SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Keeping the marketing team aligned with the sales team and product team is imperative before going upstream. . Your ICP will help your org know who they’re selling to and why. Selling to SMBs, by contrast, is fast-paced, and a single rep can typically handle several deals at once. Now, go sell upmarket! .

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Sell Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Technical Sales 119

Gong.io

APRIL 19, 2022

They must possess extensive, often technical, product or service knowledge. Typically, this is a role in the B2B world… selling more complex products to other businesses.??. Here are 3 signs indicating the need for a sales engineer on your team: . You sell a technical product. Don’t sell a technical product?

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Engineering Sales Cold Call Up-sell 118

The 5% Institute

JULY 1, 2020

Then just as you think you have the sale; you’re delivered the I need to speak to sales objection. In this article, you’ll learn how to handle the I need to speak to sales objection with ease, so that it doesn’t come up later in your future sales conversations. Remove The ‘I Need To Speak To’ Sales Objection.

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Up-sell Presentation Technical Sales Clients 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Guided selling and engagement. Scaling sales during the pandemic.

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Sell CRM Appointment Up-sell 112

SBI

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

B2B [1] Enterprise [2] Not primarily meant for marketers Primarily meant for sales organizations [3] Are software solutions – not services Eliminating the apples-to-oranges comparisons Category Definitions We’ve also taken care to give the categories names that are easily understood. For one, we no longer have a Sales Enablement category.

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Cross-sell Objectives and Key Results Technical Sales CRM 72

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

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. However, when you are selling and trying to find a product-market fit, you need to be laser-focused on one market.

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Closing E-commerce Customers Quota 116

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. First, we’ve talked about this a lot at SaaStr: product-led or sales-led, which is right? Some say sales if you don’t have a product that lends itself to being self-service. Simply put the product does the selling.

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Go To Market Growth GTM Product 128

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 103

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. Compensation.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

Share It seems like every second start-up founder and revenue leader I talk to these days is trying to move upmarket or ‘break into the enterprise’. On top of this, the sale cycle is longer, more bureaucracy and more legal scrutiny up there. Sales…SDR motion is also different and may end up be more “research intensive”.

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GTM Up-sell Price Start-ups 90

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

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re looking to train and retain top sales talent, this is one area you don’t want to fall behind in. Curious if sales compensation stacks up? The shift to remote work isn’t just impacting the way we sell, it’s changing the way customers buy. Remote work stress.

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Sales Cross-sell Education Conversion 102

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

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. I built strong relationships. May the odds be ever in your favor.

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Sell Manufacturing Engineering Technical Sales 77

Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As a first-time sales rep, you need to develop your sales skill and follow proven sales strategies to make you better at selling. In this article, we would be looking at ten best selling tips for first-time sales reps. These tips would serve as a foundation to help you build a successful sales career.

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Sell Sales Up-sell Follow-up 59

PandaDoc

APRIL 29, 2024

Manual configuration of such products requires highly technical sales reps or, most often, detailed quote reviews by technical teams, resulting in very long sales cycles — something you want to avoid at all costs. Disclaimer PandaDoc is not a law firm, or a substitute for an attorney or law firm.

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Cross-sell Contract Legal Negotiate 52

Outreach

APRIL 5, 2019

Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about the world of B2B sales reps, including best practices for training, hiring, and the daily challenges associated with the role. What is a B2B sales representative? Why are B2B sales reps important?

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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. When we were SMB focused in the early years, our sales cycles were quick. And 15,000 disruptors.

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Cross-sell Technology Technology Pitch 96

Gong.io

OCTOBER 27, 2021

And here’s the bigger nutshell version: Sales ops improves a slew of activities and processes, such as sales strategy, business analytics, sales workflows, sales admin, technology purchases, etc. It’ll show up here soon enough.). Sales ops covers a lot, because it has to. Selling is what they’re here to do.

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Quota Pipeline Sales Contract 62

SalesBlog!

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. They are also writing technical sales books and becoming experts and mentors (credibility) in their fields.

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Sales Technical Sales Trust Technology 52

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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Sell Engineering Non-Profits Retail 37

Closing Bigger

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

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. Too many start-ups lack this infrastructure and back-office support.

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Commission Technology Technology Sales 52

Closing Bigger

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

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. Too many start-ups lack this infrastructure and back-office support.

Commission 40

Commission Technology Technology Sales 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2020

Where can you pick up small wins? And it ended up that they were starting on having an ACV, or an annual contract value, and that’s where I first started to understand that type of repeatable business. And ended up reaching out to a gentleman that I knew and said, “Hey, is this really for real?”

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Sales Start-ups Meeting Follow-up 86

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

From the best sales blogs to the online course (many free), it’s the place to see all of the best sales minds in the world — all in one place. One of the best resources on the internet for anyone who sells stuff. Sales Hacker accepts guest contributors as well as sponsored content from relevant folks. The Gist: .

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Negotiate Sales Retail B2B 98