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There’s Insight, Then There’s INSIGHT!

Partners in Excellence

” There may be functional levels of insight, “Manufacturing/Engineering/Finance/HR/Sales/Marketing (pick one) executives are seeing these issues as critical to the performance of their organizations in the next 18 months. We can show you how to reduce it by Z%, saving $A millions this fiscal year and $Z millions next year.”

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Beyond quadrants: An alternative approach to martech selection

Martech

For example, a customer may never know why one vendor got placed at (x, y) and another one at (x1, y1). You can often find solid regional vendors and functionally specialized vendors. As an example, Product X has all the features that you require, but it doesn’t provide any professional services in your geography.

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What’s The Most Important Customer Question Sales People Probably Can’t Answer?

Partners in Excellence

Sales people, can go on forever about features, functions, feeds, and speeds for each of the products they sell. Usually the approach is our long laundry lists of features and functions, or our long lists of irrelevant references.

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How to Calculate Your Company's Sales Mix for Increased Profits

Hubspot

Whether it’s an athletic apparel company that has one style of legging that outsells the rest, or a car manufacturer that has a specific model their customers flock to. Here’s the formula for sales mix variance: Sales Mix Variance = Actual Units Sold x (Actual Sales Mix Percentage — Budgeted Sales Mix Percentage) x Profit Margin Per Unit.

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The Sales Outreach Strategy That Won Us Our First 10 Customers

Hubspot

In fact, the company I currently lead, Spotted Media, used these tactics below to acquire our first set of customers before we even had a fully functioning web site. a direct manufacturer). a manufacturer that cares about increasing brand awareness). Create an ideal customer profile. Employee count (e.g. A mutual goal (e.g.

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GTM 139: AI Agents Are Changing Everything — Microsoft’s VP of AI Agents on the New Era of Work and Software | Ray Smith

Sales Hacker

And it’s usually like a very detailed sort of Google doc, here’s the login for X. And so if you need 3000 people to perform a function today, maybe in the future, it’s a thousand or 500. And you said, Hey, tweak that for you and finance versus pharma versus manufacturing and make it your own.

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Social Selling on LinkedIn: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot

There’s a simple formula for creating a memorable, eye-catching LinkedIn headline: "[Title], helping [prospects] do X.". Under your current position, you might write: Work with businesses in X, Y, and Z industries to reduce manufacturing defects by 3% on average. One thing: How you helped customers similar to them.

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