ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2019

But that’s not why raising prices is so difficult. Instead, poor planning is to blame: Companies neglect to plan a price increase until there’s a financial squeeze or, for the thirtieth time, a customer confides that, “You know, you really ought to charge more.”. What’s at stake: The exponential impact of a price increase.

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Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

Generally, after you agreed with your client on a solution, you would present it and provide a formal proposal and pricing. At this point, you may or may not need to provide a presentation, but you will eventually have to provide your client with a proposal and a contract. Presentation and Proposal. ” You need to make sales.

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Conversion Clients Sales Presentation 299

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

We were at my brother Ray’s football game and so I went to the concession stand, looked at the prices of candy and bought 5 – yes, count them – 5 Three Musketeers candy bars. This made me think of business and sales and pricing and competition and, somehow, I ended up thinking about this. He gave me the quarter.

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Customers Price Contract Sales 188

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2022

Should sales just disappear once the contract is signed? #5. Hire a great VP of Sales, and revenue goes up. It’s a challenge to get your logo retention rate up to 90% or higher. #8. 59% of you have raised prices this year. . #8. 59% of you have raised prices this year. Fix this, and watch sales go up.

Price 135

Price Niche Up-sell Contract 135

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. Before diving into your questions, you’ll want to head over to the link below and sign up for an exciting event coming up this week. When you’re mature, raising prices by $1 might make sense.

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Price X-functional Growth B2B 119

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

Lead Fuze

JULY 6, 2021

What is a Pricing Strategy? Pricing strategies don’t just come down to what you charge, it can come down to how you present your prices. And it’s not over yet; now comes the biggest hurdle… pricing up your offering. 13 Types of Pricing Strategies Examples. 3 Cost-Plus Pricing Strategy.

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Price Clients Sales Technique 98

ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The price itself also varies depending on the business type, company size, industry, and other factors that affect the cost per lead metric. What matters, though, isn’t the price tag itself, but whether the lead generation agency can bring in leads at a cost that allows you to stay profitable. It depends.

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Lead generation Contact Contract Price 244

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

You pay a subscription for websites to help you sell stuff. It’s just only a minority is under a contract. And almost none is under a long-term contract. Wow! But almost none of its revenue is truly SaaS or provided under a fixed, recurring contract. And yes, it’s a software company. Example #3: Snowflake.

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Contract Price Contact B2B 144

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

In the last year we’ve been leveling up a lot of our systems at SaaStr, and as part of that, moving from a lot of self-service and simple products to more robust ones. And one thing I’ve been shocked about is how few sales processes have kept up. Now, it’s time to overhaul how we sell it as well. And price it that way.

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Product Contract Construction Negotiate 145

Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Price: $49/month for Salesforce users, corporate plans available Automations: Non-selling activities, lead prioritization, lead capture Veloxy has several features to help you automate Salesforce, no matter how long you’ve been using the CRM platform. Go here to learn everything you need to know about Salesforce Automation.

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Appointment Territory Cross-sell Contract 147

Martech

AUGUST 19, 2024

I’m not bringing it up to judge Robinson on his turn at this unfortunate ritual. That means there’s an increased likelihood of terminating the contract because the tool is no longer needed and/or its champion is gone. There are always leaders who prioritize low prices over the value products provide. Processing.

B2B 116

B2B Contract Consult Price 116

Veloxy

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Most sales reps spend over 175 hours every year on generating quotes and proposals, and waiting for contracts to be signed. When speed to close is essential in a competitive profession, you need the ability to generate and send contracts in one click, one minute. PandaDoc has four pricing levels. Highest Rated Feature.

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Quota Contract Account management Price 147

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Sprout Social doesn’t only sell a low-end edition. It sells to customers S, M, and Larger. A reminder that sometimes as you go upmarket, the SMBs can still keep up the pace. Bill.com has 121% NRR from SMBs — and that’s up from 110% at IPO. Because it’s not about price.

Contract 145

Contract Cross-sell Price Up-sell 145

Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

The amount of time it takes to turn a lead into a customer will depend on the service you are offering, and the price of that service. You can take this approach to the next level by setting up retargeting ads across FB, Google Ads, or Youtube, that pushes these prospects to a landing page where you offer a content upgrade.

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Pipeline Negotiate Contract Objectives and Key Results 126

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. This is where a sales rep physically meets a potential customer to discuss needs, budgets, volumes, prices, requirements, timelines, and other contract details. Talvista: $199k ACV and $996k ARR.

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Inside sales Cold Call Contract Price 122

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. That’s up from 70% 5 quarters ago — a big change. Do whatever you can to drive up NRR / net negative churn. 10x the sign-ups with new Free tier. Will conversions make up for it?

Contract 136

Contract Cross-sell Price Growth 136

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2020

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software. Aside from legal, Sales is one of the primary departments involved in contracts. And CLM software helps sales teams streamline their contracting process, improve sales-legal collaboration, and free up time for sales reps to focus on revenue-generating activities.

