Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 25, 2014

We talk a lot about account planning, particularly if our “territory” is one or a few large accounts. Become a strategic partner. But we probably won’t achieve all the growth we need to achieve by relying on upgrades and cross sell to our current customers. Grow the account.

Territory 120

Territory Cross-sell Strategize Account management 120

Gong.io

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The value of sales territories isn’t lost on most sales leaders (and if it is, we’ll clarify that shortly). The problem is making your sales territory planning fair without swallowing up your time. . What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important? What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important?

Territory 62

Territory Cross-sell Sales Pipeline 62

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Land and expand” is a selling tactic that starts with landing a small deal with a new account or organization. Through a strong relationship and proven results, that first deal turns into more sales and increased revenue as you continue to sell across the company. The next step is to carve out “land and expand”-friendly territories.

Cross-sell 113

Cross-sell Sell Territory Up-sell 113

Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2018

Upsell/Cross-Sell Rates. How are your salespeople contributing to the expansion of your business in their given territory? If sales volume is large in region A, perhaps there is a higher demand there, in which case you can focus on customizing certain products and services for that region. Upsell/Cross-Sell Rates.

Territory 101

Territory Cross-sell A/B testing Promote 101

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Wrapped around this is some notion of upsell/cross sell, “Can we expand the relationship with the current customer (individuals)?” This mindset isn’t different from the hunter assigned a geographic or industry oriented territory. Our goal in every territory is to maximize our penetration of the territory.

Territory 101

Territory Account management Cross-sell Retail 101

SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2022

Adding C-level engagements and cross-departmental selling will lengthen your sales cycle but it will provide you with customers who stick and an increased average transaction size. Once you’ve got a great team in place it’s time to think about how you can be strategic with those team members. Territory Development.

Territory 98

Territory Cross-sell Quota Networking 98

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. In addition to helping sales team’s accelerate sales, Veloxy also helps optimize sales enablement by maximizing selling efficiency. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more.

Sell 182

Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2013

The way customers buy is changing, the complexities of our own products and solutions, the broad range of people involved in the customer buying process mandates a different approach to selling and careful reconsideration of how we define the role of account and territory managers.

Territory 118

Territory Account management Cross-sell Sales 118

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.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell Technique 52

Martech

JUNE 23, 2022

Swiftcurrent Lake in the Many Glacier region at Glacier National Park. It was new territory for us.”. We see Redpoint as strategic business partner — not a software vendor, not a data vendor, but a true strategic business partner of ours,” said Heltzel. Image provided by Xanterra. Finding the golden ticket — er, record.

Territory 103

Territory Customers Hospitality Cross-sell 103

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

It’s supposed to help them better manage their opportunities, territories, and time. But managing our deals, pipelines and territories are much more complex. Do I have upsell, cross sell opportunities? They enable us to manage our time, maximize our impact, free us up to think, plan, strategize, and execute.

CRM 110

CRM Territory Cross-sell Sports 110

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

You’ve explored the crucial link between your martech stack and strategic goals in “ The CMO’s guide to aligning martech and business strategy ,” understanding why syncing these elements boosts efficiency, customer value and growth. In ecommerce, cart abandonment rates and repeat purchase ratios could be more relevant.

Objectives and Key Results 108

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Strategize Retail 108

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

How to know if this job is right for you: Being an AE is a natural next step once you’ve gotten some selling experience under your belt. You’ll be moving around constantly: Around the city, region, state, country, or even world. It’s also harder to learn selling fundamentals when you’re operating solo or in a small team.

Territory 101

Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 101

Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2022

They worry about how the problem impacts their ability to achieve their strategic goals. To some it may be a hassle factor in their day to day performance of their jobs, to others it’s a strategic opportunity or threat. Yet when we talk about the same things to the end users, they look at us with their eyes crossed.

Strategize 102

Strategize Territory Cross-sell Finance 102

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those of you with broad territories and dozens to hundreds of customers, this metric is probably of secondary importance. In capital equipment, software, or major services agreements, it may be possible to attain 100% wallet share, becoming major strategic vendors or partners to the customer.

Territory 106

Territory Cross-sell Negotiate Account management 106

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 31, 2018

Account Based Marketing/Selling is all the rage today. But having played in this space for more than a few years, a lot of what I see is deja-vu all over again, echoing concepts from the 80’s, 90’s, even before (look at some of the original books on account based selling and when they were published.

Sell 74

Sell Territory Cross-sell Strategize 74

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

How to pivot, strategize, and coach. This involves spending 1:1 time with their people to help them strategize, brainstorm, and develop their communication and selling skills so they can grow your pipeline. Accounts by region. Where you stand in relation to business goals. Where your problem areas lie. New accounts.

Engineering 114

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 114

SalesLoft

MAY 31, 2016

When a sales organization first looks to scale, the first strategic move is to sales development. Sales pods are collections of cross-functional roles, each dependently intertwined to achieve a specific and scalable goal within a sales organization. To reach that end goal, should your sales pods be cross-functional? Industries?

