Gong.io

APRIL 19, 2022

Sometimes a flashy sales presentation will not get the job done. Depending on your product/service or who you are speaking with, you may need to get more technical in your sales approach. This is where a sales engineer becomes a huge asset to your team. Do I really need a sales engineer? Well, it depends.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial. POC and POV.

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Objectives and Key Results Technical Sales Engineering Sales 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Kelly Del Curto, Senior Director of Sales @ Lever, joined with Tammy Aguillar, Area VP, Commercial Sales @ DocuSign, Kate Earle Jensen, Head of Platform Sales @ Stripe, and Lauren Schwartz, VP of Enterprise Sales @ Fivetran share the following suggestions about how to move your sales organization into larger markets. #

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Sell Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Technical Sales 114

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. We came up with a list of 30 companies that I felt had potential, and I wrote targeted emails to each of the founders. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. 7 Tips to get 7,000 Customers.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led? Given this, you must understand the role that each facet of the business plays in promoting that product, from marketing and sales to customer service.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sales is a relatively high stress profession, with a fair amount (read: lots) of positive and negative swings. Knowing how to deal with conflict in the workplace is a necessary skill every sales professional should master. Knowing how to deal with conflict in the workplace is a necessary skill every sales professional should master.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 1, 2020

The I need to speak to sales objection is one of those sales objections that can easily derail your sales efforts. You’ve perhaps gone through your sales process ; building rapport, asking the right sales probing questions and even presented your offer. Where Does The ‘I Need To Speak To’ Sales Objection Come From?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Nancy Nardin I first started curating and categorizing sales technologies in 2010. But know that we have tried hard to ferret out any company that no longer exists, or that no longer has a sales solution, to remove brands that have gone away due to acquisitions, and to add brands that are new to the market.

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Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results Technical Sales CRM 72

Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Sales representatives are critical to the growth of any business. Sales reps ensure that current customers have the right products, identify new sales leads, and pitch to prospects. For being a successful sales rep, there are certain skills you need to develop over time. Let’s get started.

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Sell Sales Up-sell Follow-up 59

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Sales Hacker Newsletter has now merged with The GTM Newsletter to make one of the largest newsletters in the space. As always, you’ll hear real stories/strategies/tactics from real revenue operators spanning: sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. It’s official.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Let’s take a page from the book of sales operations (sales ops) and give you an answer as efficiently as possible. Here’s the answer to “ What is sales ops ,” in a nutshell: You have a sales strategy and you have people on the ground to execute it. It’ll show up here soon enough.). Lacking best practices? .

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SalesBlog!

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I am a highly competitive sales producer and wrap my arms around the latest in technologies and offerings to help me win. So why is there hesitancy to hire a senior sales professional? Not necessarily – After selling my business I found myself searching for employment at 40+. Selling to them is based upon credibility and trust.

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Outreach

APRIL 5, 2019

It's no secret that sales representatives are the key to our success here at Outreach. Over the last several years, we have built new tools and systems to empower our own reps, including the best Sales Engagement Platform in the universe and the Agoge Tribe onboarding method. What is a B2B sales representative?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

She is currently Vice President of Executive Partner Sales at Gartner. I was working for a company that chalked that up to charm and communication skills (of which, I had neither) but that’s not what I was seeing. So I found a particularly technical sales role and evolved my way into it.

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Sell Manufacturing Engineering Technical Sales 77

Hubspot

JULY 14, 2015

There were far too many things to sum up in one blog post, but we compiled some of their top tips for designing a great experience that, you know, converts people into leads and customers. 2) Don’t Sell It If You Can’t Solve It. We don't have a typical sales team, but this would be the most sales-like focus we have.

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Conversion Launch Education Campaign 78

Closing Bigger

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

This sector offers a highly engaging, and potentially lucrative career in sales. Do they have something proprietary or innovative that will allow me to build up a client base? Many organizations make grand claims about their latest invention but cannot back it up. Make sure there is something of substance that you can sell.

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Commission Technology Technology Sales 52

PandaDoc

APRIL 29, 2024

Quote-to-Cash (Q2C or QTC) is a process that connects fairly distant points in the sales process. From the moment a request for a quote is received and all the way to shaking hands over a contract and getting paid, QTC dictates how intermediate sales goals are achieved.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

Today, we have more than 17,000 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 100, and the 17,000 customers are broken up into what we would call about 2,000 enterprises and you see a lot of our current customers up there. It was an inside sales team calling on all regions around the world. And 15,000 disruptors.

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Closing Bigger

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

This sector offers a highly engaging, and potentially lucrative career in sales. Do they have something proprietary or innovative that will allow me to build up a client base? Many organizations make grand claims about their latest invention but cannot back it up. Make sure there is something of substance that you can sell.

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Commission Technology Technology Sales 40

SBI

JUNE 22, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Essentially “buyer enablement”.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2020

367: Hilary Headlee is Head of Global Sales Operations and Enablement @ Zoom. Prior to joining Zoom, Hilary was VP of Global Sales Operations and Productivity @ MindBody and before that enjoyed similar roles with Alteryx, Invoca and Lynda.com. How does lead management and onboarding alter the question of sales ops vs revenue ops?

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Sales Start-ups Meeting Follow-up 81

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. Here are the best sales blogs in Slideshare form, or below the presentation are all the individual sales blogs with a little more detail. Sales Hacker.

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