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Why Your Next Lead Is No Better Than the Last

Iannarino

The evidence shows that it is a good practice to respond to a lead in something less than an hour, but there is no evidence that today’s Glenn Ross leads are intrinsically better than yesterday’s Glenn Ross leads. But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell. Why You Want to Believe a New Lead Is Better.

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Everything I Know About Gap Selling: What It Is And How To Make It Work For Your Sales Strategy [+ Examples]

Hubspot

Youre selling something to someone who just wouldnt budge. Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. 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. Table of Contents: What is gap selling?

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The 10 Most Common Sales Mistakes in 2021

Iannarino

Not Occupying the One-Up Position: In any relationship between two people, one of them will be One-Up and the other One-Down. That ranking is not about intrinsic superiority. Instead, the person who is One-Up has the knowledge and experience to lead the other. Ninety minutes of prospecting a day will cure what ails you.

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How to Motivate a Sales Team to Improve Each Rep’s Performance (3 “Types” and 12 Tips)

Sales Hacker

People are motivated in one of three ways: Intrinsically. With this approach, you won’t need to develop creative ways to get them to want to sell more. Intrinsically Motivated Salespeople. Intrinsic motivation stems from feeling accomplished through personal reward rather than rewarded through external means, like money.

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Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home.

SaaStr

Let me list a few: Why do customers buy a ton of seats up front , when they could start with a few and buy more later? Leads dry up at the end of the year, for natural reasons. Because there’s no intrinsic reason for the customers to buy then. It’s not the hard sell. There are some real mysteries in SaaS.

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Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home.

SaaStr

So with the end of the year coming up again, it’s time to update a classic SaaStr post. Let me list a few: Why do customers buy a ton of seats up front , when they could start with a few and buy more later? Leads dry up at the end of the year, for natural reasons. It’s not the hard sell. Not really.

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How to Pitch Using Questions

Cerebral Selling

In 1997, the New York Times published an article entitled “In War Against No-Shows, Restaurants Get Tougher,” in which it described a famous Chicago restaurant that was losing $900,000 a year because many of the customers who made reservations never showed up. The post How to Pitch Using Questions appeared first on Cerebral Selling.

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