Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This year, much like when I was growing up, the leaves turned in mid-October and had mostly fallen from the trees by the end of October. A lot of sales leaders and their salespeople believe that sales cycles are determined by their industry, or are specific to the industries they sell to. Long Foliage Cycle. Short Foliage Cycle.

Objectives and Key Results 142

Objectives and Key Results Consult Sales Government 142

Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Presenting: Showing the value of what you sell. How to Remove Salesforce CRM Friction Learn how to remove friction points tied to Salesforce, helping your sales team sell easier and faster. Automation is key, the right tools will ensure that nothing gets missed with proper follow-ups. There's more, read today!

Objectives and Key Results 130

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate CRM Sales 130

Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

And smooth our selling process — their buying process — to its digital best. But B2B companies have been experimenting for decades with lower cost methods to reduce selling expense. For example, data analytics around past purchase patterns can identify “next-best-product” suggestions for optimized upsell and cross sell.

B2B 135

B2B X-functional Cross-sell B2C 135

SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Salesforce, Nov 2024: We're hiring 1,000 new sales execs to sell AI! in sales to sell AI. It doesn’t sell itself. They know they can sell it, and they need to sell it now. Well that must have gone well as Salesforce is now hiring 2,000 (!) But we all know enterprise software. Not really. SaaS is Back.

Sell 124

Sell Up-sell Sales Contact 124

Martech

JULY 25, 2024

Each member may have up to 15 interactions with each vendor under evaluation. Many tools aren’t set up to target multiple buyers simultaneously, but that doesn’t mean you can’t set up some of this process manually. Does your selling team understand the value of inputting those additional buyers into your CRM?

B2B 132

B2B Legal CRM Lead generation 132

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

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Selling to developers and technical audiences requires a different approach than traditional B2B SaaS sales. In a recent SaaStr Workshop Wednesday , Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell who also previously led sales at companies like GitHub, shared his first-hand experience and insights for successfully selling to engineering teams.

Engineering 116

Engineering Sell Technical Sales Finance 116

Salesforce

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sell more, and faster, with AI With interested buyers lined up, now it’s up to the sales team to close deals. Generative AI for sales , when integrated into CRM, can speed up and personalize the sales process for Sandstone in a number of ways. For example, service reps might be empowered to sell ancillary products.

Real Estate 128

Real Estate Non-Profits Click Through Rate CRM 128

Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with Andy Matheou from RHM Staffing to dive deep into the challenges and triumphs of selling in the staffing industry. In many cases, individuals who start as contributors in sales work their way up to leadership roles by consistently showing dedication to their work.

Cold Call 103

Cold Call Clients Trust Sales 103

Martech

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

ecommerce sales were up 9.6% Here’s the breakdown for top-selling and high-growth categories ahead of Black Friday. 1-24, up 11.4% billion, up 13.4% billion, up 16.8% billion, up 7.2% billion, up 10.1% The numbers back this up. For the first 24 days of November, U.S. year-over-year. Processing.

Sports 125

Sports Retail Start-ups Up-sell 125

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If selling reduction in admin time/tasks represents a few percent of their overall expenses, they may have bigger fish to fry. That doesn’t mean our solutions aren’t important or that we should give up, we have to focus on the people the solution impacts the most, getting their support to invest in those solutions.

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Represent Up-sell High impact Gaming 124

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The other day someone who used to be an A+ sales leader emailed me about a position I’d introduced to him as a super hot start-up. Maybe not epic, but really a sales leader I looked up to. He’s done selling, and probably, being curious. The email to me was: “What do they do again?” And the talk.

Sell 116

Sell Up-sell Sales Start-ups 116

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

Iannarino

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Is it "Solutions Selling" or perhaps "Spin Selling?" Is it some seemingly new approach that is really an old pig with touched-up lipstick? What is the best sales approach for B2B sales? Challenger?

Sales 315

Sales B2B Up-sell Clients 315

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2025

Salesforce itself is hiring 2,000 sales execs this year to sell its AI platform, AgentForce. Salesforce: Actually We’re Going to Hire 2,000 Sales Execs Now To … Sell AI At most B2B companies, 35%+ of the headcount is in sales and its often the largest functional area. We may have even sort of given up there, a bit.

Up-sell 132

Up-sell B2B Engineering Technology 132

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How we reduce our selling cycle. And AI has amped it up to another level. We are even seeing AI Agents conducting the meetings for us, so we don’t even have to show up. It’s stunning how much time we free up! Are you selling more?” Our people should be able to sell more.

Objection handling 126

Objection handling Technology Technology Up-sell 126

Salesforce

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Some retailers may be missing out on opportunities to rev up sales through the end of October. It can be difficult to predict which merchandise will sell well and which could flop. If your forecast is off, you could end up with lots of inventory to discount on November 1st, eating into your margins. Back to top.

Retail 105

Retail Promote Sales Follow-up 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For the subsequent ten years in software, we’ve optimized every little bit of how we sell it. But today, it’s different because the kinds of software we sell aren’t the same. In 2020, we transitioned from a physical selling universe to a virtual selling universe. It isn’t predictable.

