Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. I’ve worked with dozens of regional sales managers at telecom companies T-Mobile and Comcast, multiplying revenue by eliminating non-selling activities that bog down field sales reps. Demonstrate that you know their business.

Cold Call 358

Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. They create revenue models, bow ties, and related models reducing selling to a math equation. Despite ramping up the numbers, increasingly we are not achieving our goals. What if we started thinking of selling as a human game?

Gaming 123

Gaming Up-sell Quota Pitch 123

Hubspot

JULY 30, 2024

Then, the game changed when I leveled up my sales email writing game with curiosity-provoking subject lines, strong body text, and compelling closing statements. Personalized offers that aligned with my company’s unique selling proposition (USP) tended to be the best way to wrap up my emails and generate positive campaign outcomes.

Closing 85

Closing Quota Healthcare Tradeshows 85

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

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

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game. Expect actionable insights, cutting-edge strategies, and insider knowledge to keep you engaged and selling smarter—all without the fluff.

Gaming 233

Gaming Sell GTM Technique 233

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 110

Quota Commission Sell Contract 110

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 108

GTM Construction Quota Growth 108

Sales Pop!

JUNE 19, 2024

Mindful Selling No one knows what a prospective client may want unless we ask, and the asking evolves into a growing Q&A session upfront. In contrast, it is best if you allow the prospect to speak 60% of the time and you only take up 40% of the allotted time. Worse, it harms career growth and the company’s bottom line.

Sell 173

Sell Appointment Account management Represent 173

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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. I ask crazy questions like, “Why are only 40% of your people making their quotas, what do we need to change to double that?”

X-functional 127

X-functional Strategize Quota Pipeline 127

SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2025

Showing up at someone’s office? As they grew, they tried having CSMs own cross-sell opportunities, but this proved ineffective. We also had to give them the capacity to actually focus on retention by bringing in product AEs for complex selling.” Email is easy. Cold calling is harder.

Growth 75

Growth Cold Call Cross-sell Account management 75

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 Contact 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

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

I.e., both hitting quota. You’ll learn if they can sell in competitive environments for real or not. This will ferret out if he/she can play at an early-stage SaaS start-up successfully and if they know how to scale once you scale. Should the VP of Sales sell themselves when they start? Listen here, also.

Quota 70

Quota Sales Up-sell Lead generation 70

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

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

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 130

Quota Cold Call CRM Sales 130

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

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

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

If you have a pile of files on your desk, a to-do list that is so long it must be scrolled to read, past-due proposals, and an empty pipeline, you are probably not very well organized, don’t manage your time very well, and likely behind on quota. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? The same concept derails salespeople too.

Drivers/motivators 117

Drivers/motivators Sales Quota Pipeline 117

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 Follow-up Start-ups 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

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Transaction milestones should meld the prospects buying process with the vendors selling process. Why are revenue targets so hard to hit?

Meeting 66

Meeting Pipeline Quota Sales 66

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. But as she dug in, the real answer was too many sales reps were overbooking deals because of the pressure to hit their bookings quota.

Objectives and Key Results 114

Objectives and Key Results Growth Engineering Quota 114

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

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2025

So literally showing up with food, that made sense to them. ” The make-up of Marchelle’s sales team isn’t just domain experts however, she tries to keep a 50/50 mix of industry veterans and SaaS professionals. What was interesting is no other SaaS company approached it in the way that customers were used to.

Contract 107

Contract Sales Cold Call Trust 107

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

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 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