Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Results in prospecting don’t happen overnight; staying consistent over time is key to building a strong pipeline and generating lasting success. – The opening of a conversation is just as important as closing a deal, making daily prospecting essential for building new relationships.

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 17, 2021

Choice Prospecting. As always there is a difference in prospecting and selling. A prospecting call or email is a binary event, you either get the appointment, or you don’t. Present your best option, if the buyer has questions, new ideas, or whatever, you can negotiate down, or up. But does the buyer receive real value?

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Closing Bigger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This sales podcast is focused on 12 Non-Negotiable Sales Truths. As a sales trainer and keynote speaker I come across people often who want to short-cut and negotiate the price of sales success. Sales Truth #1 – You can never be too busy to prospect and work your funnel. Various other factors determine an ideal prospect.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this conversation with Jeb Blount bestselling author of Fanatical Prospecting and Sales EQ, and the founder of Sales Gravy motivational speaker and co-founder of The Constance Group Brian Parsley shares insights into embracing conflict, staying mindful, battling internal doubt, and communicating effectively.

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Veloxy

JUNE 15, 2023

The role of an outside sales rep involves working without a fixed schedule and focusing on building and maintaining relationships with current and prospective customers. One of the greatest challenges faced by outside sales reps is prospecting for leads, which involves identifying potential customers.

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criteria for success

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether it's to win a project or to fund a new opportunity, sales negotiation is a key component of the sales process. But as salespeople, we tend to struggle when handling prospect or client objections. That's why I’ve put together the following five-step acronym to help you and your team through the sales negotiation process.

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Spiro Technologies

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Salespeople must develop a wide range of skills in order to succeed, but one of the most overlooked skills in sales is the ability to negotiate. Lots of sales training tends to gloss over this part of the sales process, even though negotiations happen throughout every transaction. Stop trying to be ruthless.

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Hubspot

MARCH 22, 2022

A lot of time and effort is spent creating them, and this happens through a process called contract negotiation. In this post, learn about the key stages of contract negotiation, strategies for running a smooth negotiation, and scenarios where it makes sense to negotiate your contracts. Contract Negotiation Examples.

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Iannarino

JUNE 19, 2021

In the legacy solution approach, the salesperson must negotiate a linear sales process. But because the legacy approach was—and is—transactional in nature and the balance of power has shifted to the prospective client, these salespeople find themselves in a difficult situation. Legacy Solution: Negotiate the Process.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2023

Concessions vs. Negotiations: Sales Credibility at Stake by Anthony Iannarino Once a client ask is made, the salesperson is in a negotiation whether they like it or not. 8 Strategies for Getting More Out of Every Negotiation by Anthony Capetola The ability to negotiate can bring you and your business tremendous advantages.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

What the Best Sales Negotiators Do Differently. A lot of people struggle with negotiating successfully, here are some of the ways top sales negotiators get the job done. Video Prospecting 101: Take Outreach From Cold to Bold. Outreach can be difficult, especially cold outreach, but video prospecting can help!

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Respectful Negotiation In sports talk, offense refers to strategically moving past the opposing team to achieve the goal. Better Yet – Friendly Negotiation Hearing others out fully, mainly if their ideas are seemingly ridiculous upfront, can bring about ideas never in the picture previously. Celebrate Success!

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Team meetings are the perfect place to practice listening, seriously consider differing viewpoints and ideas, plus negotiate an agreeable outcome. Prospective clients you meet the first time are surprised by your interest in their experiences and insights. Will you share your previous experiences so I may have a better understanding?

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Maintain Financial Stability – A healthy balance sheet gives you the option to walk awayyour most powerful negotiating tool. When there’s deep trust between CEOs, direct negotiations can sometimes work better. Competition Creates Better Outcomes Having multiple bidders dramatically changes your leverage in negotiations.

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Sales Pop!

JANUARY 4, 2022

Consider selling to yourself as the dress rehearsal for the conversation with your next prospective client. If I am the prospect, would I run away from the idea? As the prospect, is it possible to negotiate a better outcome? Now consider if the same may hold for your prospective clientele.

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Hubspot

JUNE 7, 2023

Every step of your sales process is a struggle in its own right, so by the time you reach the negotiation stage, it can feel like you've run a marathon — but you still have a ways to go. So in the interest of showing you exactly what not to do, we've put together a handy, seven-step action plan for losing a negotiation. Don’t prepare.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of an Outside Sales Representative An outside sales representative, also known as a sales rep, is responsible for conducting sales activities in the field through direct customer interactions, both with prospective and existing customers.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 27, 2025

Take courses and identify a mentora seasoned veteran who can provide feedback on your calls and negotiation techniques. The quality of your messaging can encourage prospects to reach out to you or establish you as a trustworthy source of business. Its an ultimatum that no sales rep can afford to ignore. What do you do? What do you do?

