Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges? 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team. Stop waiting.

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. Questions come in many styles, each suited to different pieces of the puzzle that make up the entire picture. Take closed ended questions, most people have bought into the myth that they are bad.

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Appointment Quota Prospecting Education 274

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Start selling faster, easier. Most salespeople expect to miss their quota every single year. But hitting quota every year doesn’t always equate to a perfect sales enablement strategy for a few reasons.

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CRM Quota Sales Pipeline 262

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Create sales plans that save reps time and maximize sales impact Get your targets, budget, and headcount aligned with just a few clicks so you can sell more efficiently. These targets are used to guide the quota-setting, territory mapping , and sales team strategies. Is additional product or sales training needed before teams can sell?

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SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2025

Showing up at someone’s office? As they grew, they tried having CSMs own cross-sell opportunities, but this proved ineffective. We also had to give them the capacity to actually focus on retention by bringing in product AEs for complex selling.” Email is easy. Cold calling is harder.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

But at the start of its expansion play, Checkr’s enterprise motion failed, and sales cycles were slow, taking up to a year for $100k & up deals. That meant weekly business reviews, measuring it at each segment, the team level, the individual level, and looking at bookings to revenue conversion more closely.

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Objectives and Key Results Growth Engineering Quota 114

Tibor Shanto

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With a 4:1 closing average, every time I close a deal, I must get four more to stay afloat. The more you manage it, honestly, the more consistently you will exceed quota. They get all wound up when they get a scouting call. Never Sit in the Lobby: 57 Winning Sales Factors to Grow a Business and Build a Career Selling.

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Pipeline Quota Prospecting Follow-up 282

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

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

It’s no secret that technology’s evolution is changing the way sellers sell. Seen through this lens, any sales processes that ask employees to jump through hoops is not only unnecessary but is setting up younger employees to fail. Eighty percent of the prospecting sales force is under 25 years old. Today’s sales processes.

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Quota Cold Call CRM Sales 130

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Transaction milestones should meld the prospects buying process with the vendors selling process. Why are revenue targets so hard to hit?

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Meeting Pipeline Quota Sales 66

SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about great sales professionals, on driving up Revenue Per Lead, on not capping sales comp systems, and on why you need to manage out your worst reps (because leads are precious). A great rep often literally closes 9x more than a poor rep. In fact, it can harm close rates. Like clockwork.

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Closing Quota Pitch Gaming 145

Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. 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.

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Product Territory Objectives and Key Results Sales 246

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Start here: Speed up your selling activities in a few clicks If you’re using another sales acceleration software, most of the principles will still apply. It’s all about crushing quota! Sales acceleration isn’t merely selling faster to sell more. Table of Contents. What is Sales Acceleration?

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Sales Quota Up-sell Contact 290

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Ah — that sometimes elusive, but always thrilling moment when you close a deal. That’s why we’ll move past outdated and ineffective sales closing techniques in this article and talk to sales experts to get the nitty-gritty of what it means to close like a boss in today’s world. How do you improve at closing?

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Technique Closing Sales Electricity 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

We came up with a list of 30 companies that I felt had potential, and I wrote targeted emails to each of the founders. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. We worked in a small office above a smog shop on 4th Street, had a handful of customers, and 100k in ARR closed by our CEO.

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Closing E-commerce Customers Quota 111

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’re also brought to you by Vidyard — the best way to sell in a virtual world, whether you need to connect with more leads, qualify more opportunities, or close more deals. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Nelson, welcome to the show.

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Commission Quota Assembly Line Sales 103

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many organizations may closely meet your company’s ideal customer profile (ICP) criteria and warrant sales reps to proactively reach out to them. MQLs that your sales team has vetted and identified as worthy of direct follow-up. Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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Territory Cold Call SQL Campaign 83

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Sales cliche: Top sales pros could sell ice to eskimos. Your job isn’t to use closing techniques, it’s to lead. Here are 8 sales closing questions that are 0% closing gimmicks and 100% effective. The reason most deals don’t close is misalignment. This is where asking the right sales closing questions comes in.

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Closing Sales Cold Call Legal 118

Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2021

Adding insult to injury, that imbalance means all that time and money it takes to get prospects to the closing phase goes to waste. But like all other aspects of sales, closing is a process. Radio silence from your prospects at the close stage could be caused by the fact that they haven’t seen the documents your reps sent.

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Closing Contact Sales Follow-up 128

Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. And when reps struggle to see the path to their number they may slowly give up, blaming things outside of their control. Year-end can be the most exciting time in sales. It can also be the hardest. Next year may be even more so.

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Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Negotiate 209

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Today, field salespeople have had to pivot to a hybrid approach consisting of inside, remote, and virtual selling. Fortune 500 and Inc 5000 companies have found continued success with new field sales strategies and technology, and a new number one key performance indicator (hint: it’s not quota). Field sales is not dead!

