Veloxy

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Account based selling is a B2B concept that has gained a lot of interest in recent times, but implementing it can feel rather daunting. Studies show that at least 94% of B2B teams have adopted account based selling in a bid to deliver improved buying experiences that lead to increased conversions and loyalty. It doesn’t have to.

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Sell Objectives and Key Results SQL B2B 246

Iannarino

JUNE 26, 2021

The Gist: In the past, salespeople had an advantage created by an information disparity: the salesperson had information unavailable to their client. We spend a lot of time helping our clients by teaching them how to produce the better decisions they need, closing the information disparity gap. What They Value. Their Industry.

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Clients Negotiate Contact Strategize 209

Veloxy

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Back in 2018, Salesforce discovered that sales reps were only spending 34% of their time selling (707 hours a year). Salesforce just found that salespeople are only spending 28% of their time selling. That’s a stunning 125 hours of less selling time than in 2018 ! You’ll add another 300+ selling hours to each rep’s year.

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Quota Sell CRM Contact 246

Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Many communication mediums are available to you as a salesperson, but few allow synchronous communication with your prospective client. Eliminating Fear of Your Client. The reason some salespeople prefer email is because they fear their prospective clients. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook. Synchronous Communication.

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Cold Call Clients Contract Meeting 348

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game. Expect actionable insights, cutting-edge strategies, and insider knowledge to keep you engaged and selling smarter—all without the fluff.

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Gaming Sell GTM Technique 233

Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

It is a mistake to believe that recent means better when all leads share common traits, one being helping clients on their buyer’s journey. But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell. But in reality, you cannot determine how compelled any prospective client is to change at any time without speaking to them.

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Intrinsic Clients Contact Contract 310

Iannarino

JUNE 29, 2021

But there’s good (and mounting) evidence that a single strategy will consistently help you win deals: creating greater value for your prospective clients than your competitors. In other words, your job is to help your clients make and execute a decision about their future results. The competition was over trust and reputation.

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Clients Price Technology Technology 343

Iannarino

JULY 21, 2021

the prospective client) what my existing partner was doing for me, and whether or not I was happy with their program and their support. In fact, they also have clients that they struggle to take care of, at least from time to time. His main goal, though, was to sell his solution, something his email made perfectly clear.

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Cold Call Cross-sell Gaming Clients 287

Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

Do not target the companies that already buy what you sell or are highly likely to start doing so. The primary ingredient in phone spam is the fact that what you sell has no relevance for the person receiving the call. Make sure you tell them exactly what you sell and how you 100% guarantee that they need this product.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Is it "Solutions Selling" or perhaps "Spin Selling?" Is it some seemingly new approach that is really an old pig with touched-up lipstick? What is the best sales approach for B2B sales? Challenger?

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Sales B2B Up-sell Clients 292

Iannarino

JULY 14, 2021

Clients increasingly find traditional sales approaches to be inadequate—and it’s causing them to avoid salespeople. The reason is simple: you have to create the value your clients need to solve a new set of problems than they faced in the past. That method worked well for a long time, but entropy has caught up with it.

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Conversion Sales Clients Technique 320

Iannarino

AUGUST 6, 2021

Every day, your clients wonder if they’ve been sentenced to one of the lower levels of Hell, perhaps a floor or two above politicians and attorneys. In part, the medium is the message, but the content of your email may also send clients a message you didn’t mean to broadcast. Then listen up. What Your Message Says About You.

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Campaign Pitch Clients Prospecting 320

Iannarino

JULY 15, 2021

How you sell—not what you sell or who you work for—is your most important competitive advantage. One of your primary outcomes should be creating a strong preference for your client to buy from you. The more unfair advantages you can stack up, the greater the odds that your prospective client will decide to buy from you.

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Gaming Clients Contract Up-sell 297

SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That’s exactly what happens with your belief baseline and your ability to attract and convert clients. Your baseline of belief is stretched when you have success: A prospect signs the Agreement, you receive great feedback on the latest content you shared, a client lets you know how much you’ve helped them, and/or a COI makes a referral.

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Clients Referrals Pitch Lead generation 126

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling. There are review meetings-ideally to help improve their selling performance.

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Sell CRM Technique Up-sell 152

Iannarino

JULY 30, 2021

The picture Mike sent me was a desk covered with handwritten envelopes and thank-you cards, ready to send out to his clients and prospects. The same trend has made many best practices so prevalent that entire swaths of selling are now fully commoditized, making many sales conversations transactional rather than consultative.

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Technology Technology Clients Meeting 303

Iannarino

JULY 5, 2021

The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. There are some conversations that create greater value for your clients earlier in the conversation. There are some conversations that create greater value for your clients earlier in the conversation.

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Contact Clients Territory Conversion 338

Iannarino

MAY 28, 2022

I am grateful that the concept of being One-Up has resonated with salespeople and sales leaders. It’s a position that allows you to create value for your clients by helping them understand what they need to do to improve their results.

