Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2021

From Neuroscience to RevOps: How Sara used her brain to start her sales career [5:56]. Get out of the dollar bin… or… Why discounts aren’t your friends [13:53]. Sales leaders are thinking a lot about sales management, sales development, and lead gen. Can you give us a discount?”

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Once your salespeople are out in the field trying to sell your offering, should they have pricing authority (aka the ability to freely give discounts)? Let’s walk through a few of the pros and cons of allowing salespeople to have pricing authority: Pros of Giving Sales Reps Pricing Authority . Discounts set up a precedence.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2018

AI-powered bots, for instance, can be programmed to answer prospect questions, respond to emails, book sales meetings and provide price quotes. Bots can also help with routine manual tasks, like creating sales reports, completing paperwork and inputting data to CRM systems. More personalized engagements.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Social Media Buyer Persona 136

The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Discounting works on the Internet, too – but be careful. Discounting price also discounts value. Be careful about a blanket discount that can reduce the perceived value. This is one way in which discounting can work – sign up before midnight tonight to get 35% off. Random Walk Down Sales Street.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Starbucks | Top Sales Trainer | Best Sales Trainer | Top Leadership Trainer. Tweet Share Starbucks doesn’t discount a cup of coffee. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Dont let your next sales meeting suck! Who is Jeffrey? Gitomer | February 28, 2011 | 3 Comments. Even in this economy. Leadership.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 30, 2020

Because it is one thing to be in a sales meeting and learn about all the advantages these solutions supposedly provide and it is something very different to measure the actual results a customer sees in their company to understand if they got their money’s worth. Reduction or Elimination of Sales Training. Increased Deal Size.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

CEOs and sales managers have long struggled with ensuring their sales team sells on value, not price. They hold rah-rah sales meetings that tout the benefits of the product and services. They teach negotiation skills, with the goal of salespeople standing firm on the price when meeting with a professional buyer.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 17, 2013

Either the prospective client was asking for some kind of discount or the salespeople were asking for some sort of promotional discount so “I can close the deal”! 3) Your sales team has not been trained to effectively sell the value of your firm or the value of the impact of your products/services on your prospects business!

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The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

Every December the “Leadership”, would roll out the same special offer, an annual subscription for $30,000 if the customer committed before the all-important year-end, a $6,000 discount for those who bit. The other obvious lesson learned was not to sell at a discount. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Cycle.

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ensure adherence to the plan (the ongoing heavy lifting): Schedule regular meetings with each individual to keep focus on their adherence to the action plan they committed to. Facilitate regular team sales meetings where sales discussions are analyzed, practice is conducted, and team members help each other improve.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2018

Or what about the rep that offers a discount early and often, despite the fact he just attended a training course on negotiation skills? Here’s the issue: Most CEOs and sales managers focus on the wrong end of the problem. In both cases, all those good selling skills taught and coached by the sales manager went out the window.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Success , execution. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 6, 2010

It Maybe Time for a Sales Leadership Workout! A one & 1/2 Day Regimen for Getting Your Sales Organization in Shape . Build a proactive approach to Sales Management 2.0 that creates predictive revenue and a self-managed sales team. How to coach, mentor and hold more effective sales meetings.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

If you spend the last week or 10 day of a quarter “closing”, limiting or skipping all other aspects of the cycle, what will you close 10 weeks after the quarter: Discounted deals. Sales Success , Tibor Shanto , Time Allocation. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2018

In this final part of my 6-part series about the key components in your sales meetings, we talk about getting your sales meeting agenda right. So far, we’ve covered: 1) Discovery meeting structures. 2) Meeting opening. 3) Probing questions in sales. 4) Storytelling for sales professionals.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If you make a big sale and the customer calls for help and gets a grump in accounting or shipping, you lose. Maintain pricing to the best of your ability, even if your competitors discount. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Dont let your next sales meeting suck! Get back to profitability. Leadership.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

For a nominal monthly charge of $49 they will deliver 100 LinkedIn connections per month, you want 200, you get a discount price, only $89 per month. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They start justifying, overselling, defending and discounting in a desperate attempt to retain the prospect’s interest. Sales team inability to handle objections costs companies thousands of dollars a year. Stop avoiding the obvious and predictable objections during a sales meeting. What can be done?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 4, 2019

Whether it’s the sales process, how we engage our customers, how we create value in every interchange, how we manage our accounts, how we create healthy pipelines–all these things are simply good selling habit. ” They aren’t complicated, sometimes so deceptively simple, we discount them.

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Close.io

MARCH 6, 2020

Now let's look at this week's sales exposé: How to manage all of your sales meetings in one place. You look at your calendar and it's packed with sales meetings. Without careful planning and attention, meetings can quickly swallow up your entire work week.

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Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

. You can use our LIGHTHEARTED guide to test your own B2B Sales Knowledge and that of your sales colleagues. 1) Cold Calling  a telephone call Sales People dont want to make, to a prospect who doesnt want to receive it. 5) Beliefs  all sales beliefs are facts until you ask for evidence.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

What you should do: Arm the sales team with buyer-helpful content that they can both speak to and provide for the client. Create campaigns for the sales team that, rather than offering “once-in-a-lifetime” discounts or “check-in,” instead offer a report with valuable data. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Cycle.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Best 3 Episodes: Episode 022: 7 Ways to Avoid Discounting. Episode 007: 10 Sales Presentation Tips. Podcaster Blurb: Victor Antonio is a giant in the sales motivation world. Episode 005: Batter Up: Setting the Ground Rules for a Sales Meeting. Episode 016: Why You Need a Clearly Defined Sales Process.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Track the number of sales calls that last one minute or longer to be sure they’re actually having conversations that can make an impact. Meetings booked. When you know the exact number of sales meetings that are booked, it’s easier to forecast the number of future opportunities in your pipeline. Discounting.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

.” As a modern digital magazine, Sales POP! Our content is aimed at empowering sales leaders, sales management, sales professionals and entrepreneurs to achieve new heights of success. Because every sale starts with a connection. Sales Management Blog. Sales Gravy. Connect2Sell.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 98

Gong.io

JUNE 11, 2021

After reviewing nearly 70,000 sales meetings from the Gong database of 5,000,000+ recorded calls AND having our team analyze them with AI, we identified which tactics best correlate with success. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over (and over) again and expecting different results. Objections.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

To align marketing and support departments with sales, sales managers can construct an ongoing, interdepartmental job-shadowing program. Put marketing and support staff in a sales-shadowing rotation once a month to sync knowledge and skills. Weekly sales meetings would also be helpful to shadow.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Exercises Lead Rank 68

Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

. Now to achieve your Sales Goal you need to do at least one if not all of the following: a) Open up new accounts to the value of a 20% increase every month. d) Raise your prices (reduce/eliminate your discounting) to the value of 20%. c) Increase the frequency of your transactions 20%.

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 1, 2021

With digital marketing, social targeting, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, it is easy to discount event marketing as antiquated. The effectiveness of event marketing is undeniable, especially with regard to B2B sales and marketing. Visualizing your sales pipeline will assist you in better understanding your sales process.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I’ve spent 10 years in various Sales and Sales Management roles, both in Paris and London. I currently manage a team of 15 SDRs in 5 locations. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? Sales Manager focused on front of the funnel processes. ” Aletta Noujaim.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible. SaaS B2B Sales. You can improve the quality and speed of the following processes with this solution: Customer Relationship Management ; Marketing Automation and Sales Increase; Audience Segmentation; Leads Qualification; Social Media Management.

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