Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This year, much like when I was growing up, the leaves turned in mid-October and had mostly fallen from the trees by the end of October. A lot of sales leaders and their salespeople believe that sales cycles are determined by their industry, or are specific to the industries they sell to. Long Foliage Cycle. Short Foliage Cycle.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Back in 2018, Salesforce discovered that sales reps were only spending 34% of their time selling (707 hours a year). Salesforce just found that salespeople are only spending 28% of their time selling. That’s a stunning 125 hours of less selling time than in 2018 ! You’ll add another 300+ selling hours to each rep’s year.

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Iannarino

JULY 21, 2021

His main goal, though, was to sell his solution, something his email made perfectly clear. Any conversation about your competition takes up time that would be better spent in a conversation that creates value for the client. There is nothing wrong with being an expert on what you sell. The Game Moves on Without You.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It also prohibits the buying and selling of followers and views on social media. By strengthening the FTC’s toolkit to fight deceptive advertising, the final rule will protect Americans from getting cheated, put businesses that unlawfully game the system on notice, and promote markets that are fair, honest, and competitive.”

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 10, 2025

The Fancy Stuff Is Failing You We see it all the timesalespeople hiding behind automation tools, social selling gimmicks, and relationship-building fluff. They talk a big game on Zoom, but when its time to dial the phone or ask for the sale, they freeze like a deer in headlights. Follow-up calls. Phone Calls Cold calls.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If selling reduction in admin time/tasks represents a few percent of their overall expenses, they may have bigger fish to fry. ” The reality is, few of our solutions, when we are honest, are game changing at the corporate level, particularly when we are looking at larger organizations. But how do we do this?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 8, 2025

Youre selling something to someone who just wouldnt budge. If I just described a familiar struggle one you might know all too well Im here to share a solution that might be the answer to your prayers: Gap selling. Truthfully, gap selling takes patience, practice, and persistence to master.

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ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The post How To Sell Anything – A Practical Guide To Better Sales appeared first on ClickFunnels. Jordan Belfort and his blockbuster movie, The Wolf of Wallstreet, popularized the idea of being able to sell anything to anyone, a la “sell me this pen.”. Who is the target market that you’re selling to? Impossible, right?

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A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 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. I still believe if Gap Selling is on your bookshelf, and Keenan is on your playlist, Quiet is another great one to add to your collection. Our 3rd book recommendation?

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

With decades of experience as both a founder and investor, David brings a unique perspective to the often-misunderstood process of selling a company. He joined SaaStr Workshop Wednesday LIVE to do a deep dive with Jason Lemkin on his 10 Point Checklist when you sell your startup.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 6, 2025

We are coming off of a week that can only be described as a stock market bloodbathamping up uncertainty and making selling even harder. Starting today, selling just got even harder. You Must Sell Better During Times of Uncertainty To win consistently, during times of uncertainty you must sell better. No mistakes.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Presenting: Showing the value of what you sell. Overcoming Objections: A game plan for addressing concerns. How to Remove Salesforce CRM Friction Learn how to remove friction points tied to Salesforce, helping your sales team sell easier and faster. This preparation can allow them to cut down selling time.

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Iannarino

JULY 15, 2021

In a zero-sum game, you need to create a competitive advantage. How you sell—not what you sell or who you work for—is your most important competitive advantage. The more unfair advantages you can stack up, the greater the odds that your prospective client will decide to buy from you. Greater Mindshare.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I’m imagining the end game of all the productivity and efficiency hacks I see filling my feeds. How we reduce our selling cycle. And AI has amped it up to another level. We are even seeing AI Agents conducting the meetings for us, so we don’t even have to show up. It’s stunning how much time we free up!

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Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell. Much of my sales career took place in a highly commoditized industry , where you could expect a new lead about as often as a Halley’s Comet sighting or perhaps a new Game of Thrones novel. Occasionally, this is true. Compelled to Change, or Not So Much.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Consider: Conversion Rates from Inbound Leads Speed to Lead (How fast are you following up?) Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. Choose a CRM that matches your current size and selling process. Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. The rule of thumb?

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 28, 2022

The post How to Launch and Sell your Digital Course Using a High Converting Sales Funnel (Part 2) appeared first on ClickFunnels. We keep ourselves up at night wondering what could go right or wrong, obsessing over minute details as we worry about our bottom line. Set Up an Email Support System. What if it doesn’t work out?

