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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.

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The Best of 2020 Product Innovations

Chorus.ai

Let’s rewind for a minute and go back to January 2020 when we were reveling in anticipation for the year ahead. Continuing to Build A Strong Foundation 13th Patent Granted Everyone knows that a strong foundation is imperative for building anything - a house, a relationship, and even software. 2020 was definitely one for the books.

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Sales And “Product Led Growth”

Partners in Excellence

We have seen it in mobile devices, PCs, financial services, every segment of software, design tools, analytics, consumer products, food/food service, social platforms, and on and on and on. We revel in their success, we copy and emulate what they do. Related Posts: Should Marketing Be Measured On Revenue?

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CPQ and the Digitalization of Selling

Cincom Smart Selling

Configure Price and Quotation (CPQ) software is front and center in the digitalization of the selling and buying processes. A few simple queries within the CPQ software can provide prospecting lists ripe with opportunity. List customers in territory with revenue in excess of $100 million per year. Use CPQ to Identify Prospects.

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The New (Breakout) Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales

Sales Hacker

The revelations that emerge from uniting these two sets of data will not just align marketing and sales but all revenue-generating and customer-facing departments. They’re organic revenue drivers. Beyond that, successful companies will work aggressively to establish a customer success-based foundation for future revenue growth.

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

Sales Hacker

For instance, marketing language software — powered by machine learning — helped JPMorgan Chase increase headline clicks by as much as 450%. This difference in tech-friendliness between revenue-producing departments is not a surprise. Allowing automation to take over is the key to uncovering revelations like these in the future.

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Six Mobile Apps for Igniting Sales

SBI

With all that speed, it’s no longer acceptable to reps (or their prospects) to have to download software each time they want to conduct a presentation. Managers will rejoice at the reduction in expense management paperwork and revel in the assurance that expenses are tracking with plan. And why stop with convenience and speed?