Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week we are peeling back the layers and digging into which marketing channels have been driving the strongest ROI. Overall, from a blend of marketing leaders and advisors ranging from Seed to Series C these are 4 core channels providing for strong ROI: #1 In person events. So, what is ACTUALLY working?

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Top of Funnel Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Channels 101

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Social prospecting, technology proficiency and content production are just a few. Have they set up their profiles to reflect both their personal and the company brand? Is the profile set up based on your buying process maps? Incent them correctly and you get what you want. Mis-align incentives and you get nothing.

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Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals Incentives 312

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Their sales reps get super hands-on with prospects during the buying journey — they provide demos, answer questions, ask for feedback, etc. Then the prospect makes a purchase, and suddenly they’re on their own. Establish an Incentive-Based Customer Loyalty Program. Offer Incentives that Speak to Your Customers’ Values.

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Loyalty Customer Incentives Incentive 130

LeadBoxer

MAY 30, 2021

Business-to-business (B2B) sales involve companies selling products and services to other businesses. B2B companies either sell items to another company so they can make their own products or meet a specific need. Selling to a group of people is different than pitching to an individual as in business-to-consumer (B2C) sales.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 82

Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Vendors have had to change their approach to selling to open up new vistas of potential buyers. The intent afterward is to “ sell into the organization to expand your footprint to more seats, additional departments, or more products and services.”

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Discount Scale ROI Enterprise 65

LeadBoxer

JANUARY 10, 2021

Account managers do this by upselling or cross-selling additional products to a current customer. Time and time again, research proves retaining and selling to current accounts provides a higher return on investment (ROI) than acquiring new customers. Only Sell if It’s Logical. Account Expansion Best Practices.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 23, 2023

Of course, B2B selling is different. Instead, they are multifaceted and affect team members down the hall and, more importantly, up the stairs. Prospect Theory A theory of behavioral economics and finance, this idea was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. Of course, avoid the hard sell.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2020

Clearly communicate these expectations to managers, and whenever possible, free them up to spend their time giving tactical support to reps. In particular, convey to managers that developing strong selling behaviors and actions in every stage of the funnel is time intensive , but it has an incredible impact on revenues.

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Motivation Commission Webinar Metrics Decision Maker 119

PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Engage in social selling. To clear this up: Outbound sales refers to the process of reaching out to prospects who haven’t indicated a direct interest in buying the product or service you want to sell. Target your email list.

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Outbound Top of Funnel Strategy Ideal Customer Profile 98

The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Step 1: Get deeply acquainted with the prospect’s perspective To handle sales objections effectively, sales professionals must have a deep understanding of the prospect’s perspective on both a macro and micro level– All before ever picking up a phone or drafting an email. Let’s look at an example.

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Objections Hiring Face-to-face Buyer Persona 80

The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 12, 2024

Salespeople must have a deep understanding of the products or services they are selling, including features, advantages and benefits, also known as FAB. Soft sales skills such as communication are essential to sell and close effectively. It is rare in closing sales that no objections or obstacles pop up.

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Apptivo

MARCH 9, 2023

3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! However, at times no matter how long one stretches, sales tasks eat up a lot of productive hours. 3 Ways sales automation can help your reps sell more! In general there is a 10% difference in reply rate between having 1-200 and 1000+ prospect base.

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Sales Automation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Campaigns 64

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Before they make contact, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made B2B sales reps irrelevant. Of course I could.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Cold Calling 120

CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Ready to amp up your sales training results? You can also get insights into how your sales team is using (or not using) content, if they’re nurturing leads, how quickly they’re following up with customer requests, what their daily behaviors are, and which channels they use most to communicate with prospects.

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Training Top of Funnel Scale Sales Enablement 98

Sales Hacker

JUNE 19, 2019

I’m always impressed by the degree of ingenuity that leading sales teams put into their selling strategy. Transactional selling. Solution selling. Consultative selling. Provocative selling. For more advanced use cases, use chatbots to encourage prospects to: Schedule a demo. Here’s how it works….

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Campaigns Top of Funnel Lead Gen Scale 95

Salesmate

JUNE 4, 2021

One such practice is that of providing sales incentives to the salespeople. What are sales incentives? Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” – Nikita Khrushchev . In simple terms, sales incentives are something that motivates your team to wake up in the morning and get to work.

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Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

For many business owners, fall can be a make or break time and, if you’re not maxing out your sales during these busy months, you might just end up missing those all-important end of year goals. Not to mention how you’re going to drum them up to beat your sales quota. Focus on ROI. Create incentives to beat your sales quota.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 29, 2021

With a well-organised and properly implemented sales strategy, not only will you and your team be striving for gold, but you’ll also be able to identify risks, tie up loose ends and address problems before they become too much to deal with. A sales strategy is plan that outlines how a business is going to sell its products or services.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 119

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

The Advanced Selling Podcast. Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. Sell or Die. Learn about sales team management, creative business development strategies, time-saving sales tools, B2B strategic partnerships, aligning sales with marketing, effective prospecting, negotiation techniques, and more.