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Territory Inside sales Outside Sales Pharmaceutical 244

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

If you have a pile of files on your desk, a to-do list that is so long it must be scrolled to read, past-due proposals, and an empty pipeline, you are probably not very well organized, don’t manage your time very well, and likely behind on quota. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? The same concept derails salespeople too.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 23, 2023

I learned computing technology within the mindset of Steve Jobs, and therefore adopted his philosophy: “It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.” Everything about cryptocurrency—buying, selling, exchanging—is terribly complicated.

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Technology Technology Pipeline CRM 237

Highspot

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In fact, leaders reported that 91% failed to hit sales quota expectations this year. Coach them, train them, and provide them with the tools to be successful Be agile with your sales strategy, don’t wait for your yearly SKO to change things up What Is Sales Performance? It’s a common issue in sales.

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Closing Objectives and Key Results Quota Sales 92

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The data is in, emotion sells, not just logic. Join us to learn how you can level up your EQ. You’ll learn: Why women achieve 8% higher quota attainment than men. What happens when you sell with emotion. Guests share which soft skills they rely on most to close more revenue.

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Quota GTM Strategize Up-sell 96

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. This allows them to focus more on selling and less on administrative tasks. If needed, consider partnering with a digital learning provider to keep training materials up to date for new hires.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Surround Yourself with Positive Inputs When youre in a mid-winter sales rutespecially in cold, gray weatheryour environment can either lift you up or drag you down. Load up on podcasts, audiobooks, or uplifting content. Craft a Personal Business PlanBreak your annual quota or goals into quarterly, monthly, and weekly targets.

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Territory Drivers/motivators Quota Sales 57

Highspot

MARCH 6, 2025

Thats the difference between a sales team just getting by and one crushing quotas. More frequent touchpoints help sales leaders catch issues early, like a sales professionals close rate slipping because lead quality dropped, and adjust before its a bigger problem. Start positively, such as Youve been strong on your follow-ups.

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Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Quota Sales 52

Veloxy

JUNE 6, 2022

Field reps pivoted to remote or inside selling. As numbers began to sink rapidly, outside sales advocates were concerned about the future of their once historically quota crushing profession. This made up for 15.99% of all challenges experienced by our panel, as respondents were able to choose multiple challenges.

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Inside sales Quota Outside Sales Sales 173

Veloxy

MARCH 28, 2022

Authentic Cold Calling: The Path to Fearless, Effective Cold Calling Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling The Secrets to Cold Call Success: Close More Business in Less Time than Ever Before Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) In some cases, they might even sell from their home office.

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Salesforce

JULY 6, 2023

We wanted to know what sales book made the lightbulb go off above their head, along with their favorite passages and the takeaways that changed how they sell. How it made Richardson a better seller: “The Toltecs didn’t sell enterprise software, but these principles help me every day,” she said. It’s how you show up.

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Quota Closing Education Sales 86

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Hitting the snooze button and exercise are the runners-up. One-quarter of respondents said theyre superstitious about selling, while two-thirds find magic in the coffee they drink. 24% are superstitious about selling 35% wake up before 6 a.m. Closing the deal If only you could snap your fingers to hit quota every month.

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Quota Relationship building Sports Referrals 52

Veloxy

JUNE 8, 2022

The pipeline shows how many deals salespeople are expected to close in a given week, month or year as well as how close a particular rep is to hitting their sales quota. But since your conversion rate from leads to sales is 10%, then you can expect to close only $100,000 worth of new business. 2: Automation. Conclusion.

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Pipeline Technology Technology Cross-sell 195

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re experiencing low login and usage rates, then your two clearest problems are as follows: Salesforce isn’t making your rep’s life easier Salesforce isn’t helping your rep’s sell more When you put yourself in a salesperson’s shoes, they’re probably right. How much higher would your confidence level go up?

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Non-Profits CRM Contact Consult 264

Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place. and embark on this journey to master the art of field selling together! Get Your Free Ebook Key Takeaways Outside sales is the practice of selling through direct, in-person interactions.

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Outside Sales Cold Call Represent Objectives and Key Results 242

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

What Positions Make Up an Inside Sales Team? This is often why many companies don’t end up with rockstars and new teams miss the mark. When we talk about outside sales, we’re referring to a team that goes out on sales calls to sell regionally and at conferences, events, and so on. What Positions Make up an Inside Sales Team?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

“Marketing is fluffy and unmeasurable” – Unlike sales, which has clear metrics like quota attainment, founders often believe marketing can’t be measured. This wasn’t what you signed up for when founding a “product company,” was it? Trial: Have they tried it? Purchase: Have they bought it?

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