Iannarino
JULY 23, 2022
One of the hangovers from the legacy sales approaches is that the salesperson undervalues the sales conversation for what it is: the only vehicle for creating value, creating an opportunity, and winning the client's business. Because salespeople trained in the legacy approaches have been taught to believe the value is located elsewhere, they fail to participate in the sales conversation in a meaningful way.
Membrain
JULY 24, 2022
It seems as if the phrase “sell on value, not on price” must have been around since shortly after the dawn of B2B selling, and it would be hard to argue with the sentiment. But what do we actually mean by value - and perhaps more important, how do our customers perceive value?
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Anthony Cole Training
JULY 21, 2022
While there are many differences between elite salespeople and average salespeople, two of the more important distinctions are the ability to sell value (they can sell at a slight premium on price) and the ability to reach the top levels of the prospect’s decision-making team (typically the C-Suite).
Veloxy
JULY 14, 2022
What is your closing ratio? Your closing ratio (or close rate) measures your overall sales efficiency. It’s calculated by dividing the number of sales you’ve closed by the number of leads or opportunities in your pipeline (and multiplying that by 100 to generate a percent). Let’s say you had 10 opportunities last month and you closed 3 deals. Your closing ratio for June would have been 30%.
Speaker: Kevin Burke
AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.
Partners in Excellence
JULY 12, 2022
It seems in virtually every professional endeavor that the prep work is as important, sometimes, more important than the actual work itself. The singular exception seems to be selling, we seem to have a predilection for one of two things–winging it or sticking to the script. Every professional athlete prepares for the event. It’s not just the normal practice, running plays, practicing serves, working out.
ConversionXL
JULY 25, 2022
Careful attention to CTA (call to action) copywriting is the difference between brands that drive conversions and those that only drive traffic. Brands that slap a “Buy Now” button on a page and call it a day wonder why their campaigns fail to convert. Companies that engage in strategic CTA testing continue to drive success metrics like CTR (click-through rate) up and to the right.
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SaaStr
JULY 26, 2022
So in theory, SMB SaaS is better than enterprise, at least 9 times out of 10: Deals close much faster. Customers don’t expect as much in terms of security, compliance, etc. Customers often can deploy on their own. There is often just 1 stakeholder to sell to. Often can avoid procurement, RFPs, and so many other headaches. Customers don’t expect you to build a feature before they buy.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 14, 2022
Selling is a “slight edge business.” By that, we mean that the line that separates high performers from mediocre performers is usually a very small difference. There is very little you can control in selling. You can’t make prospects take your call. You can’t make prospects agree to meet with you. You can’t make them move forward in your sales process and you certainly can’t make them buy from you.
Veloxy
JULY 28, 2022
The average Salesforce instance has thousands of prospects, leads, and customers. Here’s the problem. Each of those contacts has a uniquely different propensity to buy. As a salesperson, every single day you have to find the proper balance between selling activity and non-selling activity. For example, you have to balance making calls and meeting customers with prioritizing your leads and opportunities.
The 5% Institute
JULY 5, 2022
In this article, you’ll learn 8 x sales hacks for closing easily, so that you can win more sales consistently and effectively. These sales hacks for closing easily are centred around consultative selling. This means that you’ll take a question based, and solution approach rather than purely presenting an option up front. Read on to learn how these eight tips to improve your closing rate will help you win more sales.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Understanding the Sales Force
JULY 11, 2022
On a recent Saturday I was running errands which took me through 3 local towns and a nearby city. Even though I have traveled this route more than 5,000 times, it was the first time I noticed the difference in the various business signs along the road. All of the national brands, chains, franchises, and well known businesses had professionally designed and recognizable logos.
Iannarino
JULY 13, 2022
Leading isn't easy, and leading sales is one of the more difficult roles in business. Unlike some other leadership roles, there seem to be more variables in sales. Some of them include the sales effectiveness of the sales force, the economic environment, the nature of competition, and the variability that comes from trying to help people change their business results.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2022
I originally wrote this post way, way back in the first year of SaaStr and have updated it every 2 years or so, because it’s an important thing to think about as a founder. Especially now in 2022, when venture capital again is scarcer, and more expensive, and far harder to close than it was during the go-go times for SaaS of 2021 and late 2020.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 28, 2022
It would be great if you could hand a new salesperson a manual, ask them to read it, take a knowledge test and they could successfully begin their job. Selling is a different animal and you will often hear the term “soft skills” in reference to training a salesperson. What are soft skills in sales? Let’s try to demonstrate that with a short example.
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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.
Veloxy
JULY 6, 2022
In today’s post-pandemic sales world, 23% of field sales professionals are prioritizing the addition of email tracking and buyer signals to their tech stack [ report ]. Sending an email is comparable to mailing a letter. Once you send a letter, it’s a guessing game if and when it will be received and opened—unless you ordered Proof of Delivery.