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 14, 2024

Don’t start advertising without these 4 prerequisites Before you touch your ad account, make sure you have everything that is considered non-negotiable for running lead generation ads. Here are the four non-negotiables. Your ads and landing pages should speak to your prospective customers using the same language as your sales team.

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Iannarino

JANUARY 9, 2022

Too Little Prospecting: There are only two things a salesperson needs to do to succeed in sales: 1) create new opportunities and 2) capture those opportunities. Ninety minutes of prospecting a day will cure what ails you. That medium does not allow a genuine conversation with the prospective client.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list. Wondering how to achieve this lofty goal? AI can help.

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Salesforce

MARCH 6, 2024

There’s no better feeling than closing a deal after a tough price negotiation. Negotiation is a learned skill, requiring time for research, discovery, and due diligence long before both parties ever sit down together. What you’ll learn: What is price negotiation? Why are price negotiations important?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A successful negotiation is like a tango. And nothing ruins a productive negotiation like one of the participants using one of the 14 phrases listed below. 14 Phrases That'll Instantly Sabotage Your Negotiation 1. The focus must always be on the buyer — yes, even during the negotiation. I’ll be honest.”

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Martech

JANUARY 7, 2025

You are planning a large marketing event for customers and prospects. This includes tracking expenses, negotiating with suppliers, and ensuring we stay within budget while maximizing the event’s impact. What are the top five duties the marketing manager performs to support this large event? Processing.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 8, 2025

Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. In this blog post, Ill break down what gap selling is, why its the secret sauce for successful sales, and how you can use it to connect with prospects on a deeper level. Know your prospects intrinsic motivation. Youre left wondering where it all went wrong.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Even when he was talking to a prospect, he would hang up at 5 minutes, then call the person back. As I dove in, I discovered the sellers were not entering opportunities into the pipeline until they were actually in the contract negotiation stage. What he was doing was calling his buddies, talking about what they would to that evening.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Upon hearing the negative reply from a prospect, bluntly ask, ‘Is your answer of ‘no’ temporary until your budget is in place, or is it forever and not to bother you again?’ The question surprises prospects; they often laugh and then suggest a better time to contact them again. Flexibility Leads to Successful Negotiation.

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

In sales, interpersonal skills, such as empathy, patience, and EQ, shape how reps communicate effectively with prospects, handle objections with care, and build meaningful customer relationships. In other words, hard skills guide what sales reps sell, and soft skills determine how they sell to prospects.

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Hubspot

APRIL 9, 2025

Some, like scheduling follow-up emails or creating a repeatable framework for researching prospects, streamline your day without harming the quality of your work. Researching Your Prospect During the Call Researching your prospects while youre on the phone with them is better than not researching them at all but barely.

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ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Each prospect will have slightly different needs and knowing exactly how the product or service can help each of them is mandatory for building rapport and making sales. These sorts of questions can help you identify small commonalities between you and the prospect that form a small bond and build rapport. Start With a Sales Funnel.

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Iannarino

JUNE 26, 2021

This is all good, but every interaction with a prospective client is an opportunity to both teach and learn. When you know what your prospective client values, you can help them by connecting the dots between their strategic initiatives and your ability to help ensure they succeed. What they really needed was help prospecting.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 15, 2024

Clearbit : By enriching prospect data inside your CRM, this tool organizes potential customers’ contact information, including social media handles. Drift : Using prospect engagement data directly from your website, this tool helps craft conversational messaging and hyper-personal chat functions. Efficiency 8. Back to top.)

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SalesHandy

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sales Prospecting can be quite a time and cost-intensive process. So sales teams typically invest in sales prospecting tools and processes that help them scale their prospecting workflows. . It’s been analyzed that it takes a healthy volume of leads prospected in a cost-effective way to sustain sales growth. .

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Tibor Shanto

JANUARY 25, 2022

How are they selling and negotiating with prospects? How deep are they going in discovery in helping prospects understand the full impact on their business? A focus on margins requires a different sales culture. Let’s define culture, “things your people do when no one is looking.”

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Iannarino

JUNE 20, 2021

The legacy laggard approach to sales views the product as the main source of value for prospective clients. Like our clients, are approaches are organic, with some salespeople and organizations recognizing and responding to what their clients and prospective clients need from them and others not recognizing what or how much has changed.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is far too complex for salespeople or prospects and customers to follow, and you’ll end up losing them. You then make a presentation to your prospect, followed by a proposal. You then make a presentation to your prospect, followed by a proposal. In our case, the prospect defines the business needs. Activities.

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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. And this is exacerbated by all the AI adaptations and LLMs.

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