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Clients Up-sell Sell Sales 251

Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

The Gist: Your clients measure your performance by the value of the conversations they have with you. Focusing on the conversations that your clients find most valuable for their goals is the key to creating a preference to buy from you. The first thing you need to do is to create value for your prospective client.

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Contract Contact Clients Prospecting 334

Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. You can use these scripts, tips, and tricks to up your cold call game. Prospect: Yes!

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Pitch Follow-up 298

Iannarino

MARCH 18, 2022

Let's assume anything you sell might fall into one of four categories. Every move up this continuum requires a greater investment from your company, as it is the only way to deliver the better results your clients need. The first category is "Acceptable." The second category is "Standard." The third category is "Good."

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Clients Up-sell Sell Sales 284

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2024

We lost track of each other–John ended up going to senior executive levels in IBM, eventually was the General Manager of IBM Global Finance. We renewed our relationship, discussing things we had seen happen over our very different careers, periodically catching up an exchanging ideas.

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Sell Finance Clients Up-sell 139

Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

The Earl of Chesterfield For as long as anyone can remember, salespeople have been trained to identify their prospective clients’ problems and their implications. But by rushing the deal to get to the pain points, you break B2B selling and buying. In this industry, my clients would complain about the lack of quality of their workforce.

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B2B Contact Clients Entertainment 277

Iannarino

APRIL 4, 2022

After posting an article on LinkedIn, a reader commented to ask me about a line in the article that reads: “If the only reason you ask your client questions is to identify a problem so you can sell your solution, there is strong evidence that your approach is too transactional to find you One-Up.”.

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Consult Clients Up-sell Sales 282

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Preface : Wolrad Claudy is a great friend and client. Since Tekelec, he has been involved in a number of technology start-ups, has developed a specialized fund, providing seed capital to some start-ups. My friend, Dave Brock challenged me to explore, “why I’m obsessed with selling.’

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Sell Negotiate Relationship building Up-sell 138

Iannarino

JULY 16, 2021

Few professionals would sell something to someone who wouldn’t benefit from what they sell. Every time the sequence runs without a human being doing any work, it reinforces the idea that selling requires neither effort nor competence. Sadly, many have given up hope. No one owes you a meeting. Essential Reading!

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Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Negotiate 311

Iannarino

AUGUST 7, 2021

Many of them are now so prevalent that sales organizations embrace them, even when their prospective clients reject them. The list here is long but worth studying, as every practice listed here will discourage your client from buying from you—now or in the future. The best way to repel your prospective clients is email prospecting.

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Cold Call Clients Sales Pitch 252

Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

The gist, I think, was something about having a discovery call to see how her solutions could help me book more meetings with my prospective clients. For some reason, they believe that their prospective clients are interested in a “discovery call.” It has never been easy to get a meeting with a prospective client.

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Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Clients 263

Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The idea is that small talk at the beginning of the conversation would help the salesperson connect with their prospective client , making clients more likely to buy. Starting with your company is designed to do two things: prove that your client can trust the company, and provide you (the salesperson) with some level of credibility.

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Conversion Clients Sales Presentation 321

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I wrote a post, “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested In Selling ? He did this asking, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” I’m obsessed with selling—all things selling. I’m driven to help clients address really tough problems. I’m driven to find and close deals.

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Sell Up-sell Follow-up Start-ups 138

Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. I’ve worked with dozens of regional sales managers at telecom companies T-Mobile and Comcast, multiplying revenue by eliminating non-selling activities that bog down field sales reps. Demonstrate that you know their business.

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Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. How does a new lead compare to existing clients?

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Territory Represent Sales Lead generation 342

Iannarino

JUNE 15, 2021

Later, information about your solution seemed to hold the value, as it solved the client’s problem. Now, the value you create during your conversations with prospective clients is found in your insights, your advice, and your recommendations. The idea of what makes up value in B2B sales has changed dramatically over time.

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Cold Call Clients Sales B2B 219

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This includes having up-to-date info about what they’re selling and being equipped with technology that aids their sales pitches. Field sales personnel spend the bulk of their time traveling, visiting clients, and fostering relationships in person. This allows them to focus more on selling and less on administrative tasks.

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Objectives and Key Results Territory Inside sales Cross-sell 279

Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

While you may want your sales team to focus on selling, they also spend much time on administrative tasks. In doing so, you can give your reps more time to sell while helping them reach more qualified leads. But with more businesses competing for a limited client pool, lead generation is becoming harder.

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Product Territory Objectives and Key Results Sales 246

Veloxy

APRIL 28, 2021

A sales rep is only as good as the time they spend selling. Let Sales AI take care of all non-selling activities so your reps can focus on revenue generation. Artificial intelligence in sales can increase selling hours by not only automating tasks, but also improving daily productivity and analyzing habits.

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Cross-sell Sales Quota Up-sell 289

ClickFunnels

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The reason why it’s called an elevator pitch is that the classic scenario used to explain this type of pitch is meeting a potential client in an elevator. Who’s pitching potential clients in elevators nowadays anyway? Selling to SaaS startup founders? Selling to eCommerce entrepreneurs? Selling to authors?

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Pitch Niche Up-sell Clients 244