Veloxy

APRIL 28, 2021

A sales rep is only as good as the time they spend selling. Let Sales AI take care of all non-selling activities so your reps can focus on revenue generation. Artificial intelligence in sales can increase selling hours by not only automating tasks, but also improving daily productivity and analyzing habits.

Cross-sell 289

Cross-sell Sales Quota Up-sell 289

SaaStr

MAY 6, 2023

Dear SaaStr: As a salesperson, if you sell a multi-year SaaS deal, does the whole amount count towards your current year quota? First, what you pay on vs. quota retirement can vary. On commissions / pay-out: For start-ups where cash matters, I strongly suggest compensating the reps mainly on cash brought in.

Quota 114

Quota Commission Sell Contract 114

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Start selling faster, easier. Most salespeople expect to miss their quota every single year. But hitting quota every year doesn’t always equate to a perfect sales enablement strategy for a few reasons.

CRM 262

CRM Quota Sales Pipeline 262

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. It’s all about crushing quota! Sales acceleration isn’t merely selling faster to sell more. Table of Contents. What is Sales Acceleration?

Sales 290

Sales Quota Up-sell B2B 290

Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

Product or service confidence means that the salesperson honestly believes that what they are selling can make life better somehow…even if just in a small way. A personable salesperson is respectful, patient, easy to talk to, and picks up on social queues (just to name a few). Here are 9 sales statistics just on following up: .

Referrals 290

Referrals Quota Cold Call Contact 290

Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

Sales quota. Helps your sales team spend more time on the selling activities that produce revenue. Helps perfect your sales process in order to sell more. In addition to helping sales team’s accelerate sales, Veloxy also helps optimize sales enablement by maximizing selling efficiency. Sales Calculators. Sales Checklists.

Sell 182

Sell Cold Call Tradeshows Cross-sell 182

Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you might have quotas and deadlines that show accomplishment, but what exactly is the rate of your efforts? Drive Up Your Average Deal Size. If it were up to either the customer or the sales reps, both would prefer the process to be as quick as possible. We’ve all heard the saying over and over; time is money.

Pipeline 306

Pipeline Non-Profits Sales Quota 306

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How do we innovate in selling? Year after year, we see declined in percentage of people achieving quota, declines in our ability to achieve our goals. Year after year, we see declined in percentage of people achieving quota, declines in our ability to achieve our goals. How do we learn and grow?

Sell 147

Sell B2B Up-sell Quota 147

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Create sales plans that save reps time and maximize sales impact Get your targets, budget, and headcount aligned with just a few clicks so you can sell more efficiently. These targets are used to guide the quota-setting, territory mapping , and sales team strategies. Is additional product or sales training needed before teams can sell?

Quota 116

Quota Territory Pipeline Sales 116

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 30, 2022

But I love selling–and I love working with highly professional sales people. I can think of few things more exciting, challenging, and rewarding than selling. Yeah, there’s the challenge of meeting quota, there’s the reward of blowing away your comp plan. But that’s not really why I love selling.

Sell 133

Sell Quota Up-sell Conversion 133

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 11, 2021

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. But it seems we, sales professionals, have lost the “Joy Of Selling.” Selling has become a “job,” almost a tedious chore for too many. I struggled a moment.

Sell 157

Sell Commission Up-sell Quota 157

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I wrote a post, “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested In Selling ? He did this asking, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” I’m obsessed with selling—all things selling. I’m excited by how selling is changing and the future of selling. Eventually, I got an offer.

Sell 138

Sell Up-sell Start-ups Follow-up 138

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

As I look at selling, today, it requires far too much effort—far more than I’m willing to do. They don’t care about what we sell, they don’t want to go through our demos-at least until they have no other alternative. And for those that eventually do make a decision, we end up winning about 15% of them.

Sell 148

Sell Commission Up-sell Quota 148

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

Tibor Shanto

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The more you manage it, honestly, the more consistently you will exceed quota. They get all wound up when they get a scouting call. Never Sit in the Lobby: 57 Winning Sales Factors to Grow a Business and Build a Career Selling. With a 4:1 closing average, every time I close a deal, I must get four more to stay afloat.

Pipeline 282

Pipeline Quota Prospecting Follow-up 282

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

It’s no secret that technology’s evolution is changing the way sellers sell. Seen through this lens, any sales processes that ask employees to jump through hoops is not only unnecessary but is setting up younger employees to fail. Eighty percent of the prospecting sales force is under 25 years old. Today’s sales processes.

Quota 129

Quota Cold Call CRM Sales 129

Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. While you may want your sales team to focus on selling, they also spend much time on administrative tasks. In doing so, you can give your reps more time to sell while helping them reach more qualified leads.

Product 246

Product Territory Objectives and Key Results Sales 246

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

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 5, 2021

With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. Over half (58 percent) of respondents believe that up to 80 percent of their data is not useful or reliable, implying that less than a quarter of data is actionable and trustworthy.” Track Or Act? The Invite.

Objectives and Key Results 293

Objectives and Key Results Sales CRM Prospecting 293

Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

Theoretically, freeing us up to have selling conversations. Perhaps a few for outreach communications, sales enablement platforms, authoring/content platforms, conversational intelligence, reporting/analytics, messaging, proposal management, calendar management, conferencing/virtual selling, CRM, and others.