The 5% Institute
JULY 7, 2022
In this article, we’ll detail how to succeed as an inbound closer; by following a simple yet highly effective step by step sales process. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. A sales process will give you consistency and will simple to use framework to guide your potential clients towards the sale.
Gong.io
JULY 5, 2022
It‘s no secret that B2B sales (especially at the enterprise level) take a significant amount of time and effort to nurture and eventually close. While B2C unicorns like Netflix and Uber can take a product-led approach and drive sales using organic consumer hype, we B2B reps need to be a bit more strategic and methodical about the steps that lead from initial interest through to getting the dotted line signed.
Iannarino
JULY 24, 2022
What does resilience mean to you? A few concepts probably come to mind when you hear the word—concepts like toughness, the ability to bounce back from struggles, flexibility, and an indomitable mindset. If you’ve come to this post, you’re not only interested in resilience: You’re interested in how to coach sales leaders to embody these traits.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
SaaStr
JULY 25, 2022
Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do You Split Up Founder Shares? It’s a question for the ages. First, let’s note that most successful SaaS startups do not have equal founder splits. Less than 15% do. That data here: At the Top SaaS Companies, Founder-CEOs Own ~15% at IPO. And Most Co-Founders Are Not Equal (And That’s OK). Second, note that some founders leave.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 7, 2022
Back in the early seventies there was a group called The Main Ingredient. At the time, they had a hit song and the lyrics went something like this… “ So you’re heart broken, you’re sitting around moping, crying and crying. You even feel like dyin’. Well, before you do something rash, dig this- everybody plays the fool!”.
Veloxy
JULY 26, 2022
The Golden Rule. This is the moral principle that teaches people to treat others as they would want to be treated. It has been taught by every civilization in the world for thousands of years. But does it apply to the world of sales? Yes, but with a caveat. Sales has been around just as long as the golden rule , and some may say that the latter came about because of the former.
The 5% Institute
JULY 29, 2022
In this article, you’ll learn how to sell in a recession, by using these simple yet highly effective sales tips to make the most of the sales conversations you have with your potential clients. These sales tips are centred around consultative selling. This means that you’ll take a question based, and solution approach rather than purely presenting an option up front.
Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive
Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!
Partners in Excellence
JULY 5, 2022
Wherever we turn, it seems we are becoming increasingly disagreeable and polarized. Whether socially, politically, or in our businesses, we struggle with disagreement. But there are a lot of problems with disagreement–or at least our ability to understand and manage disagreements, productively. If we learned how to deal with disagreement, productively, disagreement provides huge opportunities to learn, improve, grow, and achieve.
Iannarino
JULY 8, 2022
The "cult of efficiency" believes deeply that the most important initiative is to generate more activity. More still, they believe that improving performance requires activity without any human effort. Much of what is touted as efficiency is really just more activity , even if it doesn't generate the desired outcome. The result is a deluge of asynchronous communication, which is about as efficient as the United States Postal Service.
SaaStr
JULY 15, 2022
So Hunter Walk of Homebrew aptly summarized what I’ve been trying to say less eloquently for about 2-3 months. For 90% of startups, if you’re struggling right now … sure blame the market. But it’s not that, if your market is huge. It’s You. “Note: I don’t want to hear seed companies complain about ‘the market.’ You literally just showed me a deck that said your TAM was 10,000 customers” @hunterwalk [link]. — Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonl
RAIN Group
JULY 20, 2022
Sales managers tend to believe they do a good job helping sellers solve problems and coaching them to build their capabilities. However, only 32% of sales managers are effective in getting maximum performance from sellers.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!
Martech
JULY 18, 2022
In the world of digital marketing, there are many “Jacks-of-all-trades.” Part of the reason for this is thta this industry is only approximately 25 years old — and in the beginning people in the industry had to cover all bases by themselves. Over the last 10 years, as the industry evolved alongside the evolution of the internet, the web, and digital apps, there has been a growing and positive trend to do a way with the “Jacks-of-all-trades“(and masters of none) and engage specialists inste
The 5% Institute
JULY 5, 2022
Talk tracks – they’re regularly taught in sales training programs and are used plentifully by Sales Professionals in all sorts of industries. But do talk tracks work? And if not, what should you be doing instead? In this article, you’ll learn whether to use talk tracks when speaking with your potential clients, and a framework we recommend you use to effectively close more sales.
Partners in Excellence
JULY 5, 2022
We encounter them all the time. The customer has a point of view that differs from that we wish they would have. Perhaps, they aren’t as interested in the things we want them to be interested in. Perhaps they don’t respond in the way we hope they respond. Perhaps they are asking questions we prefer they don’t. Perhaps they seem to favor something other than what we would like.
Iannarino
JULY 12, 2022
One of the more difficult initiatives a sales leader can attempt is changing their sales approach. Every so often, the external environment changes enough so that what once worked no longer generates reliable results. When this happens, the sales force's approach causes them to struggle. Results that were once easy to obtain slip out of reach. Making a decision to change your sales approach isn't easy, and executing it is even more difficult.
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