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Go To Market Quota GTM Price 133

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

So Salesforce is hiring 1,000 more salespeople to sell AI software … that is supposed to reduce the need for humans and replace them with agents pic.twitter.com/hsjlrz3mqS — Jason ✨????SaaStr Push them up the value stack? So will AI replace humans, make them more effective, or create a need for even more knowledge works?

Up-sell 116

Up-sell Sales Sell Product 116

Martech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Calculate total costs: Add up all the expenses gathered in Step 1 to get the total cost of sales and marketing. Also, please list up to three martech tools needed to measure marketing and sales costs, as well as other costs relevant to CAC. Email: Business email address Sign me up! How do you calculate the company’s CAC?

Customers 111

Customers Commission Customer Relationship Management Retail 111

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Regular trips to the supermarket can quickly add up, no matter how carefully you plan. Sign up for your favorite store’s loyalty program or download their app, and you can unlock discounts that aren’t available to the general public. 3) Stock Up on Non-Perishables When non-perishable goods go on sale, it’s the perfect time to stock up.

Price 130

Price Sales Promote Up-sell 130

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

Martech

AUGUST 6, 2024

One possible solution for that would be to have the company sell off Chrome and perhaps prevent Google from being a default search choice for some time. Breaking up may be good to do “One of Google’s biggest advantages in the AI market is its ability to integrate the technology across its various services seamlessly,” said Hollerbach.

Non-Profits 134

Non-Profits Engineering Price Market share 134

Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Existing customers Take note of existing customers to identify opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling, which can be beneficial for improving lead scoring. Have you ever noticed how some leads just don’t quite match up with what your ideal customer looks like? Negative scoring can help with that. Processing.

Cross-sell 122

Cross-sell Lead generation GTM Territory 122

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The bar has gone up, and it’s not just in AI. So yes, while it’s true that challenges are real for those in the right-hand column above – overall cloud spend is still up 20%. Crowdstrike is up and still grew 35%. You have to maybe either sell to different customers, or have to build more software or be more AI.

B2B 128

B2B Legal Cross-sell Growth 128

Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But the truth is customers dont wake up thinking about products or processes. Its problems and challenges that keep them up at night! ” until you get to a critical and strategic business problem Follow up with the next question, How do you know? or What are you looking for in a solution?

Customers 130

Customers Objection handling Strategize Negotiate 130

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Consider: Conversion Rates from Inbound Leads Speed to Lead (How fast are you following up?) Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. Choose a CRM that matches your current size and selling process. Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. The rule of thumb?

Appointment 98

Appointment Cross-sell CRM Pipeline 98

Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2024

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. When they do that, they commit one of the cardinal sins of selling. They wind up wasting their time. Across the country, most salespeople just chase prospects. They do not follow any rules of engagement.

Prospecting 267

Prospecting Up-sell Follow-up Start-ups 267

Martech

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Another driver of this trend is agencies, who are thrilled at the chance to ramp up their creative output and inject some emotion into business messaging for a change. We still need to arm these digital natives with the white papers, research reports and case studies they need to sell your solution up the line to the CFO.

B2C 134

B2C B2B Drivers/motivators Entertainment 134

Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Make enough calls, and you will bump into people are grouchy enough to say something rude or just hang up on you. Your experience with small bouts of conflict will help you build up an immunity, one you will need later. Selling is much more like mixed martial arts than boxing. Making cold calls consistently eliminates that fear.

Cold Call 352

Cold Call Clients Contract Meeting 352

Martech

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It feels like all the business coaches are saying the same thing, “You’ve got to have an irresistible offer, or you’ll never sell anything, die and be buried in a pauper’s grave.” The high cost of marketing to the wrong crowd What seemed like an obvious marketing win ended up causing massive instability and nearly sinking the company.

Customers 128

Customers Price Up-sell Start-ups 128

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Our conversation ranged from the impact of AI to the growing importance of a consultative selling mindset in modern selling. Below, youll discover practical insights you can leverage to sharpen your competitive edgeregardless of what industry or region you sell intoand take advantage of these emerging trends.

Consult 81

Consult Territory Appointment Pitch 81

SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It’s not 2021 again, but so much has changed as the year ends: Many top SaaS and Cloud stocks are up +40%-60% or more in the back half of the yea r. Many SaaS leaders are now benefitting from selling AI. Not everyone has benefitted from selling AI to their base. Now not everyone is up. Not all of them, but so many.

Growth 122

Growth Up-sell Pipeline Start-ups 122

Martech

JANUARY 7, 2025

billion online between November 1 and December 31 of this, up 8.7% billion in ecommerce sales, up 8.4% Dig deeper: 2024 holiday sales live up to record-breaking projections Inflation. billion, up 8.8% billion, up 9.9% billion, up 6.8% The highest-growing category for ecommerce was grocery, up 12.9%

Retail 112

Retail Price Up-sell Sell 112