SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

How PLG Evolved First, let’s start with PLG and its evolution. How did it all start? Because the end user starts using the product, often through a self-serve motion. From a PLG perspective, if you make it easy for users to start using your product, any interaction with a rep or customer service person is a bad user experience.

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Cross-sell Customers Pitch Drivers/motivators 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thinking about AI for your sales team but unsure where to start? I have no idea what episode we are currently on, but it’s getting up there. Experience before starting Intellimize. And it’s basically just all the mistakes that they made before starting the journey. And we’ll keep the good guests rolling.

GTM 103

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 103

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 22, 2022

It’s something you can package, market, and sell. It’s not as simple as creating a course, crossing your fingers, and waiting for raving fans to knock down your digital door. You need to know who you want to reach with your message before you can start creating content that resonates. Knowledge is now a commodity.

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Cold Call Cross-sell Clients Up-sell 242

Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Product training is a structured learning process that helps team members understand, communicate, and sell a product. According to Gartner, 77% of B2B buyers say their most recent purchase felt “very complex or difficult,” highlighting the importance of thorough product knowledge for anyone selling or supporting a solution.

Product 52

Product GTM Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 52

Partners in Excellence

JULY 24, 2024

We have our cadences, following up on our initial outreach. Perhaps sending a follow up message a few days later, a week later. “If your first email wasn’t interesting to me, why is a follow up about the same thing likely to provoke a response?” After all, that’s all we sell.

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Cross-sell Territory Follow-up Prospecting 143

ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 18, 2022

And start thinking about the experience you intend to create for people. If you’re unsure where to start, look at what your most successful competitors are doing (we call this funnel hacking ). Start With Hook. It all starts with a hook. Introduce this right at the start of your story. Grab some paper.

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A/B testing Angle Conversion Cross-sell 246

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my selling career, I was in a short training class. As they get more engaged with each other, unconsciously they start mirroring each others’ behaviors. All of a sudden, we see the other person open up, they are more curious, more engaged, more interested. We are truly interested, we are curious, we care.

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Cross-sell Pitch Prospecting Start-ups 152

Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It’s typically a cross-functional initiative between sales and marketing. At its core, sales training teaches sales reps how to sell, imparting essential skills and techniques for engaging customers. On the flip side, sales enablement provides the tools to sell better. It starts with a structure, goals, and needs identification.

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Pitch Sales Technique Cross-sell 52

Hubspot

JULY 22, 2024

I totally understand how important these emails are, but I don't know where the heck to start with them!” 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. But hey, you have to start somewhere, right?

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Clients Referrals Prospecting Sales 78

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Getting to the home stretch is a struggle in itself, so if you manage to get to the finish line with a potential client, you'd better know how to cross it. The process of "crossing the finish line" in this context is most commonly known as a client pitch. The term "client pitch" is fairly fluid. Conduct thorough research.

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Pitch Clients Cross-sell Represent 69

ClickFunnels

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Table of Contents: Design Your Sales Funnel First Choose the Right Software Grow Your Email List With a Lead Magnet Set Up an Automated Welcome Sequence Use the Hook, Story, Offer Copywriting Framework Pitch a Free Consultation at the End of Your Welcome Sequence Want Russel To Show You How To Build Your First Sales Funnel?

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Pitch Consult Cross-sell Trust 130

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Form submissions or checkout processes can end with a success message delivered on the same page via JavaScript or through a pop-up window. For Basecamp—and other SaaS companies offering free trials—getting a customer to start using their trial is a priority. Pitch an upsell or cross-sell. Confirm the transaction.

Cross-sell 133

Cross-sell Hospitality Referrals Real Estate 133

ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Want to make money online by selling someone else’s products? We believe that the most effective way to sell anything online is the Value Ladder sales funnel. We also recommend adding downsells , upsells , and cross-sells to these core offers in order to maximize your revenue. What Is the Value Ladder Sales Funnel?

Niche 130

Niche Pitch Cross-sell A/B testing 130

Salesforce

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This practice also applies to canvassing — hanging physical flyers or starting conversations with people on the street to gather information. Like other sales approaches, the goal of door-to-door sales is to establish a relationship with a customer, upsell , cross-sell, and close more deals.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Territory E-commerce Pitch 52

Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2019

Pull up a chair and stay awhile, I’m diving into that and more below. 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.

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Strategic planning Strategize Referrals Cross-sell 100

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

and cross your fingers that you sat in on the “right” calls. The goal of prospecting is to sell the meeting. Instead, focus on selling the meeting. #2 When it comes to prospecting follow-up emails, it’s perfectly fine (actually, preferred) to send a longer — personalized, direct, and intentional — email. #4

Cold Call 118

Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 118

ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The purpose of email marketing is to help you sell products and services which is why it’s so important to think about it in the context of your overall sales funnel. And we believe that the most effective way to sell anything online is the Value Ladder sales funnel. Start Your Free Trial Today! Start Your Free Trial Today!

Lead generation 130

Lead generation Cross-sell Pitch Consult 130

Salesforce

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We’re even starting to harness AI to predict buyer behavior and respond to it more quickly. That’s the heart of value selling. What you’ll learn: What is value selling? Why is value selling important? See how it works What is value selling? Why is value selling important?

