ClickFunnels

AUGUST 8, 2021

Want to make sales? The latter definition applies to sales prospecting , not lead generation, though. Note that the lead generation funnel is the first part of your sales funnel that serves as an entryway. Collect email addresses (either via native email marketing functionality or via a third-party integration).

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 19, 2021

The post What Is A Normal Sales Funnel Conversion Rate? So you have built a sales funnel. Today we are going to discuss: The four types of sales conversion rates. The #1 way to increase the conversion rate of your sales funnel. Want to take your sales funnel to the next level? What Is a Sales Funnel?

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at five reasons as to why coaching for sales performance is so important, and what it can do for you and your team. Although many businesses – both big and small invest in sales training and coaching, we’ll unpack as to why it should be something you should look at investing in too.

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ClickFunnels

JULY 22, 2021

Want Russell To Teach You How To Build Your First Sales Funnel? I made $X in Y amount of time”, “I lost X kilograms in Y amount of time” , etc.). One of the most important concepts in copywriting is the distinction between features and benefits: A feature is a quality or a function of a product (e.g.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ah the VP of Sales. The first post is What a Great VP of Sales Actually Does. The second post is a script for you to use (and modify as you see fit) – 10 Great Questions to Ask a VP Sales Candidate. Just so you know, there are 48 Different Types of VP Sales. The toughest hire. Such a high failure rate.

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The 5% Institute

MARCH 30, 2021

One of the most important functions in business, is to build an effective sales team that you can rely on to sell your products and services. A high performing sales team can make the difference between a mediocre business – and one that brings your goals and dreams to reality. The Sales Team – Your Ultimate Guide.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Guest Speaker Links (Guy Yalif): LinkedIn: [link] Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker): LinkedIn: [link] Newsletter: thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/ Where to find GTMnow (GTMfunds media brand): Website: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Twitter/X: [link] YouTube: [link] The GTM Podcast (on all major directories): [link] Resource we Recommend: HG Insights.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2015

” It’s easy to understand this in the context of individual or personal purchases, but too often overlooked in B2B sales. In sales, we each have quota, revenue, margin, expense and other objectives important to our role in the organization. For the Controller: CD CTLR x FP CTLR > C CTLR + F CTLR.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

We put together a basic 50/50/25 VP of Sales comp plan early on at SaaStr, and it seemed time for an update. Incentives are critical, and the VP Sales will likely be the Seemingly Most Expensive hire you ever make. A few basic ground rules so your VP of Sales is a guaranteed win-win hire – not a stressor: No best efforts cr*p.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 1, 2015

According to Cole, the kinds of partners that breakthrough companies both associate with and actually function as are those which not only make a “job easy, but when you sit down and talk with them about what they are trying to get done and you challenge them with some thoughts, you don’t get the resistance that you get with others.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We already had Sales Cloud as our customer relationship management ( CRM ) software, and ServiceNow as our IT service management (ITSM) solution. We also brought in our implementation partner for Sales Cloud, because we knew they could help us think through what we wanted to do. Implementation. Integrations. Strategic roadmap.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

“We’re looking for a strategic rockstar sales rep who knows how to leverage and optimize our customers’ digital transformation to really move the needle!”. There are sales buzzwords that we love and some that we really hate. When you use sales buzzwords correctly, you’ll sound like you’re an industry insider. Optimize sales!

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Challenging your own sales force.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. The first one, I know my sales cycle. Fred Viet: Yeah, we hope so.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic didn’t just disrupt sales. Before 2020, sales teams hummed on leads in pipe, one-off sales (digital and in-person), and pipeline velocity. They also turned their focus to long-term customer success instead of one-off sales, reinvesting in employee retention to ensure there was no gap in customer relationships. “It

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Should your sales engineers also implement the software? to be the sales engineer during the sales process and then stayed on with customer post sale to manage the implementation process.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2021

Maybe even in the not-so-early days But if you are 10x better at (x) One Important Thing that (y) customers value and will pay for, that’s enough. It’s only a subset of critical functionality that customers will pay to have implemented 10x better than an existing, trusted vendor. Yes, you can build that piece of functionality better.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2020

There’s a common thinking that sales teams should be relatively high churn. That the bottom 15-20% of the sales team almost has to churn each year, because it’s survival of the fittest. At Salesforce, at Box, the bottom end of the sales team churns out each year. First, do sales reps really compete with each other?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

