PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. Identifying product/customer fit: Once youve learned more about your prospects goals, challenges, budget, and timeline, you can use this information to decide if theyre a good fit for your business. The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Contract Legal Sales 52

Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. Sandler sales methodology advises sales reps to act as a consultant rather than a typical sales rep whose main focus is to convince the prospect. This bond will eventually lead the prospect to buy the product in the future.

Cross-sell 136

Cross-sell Sales Contract CRM 136

Hubspot

JANUARY 3, 2018

Already been ghosted by a few prospects this holiday season? Planning, budgetary shifts, and vacation are all reasons we lose track with prospects at the end of the year -- but it matters how and when you follow up in January. To help, I’ve outlined five tips for re-engaging with prospects and clients after the new year.

Prospecting 101

Prospecting Cross-sell Clients Contract 101

Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Prospecting. Prospecting is the first stage of a sales pipeline. During the prospecting stage, you collect leads and record their contact information. Below is a basic overview of an effective funnel for the prospecting stage. Meeting Prospects. Meeting prospects is an important step on the path to a conversion.

Pipeline 126

Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Contract 126

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

One of my questions right away was just, you made this transition, at least at Aircall, from APAC and running that to now overseeing you know global what are some of the differences between selling in apac and selling in in north america hmm. If I look at one thing, we all think about consultative selling, about active listening.

GTM 117

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 117

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2022

By focusing on “CLV, upsell rate, and new revenue growth through cross-sell and advocacy influence” CS teams become more aligned with the entire revenue engine. It means that the CS team should constantly be capitalizing on upsell and cross-sell opportunities, instead of waiting around for the annual contract renewal to arrive.

Cross-sell 115

Cross-sell Customers Growth Contract 115

Salesforce

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These are shared with every rep so they can prioritize their time and efforts on prospecting, nurturing , and closing deals with new customers while upselling existing customers — and no critical sales effort is ignored. Annual contract value (ACV) What it measures: The average sales amount of a customer contract over the course of a year.

Cross-sell 105

Cross-sell Pipeline Contract Sales 105

Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Will Frattini, Head of Enterprise Revenue & Growth at Zoominfo, take on account management and account expansion selling. Why Account Management Matters In sales, closing deals and prospecting often steal the spotlight from account management and customer retention.

Account management 111

Account management Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Contract 111

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. According to Gartner, 77% of B2B buyers say their most recent purchase felt “very complex or difficult,” highlighting the importance of thorough product knowledge for anyone selling or supporting a solution.

Product 52

Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Finding ideal prospects means your SDRs must be experts on your products and services, and be able to communicate how they can solve your potential customers’ problems. Related: The Definitive Guide to Sales Prospecting With Proven Outreach Methods. Before a new customer deal can close, an SDR has to find that customer.

Engineering 116

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 116

Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Take a look at your pay structure to see if you’re pulling the right levers to get reps to sell. Looking at this metric on a monthly or quarterly basis tells you whether your contracts are getting larger, smaller, or staying the same. Or maybe you’re trying to improve your cross-sell rates. The last potential culprit?

Quota 101

Quota Cross-sell Contract Negotiate 101

Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It shows the sales team where their potential prospects are in the buying process. A list of prospects. Before anything else, first, focus on having a list of prospects. It should have full names, phone number, email-id, the prospect’s company name, work position, and how they connect with you. Prospecting.

Pipeline 143

Pipeline Negotiate Appointment Sales 143

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2019

If one of your goals is for 5% of monthly revenue to come from upsells or cross-sells , make this goal specific by identifying what types of clients you’ll target. In this case, your sales team must achieve that 5% upsell/cross-sell number by the end of the quarter. Upselling and cross-selling. Measurable.

Strategic planning 100

Strategic planning Strategize Referrals Cross-sell 100

Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sales professionals not only convert prospects into buyers, they hold the power to negotiate, upsell, and even problem-solve after the initial purchase is made. For example, if you work for a software company, you might call a prospect to introduce your advanced project management software and its benefits.

Objection handling 87

Objection handling Negotiate Cross-sell Contract 87

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output. Average contract value (ACV).

X-functional 101

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 101

Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

Company founders do a lot of the selling in the early days. Then there’s a logistics stage covering contract details. If you sell cars, what decisions does a buyer need to make before they are ready to buy? At the top, write “What decisions must a prospect make to buy from us?” (If It often comes about like this.

Process 114

Process Cross-sell Sales Finance 114

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Once you have determined a prospective location, start marketing in the area to measure interest and generate enthusiasm. In fact, 70% of business decision makers and employees say their prospect and account data comes from too many sources to make sense of it. Automate the contracting and approval process. Be flexible.

Contract 52

Contract Government Price Service 52

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Five years into my B2B marketing career, I noticed a pattern: The clients who said yes were the ones whom I understood not just their stated needs but their underlying motivations through conceptual selling. Table of Contents What is conceptual selling? While traditional selling asks, What do you need? Heres how it works.

Sell 46

Sell Drivers/motivators Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 46

Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Salespeople make critical prospect connections, communicate the value of your product or service, and directly impact your bottom line. This is where personal selling comes into play. Personal selling is the key to a well-balanced sales organization, and, in this guide, we’re going to explain why that’s the case. Prospecting.

