Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Presenting: Showing the value of what you sell. How to Remove Salesforce CRM Friction Learn how to remove friction points tied to Salesforce, helping your sales team sell easier and faster. Having theappropriate qualifying criteria, like budget, authority, need and timeline ( BANT ), is a good place to start.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2025

I think most agree, behind closed doors, theres only one answer: start over. You cant get folks used to working from home to embrace coming to the office You cant get folks used to selling 1520 hours a week to start working 5060. You cant get sales reps used to only doing inbox to magically start cold calling for real.

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

Do not target the companies that already buy what you sell or are highly likely to start doing so. The primary ingredient in phone spam is the fact that what you sell has no relevance for the person receiving the call. Make sure you tell them exactly what you sell and how you 100% guarantee that they need this product.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How we reduce our selling cycle. And AI has amped it up to another level. It will schedule a meeting for us and provide us the notes before we go into the meeting. We are even seeing AI Agents conducting the meetings for us, so we don’t even have to show up. Are you selling more?”

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Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Yet all these approaches deprive you of the many benefits of cold calling, by allowing you to hide behind a screen and avoid having to speak to the human being you are asking for a meeting. Make enough calls, and you will bump into people are grouchy enough to say something rude or just hang up on you. Hearing the Word No.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with Andy Matheou from RHM Staffing to dive deep into the challenges and triumphs of selling in the staffing industry. Early in a sales career, working weekends, making countless cold calls, and attending numerous meetings is essential.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The other day someone who used to be an A+ sales leader emailed me about a position I’d introduced to him as a super hot start-up. Maybe not epic, but really a sales leader I looked up to. He’s done selling, and probably, being curious. The email to me was: “What do they do again?” And the talk.

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Martech

OCTOBER 25, 2024

You can use them to promote events, keep leads engaged, follow up with customers and much more. Instead, set up a sequence to do it for you, making sure people don’t forget about your event and increasing attendance. Example: Start with an initial invite highlighting what they’ll learn and why it’s worth their time.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

An aversion to prospecting is often caused by horrible approaches to asking for a meeting. The gist, I think, was something about having a discovery call to see how her solutions could help me book more meetings with my prospective clients. First, only salespeople call them discovery calls—prospects just call them meetings.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2024

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. If the prospect will meet with them, talk with them, reply to their emails, many salespeople will just go all in. When they do that, they commit one of the cardinal sins of selling. They wind up wasting their time.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

It was started in 2014 when founders Daniel and Jonathan were working together at a delivery startup and experienced firsthand how slow background checks were slowing down worker onboarding. Lindsey found a way to track this data, then brought it into every meeting. Better RevOps uncovered excessive discounting.

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Iannarino

JULY 30, 2021

The same trend has made many best practices so prevalent that entire swaths of selling are now fully commoditized, making many sales conversations transactional rather than consultative. I understand the sentiment behind “that meeting should have been an email,” but you will find me firmly ensconced on the pro-meeting side.

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Iannarino

JULY 16, 2021

The automation that claims to solve the problem of getting meetings causes the exact opposite outcome. There was a rather long menu, and at the very end he asked me if we could schedule a meeting so he could better understand my requirements. Few professionals would sell something to someone who wouldn’t benefit from what they sell.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2025

We assign number of dials, outreaches, meetings per day. Fewer than 40% of sellers meet their goals. Attrition is up. Virtually every indicator says “selling is broken!” ” What if, as managers, rather than following the formulas, we started thinking, “Is there a better way to achieve our goals?”

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Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

They may or may not have started to explore ideas or partners, and they’ve probably already started to make some early decisions. Rackham put it this way: “Would your client be willing to pay for that meeting?” Once you discover the problem, you open up the opportunity to insert your solution, solving the problem.

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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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Iannarino

JULY 21, 2021

The first reason that message would fail to gain a meeting is that mature businesspeople understand that their partners will have some challenges producing the results they need. His main goal, though, was to sell his solution, something his email made perfectly clear. Get started with this FREE eBook. A Self-Oriented Approach.

