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 122

Gaming Up-sell Quota Pitch 122

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

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 115

Quota Commission Sell Contract 115

Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

If youve ever hired a sales class or tried to ramp up new hires in an industry with complex products or strict guidelines, youll relate to Gaiuss dilemma. By the time theyre ready to sell, theyll be way behind on prospecting and might even lose that day-one enthusiasm for building relationships. And yes, theres a risk of mis-steps.

Cold Call 85

Cold Call Commission Appointment Pipeline 85

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

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

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

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 19, 2025

That’s how designing and executing your GTM/selling strategies work! I’ll stop here, I get wound up, but you know the same problem. If it isn’t producing the desired outcome, then there is something flawed in the design or in what you are doing!”

GTM 122

GTM Quota Start-ups Presentation 122

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

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

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 131

Quota Cold Call CRM Sales 131

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2025

rep good at one product can fail at selling another. Not all reps can work with the limited support, onboarding, and training you get at a start-up. They may not immediately hit quota (few do). Only the outliers will hit a full quota in their first quarter. Training and support matter. Some crush it the first week.

Quota 71

Quota Sales Gaming Closing 71

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

Salesforce

MARCH 31, 2025

Consider the stats : 67% of sales reps don’t expect to meet quota this year, and 84% missed it last year. Find patterns in sales performance and motivators, and use the data for follow-up discussions about compensation plans, prizes for sales contests, and more. Sign up now Thanks, you’re subscribed! Larry Long, Jr.

Drivers/motivators 64

Drivers/motivators Quota Territory E-commerce 64

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

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 75

Quota Sales Up-sell Lead generation 75

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 119

Objectives and Key Results Growth Engineering Quota 119

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

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 137

Sell Up-sell Follow-up Start-ups 137

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

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 114

Drivers/motivators Sales Quota Pipeline 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

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2025

Most Sales Leader seek out sales candidates with experience in their industry and a dressed-up resume to highlight that experience. Thats a “start from scratch” hunting job and average to worse selling capabilities just won’t help a new salesperson get that hunting job accomplished! That Dont Impress Me Much!

Quota 69

Quota Sales Up-sell Price 69

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

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

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

SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2025

And Get Them Both Hitting a Basic, Sustainable Quota. This includes: Ideal Customer Profile (ICP): Who are you selling to? If they tilt the curve. -> But also give your sales leader, and your individual reps before you have one, a quota on your time and meetings per week. Hire Two Sales Reps To Start, Not One. Be specific.

Commission 82

Commission Objection handling Quota Sales 82

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 129

Sell Pitch Quota Up-sell 129

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 209

Quota Pipeline Drivers/motivators Negotiate 209