation, and so on. Consider outside of the box reward programs, including an internal recognition wall for acknowledgments or special discounts and deals. This goes beyond a yearly email or company meeting. Be a brand role model.

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How to Bounce Back from a Summer Slump [Data + Tips]

Hubspot Sales

Approach your manager about levers you can pull to get more prospects biting — discounts, freebies, relaxed contract terms, etc. Collaborate on new marketing collateral. When business is slow, take time to consult with colleagues in Marketing about new collateral.

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