Salesforce

JANUARY 8, 2024

” to close a sale. Sales contracts are vital to completing any business transaction. They detail the scope of work/product and the conditions of the sale to prevent misunderstandings between the buyer and seller. This guide will teach you how to draft a bulletproof sales contract.

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Contract Process Legal Real Estate 110

Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. For salespeople who want to be treated as partners, there is a new sales conversation that creates greater value. Here is the order in which sales conversations were (and mostly still are) conducted in legacy approaches to B2B sales.

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Conversion Clients Sales Presentation 333

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I get that most sales teams aren’t structured to really put in the work here, to steal a customer. To buy potential customers out from long-term contracts they’ve already signed and paid for with the competition. It’s that simple: A customer 6 months into a 12-month contract? What about sales commissions?

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Contract Commission Price Sales 131

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Even when talks progress all the way to a signed contract, they will never be as engaged as they were in that initial moment when a problem arose and curiosity about your solution struck. By using HubSpot’s AI chatbot builder, we enabled our prospects to get answers to their questions 24/7/365, regardless of sales rep availability.

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Closing Contract Technique Sales 80

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2021

Salespeople pushing you to sign multi-year contracts you don’t want. Traditional SaaS sales is incented to close 1+ year contracts without no outs as quickly as possible, and where possible, for every possible seat you might ever use in Year 1. And yet … it does add friction to many sales processes.

Contract 116

Contract Price Closing Gaming 116

Iannarino

DECEMBER 29, 2022

If you performed well, your contact would sign a contract. While you could expect objections and a negotiation over price, selling was relatively straightforward. As a salesperson, you might have called on a decision-maker once or twice. Often, you and your contact were the only people in the room.

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Sell Negotiate Contract Contact 268

Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. I identified a key stakeholder with purchasing authority, reached out with a simple yet elegant email pitch, and they responded asking me for a contract they could sign right away.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase. You choose a price based on size, add any extras, and send your customers on their way. You need to evaluate pricing, implementation, features, integrations, and ongoing support. You need to evaluate pricing, implementation, features, integrations, and ongoing support.

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Objectives and Key Results Contract Legal Sales 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Q: What billing or pricing tactic have you found in the end just wasn’t worth it? ” and “Something we found really effective at CoursKey, and other vSaaS businesses will likely find as well: Instead of running pilots, sign a multi-year contract but give them an opt-out after 3-6 months. .” Jason, ed. :

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ask Jeb: How to Sell When Your Customer Has to Sell First Welcome to another Ask Jeb segment on the Sales Gravy Podcast! Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Im Jeb Blountbestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting, Objections, Sales EQ, and INKED. Identify these patterns.

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Sell Customers Contract Construction 84

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For instance, training platforms that offer courses in various sales training topics might empower salespeople and boost their performance. In other words, the sales setup of an average business is constantly growing. But what is a sales setup anyway? What Is a Sales Setup? How to Create a Sales Setup.

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Prospecting Price CRM Lead generation 213

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Deal desk software organizes a sales team’s quote-to-cash workflow. These are primarily used in B2B and SaaS companies to help manage complex sales processes, papers, and status updates. Reduce your sales cycle and improve your close rate today with PandaDoc. Sales within B2B can be complex and challenging.

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Legal Contract Cross-sell Finance 52

Search Engine Land

JULY 25, 2024

When sales decline, businesses begin to reduce expenses, lower prices and delay making new investments. Pricing pressures : As consumers go through times of economic uncertainty, consumer confidence and priorities in spending disposable income change. Essential products are often price-sensitive during a downturn.

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Campaign Objectives and Key Results Price Finance 108

Sales Pop!

MAY 20, 2023

Our last article introduced a new series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the book—sales had almost 15 percent of the U.S. Pink cited the U.S.

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Appointment Education Sales Contact 243

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I bought a new car in 2021, when the pandemic had virtually eliminated the gap between new and used prices. Very rarely did a sale require just a single signature, which meant the sales process and accompanying assets needed to be built around a variety of personas. That process has changed dramatically.

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B2B B2C Tradeshows Contract 81

PandaDoc

MARCH 27, 2025

What is cross-selling in sales? Simply put, cross-selling is a sales strategy used to recommend additional, complementary products/services or items frequently bought together to your customers based on their past/existing purchases. Read all about the sales technique here. Lets dive in. Want to learn more about upselling?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2025

Sales cycles are up 50%, discounts are hitting 20% to close deals, and monthly churn has tripled from 1.1% Flexible Payment Terms Are Your New Secret Weapon The old way of rigid annual contracts isn’t cutting it anymore. in just two years. The CAC:LTV ratio has crashed from 5x to 2.8x. The new playbook is about pragmatic growth.

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Contract Growth Pipeline CRM 93

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Why Do Most Entrepreneurs Under Price Their Offerings Initially? Yes, most of us at first under-price and then slowly raise prices as we gain confidence. It’s because (1) we aren’t trained sales leaders, and (2) we worry most about not losing the deal. Most especially in the early days.

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Price Contract Closing Customers 116

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: Should We Allow Refunds in a Multi-Year SaaS contract Paid Upfront? They’ll say never allow refunds in a multi-year contract: Sales will hate it, especially if there is an explicit or implicit clawback if they do. The post Dear SaaStr: Should We Allow Refunds in a Multi-Year SaaS Contract Paid Upfront?

