Adaptive Business Services
MARCH 1, 2023
While we can’t cover every aspect of selling in three simple steps, these are the critical ones. These 3 steps are the glue that holds the selling process together and they are repeatedly deployed throughout the sales cycle. Whenever I think of salespeople who I have interacted with as a customer , the really good ones all share these qualities. My insurance guy, Bruce, comes to mind.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
So we’ve done a few good posts on SaaStr about how to steal a customer / prospect from a competitor on SaaStr here: How to Steal a Customer From the Competition (a good one) Want to Steal a Customer From the Competition? 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.
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Membrain
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
I read a fascinating article by Kelly Fairchild. She talked about “salesmanship.” It got me to thinking about, “What is salesmanship?” Based on the conversations I have with sellers and my social feeds, people seem to think salesmanship has to do with the following: Hitting quota, making commission Beating the competition Pitching products/solutions Prospecting, getting meetings Executing messaging sequences and outreaches across all channels to get meetings Persuading people to buy our products
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
It's important to be organized in sales. You always have open loops you need to close, like sending a new contact the case study they requested. Or perhaps you owe another client an edited contract for a new offering they are interested in buying. Being organized improves your efficiency , allowing you to do more work in less time and with less effort.
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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.
Anthony Cole Training
MARCH 3, 2023
These last few weeks, I've shared 4 key things that have helped us grow and serve others in the last 30 years, hoping they will be helpful to others on their journey. Today I share the final key takeaway, #1: Faith.
Partners in Excellence
MARCH 3, 2023
I’ve been writing a series looking, ultimately, at pipeline management. I’ve written about Win Rates, Pipeline Integrity. In this post, I’ll cover two more aspects of pipeline management, Average Deal Size and Average Sales Cycle. To understand our qualified pipelines, we have to know our win rates, average deal size, and sales cycle.
Technology Sales Today brings together the best content for technology sales professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 25, 2023
Over time, B2B selling has changed and become increasingly more complex. A large part of the changes in how we sell in the 21st-century result from the difficulty companies have making decisions around the things they buy.
Martech
MARCH 1, 2023
Multichannel. Omnichannel. Omnipresent. Beyond buzzwords, these marketing strategies aim to deliver a better customer experience — and drive greater business results. Using the right combination of channels is essential in today’s dynamic landscape. Here’s how to successfully engage with your audience and better fulfill their changing needs and preferences.
Search Engine Land
MARCH 1, 2023
Google Analytics 4 offers a robust, event-based approach to tracking website activity. However, the deprecation of Universal Analytics has forced many marketers to relearn their favorite analytics platform, using a dramatically different interface and walking through a new setup process. Event and conversion setup also comes with a higher learning curve.
SaaStr
MARCH 1, 2023
So what if I told you there is a SaaS company you likely have never really heard of unless you are in adtech / advertising, doing $2 Billion in ARR, with a $28 Billion market cap even today, that’s insanely profitable and yet still growing 32%? Yes, this company exists. It’s called The Trade Desk. It’s self-service SaaS for AdTech, so it’s often seen more as an Adtech player than a SaaS company, but the reality is it’s software for ad spend.
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.
Iannarino
MARCH 2, 2023
"Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is doing is too big for him." —The Earl of Chesterfield For as long as anyone can remember, salespeople have been trained to identify their prospective clients’ problems and their implications. This sales strategy has been part of B2B sales processes and is practiced by sales reps in many sales organizations.
Understanding the Sales Force
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Today's article is different from most of my other articles because there is no opening analogy, very little data, and a complete lack of humor. It's such a serious article I was ready to delete it before I clicked the publish button. If you don't like the subject, the content or the writing, it's OK. This needed to be written.
Partners in Excellence
MARCH 1, 2023
Yeah, yeah, I’m on my soapbox again, talking about AI. Lest, anyone think I’m not a fan of AI, nothing could be more incorrect. For years, I’ve been studying AI. In 2002, I cofounded a company that offered an AI tool focused on a couple of problem areas–manufacturing process control and prescriptive maintenance. The company was sold to a major software company, and has the tool has been updated and expanded since then, but still focusing on those two specific domains.
Martech
MARCH 1, 2023
Research has shown time and time again that existing customers are 50% more likely to try new products of yours and spend 31% more with you when compared to new customers. So how are you fostering these relationships and delivering repeatable and measurable revenue? In this session, marketing experts will share how you can build customer relationships that not only scale but drive revenue for 2023 and beyond.
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!
