Veloxy

JUNE 8, 2022

Couple questions here – are your sales stagnating? If yes, then you’re probably looking for new ways to improve your sales performance. Perhaps the answer could be in your sales pipeline. Research shows that top performing companies and sales teams do extremely well when it comes to managing their pipeline. But first….

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase. If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. In this article, well explore the challenges of complex sales and the strategies your team can use to close deals more efficiently. What is considered a complex sale?

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. Sounds a bit confusing?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. The first one, I know my sales cycle. Fred Viet: Yeah, we hope so.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That’s the beauty of effective cross-selling. It increases the customer’s overall satisfaction, while driving up sales. Here’s how I recommend leveraging this proven sales approach to make existing customers even happier and get you to quota faster. What you’ll learn: What is cross-selling?

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This included Agentforce Campaigns , sending multichannel journeys with email and SMS, and advanced personalization features like Cross-Object Merge fields. Customers must have Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Enterprise Edition or higher to access this. Agentforce, Cross-Object Merge Fields, and SMS require Data Cloud as a prerequisite.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline. Sales strategies can be applied at each stage of that process to help turn a qualified lead into money *ahem* a customer. Understanding how your sales pipeline is working is vital if you want to optimize your revenue generation.

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Martech

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While businesses value the synergy between marketing, sales and product teams in theory, they often struggle to create a cohesive atmosphere and deliver seamless customer experiences in practice. Our head of sales also has two primary KPIs: new revenue and CR from SQL to the client. Why did we choose these KPIs?

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ever been overwhelmed by the sheer volume of sales data you’re tracking — and confused by the metrics that matter? Below, we give you everything you need to know about sales KPIs that ensure a healthy, productive, and growing business. What you’ll learn: What are KPIs in sales? Why are sales KPIs so important?

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2024

But — it’s one that is very important to many of us that sell into the enterprise. Given how critical its research is in selling to the enterprise, I wanted to take a look at its business. Today, Gartner has now crossed $6 Billion in revenue, with a stunning $35 Billion market cap. And its very profitable.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Inside sales. Low-touch sales.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

You ask a straightforward question about a feature or even ROI experienced by others in your same industry, and the sales rep stumbles. Buyers rely on sales reps as credible sources of truth, so you risk losing deals if your reps don’t truly understand the product. Does that inspire trust? Probably not. What is Product Training?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. But a sales dashboard is only useful if it’s done well. What is a Sales Dashboard? A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Why Use a Sales Dashboard?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. To help take some of the pressure off, companies focus on technology investments to help their sales teams increase win rates and accelerate revenue while automating a lot of the tedious, manual processes that prove to be a bottleneck in the sales cycle.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers. Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. Sadly without a healthy pipeline achieving sales goals becomes a more challenging task. They are the ones who succeed in sales. What is the sales pipeline?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2022

Revenue Ops / Marketing and Sales Ops. Sales Enablement. For all my busy B2B marketers and sales leaders inundated with meetings, deadlines, and the like, here’s my summary of the academic article’s key takeaways: Takeaway #1— Customer Success should be thought of and modeled as a profit center, not a cost center.

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Martech

MAY 6, 2024

While the focus of lead scoring is typically on identifying and prioritizing new leads, it can also be applied to existing customers to determine their level of engagement, satisfaction, and potential for upselling or cross-selling opportunities. What types of lead scoring can I apply to existing customers? Please use simple language.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce automation tools go a long way in helping you improve the productivity and efficiency of your sales team. To take your sales strategy to the next level, I’ve outlined the following 7 Salesforce automation tools that every salesperson should have in their sales stack. The Top 7 Best Salesforce Automation Tools.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

So there are 3 things every sales rep I’ve worked with hates: Clawbacks. We won’t dig into this too much here, but sales folks hate it. Everyone in sales hates them. But they are a clear sign to the sales org that there is at least a cost to closing low quality deals. 100% of sales reps also hate this.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

60% of Asana’s customers come from self-service, 40% from sales. This is trending to 50/50 now that Asana has crossed $400m in ARR, but still a reminder a self-serve motion combined with sales jumping on the bigger deals can scale very, very far. Sprout Social doesn’t only sell a low-end edition.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

There are 1000’s of articles about transactional selling. The collective wisdom of most of those posts can be summarized as follows: “Transactional selling sucks!” Others say that it is all going the way of the web and e-procurement, so there is really no “selling opportunity.” ” It does!

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As a sales manager or leader, your problem probably isn’t too little data. From the percentage of reps using your CRM and cohort retention rate to average time to hire and sales velocity, there’s a nearly endless list of metrics, reports, and data points. The “right” metrics depend on your sales organization, industry, and company.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Why is it that companies have a sales process they follow rigorously to win business, yet avoid the same discipline in managing those customers throughout the lifecycle of their contracts? Too often contract cancellation (or non-renewal) comes as a surprise, but it never should. Today we can start to change that.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

I hear this a lot from business leaders — and it’s always kind of sheepish: “Chris, how do we actually make a sales process?” Sales processes don’t just happen. Company founders do a lot of the selling in the early days. And, sometimes last of all, they hire sales. sales reps who might be new to the business.

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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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

CEO Lew Cirne, after regretting selling his first startup in the space to CA for $375m, tries again with New Relic. But New Relic has continued to scale, crossing $650,000,000 in ARR (or so) and a $4B market cap. It can be a bit scary to move from fixed contracts. New Relic is one of my favorite Cloud stories.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2013

He reminded me of the terrible difficulty sales people have in retaining and growing business with existing customers, as well as the absence of customer retention strategies in many organizations. We hold sales responsible for customer retention. But sales only has a small part of the job of retaining customers.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. Sales teams are often forced to use manual processes that result in errors, inaccuracies, and wasted time. And these manual processes take sales reps away from their most important activity: selling.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before we dive into sales cycle management, let’s first focus on what a sales cycle is and the sales cycle steps. What Is a Sales Cycle? A sales cycle is a term used to describe the sales process steps, beginning when a sales rep identifies a potential customer to follow up after closing the sale.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

While metrics are important in every aspect of any business, they’re especially critical in sales. Sales leaders can’t use their intuition to guide their decisions — not only are they dealing with a huge amount of information, but the risk of failure is high. Let's take a look at what sales metrics are. Activity Sales Metrics.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2020

In sales, it’s normal to deal with slow seasons, bad seasons, and horrible seasons. Is there a future for your sales and company? We decided to address these concerns and provide you with some tips on adapting your sales and workflow to the current conditions. At this point, your goal is not to sell but to show your support.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When I think about different types of sales calls, some of the first terms that come to mind are terms like warm calling or cold calling. 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.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. Here’s a mentality that top-tier outside sales gurus have.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Target your email list.

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