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Contract Finance Closing Product 115

PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

Big-budget enterprise sales teams arent out-selling you because they have deeper pocketstheyre winning because they have better systems. Chamber of Commerce, yet sales tech providers often leave smaller businesses hanging. Their sales process has guardrails. This means less focus on high-value sales and more exhaustion.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce Contract Legal Price 52

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2022

SaaS pricing can be overwhelming when there are unlimited paths and opportunities that exist. Even though most companies acknowledge its importance, SaaS founders often choose a simplistic approach to pricing—that is, if they don’t choose to ignore it altogether. Making pricing work for your business.

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Price Product Drivers/motivators Contract 111

Martech

JULY 12, 2023

Salesforce is increasing its prices by an average of 9% next month, the company announced yesterday. This is the company’s first price hike in seven years. Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Industries and Tableau are all slated to see increases in August. What will be affected. Maybe a sign of things to come.

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Price Negotiate Contract CRM 98

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2025

Then we dove into the data, pipelines very anemic, but win rates, average deal sizes, sales cycles were reasonable. Then we got to the core issue, “They don’t have time… ” I hear this from virtually every CRO or top sales executive I talk to. “What are they doing to find and qualify new opportunities?

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Contract Legal Represent Meeting 62

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. No-touch sales.

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Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 132

Veloxy

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a sales manager, you have a crazy number of options to choose from to build the ultimate sales tech stack. It was recently found that 67% of sales teams have 4 to 10 sales tools in their tech stack. This is great, however, B2B sales teams are struggling with low team adoption and unclear ROI. Mindtickle.

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Quota Contract Account management Price 147

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2022

41% of you have sales do some customer onboarding, not just CS or other specialists. Should sales just disappear once the contract is signed? #5. On average, you got a 33%+ boost in revenue when you hired your first VP of Sales. Hire a great VP of Sales, and revenue goes up. Fix this, and watch sales go up. #16.

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Price Niche Up-sell Contract 136

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A wide variety of possible price negotiation strategies exist but all of them have a common baseline. In this article, we’ll help you find answers to the most important questions that all business owners and salespeople should have in their arsenal when negotiating prices with their customers. Don’t focus on the price either.

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Negotiate Price Gaming Contract 98

Sales Pop!

JULY 14, 2021

You will then be able to take steps to increase your margins, whether it’s by negotiating a better deal with your suppliers, reorganizing your price structure, or reducing your overheads. Leasing will save you lots of headaches, put less pressure on your monthly finances, and allow you to pick up a new lease at the end of your contract.

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Profit margin Finance Negotiate Contract 246

Hubspot

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the past year, Ive learned about many use cases for AI across sales and marketing. But, one use case I havent seen talked about as much is AI pricing models. AI is already a useful solution for many sales processes, from automating manual tasks to uncovering personal data. Table of Contents What Is an AI Pricing Model?

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Price Construction Cold Call Contract 36

ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then you need to make more sales. Want to Learn How to Build a Sales Funnel That Converts? The price itself also varies depending on the business type, company size, industry, and other factors that affect the cost per lead metric. Keep in mind that a “meh” lead magnet can cripple your sales funnel! What Is a Lead?

Lead generation 244

Lead generation Contact Contract Price 244

Hubspot

MARCH 26, 2025

Sales teams need the right tools, content, and data to talk to customers and close deals faster. Thats where sales enablement platforms help. Ive worked with businesses that spend thousands on software that sales teams end up barely using. These tools help teams work better, close more sales, and make more money.

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Price CRM Sales GTM 53

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2020

But what most sales teams don’t know is that their sales tech stack is still missing a critical piece — a tool that can accelerate the last leg of their deal cycles and cut it down by 24%. Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software. Aside from legal, Sales is one of the primary departments involved in contracts.

Contract 133

Contract Legal Negotiate CRM 133

SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2021

For our First Big Customer, we’d been negotiating a $6m/year contract for quite some time (they always take time). The effective price would have to be 60% of what we’d been discussing for the past 8 months. But at that price point, I couldn’t stay in business. They agreed to the original pricing we discussed, as is.

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Contract Finance Negotiate Price 124

Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Assess Your Company’s Water Needs Before you start comparing plans and prices, take some time to consider the amount of water your business uses on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Review the Supplier’s Reputation Before signing any contracts, take the time to review the supplier’s reputation in the industry.

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Contract Price Service Consult 162

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

If your product is so easy to use that you barely need sales people, why in the world would you need to charge for implementation? Turns out though, that in the vast majority of six-figure contracts, virtually every seven-figure contract, and quite a few five-figure contracts … there’s always a services component.

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Service Contract Price Negotiate 138

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

As any business will attest, there’s no greater feeling than when your company grows and reaches a point where you need to expand your inside sales team. Naturally, more salespeople means more sales which translates to more revenue. According to the Harvard Business Review, the average annual turnover in sales is about 30%.

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Inside sales CRM Sales Pipeline 232

Sales Pop!

AUGUST 24, 2021

But in the interest of time, rapid sales team brainstorming events can be just as productive. In sales, we do love our love frameworks. Including them in key sales calls without travel and expense is the new agility. If you don’t know your current adversaries versus their February 2020 selves, you’ll pay the price.

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Transportation Real Estate Healthcare Government 209