Sell 125

Sell CRM Up-sell Education 125

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Answers from the CEOs of Twilio, Veeva, Amplitude, HubSpot, Gainsight and More I wanted though to do a deep dive on just one piece — a few thoughts how to sell that second product. Too many sort of think it will sell itself with the same team, motions, etc. So they’ll really just sell what’s easiest.

Product 105

Product Sell Quota Launch 105

Partners in Excellence

MAY 2, 2023

I’d had a few selling experiences as a kid. In Boy Scouts, there was always an event of some sort that we had to sell tickets for. My Mom usually bought the allocation I was assigned to sell. And the selling I did do was mostly answering questions about the products on display. But none in selling.

Sell 133

Sell Retail Consult Strategic planning 133

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Today, field salespeople have had to pivot to a hybrid approach consisting of inside, remote, and virtual selling. Fortune 500 and Inc 5000 companies have found continued success with new field sales strategies and technology, and a new number one key performance indicator (hint: it’s not quota). Field sales is not dead!

Territory 244

Territory Inside sales Outside Sales Pharmaceutical 244

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This includes having up-to-date info about what they’re selling and being equipped with technology that aids their sales pitches. This allows them to focus more on selling and less on administrative tasks. If needed, consider partnering with a digital learning provider to keep training materials up to date for new hires.

Objectives and Key Results 279

Objectives and Key Results Territory Inside sales Cross-sell 279

Veloxy

JUNE 6, 2022

Field reps pivoted to remote or inside selling. As numbers began to sink rapidly, outside sales advocates were concerned about the future of their once historically quota crushing profession. This made up for 15.99% of all challenges experienced by our panel, as respondents were able to choose multiple challenges.

Inside sales 173

Inside sales Quota Outside Sales Sales 173

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So quotas are relatively well understood, if sometimes complicated to get right in practice. Keybanc and Sapphire have some great overall metrics here : Overall, the media AE closes $750,000 a year, and that’s actually up from 2022 — mainly due to hiring freezes and contractions. And how many hit quota?

Sell 134

Sell Quota Commission Contract 134

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re experiencing low login and usage rates, then your two clearest problems are as follows: Salesforce isn’t making your rep’s life easier Salesforce isn’t helping your rep’s sell more When you put yourself in a salesperson’s shoes, they’re probably right. How much higher would your confidence level go up?

Non-Profits 264

Non-Profits CRM Contact Consult 264

Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place. and embark on this journey to master the art of field selling together! Get Your Free Ebook Key Takeaways Outside sales is the practice of selling through direct, in-person interactions.

Outside Sales 242

Outside Sales Cold Call Represent Objectives and Key Results 242

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2023

After describing a potential selling situation, I suggested a role play, where ChatGPT was the seller and I was the customer. But at the same time, we should be alarmed by what it tells us about how far off target we are in how we sell, how we engage our customers. How did ChatGPT come up with those responses?

Sell 130

Sell Pitch Quota Up-sell 130

Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 14, 2023

You could also be well behind your quota, struggling to stay motivated and worried about job security. And when reps struggle to see the path to their number they may slowly give up, blaming things outside of their control. Low performers may have given up on their number and feel a reduced sense of urgency and hustle at year-end.

Quota 203

Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Negotiate 203

Veloxy

MARCH 28, 2022

A company that employs inside sales reps will have them selling from inside. This means the salesperson is in the office working to sell to leads and customers. In some cases, they might even sell from their home office. An inside salesperson is likely to sell from their phone or email. Meet quota goals.

Outside Sales 217

Outside Sales Inside sales Cold Call Sales 217

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2023

After rigorous research and discussion with many expert colleagues, I’ve discovered the universal secret to Selling Success. It turns out the singular secret to selling success is “Build more pipeline!” The secret to selling success is simply more pipeline! What’s up?”

Sell 118

Sell Pipeline Prospecting Up-sell 118

Cerebral Selling

JUNE 28, 2022

It’s the classic story of the attractive person who waits at the bar, hoping to meet someone fun and interesting, only to leave alone because no one had enough courage to walk up and introduce themselves. The post The Easiest Month-End Negotiation Tactic appeared first on Cerebral Selling.

Negotiate 237

Negotiate Commission Quota Price 237

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Then Mark Roberge , former Hubspot CRO, wrote The Sales Acceleration Formula with deep insights into quota structures. For the subsequent ten years in software, we’ve optimized every little bit of how we sell it. But today, it’s different because the kinds of software we sell aren’t the same. It isn’t predictable.

Go To Market 133

Go To Market GTM Quota Price 133

Cerebral Selling

AUGUST 8, 2022

And in times of crisis, two things can happen: Fear and distraction give way to diminished revenue production, quota attainment, and rash decisions to leave for greener pastures (which we know don’t often exist). These ups and downs are a normal part of business (and the human experience). Remind your team of this!

Sales 214

Sales Contract Clients Quota 214

Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2023

This makes selling to founders a bit more nuanced than other personas. But founders are the final decision-makers at their company — so working directly with founders is a great way to cut through the noise and sell directly to the person who will be signing the check. I’ll go over some ways to communicate and sell to founders.

Sell 99

Sell GTM Quota Up-sell 99

Veloxy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Pressure to hit quota. Meditation and Exercise Eat a Healthy Diet Listen to Sales Podcasts Focus on 3 Tasks a Day Find a Balance Between Prospects, Leads & Customers Trust Your Sales Process Take Small Breaks Don’t Take Things Too Seriously Eliminate Non-Selling Activity Take a Vacation! Leads that cancel meetings.

Sales 182

Sales Quota Contact Clients 182