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Sales leaders and managers demand their teams capture their activity and opportunities in the CRM. ( This tool could probably be more strategic. ) The sales leader desires to see every new opportunity logged as soon as the sales rep returns to their office. To ensure their success, sales leaders set goals around the number and the value of the opportunities salespeople need to create.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 25, 2023
Dear SaaStr: Does Raising Funding From VCs Limit Your Exit Options? While technically true, especially if you’ve raised a lot (as many did in the Boom Times of late 2020 to early 2022), I believe embedded in this thinking is some bad advice. VCs are expecting a positive return on their investment. They are wished for 100x their money (that’s what “makes a fund), hoping for at least 10x their money, OK with 5x, and will settle for 2x-3x.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Equipping marketing leaders with the skills, tools and data they need to prove ROI is like setting out to sea on a fishing expedition. Rather than distributing equal bait to each rod of a marketing campaign despite not knowing which will produce the most bites, marketing attribution teaches marketers to assemble the best combination of bait before casting its line into a sea of prospects.
Martech
MARCH 2, 2023
Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less.
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!
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Most sales organizations train their sales teams. Fewer train their sales leaders, even though the evidence suggests training sales managers improves their team's results. Leading a team requires many competencies and skills , so it's important to have a development plan for everyone. Five areas improve sales performance and solve the challenges of leading sales professionals.
SaaStr
MARCH 2, 2023
So if you were on social media this week, you probably saw a ton of YC companies talking about how they were in the 2023 Top Companies. SaaStr Fund has invested in several of them, from Algolia to Treasury Prime to RevenueCat and more and it’s always fun to see awards and similar content from leaders like YCombinator. But beyond the great stories of who is breaking out, I found a quiet set of statistics even more interesting: where they are breaking out.
David Meerman Scott
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Artificial Intelligence engines that generate text such as ChatGPT use large language models, which I like to think of as simply math applied to data (in this case text). These tools calculate the most likely next word to create sentences. When everyone is going predictable with AI, creative writing stands out!
Martech
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
National retailer Petco were hoping for the best when they implemented a customer relations management (CRM) solution to drive a new customer-first strategy. They got it. In the first two years of implementation, email opens rose 30% and click rates jumped 50%. Here’s what they did. “We implemented Salesforce Marketing Cloud and the platform alone is great, but it’s not going to do all the hard work for you,” said Andrea Mathews, Petco’s vice president of CRM, at The MarTech Conferen
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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten
Iannarino
MARCH 3, 2023
Many of the older, outdated sales approaches forbid salespeople from answering questions about price. These approaches relied on a B2B sales process that directed salespeople to avoid answering a prospective client's questions. This stemmed from fear. The idea was that by withholding information, including the salesperson's insights and their experiences, prevent the contact from running off and buying from a competitor.
SaaStr
MARCH 2, 2023
Dear SaaStr: When Do You Start to Develop a Brand in SaaS? In my experience, probably about $2m worth of happy customers. At that point, you don’t have a world-famous brand or anything. But you do start to have a “mini-brand”, where folks in your top niche or segment start to have heard of you. If your product costs $2,000 a year, that might be around 1,000 customers.
Heinz Marketing
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing Personalization has become increasingly important in the B2B healthcare industry as companies seek to differentiate themselves from competitors and connect with prospects and customers on a deeper level. By customizing your messaging, using data to personalize your content, tailoring your website experience, and lead nurturing efforts, you can create a more engaging and relevant experience for your audience, which can drive better results
Martech
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
In the first of a new series, we dig deeper into the stories of our expert contributors. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Stacey Ackerman is an agile marketing coach who has written some 60 articles for MarTech on the topic. She recently launched the Agile Marketing Navigator , an in-depth guide to implementing agile within marketing foundations.
Speaker: Evelyn Chou
Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.
Iannarino
MARCH 1, 2023
A party isn’t a party if no one shows up, and your sales funnel isn’t a fun place to be if you don’t have any leads or prospects.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
So with our first SaaStr APAC behind us, it’s time for the 4th SaaStr Europa ! This time we’re moving to London, for the biggest Europa ever! Right now we’re tracking to 162% of 2022’s attendance in Barcelona, which was already a record. We’re hoping to approach or hit 5,000 total SaaS founders, VCs and execs in London!
Force Management
MARCH 2, 2023
This month on Revenue Builders, our guests reminded us of the power of the mind. In leadership and life, the power of your mindset is clear - it affects your outlook, motivation and most importantly those around you. We look for a great mindset in those we partner with and who we hire. These are four stories that convey the transformative power of the mindset, from entrepreneurship to service.
Martech
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Marketers play a glass-half-full role in business. We’re expected to see a product or service as it is and create a compelling, transformative message no matter the type of offering. It’s a strategic process for connecting a target audience to the company’s products and services. There’s no sleight of hand. In other words, the company provides the steak, and marketing offers the sizzle.
Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego
Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.
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