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Sell Pitch Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 104

PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. Identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities to drive continued revenue growth. Buyers sense this drop in energy, and they start doubting the commitment or value of your solution. The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Contract Legal Sales 52

ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

Through my research, I’ve found that the popular use of autoresponders is to create a series of quick, short, automated blasts of slick pitch messages to ship products or services as quickly as possible. Identifying The Starting Point of Your Auto-Responder Campaigns. Knowing where to start your autoresponder is difficult.

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Campaign Click Through Rate E-commerce Pitch 130

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Five years into my B2B marketing career, I noticed a pattern: The clients who said yes were the ones whom I understood not just their stated needs but their underlying motivations through conceptual selling. Table of Contents What is conceptual selling? While traditional selling asks, What do you need? Heres how it works.

Sell 46

Sell Drivers/motivators Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 46

Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

Company founders do a lot of the selling in the early days. You gain some traction and see some success and start growing. Make your sales process about buyer decisions, not arbitrary stages Every time I start working with a new sales team, I ask the same question: What decisions does a customer have to make to buy from you?

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Process Cross-sell Sales Finance 116

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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Cross-sell Customers Referrals Pitch 82

Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2013

In several posts recently, I’ve been railing against lazy, unimaginative selling. It’s the tired old email campaign–poorly written, poorly executed, poor follow up (If you want to see me rail, read “ The Email Query. It’s pitching our products rather than helping our customers solve their problems.

Cross-sell 111

Cross-sell Pipeline Prospecting Pitch 111

Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There has never been a better strategy for marketing in the music industry than pitching one’s music to media corporations. Hard sell your music. Create a cross-platform community. Along with your social media music promotion, you can also start a community for your band. Start your own website.

Promote 130

Promote Cross-sell Gaming Contact 130

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

And while you can always push a product for the sake of selling it, you’ll only sell it once. A lot of sales reps end up competing on who sold the most or what product is selling faster. Maybe you’re selling the right products to the wrong audience in the wrong market.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2018

Upsell/Cross-Sell Rates. Share this data with your team so they can see how they stack up against other reps. 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.

Territory 101

Territory Cross-sell A/B testing Promote 101

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s been a fun experience being on Quora for … a decade We’ve crossed 60,000,000 views of our answers there, so let’s take a look at the Top 50 most viewed SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020: Why do many startup owners sell their firm and move on instead of planning on making it a big player like Google, Microsoft, etc.?

Cross-sell 117

Cross-sell Commission Legal Negotiate 117

ClickFunnels

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Note that you should start by targeting a small niche even if you believe that your product or service could have a much wider appeal. For example: When Facebook launched in 2004, the company started by targeting Harvard students, then expanded to other Ivy League universities, then to most universities in the United States and Canada.

Cross-sell 130

Cross-sell Launch Objectives and Key Results Niche 130

ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 25, 2022

We believe that the most effective way to sell anything online is the Value Ladder sales funnel. We also recommend adding downsells , upsells , and cross-sells to these core offers in order to maximize your revenue. This might seem unnecessarily complicated but it’s the best way to sell affiliate products.

A/B testing 130

A/B testing Lead generation Cross-sell Pitch 130

Hubspot

JULY 13, 2020

In fact, sales audits are necessary to set up your sales team and company for future success. Check out HubSpot’s free sales and marketing alignment resources to help you improve cross-team communication and collaboration. We have some tactics for sales motivation to get you started.). ?? Sales Audit Checklist.

Cross-sell 92

Cross-sell Pitch Drivers/motivators Sales 92

Partners in Excellence

MAY 28, 2014

I wrote the Not So New Principles of Sales , where I identified the second not so new principle as: “Selling is about exchanges in value between people. The concept of value is tossed around a lot in any conversation about selling, but everyone has a different context or meaning for value.

Cross-sell 116

Cross-sell Sales Construction Referrals 116

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?

Gaming 95

Gaming Cross-sell Referrals CRM 95

Hubspot

MAY 5, 2023

Here, we cover the top consumer spending trends in 2023, along with five key strategies for selling during an economic downturn. Table of Contents Top Consumer Spending Trends in 2023 Strategies for Selling in a Recession Top Consumer Spending Trends in 2023 1. Let's take a look at a few strategies for selling in a recession.

Profit margin 91

Profit margin Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pitch 91

Score More Sales

AUGUST 11, 2011

If your business is at a plateau and needs a jump start, put these sales strategies into place and then roll up your sleeves and work to make them happen. DO others talk you up? Have a nurture marketing strategy in place – be able to follow up with prospects not ready to buy yet. Social Selling. Lisa Jackson.

Niche 103

Niche Strategize Cross-sell Referrals 103

Sales Hacker

JUNE 19, 2019

I’m always impressed by the degree of ingenuity that leading sales teams put into their selling strategy. They’re great for generating leads, pitching your product, and converting first-time buyers into repeat customers. Transactional selling. Solution selling. Consultative selling. Provocative selling.

Campaign 105

Campaign Cross-sell Sales Up-sell 105

Hubspot

JULY 12, 2019

I started chatting with a few of my friends in sales to learn more about their best secrets and corresponding open rates, and David Sneider , Sendbloom's former head of growth and current CEO of Deco.Network, provided the following quote: This made sense to me. Cross-sell existing customers? Pro Tip: A/B Test Your Pitch -.

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Campaign A/B testing Pitch Cross-sell 101