” “Or we’ll try to hack the functionality using a product we already have.” ” You’ll hear somewhere between a little and a lot of this until (x) you have a very well established brand and (y) an extremely feature rich product. “Oh our IT team could build it.” Or the year after.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Business-to-Government sales. Quickly, I pivoted my approach to consider the nuance of the sale at hand. Instead of identifying key buyer personas and then categorizing specific titles and job functions under each, I looked at specific job titles and functions first. The Light at the End of the Tunnel.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Sales compensation is one of the trickiest aspects of the sales organization to get right. How to create a good sales comp plan. Sales comp plan types. Sales contests and SPIFs. How sales compensation should work. A sales compensation plan operates from a basic principle: Money drives behavior.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How do you build GTM efficiency in SMB sales? 2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. At the end of ‘22, they started a small pilot and grew that function from one and two BDRs to a team of 10 and then 12. Let’s look at a loose timeline of Owner’s journey. They grew 2.5x

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Probably the biggest career limiting move I see is: – CMOs challenging CEO on Marketing Strategy – VP Sales challenging CEO on How to Sell. Or maybe 12-24 months after you have the core marketing functions all built out, and working. Ok, so her or his job as CMO is to manage all these marketing functions — to success.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 5, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore what value messaging is, why it’s important, and how to can help you close more sales in a non-pushy way. Mercedes Benz through their value messaging; have been able to surpass the cars general function. Related article: Pain Points & Sales – Your Ultimate Guide. Read on to learn how.

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Hubspot

APRIL 22, 2020

By understanding your company’s product sales mix. When you dig into what your company’s sales mix is, you uncover hard data that tells you exactly how much money the sale of each product is contributing to the bottom line. First, let’s walk through how to calculate sales mix for your business. Sales Mix Formula.

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ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2020

In other words: Behavior = motivation x ability x prompt. If the user can’t find the “X” button, the choice is presented negatively—a confirm-shaming dark pattern , which is the opposite of a nudge. The more “autonomous functions” you have on-site, the more you get to know your customers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Previously, he was the Global VP of Product for SAP, CRM and Sales Cloud. If you missed GTM 138, check it out here: The AI Advantage, Solving Sales & Marketing Alignment for Better GTM Execution with Jaleh Rezaei Highlights: 06:53 What makes an AI agent different from bots and automationand why it matters now.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

First, such vendors make claims for these platforms that could never be kept, such as “Get more qualified leads” and “increase sales by x%.” No piece of technology could stand up to a promise of increasing sales, including ours (we make no such claim). You’d never, for example, put one into a Volkswagen Bug. It is a dead-end.

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Martech

MARCH 1, 2022

Have you ever been in a meeting and had someone turn to you and say, “What do you think about Product X?” Post-acquisition brings changes in product functionality, usually starting with integration capabilities. Many companies have moved away from a singular list of products to categorizing products by function.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

While metrics are important in every aspect of any business, they’re especially critical in sales. Sales leaders can’t use their intuition to guide their decisions — not only are they dealing with a huge amount of information, but the risk of failure is high. Let's take a look at what sales metrics are. Activity Sales Metrics.

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This is useful for people who may be looking at a record with little context, like when a new sales rep is assigned an existing account or opportunity and wants to learn about their previous engagement with their company. Agentforce can summarize records and their history. Examples of Agentforce Actions listed in Setup.

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Leading customer relationship management (CRM) and other marketing platforms are integrating sophisticated AI capabilities that promise to assist with key functions like gauging customer sentiment, training employees, making product recommendations, enriching data and even auto-generating targeted campaigns.

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Understanding the Psychology of Sales and Why People Buy Can Be Your Unfair Advantage. Simply put, understanding the psychology of sales can lead you to learn how to master the art of selling. Let me point out one important fact — We are all human beings, and our minds function in a similar way. 1 Persuasion Not Manipulation.

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Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

If you’re a B2B salesperson, you’ve probably heard about SPIN Sales. SPIN gives reps a research-backed framework for working and closing complex deals with extended sales processes. You can use SPIN principles along with your current sales methodology. Many of SPIN’s principles align well with inbound sales.).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Jeff Shore

MAY 22, 2018

The earlier you talk about price, the more likely it is that you will lose the sale. That’s the truth, and it points to one of the most common errors made in sales presentations. When you get trapped into a price discussion right out of the gate, you are jeopardizing the entire sale. Why is this the case? But let’s do this.

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