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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO ACCESS DECISION MAKERS?

Mereo

According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers. When your salespeople manage to engage a decision maker, too, they must be prepared with the right talking points and framing.

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Career Advice from the Pros: Starting a Sales Career in 2020? Do This

Sales Hacker Training

Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva. Don’t jump at every new opportunity with a $5k or $10k salary bump. I Identify a challenge (getting through gatekeepers, dealing with a pricing objection, getting to power), and then I identify two different approaches to solving that challenge. Gaetano DiNardi.

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Bridging the SDR-to-AE Promotion Gap (Two Leaders' Perspectives)

The Bridge Group

I wanted real practitioners to share advice so I reached out to Kevin Dorsey , Head of Sales Development and Enablement at ServiceTitan, and Natasha Miller Sekkat , VP of Demand Generation at ClickSoftware. What’s a gatekeeper? Have you been creating just OK opportunities because that was your job? What’s Salesforce?

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The Proven Process for Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy [+Templates]

Hubspot Sales

In the traditional sales funnel, there is a lot of general interest at the top. It gradually narrows down as opportunities fall out of the pipeline. Build brand awareness and demand generation with inbound and/or outbound methods. Identify the buying center and personas. You must optimize.

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Top 25 Incendiary Social Selling Secrets

Tony Hughes

This mind shift of mind share alone will work wonders for your personal brand, company brand and make the biggest impact on filling your funnel with qualified opportunities. Remember, you're now creating demand upstream prior to "trigger events" leveraging this strategy. The holy grail is the opportunity to present on-site.

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The Proven Process for Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy

Hubspot Sales

Gatekeeper: Blocker in getting a product implemented or approved. The buyer’s journey -- from the perspective of the business -- is a funnel in which there is a lot of general interest at the top which gradually narrows down as opportunities fall out of the pipeline. Generate interest. Buyer: Owns the budget.

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170 Sales Terms From A – Z: The Updated Glossary of B2B Sales Definitions

Sales Hacker

Closed Won is the status of an opportunity where the deal has been closed with the prospect/lead who is now considered a customer. Demand Generation. Gatekeeper. General Manager. Gatekeeper is a person (e.g., Opportunity. Also called a customer. Deal Closing. Decision Maker. Direct Mail. Direct Sales.