Sell 98

Sell Cross-sell Negotiate Up-sell 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

5 tips to successfully cross the chasm to mass adoption. Then , leverage that success to sell to “early majority,” AKA pragmatists. For now, we need to move on to the 2 rules for boosting adoption and growth from day one, so you set a solid foundation for crossing the chasm. 5 Tips for Crossing the Chasm. That’s it.

Growth 88

Growth Cross-sell Contract Education 88

Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Yes, you’ll find many hurdles on the path while selling to enterprises, but a firm determination and constant hard work can lead you to success. A different and long pathway while selling to enterprises. Selling to a large enterprise is a different game. One must expect a long journey while selling to a large enterprise.

Sell 103

Sell Cold Call Negotiate Cross-sell 103

Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

If you want them to stop selling to poor fit customers, institute a clawback so they lose their commission if the customer churns or returns the product within a set window of time. Increase average contract length. Increase upsell/cross-sell rate. This structure is relatively rare in selling organizations.

Commission 101

Commission Quota X-functional Non-Profits 101

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Prospecting. Sales prospecting is to find qualified leads that are close to being ready to buy the advertised business or service. Companies start prospecting by formulating an Ideal Customer Profile. So not only do sales reps prospect for new customers, but they also qualify them. Handling objections.

Sales 112

Sales Cross-sell Pipeline Negotiate 112

Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

SaaS selling — and SaaS revenue — are distinctly different from traditional sales and require a new approach to maximize their potential. SaaS businesses should also make a concerted effort to establish reliable contracts, identify and convert new customers, and increase monthly revenue generation through both upselling and cross-selling.

Contract 74

Contract Cross-sell Up-sell Clients 74

PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

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. Outside sales refers to the process of sending an actual salesperson into the field to meet with prospective customers.

Cold Call 98

Cold Call Technique Contract Cross-sell 98

Salesforce

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s face it: Hard sells and flashy demos can be effective ways to close. Not only will this help you build trust, which makes it easier to sell , but it will open the door to long-term relationships that can lead to upsells and cross-sells. But not always. The next step?

Gaming 92

Gaming Cross-sell Referrals CRM 92

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Desperate for a solution, I turned to target account selling a method Ive since refined into a system thats helped me land six SaaS clients in under four months. Table of Contents What is target account selling? How does target account selling work? What is target account selling? How does target account selling work?

Clients 41

Clients Sell Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results 41

Martech

JUNE 27, 2023

B2B firms typically seek to accomplish some combination of the following with their sites: Be found by qualified prospects. Sell, close. What are your customers and prospects looking for? Continuously re-organize, based on visitor tracking data, to serve the needs of your top prospects based on their search behavior.

B2B 112

B2B Customers Cross-sell Price 112

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. Sales has limited access to prospects and customers. We know the facts. Give them control.

B2B 112

B2B GTM Cross-sell Cold Call 112

Smart Calling

MAY 14, 2018

The old school, tactical methods of selling say that you should “assume the sale as soon as the prospect shows some interest.”. to which the prospect responds, “I never said I even wanted it yet!”. In all of these cases, the prospect had not yet crossed the emotional buying bridge, and felt uneasy being subjected to the tactics.

Cross-sell 76

Cross-sell Contract Closing Sales 76

Martech

JULY 14, 2022

It changes depending on the type of product you’re selling and the market you are pursuing. Canare says that while there are elements common to all campaigns, there are significant differences depending on what you sell and who you’re selling it to. You have to sell to them differently. They buy differently.”.

E-commerce 120

E-commerce Cross-sell Contract Up-sell 120

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. This not only takes time away from selling, it can introduce a lot of opportunities for mistakes. Sales leaders can use a dashboard to understand the game their team is playing as they sell and identify where reps may need help or extra training. What is a Sales Dashboard?

Pipeline 136

Pipeline Cross-sell CRM Sales 136

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

And while you can always push a product for the sake of selling it, you’ll only sell it once. A lot of sales reps end up competing on who sold the most or what product is selling faster. Maybe you’re selling the right products to the wrong audience in the wrong market. However, salespeople tend to miss the bigger picture.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What is relationship selling? They develop trust -- usually by adding value and spending a lot of time with prospects -- before attempting to close. Relationship selling is essential if you have a high average selling price (ASP),” explains VidScale COO Adam Rizika. What is transactional and relationship selling?

Sell 101

Sell Cross-sell Negotiate Technique 101

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 21, 2019

I love the success stories I get from people who’ve read Gap Selling. I never expected the level of success Gap Selling would have or the impact it would have on readers sales careers, it’s been amazing to read about. Eric got an early copy of Gap Selling and has had just about a year to measure it’s effects.

Sell 88

Sell Cross-sell Hospitality Contract 88

Veloxy

APRIL 11, 2023

It helps eCommerce companies personalize communications, upsell/cross-sell, and reduce cart abandonment rate. With this information, you can better understand your clients and prospects and provide more relevant offers, improving the customer experience and sales engagement.

Pipeline 130

Pipeline Sales CRM Price 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You don’t want to end up in The Valley of Death, where you can’t get the big dollar contracts. Challenge #1: Starting with Product-Led Growth and Deciding If It’s Worth It If you start with PLG and want to move your customer base and prospects to Enterprise deals, you might ask yourself: Should I go for it?

GTM 106

GTM Cross-sell Government Legal 106