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How Your Sales Meeting Agenda Is Killing Your Deals

Iannarino

I was preparing to share my company’s slide deck, but before I could start, he told me to put it away. He also mentioned that getting the questions right would end up with him signing my contract. My client in Cincinnati stopped me from turning on my laptop. He had a list of questions for me.

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The Only Two OKRs for Sales

Iannarino

The Gist: Sales is made up of two parts: Opportunity Creation and Opportunity Capture. Key Result One: Second meetings with target (prospective) clients. Key Result Two: Second meetings with existing clients to explore new initiatives. You may have noticed that I chose to count second meetings instead of first meetings.

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Gaming The Numbers

Partners in Excellence

The leader held this individual up as a high performer. But when I started looking at the performance, I realized, despite consistently meeting the goals, the number of qualified leads this person was developing was about the same as his peers. ” I started listening to the calls this SDR was making.

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The New Rules of AI Startup Growth: 5 Key Lessons from Cohere, Together AI & Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Meet Our Experts Rajin Alqahtani General Partner at Hypergrowth Partners and interim CMO at Together AI, Rajin brings a unique perspective from both the operational and investment sides of AI scaling. Run all three simultaneously from the start. Contract Length Progression: Are you seeing movement from 3 to 6 to 12-month contracts?

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First You Create Value

Iannarino

Many salespeople, though, launch the sales conversation with a firm intention to secure a signed contract and an agreement to install their “solution.” They may or may not have started to explore ideas or partners, and they’ve probably already started to make some early decisions. Too Committed to Identifying a Problem.

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The Unrecognized Benefits of Cold Calling

Iannarino

Yet all these approaches deprive you of the many benefits of cold calling, by allowing you to hide behind a screen and avoid having to speak to the human being you are asking for a meeting. Make enough calls, and you will bump into people are grouchy enough to say something rude or just hang up on you. Hearing the Word No.

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5 ways to crush sales bottlenecks and accelerate deals in 2025

Martech

Tools like Calendly or HubSpots meeting scheduler let prospects see when youre available and book a time instantly. For group meetings, these tools can combine everyones availability to find the perfect slot no emails, no hassle. Pro tip : Dont forget to include automated reminders for the meeting. But then silence.

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