The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Cross selling is when you offer a complimentary or paid product or service to your clients, when they buy one of your other products and services. So how can you effectively implement cross selling as a part of your sales strategy, and what is the difference between cross selling and up selling?

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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.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That’s the beauty of effective cross-selling. What you’ll learn: What is cross-selling? See how it works What is cross-selling? Cross-selling is a sales strategy where a seller offers complementary products or services to existing customers, delivering more value while increasing revenue.

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

In other words, hard skills guide what sales reps sell, and soft skills determine how they sell to prospects. These challenges compound when teams are spread across different regions and may only meet in person once or twice a year. All of these consultative selling factors contribute to stronger client relationships.

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Hubspot

JULY 22, 2024

I've sent business emails for everything from driving referrals to flexing my expertise for prospects to delivering cold pitches — along with a host of other purposes. They're typically sent following initial conversations, meetings, or proposals (shocking, I know.) Types of Business Emails 1.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. A solid curriculum empowers: Sales to confidently build relationships, handle objections, meet customer expectations, and close deals faster. co-marketing materials).

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Veloxy

JUNE 8, 2022

So if you can save on time spent doing repetitive tasks, then your reps will be able to focus on a singular goal of selling and closing deals more effectively. For all companies, meeting existing sales targets and forecasting sales and revenue is crucial to organizational success. This is where automation comes to the rescue.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It’s typically a cross-functional initiative between sales and marketing. It usually includes sales enablement certification assessments to ensure reps meet performance standards before applying their training in the field. On the flip side, sales enablement provides the tools to sell better.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Top 3 Mistakes in Selling to Inbound Leads. Mistake #2: Leading with the vanilla elevator pitch. They have no idea whether the value proposition they are pitching will resonate with the companies they are calling. This approach of leading with the vanilla elevator pitch is the kiss of death in an inbound environment.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

and cross your fingers that you sat in on the “right” calls. Gong captures anonymized data from our customers – web conference meetings, call recordings , and emails – and uses AI to analyze how seller and buyer behavior impacts success rates. . The goal of prospecting is to sell the meeting. You landed the meeting.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 118

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2019

Craft your elevator pitch. Craft your elevator pitch. Keeping your elevator pitch at the forefront of all strategic planning will remind everyone what you’re working toward and why. Some people believe the best pitch isn’t a pitch at all , but a story. Strategic Plan Template. Include an executive summary.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

If you’re serious about applying this approach, I recommend you buy the book Sell Like Crazy , by Sabri Suby. Meeting Prospects. Meeting prospects is an important step on the path to a conversion. Some people like to meet face-to-face. You should get your lead to complete some activity before the meeting.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

How to help convince a CFO to buy what you’re selling. Think you have what it takes to sell to a CFO ? Don’t bore them with your pitch. So, to make your pitch work, find the most relevant information to share with your CFO. Present facts and data cross-checked by a third party before using this information in your pitch.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

After booking a meeting with a representative, Segment immediately reassures users that “You’re in Great Company” and offers several success stories and strong social proof : ( Image source ). Pitch an upsell or cross-sell. A thank you page can reinforce those positive feelings.

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criteria for success

JUNE 3, 2021

We structure our company's process around this philosophy; we meet for daily check-ins as a team, we set aside time for purposeful brainstorm sessions, we encourage an open discourse, and so on. Our ideas are sharper, our processes are speedier, and everyone feels that they are able to pitch in, like they are truly a part of a team.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

From long-lasting client relationships to face-to-face meetings , field reps can make all the difference in innovation by continually supporting customer needs. If you’ve been meeting quota attainment for the past few months in a row, then you’re clearly underplaying your real potential.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, strip away all the nuanced strategy and tech, and sales remains simple: Identify a need and show how your product or solution meets that need while delivering positive economic impact. That’s the heart of value selling. What you’ll learn: What is value selling? Why is value selling important?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They’re signing the renewals, the cross-sell, up-sell. And so literally in the middle of meetings, we’d be like, how does somebody do this? I remember one year, the Super Bowl was perennially the biggest day of the year because you’d get more traffic, so you’d sell more ads.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Desperate for a solution, I turned to target account selling a method Ive since refined into a system thats helped me land six SaaS clients in under four months. Table of Contents What is target account selling? How does target account selling work? What is target account selling? How does target account selling work?