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Iannarino

JULY 7, 2021

One way to improve your approach is to remove the crutches you have used to sell. Here is the scenario: You are meeting with your prospective client. However, to gain this meeting, you had to agree to follow a list of rules your prospective client provided. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook. A Short Explanation.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 6, 2021

and their solutions, then asking them to click a link to book a meeting. Notably, starting by providing information about your company, your clients, and your solutions projects one thing: you have something to sell and you believe this person should buy it. Then listen up. Instead of attracting clients, you repel them.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

In selling, there is no end to the tools that claim to provide coaching, performance reporting tools, conversational intelligence, role play tools, social selling, prospecting/customer engagement, negotiation, objection handling, closing, time management. ” But coaching, at least in selling and GTM is very focused and specific.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2025

In SaaS, its easy to assume that virtual selling has completely taken over. But if you listen to many top CROs in SaaSlike Jonathan Vassil of Toast, Christian Smith of Splunk, Loren Padelford of Slice, and Sam Blond CRO emeritus of Brextheyll tell you that in-person selling is far from dead. Slice does much of the same. The results?

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Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Most sales reps start with product or process-focused questions like What are you doing today? But the truth is customers dont wake up thinking about products or processes. Its problems and challenges that keep them up at night! If their answer doesnt align with your solution, use follow-up questions to explore their reasoning.

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STAR Results

JUNE 3, 2020

Businesses are starting to open, which hopefully is a good thing. Even though we are still social distancing and face to face selling may not resume until 2021, you are still responsible for sales results. What can you do to jump-start your sales and make up for any lost sales during the last several months?

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Iannarino

JULY 10, 2021

Designing and rehearsing your talk tracks will provide you with confidence and a chance to tighten up your arguments. Generally, salespeople don’t spend enough time preparing for the conversations they have with their clients and prospects, even though conversational effectiveness makes the difference between meeting or missing their goals.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

Unfortunately, closing calls depend on who you’re selling to and could take you tens of hours. So you’ll either come out on top by establishing an authoritative relationship, or you’re stuck playing catch up the entire time. Time wasted on unqualified leads quickly adds up to hours in dead calls. What is a Discovery Call?

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In-person meetings create more space to read between the lines, interpret nuances, and establish bonds that last beyond a single transaction. Grab a warm coffee or tea and let’s get started! This includes having up-to-date info about what they’re selling and being equipped with technology that aids their sales pitches.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They look at comp expectations, perhaps tweaking the plans to meet certain budgetary or other goals. The present endless models on selling activities, outlining monthly and quarterly goals for demand/lead gen, outreach, meetings, top of pipeline, pipeline, renewal/retention, comp models and so forth. Anyone can run the numbers.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

He was just too tied up to respond to everyone. They’re still accepting meetings and changing suppliers quite often. To deal with this issue, reps need to act as a kind of editor on behalf of the prospect and slice up the info as follows: -Take the executive summary or conclusion of your best whitepaper and ebook. Busy Buyers.

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Sell Cold Call Pitch Prospecting 317

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. The key is Salesforce automation. Table of Contents.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Start for free The Role of AI in Sales Strategy As someone who’s spent years working closely with sales teams, I’ve seen firsthand how time-consuming and inconsistent traditional sales methods can be. A real-world example of this can be seen in how AI handles follow-up timing. AI automates these tasks.

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Prospecting Technique Pipeline Sales 130

Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy. It’s a time consuming but necessary process, which means mastering the AI sales follow-up can be a game-changer.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2025

But since I started using Superhuman last quarter, I was able to get back to inbox zero within minutes. I dont know how I didnt start on Superhuman sooner. But since I started using superhuman last quarter, I was actually able to get back to inbox zero within like 20 minutes. But I started on superhuman.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Start here: Speed up your selling activities in a few clicks If you’re using another sales acceleration software, most of the principles will still apply. Let’s start by sharing what Sales Acceleration isn’t. Sales acceleration isn’t merely selling faster to sell more. What is Sales Acceleration?

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Car buyers 30 years ago might have shown up at the dealership wanting a truck, a sedan, or something as vague as a “good family car,” and the salesperson’s job was to help steer them in the right direction based on their needs. We’ll dig into the findings and see what we can learn from the study, but let’s start with some definitions.

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Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

Starting with your company is designed to do two things: prove that your client can trust the company, and provide you (the salesperson) with some level of credibility. Starting with the conversations that explain your client’s world helps them understand the forces behind many of their current (or near-future) problems.

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

The post The Top 5 Strategies To Sell Without Selling appeared first on ClickFunnels. So how can you convey the value of what you offer without the potential customers getting their guards up? This is where the “selling without selling” comes in. Let other people sell your products for you!

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

From your first paying customers to enterprise domination, here’s how successful SaaS companies level up their pricing game to maximize growth and profitability at every turn. During this phase, the primary focus is on building a product that meets a specific market need and ensuring that early users validate its core functionality.

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