SalesProInsider

APRIL 16, 2024

Yet, that’s what can happen when discussing fees for service with prospective clients. Never Accept This Payment: Promises Won’t Pay Your Bills True story: An advisor in NJ had two great conversations with a prospective client who could not believe the services they would receive working with him compared to another option.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s around pricing and discounting. I never discount, I don’t believe there is a single situation in which a seller should discount. And when we do discount, it’s because we’ve failed. We have trained our customers to ask for and expect discounts. Let me dive into this.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Discount pricing is borderline omnipresent. We've all seen retail outlets offering sale prices or "buy one, get one free deals" — and for good reason. Here, we'll dive into the concept a bit further, review who it works best for, see some discount pricing examples, and review the method's pros and cons. Image Source: Walmart.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Upfront Bonus Steps Challenge yourself to utilize the other side of your typical sales personality.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

First things first: People buy from people first, product second , according to Director of Sales Steve Wernke. Here’s how to manage so much winning, with 9 tips from our top sales closers. To make customers feel good about the sale, throw in three freebies, in this order: additional support. price discount.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 14, 2019

One thing many businesses with collection issues have in common is that they focus too strongly on making a sale, and not strongly enough on improving their sales process. Focusing on your sales process and the negotiation skills that your salespeople need can help improve your bottom line. Practice Active Listening.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

I'm always saying, “Sound, well-structured business email templates are central to effective sales communication, initiating productive sales conversations, and sustaining relationships with prospects and customers.” Now at this point, you may be thinking, “My gosh! It's relatively self-explanatory. Types of Business Emails 1.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

Urgency is always a battle cry at sales meetings, one on one or the team. The problem that needs to be fixed in their inability to prospect and bring enough viable opportunities to play. Rather than focusing on adding some real prospects, they turn to urgency. They should improve prospecting, not sprint times.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Objection handling is one of the trickier, more grating aspects of sales life. Pushback is natural and often productive in a sales engagement, but in many cases, a piece of you is going to think, Oh, come on, when a prospect brings up concerns. When prospects say, Its too expensive,' reps sprint toward discounts or value props.

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The Pipeline

JULY 7, 2021

Want to split a room of salespeople, just ask if “sales is a numbers game or not?” Full disclosure, I came from the sales is a numbers game camp. While it is safe to say I have evolved, I have not abandoned my “sales is a numbers game” friends. But as is the case when we evolve, one can emerge with a third, better alternative.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Getting anything over the finish line as the holidays approach is a struggle in any facet of life, and sales is no exception. The end of Q4 is one of the — if not the — most stressful, frustrating stretches of any sales professional's year. Q4 Sales Strategies 1. Incentivize performance with contests and rewards. NONE AT ALL!

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KLA Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

You’re probably more than used to seeing the end-of-year car and truck commercials, each offering a giant bow and a hefty discount. But, is discounting the answer for your business? Sales leaders

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2018

More than 10 years ago, a marketing agency told me most sellers cave on price before prospects even ask for a discount. Sadly, that behavior continues in sales negotiations today. We’ve trained our buyers to expect discounts and that everything is negotiable. The post Are You Caving on Price in Your Sales Negotiations?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Your business, marketing, sales, and content strategies are surely different than your competitors’ strategies. Generally, the main purpose of every entrepreneur (including yours) is to improve the sales performance of his business. Using an Email Autoresponder to Improve Sales. Day 4 – Product recommendation and Discount.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

While it may be realistic to expect inside sales teams to sell more than 23% of their time, it is not for others. They not only give away their time; they pay the prospect for the privilege of doing so. This is exactly what you are doing when you choose to discount instead of sell. If it isn’t quota, then why discount?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No need to go to the gutter right away, there is a lot to be said for words in sales before we have to go blue. As long as companies fill their sales people’s heads with more “Product Knowledge” than business skills, the challenge will persist. By Tibor Shanto. Like any other asset, garbage in garbage out!

