Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

When you’re doing the onboarding of a vendor, look at certain standardization of compliance regulations and setting that up in the right way,” said James Alliband, head of marketing for Risk Ledger, a supply-chain risk-management solution provider. Follow up with them regularly about this. This is absolutely one of them.

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Government Legal Contract Commission 118

Martech

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Marketers are expected to set up, integrate and manage the system themselves. Given the complexity of these platforms, many companies underestimate the time and resources required to get them up and running effectively. The not-so-hidden high costs and long contracts ABM platforms are expensive. This process is far from simple.

B2B 126

B2B Contract GTM CRM 126

Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

It’s unlikely that a more recent lead is automatically better than an older lead, or even than a target that is already locked into a contract with your competitor —even if the new contact devoted two minutes to filling out a form on your website. But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell. Occasionally, this is true.

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Intrinsic Clients Contact Contract 336

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. Flexible contract terms and proactive support can help too. Email: Business email address Sign me up!

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B2B Contract Consult Price 116

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2025

So literally showing up with food, that made sense to them. ” The make-up of Marchelle’s sales team isn’t just domain experts however, she tries to keep a 50/50 mix of industry veterans and SaaS professionals. Ditch Long-Term Contracts So how does Mangomint maintain 110% NRR without any traditional sales contracts?

Contract 108

Contract Sales Cold Call Trust 108

Partners in Excellence

JULY 17, 2024

It’s useful to pause to reflect on the reality that selling is a job that is 100% reliant on the support of others. Perhaps it’s trite, but selling is the ultimate team sport. We count on the systems and infrastructure that enables all that to synchronize in a way that allows us to sell, retain, expand, grow.

Sports 149

Sports Sell Legal Contract 149

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game. Expect actionable insights, cutting-edge strategies, and insider knowledge to keep you engaged and selling smarter—all without the fluff.

Gaming 233

Gaming Sell GTM Technique 233

Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Make enough calls, and you will bump into people are grouchy enough to say something rude or just hang up on you. Your experience with small bouts of conflict will help you build up an immunity, one you will need later. Selling is much more like mixed martial arts than boxing. Making cold calls consistently eliminates that fear.

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Cold Call Clients Contract Meeting 352

Salesforce

JANUARY 8, 2024

” A written sales contract should accurately reflect the verbal agreements made — or else you risk the buyer backing out of the deal or having a very unhappy or potentially litigious client after the deal is done. Sales contracts are vital to completing any business transaction. What you’ll learn What is a sales contract?

Contract 110

Contract Process Legal Real Estate 110

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You Gotta Do the Work (Of Course) Your Competition is Trying to Sell To, And Steal, Your Customers And yet, I still see so few SaaS companies doing even the most basic steps here. To buy potential customers out from long-term contracts they’ve already signed and paid for with the competition. Buy-out contracts.

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Contract Commission Price Sales 129

PandaDoc

MARCH 27, 2025

If youre looking to increase revenue without acquiring new customers, cross-selling is one of the best ways you can do that. Effective cross-selling helps customers find new products they genuinely need, so theyll leave more satisfied with your business and remain more loyal, too. What is cross-selling in sales? Lets dive in.

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Cross-sell Sell Customers Legal 52

Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

Many salespeople, though, launch the sales conversation with a firm intention to secure a signed contract and an agreement to install their “solution.” Once you discover the problem, you open up the opportunity to insert your solution, solving the problem. Too Committed to Identifying a Problem. Too Focused on Answering “Why Us”.

Contract 337

Contract Contact Clients Prospecting 337

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

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Car buyers 30 years ago might have shown up at the dealership wanting a truck, a sedan, or something as vague as a “good family car,” and the salesperson’s job was to help steer them in the right direction based on their needs. That process has changed dramatically. A 2024 HubSpot Blog Survey of 422 B2B professionals in the U.S.

B2B 81

B2B B2C Tradeshows Contract 81

Iannarino

JULY 15, 2021

How you sell—not what you sell or who you work for—is your most important competitive advantage. The more unfair advantages you can stack up, the greater the odds that your prospective client will decide to buy from you. To win a deal , you are going to need someone who can sign a contract. Greater Mindshare.

Gaming 299

Gaming Clients Contract Up-sell 299

Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

These are calls where the deal gets moved across the line, contracts get signed and reps earn their commissions. Unfortunately, closing calls depend on who you’re selling to and could take you tens of hours. So you’ll either come out on top by establishing an authoritative relationship, or you’re stuck playing catch up the entire time.

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Cold Call Pipeline Prospecting Follow-up 328

Tibor Shanto

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

At this point they may consider contracting a duct cleaner, or go ductless, (geese only). The 20% who are recognized as eagles continue to sell the future, but future is not singular. Clearly for Decision, it is here and now, “we need to be up by year end…?”. Birds Of A Feather.

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Cross-sell Territory Contract Start-ups 287

Martech

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That’s not to say you shouldn’t make sure during the first year that your PR efforts are ramping up from month to month and quarter to quarter. Hire local PR representation in every major market you sell in If you ask an agency if they can cover a geographical market outside their home territory, they will likely say yes. Processing.

