Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges? 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team. Stop waiting.

Sell 317

Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

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. Regularly meeting and communicating openly with your sales and marketing teams will encourage collaboration. There's more, read today!

Objectives and Key Results 130

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate CRM Sales 130

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. Despite ramping up the numbers, increasingly we are not achieving our goals.

Gaming 122

Gaming Up-sell Quota Pitch 122

Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Get ready to impress more buyers and get more meetings. When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. But, if they’re still stubborn or hesitant to commit to a meeting, here are a few other tips to get the evasive, “Yes!”: Demonstrate that you know their business.

Cold Call 358

Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

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?”

Objection handling 126

Objection handling Technology Technology Up-sell 126

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.

Prospecting 299

Prospecting Up-sell Follow-up Start-ups 299

Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

And they don’t want to take a meeting with a salesperson if they can help it. And smooth our selling process — their buying process — to its digital best. But B2B companies have been experimenting for decades with lower cost methods to reduce selling expense. It’s hard to keep up! So, we marketers need to get on board.

B2B 133

B2B X-functional Cross-sell B2C 133

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.

Cold Call 325

Cold Call Pitch Retail Meeting 325

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.

Prospecting 309

Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Clients 309

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The leader held this individual up as a high performer. But when I started looking at the performance, I realized, despite consistently meeting the goals, the number of qualified leads this person was developing was about the same as his peers. At the 5 minute mark, he would hang up, then call the buddy back.

Gaming 121

Gaming Contract Pipeline CRM 121

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.

Cold Call 103

Cold Call Clients Trust Up-sell 103

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.

Technology 306

Technology Technology Clients Meeting 306

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. There is nothing wrong with being an expert on what you sell.

Cold Call 306

Cold Call Cross-sell Gaming Clients 306

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.

Sell 113

Sell Up-sell Sales Start-ups 113

Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Breaking Up with Prospects: One challenge for sellers is recognizing when to disengage from prospects who show little progress. Find strategies for professionally and respectfully "breaking up" with prospects to avoid wasting time on deals that are unlikely to close.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Launch Sales Up-sell 98

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.

Campaign 325

Campaign Pitch Clients Prospecting 325

SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2025

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 have to start with a certain set of expectations, and hire folks that want to meet them. You cant get sales reps used to only doing inbox to magically start cold calling for real.

Cold Call 109

Cold Call Customers Start-ups Meeting 109

Veloxy

JUNE 24, 2021

If you don’t, your audience will pick up on it and won’t trust or value what you’re saying. Use These Body Techniques to Sell More. This means that body language makes up more than half of business communication , and an increase in email and text messaging is getting in the way of good business. Facial Expressions. Eye Contact.

Cross-sell 287

Cross-sell Technique Pitch Contact 287

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sales teams today spend 70% of their workday on non-selling activities a massive roadblock to hitting quotas. Sales Reps are swamped with 1,400 non-selling hours every year. Prove it to me Sign up for free 1. Its automated email sequences and tracked document links eliminate manual follow-ups completely. Lets dive in.

Product 130

Product CRM Price Objectives and Key Results 130

Tibor Shanto

JULY 20, 2021

I’ll follow up by asking “for prospecting and selling?” Unless you have a one call sale, you will need to secure the second meeting even if you have success on call 1. This makes the “getting the appointment” the primary goal of a meeting. It is at this point that I need to remind them of the much-loved 80/20 rule.

Appointment 321

Appointment Education Prospecting Meeting 321

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!

Cold Call 298

Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Pitch Follow-up 298

Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This approach meets multiple customer needs with integrated solutions while allowing the company to grow efficiently across its products. Source: GTM Partners, 3Ps GTM Maturity Model It’s not just about selling more products. This sharpens the team’s upsell and cross-sell strategies, improving retention.

GTM 109

GTM Product Cross-sell Profit margin 109

Martech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Product management is in charge of anticipating and meeting customer’s emerging needs. When many people are responsible for upselling and cross-selling, the customer can be, at best, confused and, at worst, feel badgered by multiple people from the same company. By fine-tuning these, you can better meet customer needs.

Cross-sell 108

Cross-sell Customers UX A/B testing 108

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.

X-functional 127

X-functional Strategize Quota Pipeline 127

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

But at the start of its expansion play, Checkr’s enterprise motion failed, and sales cycles were slow, taking up to a year for $100k & up deals. So instead of just thinking about bookings targets and bookings attainment in meetings, she brought revenue focus into every cadence of running the business.

Objectives and Key Results 117

Objectives and Key Results Growth Engineering Quota 117

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!” We script every conversation, yet the customers we are engaging don’t have the same script. Customer engagement plummets.

Pipeline 127

Pipeline Government Education Conversion 127

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.

Objectives and Key Results 125

Objectives and Key Results Objection handling GTM Pipeline 125

Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

The reason clients avoid booking a second meeting, whether by ghosting you or just politely asking that you call them next week to schedule, is because you didn’t create enough value in the first conversation. Rackham put it this way: “Would your client be willing to pay for that meeting?”

Contract 337

Contract Contact Clients Prospecting 337

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

His path to Levelset was serendipitous he had tried to sell Wolf health insurance, thinking the company was much larger than it actually was. With no background in software sales, he had to quickly pick up the ropes of B2B selling, making numerous mistakes along the way.

GTM 111

GTM Construction Quota Growth 111

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. That process has changed dramatically. A 2024 HubSpot Blog Survey of 422 B2B professionals in the U.S.

B2B 81

B2B B2C Tradeshows Contract 81

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. Then, follow up with a recording link and a quick survey to get feedback.

Appointment 116

Appointment Follow-up Contact Start-ups 116

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. Questions come in many styles, each suited to different pieces of the puzzle that make up the entire picture. As I have probably mentioned a million times, prospecting is different than selling.

Appointment 274

Appointment Quota Prospecting Education 274

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.

Territory 342

Territory Represent Sales Lead generation 342

Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Existing customers Take note of existing customers to identify opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling, which can be beneficial for improving lead scoring. Have you ever noticed how some leads just don’t quite match up with what your ideal customer looks like? Negative scoring can help with that. Processing.

Cross-sell 118

Cross-sell Lead generation GTM Territory 118

Iannarino

JULY 13, 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.

Prospecting 243

Prospecting Pitch Negotiate Meeting 243

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.

Clients 300

Clients Conversion Up-sell Start-ups 300

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!

Sell 246

Sell Up-sell Networking Promote 246