Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial. My sales POC case study.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

But it can just as easily be summed up in a few statistics: Per a survey conducted by the Association of Talent Development (ATD) in 2021, over a quarter (28%) of median sales people didn’t meet their company’s sales goals during the last fiscal year. Sales Training Programs for Beginners. or a 353% ROI.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

The world of sales is full of dangerous villains – time-consuming administrative tasks , inefficient internal processes, lack of proper tools and resources, etc. that are weighing your company down. And to top it all off, there is an even greater foe – the leaking of your valuable sales knowledge.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Sales professionals must direct AI tools, validate outputs, provide context, and maintain ethical standards. Sales enablement software remains vital for managing sales activities efficiently. AI tools complement such software through data-driven insights. Start by conducting a thorough audit of your sales process.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. B2B sales training equips sellers with skills, techniques, and tactics for selling products or services to other businesses.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 2, 2014

Sales Training Article: 2014 - So Far, So Good? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Now would be a good time to attend a sales training workshop to learn how you can save the year and make your number. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Costello

APRIL 16, 2019

In our latest research done in partnership with Databox , marketers and sales managers agree that playbooks improve the effectiveness and efficiency of calls, help train new salespeople and ensure product and services are correctly positioned. Perhaps most importantly, they also agree that sales playbooks creates a better customer experience!

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

If these segments of the company factor into sales as a whole, it naturally follows that a high-performing sales training platform should be integrated with software used by those other departments. It must support your sales training program. It should place a focus on individual, trackable coaching.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Sales Tips: Bad Assumption #3 - "I Just Compete with Vendors". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Even when working for companies that are doing well, senior executives don’t have blank checks for unbudgeted funds. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Customer Care , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. With so many opportunities to ensure customer satisfaction, it is a wonder how some companies keep blowing it. A variation on the familiar “oh no, it is not the hardware, it’s a software issue” ya right.

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LeadBoxer

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In this article, you’ll learn how businesses use varying strategies to sell to each other and what type of software they can use. Using the information provided, you’ll be able to determine which selling techniques are best suited for your company and how you can use these to effectively increase B2B sales.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sales Tips: The Potential Benefits to an "Enterprise" View. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) study showed over 50% of sales cycles that end with sellers involved, result in buyers making “no decision.”

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

I see this over and over again in the early stages of sales development at every company we help. Magazine’s Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 4, 2016

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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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2011

Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 30, 2013

Sales Training Article: Why A Rising Win Rate Could be a Bad Sign. By Drew Zarges, Sales Benchmark Index The software company''s VP of Sales boasted about his win rate. The overall number of opportunities within the company was decreasing. Sales used to know when they''d been eliminated.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. As companies work to establish processes that embrace and support the buying journey from contact to close, an interesting result occurs. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 3, 2016

Sales Tips: Do Your Buyers Have a Sense of Urgency? When trying to get to the end of sales cycles, sellers always seem to be in a hurry. I’m consulting with a client and recently was discussing a $500,000 software opportunity in a seller’s pipeline that he hopes to close by year-end. The CIO is a potential adversary.

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LeadFuze

APRIL 2, 2019

You need to make sure that your sales team has excellent communication skills and the ability to connect with clients at all levels in the organizational hierarchy. Just having a sales enablement team is not sufficient as you need to find out whether your team member really understands the company set goals. 5 Alignment.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sales and marketing are merging for small businesses and require strong collaboration for larger companies. Sales and marketing lead generation tools follow this suit. But the smaller a company is, the more their internal people need to do and the less tools they will have to help them. Need for the product.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 18, 2016

It prompted me to wonder if companies have modified their sales process milestones developed in the 90’s and imbedded them into their CRM software? I’d guess few companies have gone through that exercise. Sales cycles begun by researchers diverge from the optimal sequence of a sales process and often skip steps.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Turn a "No Decision" into a WIN. When a software client grew frustrated with their dismal results from efforts to improve sales, they knew they needed to find out exactly what their buyers wanted. This software client’s win rate significantly improved with buyer feedback. How did they get there?

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 17, 2013

The Risks of Being Behind Your Number By Q2 90% of companies behind in revenue at the end of Q2 miss their number. They require longer, 6-12 month sales cycles. 11,000 companies, 315 metrics, 14 key sales drivers, 12 years of hard data). He is currently the #1 producing Rep at a Fortune 50 software company.

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Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

If not, later in the process you will undoubtedly face objections from stakeholders who influence buying decisions at your prospect’s company. How do you then sell them SaaS software? Early on in the sales cycle, ask your prospect for feedback by saying, “Does our solution meet all of the requirements you have?

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 3, 2012

The End of Solution Sales. The Role of Sales Leadership & Management. I put it in my to read file and as I fly to Hong Kong (16 hours) to lead a clients sales leadership workshop I pulled it out to read and contemplate. Is your sales training program designed to enhance the professionalism of your team?

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. Here, we’ll discuss several aspects of sales culture, what a good one looks like, how to improve yours, and how to scale it as your company grows. How to build a winning sales culture. Encourage healthy competition.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The old-fashioned model: Outbound sales — is centered on the actions of a seller. It steers clear of automated data-handling and keeps approaches to sales and marketing separate. With sales now oriented primarily around a company website, this kind of approach can be unwieldy and impractical. Clarity is the key.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If not, later in the process you will undoubtedly face objections from stakeholders who influence buying decisions at your prospect’s company. How do you then sell them SaaS software? Early on in the sales cycle, ask your prospect for feedback by saying, “Does our solution meet all of the requirements you have?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 23, 2024

Each stage in a pipeline utilizes specific tools, such as CRM systems, business directories, as well as proposal generation and document management software. Integration of CRM software with sales automation and document management tools is fundamental to enhance overall operational efficiency in sales.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Nancy Cooper, finance chief of software developer CA Technologies, based in Islandia, N.Y., The Buying Lifecycle according to SiriusDecisions, highlighting how CFOs and other executives are involved early in the decision making, helping to drive change, and then again later in the sales cycle when the purchase must be financially justified.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Steve is an experienced leader in CRM and Sales Force Automation with a strong sales background obviously. Our chat gave me the opportunity to share publicly, for the first time, some of the nuggets I usually only share in my private workshops. I have been several times running company CEO, so I have been a buyer several times.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

Well, rack your brain no longer — we’ve come up with a slate of ready-made sales training ideas to reinvigorate your team. Why Continuous Sales Training Is Vital for Your Company SaaS companies are among the fastest moving — that goes for the products themselves and for the best practices needed to sell them effectively.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Empowering sales with executive assessment tools so that they can interactively, in a value-add workshop, diagnose prospect’s issues more thoroughly and completely, benchmark the issues versus peers and leaders to set priorities and create urgency, and provide a roadmap of potential recommendations.

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

If you offer low-price-point products with very concrete use cases and a short sales cycle, it might not make sense to invest that amount of time into each prospect. Solution Selling isn’t really a good fit for companies that compete in well-established product categories. But this approach to selling isn’t right for every team.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sales and Marketing go together like two peas in a pod … at least that’s the ideal companies dream of. The right sales enablement platform, however, could be used to unify Marketing and Sales in a single digital ecosystem, providing team members with a robust solution for collaboration, coordination, and communication.

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Jake: With Highspot, sales reps can: Find the right content whenever and wherever it’s needed, whether from email, the web, within CRM, or on any mobile device. Create a personalized experience that gives prospects a single URL for engaging throughout the sales cycle. Jake: Highspot customers measure ROI in three areas.

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