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. This stage can involve multiple meetings and additional stakeholders. Identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities to drive continued revenue growth. The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase. Take buying a CRM, for example.

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Hubspot

JULY 13, 2020

However, it's also important to step back regularly and conduct sales audits to ensure your team is performing at a high level that meets or exceeds your expectations. Check out HubSpot’s free sales and marketing alignment resources to help you improve cross-team communication and collaboration. How effective are these meetings?

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 23, 2021

As Gap Selling has crossed the milestone of 50,000 copies sold , we are highlighting some of our favorite books to compliment your Gap Selling journey. One of my favorite slides from Gap Selling Training is about value: “Value: as a word doesn’t mean anything. ” – Keenan, Gap Selling Training.

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Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2018

Upsell/Cross-Sell Rates. Is there something that overperformers do in sales meetings that others don’t? Upsell/Cross-Sell Rates. Have your reps track their upsell and cross-sell numbers, and use that data to identify whether certain verticals respond well to certain product/service pitches.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

Company founders do a lot of the selling in the early days. And businesses tend to think of each stage as a meeting or call. If you sell cars, what decisions does a buyer need to make before they are ready to buy? If your product is way outside what they’re looking to spend, even the best sales pitch is not going to land.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 10, 2021

Insights gained from your customer support agents can improve the process of pitching, converting, and retaining leads. If you have products to sell online , you need the two teams to work together for revenue and margin growth. That information can help the salespeople make an improved pitch to the next client. Reduce churn.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. Buyer-Centered Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

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Salesmate

JUNE 12, 2020

You have to be prepared, show up for your sales meetings, leave a mark on your prospects, navigate through their objections, pitch your proposal, and follow-up! When given a practical view, the selling process is a lot more complicated than this. 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls after the meeting – Salesmate.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2013

In several posts recently, I’ve been railing against lazy, unimaginative selling. And if we didn’t accomplish what we wanted, we can just arrange another meeting. It’s pitching our products rather than helping our customers solve their problems. We get paid on what we sell. It’s not prospecting.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2021

At his first board meeting, he kept talking over the VP of Marketing. And directly selling his or herself isn’t one of top 3, interestingly. Because you’re going to need a team to sell. How to put together the best pitch scripts. And they meet at least twice a week, and at least once formally. Sales Tactics.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2021

Now that the world is opening back up, it’s time to get out there and meet your customers face-to-face. Planning the perfect customer visit will ensure that you meet your goals and that your customer meeting will be successful. No matter what you sell, you aren’t just selling a product — you’re also selling the people behind it.

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CloserIQ

MAY 8, 2018

There are a variety of ways to personalize pitches and approaches. There’s no one-size-fits-all sales pitch that will work with every prospect. Before you actually meet with a client, research them on social media and by visiting their website. This information will come in handy as you craft your sales pitch.

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Highspot

MAY 15, 2020

Sales enablement technology enables cross-regional revenue teams to work together more efficiently and effectively in the face of change by combining intelligent content management, clear sales guidance, and better buyer engagement data. What’s more, marketers can rest assured knowing their time and resources are well spent.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 11, 2011

People meet you live or through social means and then go to search for your presence on the web. Meet and know intentional connectors – they can refer many people / businesses your way. Today’s meeting was a nice jumpstart for me. Previous post: Social Selling and Brand Building Dogs and Winners From a Cross-Country Drive.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

While individual selling styles, methodologies, and processes might differ, core sales techniques don’t change. Upsell or Cross-Sell Contest. This contest rewards the salesperson with the largest or most significant upsell or cross-sell. Best Pitch. Sales Bingo. Schedule three demos. Make 25 calls.

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Salesforce

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s face it: Hard sells and flashy demos can be effective ways to close. Not only will this help you build trust, which makes it easier to sell , but it will open the door to long-term relationships that can lead to upsells and cross-sells. But not always. The next step?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

Small group communication: This occurs when there are more than two people involved, such as when pitching your services to a small team. The way you stand (arms crossed, arms at your side, legs relaxed, etc.). Take, for example, a situation in which you’re meeting face-to-face with a prospect you’re dying to close. Eye contact.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But PandaDoc’s salespeople are able to consistently meet and beat quotas quarter after quarter, which continues to impress me as to how they do it. In this article, I’ve tried to organize the wisdom, experiences, and sales pitching tactics from some of our top sales minds into a handy listicle that you can comb over in less than 5 minutes.

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