MEDDIC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In transactional sales with a short sales cycle and low value-added sales, it’s been prevalent to use the customer’s budget to qualify a sales opportunity. In enterprise sales, the context is different. Buyers want to reduce that cost, ask for discounts, try to save money. It makes sense.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Guest post Monday brings us John Doerr, president of RAIN Group, a sales training , assessment, and sales performance improvement company.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Sales Tips: Grading Opportunities - Garbage In, Garbage Out. In doing so, inaccurate data will provide flawed information that management will use to make decisions. In doing so, inaccurate data will provide flawed information that management will use to make decisions. Ultimately programs process data by executing rigid rules.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you’re in sales and sales engagement is important to you, this is THE conference for you. It’s three days of the sales industry’s leading minds and sales practitioner rockstars, all in one space, focused on educating and enabling each other to learn more, do more, and be more. New techniques. Get Real ROI.

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PandaDoc

MAY 7, 2024

An effective lead management process is one of the most critical factors driving sales through your funnel. Optimizing your lead management process , in other words making sure all leads, once hooked, have the maximum chance of converting to a sale, is vital to your business’s success. But not all leads are made equal.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you’re trying to optimize your sales process and empower your sales team to achieve better results, the answer lies in frictionless selling. Simply put, frictionless selling is a way of rethinking sales to effectively reduce friction and create more convenient experiences for both buyers and sellers. Image Source.

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 7, 2012

It was only a matter of time before the highly successful Sales 2.0 During the last 2 years we have seen an increasing interest and demand from business executives in Europe to understand and leverage technology within their sales organizations to improve overall sales effectiveness. The Sales & Marketing 2.0

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 13, 2012

It was only a matter of time before the highly successful Sales 2.0 During the last 2 years we have seen an increasing interest and demand from business executives in Europe to understand and leverage technology within their sales organizations to improve overall sales effectiveness. The Sales & Marketing 2.0

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Plan Your 2017 for Success. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. However, what I did have was basic management training, skills, and education. The time to begin developing your 2017 Territory Sales Plan is NOW.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sales Tips: No Decision Losses - The Good, Bad & Ugly. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. How long are you going to allow your sales organization to continue to lose good opportunities to No Decision before you take action? The good news?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Even if you hire the best sales reps , this doesn’t guarantee success. You need to train them and equip them with the right strategies and tools to succeed, such as the right CRM system , and a sales playbook. In this article, we’ll be concentrating on the latter: the sales playbook and its role in the sales cycle.

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Vengreso

MARCH 30, 2022

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is arguably one of the most powerful social selling tools available – but most teams are underutilizing it. We are seeing only about 20-30% adoption, on average, in our clients, and even many of the power users are not maximizing the incredible potential LinkedIn Sales Navigator offers. if paid annually).

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Vengreso

MARCH 30, 2022

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is arguably one of the most powerful social selling tools available – but most teams are underutilizing it. We are seeing only about 20-30% adoption, on average, in our clients, and even many of the power users are not maximizing the incredible potential LinkedIn Sales Navigator offers. if paid annually).

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Gong.io

JUNE 11, 2021

That’s how Gartner describes the importance of sales enablement. . They continue, “What was once the responsibility of product marketing, sales operations, or of a single sales trainer, sales enablement is now supported by dedicated teams founded within the sales organization” (bold is mine). Design-driven.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Are you a CEO, VP of Sales, or Chief Revenue Officer feeling pressured because your company missed its numbers last quarter? If your company needs to find new sales this quarter, this article is for you. It explores the current sales environment and what companies can do to increase their win rates in the next 90 days.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 27, 2019

According to Jason Jordan and Michelle Vazzana in Cracking The Sales Management Code, 83% of what is measured (typically in CRM systems) cannot be managed. No wonder so many CRM implementations become manage-up tools with poor data and no real transparency. Number of opportunities reviewed by sales manager.

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Too often, sales reps jump straight into their pitch without even considering their prospects’ needs or asking what they’re looking for. And in most cases, that’s a losing sales strategy. We’ll also cover the steps of the Solution Selling methodology so you can adopt it in your organization. What is Solution Selling?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Revenue = Opportunities * ASP (Average Sale Price) * Win Rate. Any easy way to visualize this is to think of a sales funnel – revenue is the bottom of the funnel, opportunities are the top, and ASP + win rate are components of the funnel itself. For those of you with a very transactional sale – that’s it!

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 13, 2019

Before you shut yourself in a room and whiteboard out a new sales process, read this. We’re sharing exercises and templates to help you build your sales process from scratch. Use this blog to refine your existing sales process with data-backed best practices. What Makes a Good Sales Overall? Already have one?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2021

That might be because, as HubSpot sales director Dan Tyre often says, “Success in sales is 90% mental.”. Believing in their product also helps salespeople avoid discounting — they know the price tag is justified. High sales achievers don’t let themselves mentally count a deal as "won" until the prospect has signed the check.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 19, 2018

We were targeting large enterprises and the sales people that worked for me understood that sales success is largely derived from having the right relationships with people, and they also talked about strategy; but when I quizzed any of them about what 'strategy' actually meant in the real world, each was like a deer in the headlights.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. Related: What is Complex Sales? An Explainer on Enterprise Sales. We hired an incredible sales team – led by Dini Mehta – to help pursue this mission and it became a company focus.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Avoid a Stressful Year-end. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. It’s drama that plays out at seller, district manager, regional manager, VP of Sales and CEO levels. Need some help to increase sales? The holidays are stressful.

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