Strategize 52

Strategize Teamwork Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results 52

Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Because AI is unexplored territory and, in the wrong hands, can damage a company’s brand, people will need to know how to maintain ethical boundaries. This year, it will be important to broaden people’s job skills so that they can work with AI — not be replaced by it. I was recently at a restaurant where a robot brought out my food.

X-functional 119

X-functional Cross-sell Territory Retail 119

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. Org Building Ideas for Cross-Border Companies. PP could be a strategic enabler of GTM scale up if done well. Picking early customers is very strategic.

GTM 114

GTM Niche Cross-sell Contract 114

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, many companies knew which vertical channels were doing well, but COVID caused a change in territory planning overnight. Secure the deal through the use of all available resources such as executive relationships or board relationships in order to provide the most cross-functional attention possible.

Cross-sell 94

Cross-sell GTM Territory Sales 94

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Berumen believes that many customers would actually prefer to be able to buy enterprise products and solutions completely online, but that has proven to be an elusive feature in B2B selling. Accenture is not new to offering its clients strategic guidance about navigating an increasingly complex sales environment.

B2B 96

B2B Territory Manufacturing Sales 96

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

An emerging need to support multiple GTM plans across segments and regions. The director of customer success brings her Salesforce report to a cross-functional meeting with sales and marketing leadership. Creates processes to enhance cross-functional collaboration between sales, marketing, and customer success.

Finance 114

Finance Cross-sell GTM SQL 114

Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2021

If you know that you love strategizing to increase sales but don’t want to be an account executive, sales operations may be the right place for you. Sales ops is responsible for supporting and enabling sales reps to sell efficiently and effectively. Sales operations teams bring a system of selling and structure to a sales organization.

Territory 69

Territory Objectives and Key Results Finance Cross-sell 69

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Maybe you traditionally sell to one line of business. It’s a combined effort all the way over the finish line, and on into customer up and cross-sell, along with customer education and renewal. Certainly not, because it isn’t a solution, it’s a philosophy, a strategic approach.

Lead generation 95

Lead generation Cross-sell Territory Gaming 95

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. However, salespeople tend to miss the bigger picture.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

And these manual processes take sales reps away from their most important activity: selling. If you’re selling a limited number of products or services, or have an extremely simple pricing model, a CPQ system may be beyond your needs. A better selling experience. 5 benefits of CPQ software. Scaling sales operations.

Cross-sell 107

Cross-sell Contract Price Finance 107

The Lost Book of Sales

AUGUST 15, 2021

🌪 Book summary #1 (long): Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore Outtake: -> What is the “Chasm”? The gap between these two markets, all too frequently ignored, is in fact so significant as to warrant being called a chasm, and crossing this chasm must be the primary focus of any long-term high-tech marketing plan.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell Gambling GTM Territory 98

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

Nearly half of their time is spent selling remotely (i.e. Their main goal is to help customers increase the ROI on a purchase, so they'll often connect with a salesperson if an opportunity to cross-sell or upsell arises. Regional Sales Manager. using Zoom, Skype, email, and CRM). Image Source. VP of Sales.

Commission 94

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 94

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To give context, compare market share changes with objective measures such as changes in total industry spending and company revenue, and strategic changes. Or are you concerned more with customer retention and cross-sell opportunities? Are you looking to boost your reach and generate leads? Optimize and repeat.

Objectives and Key Results 157

Objectives and Key Results A/B testing Growth Market share 157

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Realizing this was a much bigger problem we’ve yet to address, Peep took to Twitter and asked: Looking for an in-house optimizer in a big company for a blog post on selling CRO internally. On-going battles for prime real estate, page layouts, copy and imagery persist and often burden cross-functional team performance and relations.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124

Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Finally, you’ll gain insights on cross-checking territory assignments, compensation incentive programs, capacity staffing and understanding different types of quotes serving different functions. Case Study: Adjusting Quota Based on Performance Imagine this: Jonathan sells fewer products but at higher value points.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 24, 2019

Our book, Sales Enablement—A Master Framework to Engage, Equip and Empower a World-Class Sales Force , defines a sales enablement charter as a “guide for turning random sales enablement efforts into a formal, scalable and strategic enablement discipline that has a definable, positive impact on your business.” Define your enablement customers.

Objectives and Key Results 77

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Territory Government 77

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So we bought them into the regional teams to tap into their expertise. The team was operating as a Centre of Excellence, with cross-functional specialists coming together to identify issues, build a test pipeline for each journey, execute the tests, and create a feedback loop to bake learnings into future experiences. Conclusion.

Territory 77

Territory UX Cross-sell A/B testing 77

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. We had to learn how to do sales and sales marketing and compete in heads up battles against other companies selling similar products.

Finance 104

Finance Launch Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 104

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. So those have been the two things, both deal acceleration, but also allowing us to get closer to our most strategic partner.

Cross-sell 102

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 102

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

Sales plays can be created to support different regions, product lines, or buyer personas; this ensures that your reps’ tactics match different buyer needs. This will lead to uneven results: some reps may find their own way to sell the new product; others will struggle and fail to meet quota.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Sales Cross-sell 52