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Scale Sage Lead Rank Lead Scoring 145

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales (sometimes called remote sales or remote selling) is often the primary sales model for B2B, SaaS, tech, and certain high-ticket B2C sales teams. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. Inside sales vs. outside sales .

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 62

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 26, 2019

First, Level Up Your Understanding of Career Ladders. When an employee meets a certain set of criteria, they’re eligible to move to a rung higher up on the ladder. Career ladders help retain staff by providing an incentive to keep moving forward -- if they see a clear reward (i.e., How to Coach Your Team Up the Ladder.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Salary 134

BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Revenue At the end of the day sales coaching delivers ROI. As an incentive for engagement, teams that did not advance past the first round – but had 100%-member participation – were automatically allowed to compete in a consolation bracket for a $200 cash prize toward a team outing. See also: What vibes help you sell?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Scale Hiring 62

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I wish I could say it’s all about incentives, but the truth is a bit more nuanced than that. The challenge is setting something up that incentivizes the right thing and is also defensible. Determine Additional Incentives (With Caution). Profit – harder to calculate but maximizes ROI. are usually not.

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Compensation Hiring Incentives Incentive 81

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Create an incentive compensation plan for every market segment. Find a unique selling point for each market you want to target. The first step to successful selling is understanding the buying b2b marketing process. Run a competitor analysis. Not all markets are equal.

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Paid Content Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel B2B 52

Smooth Sale

MARCH 12, 2022

Startups and companies are willing to try new things to scale up need to market their product effectively. It doesn’t refer to reaching your prospective customers to increase revenue for a short period. Also, as per HubSpot , 64% of small businesses use email marketing tools and generate an average of 4200% ROI.

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Strategy Social Media Scale Hiring 78

Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Powerful and versatile, CRMs are used to manage every aspect of the sales pipeline , from signing up newsletter subscribers to nurturing longtime customers, and literally everything in between. They typically contain company news, announcements, customer shoutouts, recent blog content, and are far from being considered “selling material.”

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Top of Funnel CRM Webinar Metrics Marketing 155

The ROI Guy

JUNE 29, 2015

There are several reasons why prospects are demanding higher discounts and making it harder for you to achieve your goals: Buyers are more empowered, with on-line / social resources readily available to research your competition and obtain competitive pricing. The key at this stage is motivating buyer’s as to “Why Change?”. Why Now? –

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Discount Lead Rank Proposal ROI 83

Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Backed up by resources such as D&B, this information is useful for identifying a prospect’s financial health. This information is critical when looking for up- or cross-selling opportunities—establishing environmental profiles and understanding specifics about what the customer does to earn money. Order History.

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Data Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Campaigns 62

LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Power of Social Selling (+ 7 Rules for Storytelling in Sales). The question is, what are the best strategies for increasing diversity in the social story selling system? The question is, what are the best strategies for increasing diversity in the social story selling system? Social selling & brand.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

After all, we’re trying to convert people, convince them to say “yes” to whatever we’re selling, but we’re doing it in the real world, not the virtual one. You see, salespeople are always struggling with having enough time to sell. As an incentive, we also offered content addressing that motivation.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 40

Pipeliner

APRIL 5, 2018

This type of scenario isn’t too far from the type of frantic call I get from business owners, incredibly frustrated and in a state of throwing up their hands after trying to solve their own sales problems. Both of these are extremely frustrating and carry a hefty price tag: lost time and opportunity plus labor investment with no ROI.

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Small Business Small Business Hiring Analysis 63

CloserIQ

JUNE 6, 2019

You need to understand who you want to sell to before you sell to them. . Now, you may want to sell your services to both Prosperous Perry and Desperate Dana. Besides, you can gather information about future prospects and people found via referral and third-party networks. Here’s how to start building buyer personas.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Ideal Customer Profile Demographics 94

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Meaning that because you aren’t relying on inbound leads, you have the entire universe of prospects to call on. So once you nail your process and ensure that it’s ROI positive, you can grow a long way. Here are a few things you need to make sure you’ve checked the boxes on before you scale up the team. A repeatable process.

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Scale Outbound Sales Team Outbound Hiring 99

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Selling can be a difficult process, but the end result is worth it. With lots of ups and downs along with objections from buyers, one has to have patience in order to convince them. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? In this case, what you are selling does not resonate with them and so they do not buy.

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Xactly

MAY 17, 2018

It is better to get the prospect talking than to have them disappear without rhyme or reason. In addition, you help your prospect to feel heard and understood. Nonetheless, it is up to you to win negotiations with the right sales rebuttals. Nonetheless, it is up to you to win negotiations with the right sales rebuttals.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

It’s the end of the year, which means buyers are rushing to use up all their year-end budget, ( hey there, favorite The Office clip ). This is an example of a nice incentive to shop that is attractive to a buyer and provides a little extra perk. Instead, they offer you a $200 gift card when you buy one full-price item.

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Allego

AUGUST 31, 2022

You also need to understand why your solution is a “must-have” for the businesses you want to sell to, rather than a “nice-to-have,” which may gain a few early adopters but ultimately fail to scale to widespread adoption. Qualifying your prospects is key to identifying high-value potential leads. Fix Your Conversion Rates.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Lead Rank Scale 62