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Territory Contact Pitch Cross-sell 130

Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

But by rushing the deal to get to the pain points, you break B2B selling and buying. Your Buyer's Lack of Experience Because you sell your company's offerings every day, you have the experience that your B2B buyer is missing. We describe this idea as being One-Up , meaning you have greater knowledge and experience than your buyers.

B2B 284

B2B Contact Clients Entertainment 284

Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. You can use these scripts, tips, and tricks to up your cold call game. Prospect: Yes!

Cold Call 298

Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Pitch Follow-up 298

Martech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Oracle Cloud CX enhances personalization and improves upsell and cross-sell conversions. Assisted authoring capabilities provide sales teams with AI-generated responses to contract questions, emails and summaries for quotes and proposals. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

Cross-sell 111

Cross-sell Construction Legal Contract 111

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

You’re going up against companies like Gusto who already handle payroll extremely well. How to Make Onboarding Work for SMBs While in some cases, selling to SMBs is easier than Enterprise in many ways, one way in which it’s fundamentally harder is onboarding. The expansion can only come from selling SMBs new products.

Appointment 102

Appointment Contract Commission Niche 102

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 good news? Most of these changes don’t require massive investments.

Contract 93

Contract Growth Pipeline CRM 93

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

I really liked this one and wanted to write up a few more learnings. When Graham joined in February of last year, Codeium had approximately 200 customers generating low single-digit millions in revenue, combining self-service and enterprise annual contracts. The 5 Key Elements of Codeium’s GTM Scaling Playbook 1.

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GTM Territory Pipeline Growth 95

Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Theyre someone who takes initiative, inspires their fellow salespeople, and drives revenue growth through an innovative approach to prospecting and selling. And, just as I mentioned, thats exactly where sales champions shine theyre not just deal-closers but dynamic professionals who go far beyond the basics of selling. You know this.

Negotiate 78

Negotiate Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Strategize 78

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Competition is Way, Way Up. Did you step up? With AI Agents that do work for people, from coding to reviewing contracts, these are brand new dollars in software spend that didnt exist before. The Ones That Cant Keep Up Are Being Left Behind The pace of innovation has accelerated. Or are you #4. Did you grab some?

Legal 92

Legal Contract B2B Growth 92

Sales Pop!

JULY 14, 2021

As a result, they often end up making costly mistakes. In some cases, people end up getting a space that is way too expensive or big for their needs. You have no idea if you’re going to be able to sell off vehicles after you’re done with them or how much residual value they will have, especially with the mileage they’ll have amassed.

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Profit margin Finance Negotiate Contract 246

Martech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Key proposals : Force Google to sell Chrome browser. Ban exclusive search contracts. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Following the landmark ruling that Google maintained an illegal search monopoly, the DOJ is crafting a comprehensive set of requirements to increase competition in the digital marketplace. Processing.

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Legal Contract Sales 70

Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

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. It is impossible to sell every day and not recognize the things that your clients struggle with, especially if you’ve been making traditional discovery calls for years—or decades.

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Conversion Clients Sales Presentation 333

Sales Pop!

JULY 14, 2022

I taught a Selling class at Loyola University Maryland and many of the students were shocked when they saw the syllabus, which indicated that participation was 50% of their grade. I always promised my students that I would focus on what was truly important in the real world of selling, not what was chronicled in textbooks and articles.

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Clients Contract Up-sell Growth 213

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In consulting with organizations selling into the enterprise space, I’ve often encountered start-up organizations that lack healthy lists of current accounts. With clarity in those areas embedded in your organizational selling DNA, you then need a practical “Go/No-Go” process to evaluate the alignment and worthiness of opportunities.

Contract 227

Contract Up-sell Represent Clients 227

Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

But the irony is that in selling to large accounts , sales cycles are typically long and drawn out. And as the calendar pages turn in major account pursuits, doubt, uncertainty, risk, and costs add up. And you must also be able to gauge the extent of the power of the legal and contracts teams in the process and strategize accordingly.

Legal 213

Legal Finance Contract Networking 213

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Selling to Multiple Stakeholders If you sell into the Enterprise, you understand there are different stakeholders. So at BILL’s scale, you have to put programs into place across the company to connect employees to customers, to help you focus on all the different stakeholders vs just the contract signer. acquisition.

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Customers Networking UX Engineering 121

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2023

How are CEO contracts typically structured? I’ll answer this from a start-up perspective, and assume you mean bringing in an outside CEO to run your start-up. Most “outside” CEOs, that are brought in to run a start-up, will be looking for 6-8% equity in the company. Maybe 4-5% if it’s mid-stage.

Contract 98

Contract Start-ups Up-sell Sell 98

Iannarino

JUNE 17, 2021

One of the most significant changes in the way that we sell involves who we choose to engage in the sales conversation. At one time, as a salesperson, you would be told to find “the decision-maker,” the single individual who could sign a contract. The legacy laggard approach seeks the decision-maker. Part 4 | Discovery.

Contract 195

Contract Sales Clients Government 195

Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

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. I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy. How to Use AI for Sales Follow-Ups 1.

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Follow-up Contract Sales Technology 85

ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. How a unique selling proposition (USP) attracts better customers and builds your brand (and where marketers get it wrong). Their guard will be up, so be transparent about the purpose of your call.

Sell 158

Sell Objectives and Key Results Up-sell Drivers/motivators 158