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“Did We Do The Right Thing?” Customer Engagement, It Can Be Really Simple!

Partners in Excellence

Yet, we take them through our regimented process: SDR handoff to AE, AE to a Demo, a proposal, and then a discount to get them to order. We revel in this, marketing is busy building content and methods to engage customers in their digital buying efforts. They search, they talk to peers, they learn on their own.

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8 of the Most Difficult Types of Prospects (& How to Deal With Them), According to Real Sales Leaders

Hubspot Sales

Are you ready for a shocking, next-level revelation that's going to turn your world upside down? Offer them an exclusive discount that's time-based or on a first-come, first-served basis. Welcome to " The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice from real sales leaders. Want more content like this?

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

In some ways, sales leaders revel in this. We revel in the predictability of our order taking process, seldom questioning whether we can do better. It’s not uncommon, particularly in software, to see discounts greater than 30%. Moving from value creation to order taking makes our jobs so much easier. This is irresponsible!

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How To Craft A Perfect & Winning Sales Pitch? 5 Key Elements

Pipeliner

Hint at that solution dangling on the edge of revelation and watch them lean in closer, hungry for more. And let’s not forget about FOMO – sprinkle in something special for acting now, whether that’s a bonus, discount, or exclusive access because who doesn’t love feeling like a VIP? Get into their heads; what keeps them awake at 3 AM?

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Sales Heroics Are Actually Sales Failures!

Partners in Excellence

All of us revel in stories of the deal where we took dramatic actions and ultimately won–hopefully not by discounting. We get an Adrenalin rush in talking about this things that we did to pull the opportunity from the ashes and into the victory column.

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

I get why sales people revel in this. Then we can always discount! I read a lot of commentary from “experts” about PLG–Product Led Growth. Apparently, much of the “future of sales,” will be driven by PLG initiatives. It leaves all the heavy lifting of “buying” to the customer.

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

I get why sales people revel in this. Then we can always discount! I read a lot of commentary from “experts” about PLG–Product Led Growth. Apparently, much of the “future of sales,” will be driven by PLG initiatives. It leaves all the heavy lifting of “buying” to the customer.