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The 5% Institute

JULY 5, 2022

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. Sales Hacks – 8 x For Lifting Your Game. Further reading: Positioning In Sales – How To Sell Effectively.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 6, 2025

The Power of Personal Development In sales, it's easy to get caught up in the grindcalls to make and deals to close. The reason top performers prioritize learning new skills and pushing their boundaries is because it makes them better and helps them sell more. Level Up Every Day Never Stop Growing Level up or lose out.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 19, 2024

Mindful Selling No one knows what a prospective client may want unless we ask, and the asking evolves into a growing Q&A session upfront. In contrast, it is best if you allow the prospect to speak 60% of the time and you only take up 40% of the allotted time. Worse, it harms career growth and the company’s bottom line.

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Sales Pop!

APRIL 24, 2023

A gaming website is a great online business to run, as people will always be on the lookout for interactive entertainment. But you won’t automatically generate traffic just because you create a gaming website. So, compare the below list with your website to see where you went wrong, and your revenue will begin to climb up.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At Veloxy, we believe AI is the game-changer every sales leader needs. Data-Driven Precision to the Sales Process AI completely changes the game. AI algorithms predict: Which leads are the hottest What they’re looking for The best way to approach them No more guessing games or following cold trails.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. I’ve worked with dozens of regional sales managers at telecom companies T-Mobile and Comcast, multiplying revenue by eliminating non-selling activities that bog down field sales reps. Demonstrate that you know their business.

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Martech

JULY 16, 2024

A well-designed and carefully calculated loyalty program can be a game changer for brands looking to maximize their return on investment through customer engagement. Cross-selling and upselling Loyalty programs serve as powerful tools for enhancing upsell and cross-sell initiatives through the invaluable data they collect from members.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To put a database with this kind of power in the front-office, in front of marketers, and to do so in a way that puts corks on their forks so they don’t poke themselves in the eye… I feel this is early innings in this game.” ” A unified view of B2B buying and selling. . Processing.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 28, 2021

They’re on cruise control with you in the driver’s seat (at least until you do something stupid that destroys all the currency you’ve built up with them). Make copious notes on ‘pinch points’ that define their reality so you can study them and come up with potential solutions. How does this happen? Look for the cream.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

So much of it begins to look like a game of pint pong. If you look at many of the popular selling methodologies, they are all focused on conversations–SPIN, Consultative Selling, Value Based Selling, GAP, MEDDIC, Challenger and others. Can you hold up your end of the conversation?

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 27, 2025

Weve pulled together five of the biggest game-changing sales tips from the Sales Gravy Podcast so far this year. But you can practice your way to excellence and thenone dayreach elite levels of selling. In other words, be ready to roll up your sleeves and get in the trenches. Dont give up before you see results.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 21, 2021

One of the most popular sales resolutions for 2022 will be a commitment to reduce non-selling activity. Did you know that most salespeople spend over 60% of their time not selling. How much more could one of your reps sell with an additional 300+ selling hours a year? How Does Salesforce Automation Development Work?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2024

You can talk about the roadmap or sales strategy until you’re blue in the face, but if you don’t have the team to do it at scale, there’s no point in talking a ‘big game.’ ” For example, when you hit a $100M, you just can’t sell enough to drive 40 points of new growth.

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Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. You can use these scripts, tips, and tricks to up your cold call game. Prospect: Yes!

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Tibor Shanto

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When you look to other professions, especially those that practice between games, they don’t love every aspect of their game. But when you turn to find a better time, you are really giving up. Refining your prospecting is a career long journey, until you accept that, it will always be a struggle. It will take practice.

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Iannarino

JULY 20, 2021

As a result, they refuse follow-up meetings, they rely more on their own research, and they end more deals with a “no decision.” How you sell—including what you believe your client needs from you—is a greater variable to your success than what you sell.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2023

We leave it up to them to figure out what they should be thinking about, who should be involved, and how they build consensus and support around a decision. When I started selling, I was fortunate to work for an organization that did not discount, period! The post Games Sellers Play, Pricing/Discounting!

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Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

Sales can be an intimidating numbers game. 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.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

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Martech

JUNE 14, 2024

A bit like a supermarket not selling eggs. If AI is to be a true game changer for enterprises it will be through some other application of AI. What I do think I know is that text and image generation, once everyone is doing it (which won’t be long), will seem less of a game changer than it does today.

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