Contract 130

Contract Legal Negotiate CRM 130

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2020

In your pricing. In your contracts. “Help people buy how they want to buy and be as transparent as you can with pricing ” – Ken Edwards, Sales leader, Uberflip. “Flat pricing for paid pilots” — CEO & Co-founder, ToneDen. “E contract” — Julie Grieve, CEO CritonHQ.

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Closing Process Contract Price 137

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. And its stock price is up +35% the last year, and +192% the past 5 years: 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Not too shabby!

Cross-sell 117

Cross-sell Quota Contract Price 117

SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Founder Josh James had one of the earliest $1B+ exits in SaaS when Adobe bought his first start-up, Omniture, for $1.8 60% more users log-in to accounts with consumption-based pricing, and 50% of new customers are choosing consumption-based pricing. #4. Sells to Mid-Market and Enterprise, But Going More and More Enterprise.

Contract 120

Contract Price Growth Launch 120

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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Inside sales CRM Sales Pipeline 232

SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

We’ve talked about BATNA a long time ago in the context of selling your company, where the concept is critical (read that here ). When at the 11th hour, the customer pushes back hard on pricing … we don’t want to blow the deal. They handed us a new contract across the table for $2m, instead of $5m.

Contract 125

Contract Sales Negotiate Price 125

Gong.io

DECEMBER 27, 2021

And the (counter intuitive) ideal length for a follow-up prospecting email. We analyzed 37,671 sales opportunities, specifically looking at how emailing price impacted deal success. Win rates spike once pricing is shared over email: If you emailed price recently — or, erm, today — take a big sigh of relief. Don’t bite. .

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Negotiate Price Contract Sales 127

Women Sales Pros

APRIL 26, 2019

This pre-conditioning and societal role expectation also compels us to complain about or ask about price when buying a car or any other item with a price that might be negotiable. We do this even when we would, actually, be perfectly willing to pay the full price. This requires some restraint.

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Price Contract Technique Negotiate 134

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

As buyers grapple with expanding technology, higher prices, and a need for efficiency, SaaS companies need to deliver what their audience is looking for to win in the market. AI-Powered Tools: AI-related purchases in Q1: Made up 41% of new investments in Q1. But there is even more nuance to the reason behind the price hike.

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Price Contract CRM Engineering 117

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2020

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software. Aside from legal, Sales is one of the primary departments involved in contracts. And CLM software helps sales teams streamline their contracting process, improve sales-legal collaboration, and free up time for sales reps to focus on revenue-generating activities.

Contract 120

Contract Legal Negotiate CRM 120

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Recently, I caught up with two great entrepreneurs/CEOs, both doing a few million in ARR and growing quickly. And if you do, you’ll want to decide if you’re selling a Tool — or a Solution. An example of the difference, for us: Adobe Sign is both a tool that lets you sign a contract on the internet. Doing well.

Product 123

Product Contract Sales Price 123

Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

Buy, sell, or share PI of 100,000+ consumers or households. Gets 50%+ of annual revenues from selling or sharing consumers’ PI.

Contract 132

Contract Up-sell Service Process 132

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8 , we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. So typically a business who loses five percent of his customers every month, you can basically come up with the fact that the average lifetime of a customer for that business is gonna be 20 months.

Price 98

Price Launch X-functional Contract 98

ClickFunnels

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

So think about what issues come up again and again when dealing with clients: Are there any laws that could benefit potential clients that they might be unaware of? Pick the issue that comes up most often and provide a free solution to it in a format that makes the most sense. Create a simple 6-email follow-up sequence.

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Referrals Legal Lead generation Non-Profits 237

Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

It leads your sales reps through various scenarios: how to prospect, when to sell what product or service, how to overcome common objections, what to negotiate for (and how ) to name a few. Pricing options. Round up your corporate-approved, top-notch sales decks. Best-selling author, Hal Elrod, once said: . Contracting.

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Territory Objectives and Key Results Contract Price 118

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling. There are review meetings-ideally to help improve their selling performance.

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Sell CRM Technique Up-sell 152

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Are you selling a product in a well defined category with other direct competitors? Pricing is always evolving. Be willing to iterate and push the envelope on pricing, and make sure your pricing lines up with your sales process. Clearly understand how your customer buys. Are you defining an entirely new category ?

Non-Profits 128

Non-Profits Price Contract Start-ups 128

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. And these manual processes take sales reps away from their most important activity: selling. Whether purposefully or by accident, sales reps often deviate from pricing and discounting guidelines.

Cross-sell 103

Cross-sell Contract Price Finance 103

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2021

Have you ever presented something to help level up your team and just saw blank stares looking back? Before we get started today with our social selling training, I want to start with a Kahoot interactive live quiz filled with facts about social media and the power of social selling.”. Pair up your team members for practice.

Contract 133

Contract Cold Call Technique Sales 133

Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2021

We had just seen Machu Picchu (a place which lives up to EVERY ounce of the hype. We’ll likely pick up another 10-20% this month, but the majority comes from that first call. A lot of great SDR leaders tell their team to sell the meeting with the AE, not the whole product. explains pricing }}. That place is stunning).

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A/B testing Contract Sales Closing 141