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The Pipeline

APRIL 6, 2021

So, how does this apply to sales? It dominates and rules every conversation, casting a shadow over every sales conversation you have. Most salespeople are way over reliant on their product while prospecting or selling, continuing to lead with and hype features/benefits. Let’s look at these through a sales lens.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Testing is for marketing not sales. The more time I spend in sales and marketing, the more I see overlap between these areas. Now, sales people are starting to “geek out” and use software tools like marketers have been for the last decade, or so. Meanwhile the majority of sales people still seem to be number-allergic.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Being able to negotiate effectively is one of the most important skills you can build in your sales armoury, as it has a direct effect on your margins and overall profitability, as well as ensuring your customers get the best service possible. This means identifying what is most important to the prospect. Don’t concede…trade.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 4, 2019

How many times do you ‘hold something back’ so you can surprise the prospect with that little extra to encourage them to buy? We sometimes cause ourselves problems here, because the prospect may be wondering what else might you be holding back, and have they really got everything they could from you? Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2024

That exact same thing happens to salespeople on their sales calls. They’re having a great conversation, the prospect needs what you have, there is money available, you’re with the decision maker, and you start making some assumptions about how good this opportunity looks. What did you miss?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 19, 2016

As is the person who invites me (and probably the rest of the world) to connect, and then responds immediately with a sales pitch. Then There Are the Sales Snobs. Sales snobs, on the other hand, miss out on referral opportunities because they narrow their focus too much. These are the sales snobs. Oh sure, I thought.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

” “We need sales training,” came the response. “What kind of sales training do you need?” “Sales training, our people aren’t performing the way we expect,” came the response. “We just need sales training, our people need to sell better, how much does your training cost?”

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The Pipeline

JUNE 30, 2014

But tomorrow will not be a happy day for many businesses, sales people and sales organizations. CASL will impact small and medium businesses, the very group Harper’s Conservatives claim to champion, legitimate Canadian businesses and their sales organizations. Sales Success sell better Tibor Shanto' Thank You Mr. Harper!

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If she were accepted, she’d get a lifetime discount — all she had to do was promote the brand on her social media pages (and hopefully make some sales). Even better, the email had a 35% discount code for her first purchase, which she had to make in order to activate her ambassador status. Become a Rep,” it read.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

People buy from people first, product second, according to Director of Sales Steve Wernke. Let’s explore this conundrum with nine tips from our top sales closers. To make customers feel good about the sale, communicate these three pieces of value, in this order: additional support additional product and services price discount.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We have some great news from the Proactive Prospecting Club , we have added a new course, and, members get a discount! Our new addition is timely “How To Conduct A Professional Video Meeting” Since the spring of 2020, it seems almost every meeting, sales, or otherwise is a video meeting.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2024

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable insight from real sales leaders. Research shows there is a weapon you can use to increase your sales performance — a sales strategy that's effective no matter where you work or what you sell. What is this sales strategy, you ask?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

Author: Lance Tyson In the hypercompetitive field of sales, escalating goals have become standard. This year we’d be fine with flat or declining sales.” Everyone wants to see that hockey stick curve of escalating sales performance that will take their organization to unprecedented levels of success.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 20, 2019

For example, when I ask some reps why they are not prospecting, I’ll get different excuse based on time of year and state of their pipeline. As though every potential prospect picks up and leaves town. What makes you think your prospects can’t do all that and chew gum at the same time? Normal Function.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The excitement you feel when you get a positive response from your prospect is palpable. All that hard work, all that research, all that grafting and painstaking questioning and presenting has paid off and the prospect is heading towards buyers-ville. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Author: Matt Sunshine Sales leaders are responsible for more than closing deals. Sales diagnostics help leaders see their operations from all sides so they can identify bottlenecks and keep revenue climbing. These diagnostics — or audits, as some call them — go beyond the sales department to look at the whole company.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Today’s sales professionals have more ways than ever to get in touch with prospects. And yet, sales reps can’t escape the most common and often the most frustrating method of sales prospecting communication—and that’s voicemail. . 80% of calls go to voicemail, and 90% of first time voicemails are never returned.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

I recounted that story in my recent presentation—“ Sales Experts Channel: How to Recession Proof Your Sales in 9 Killer Steps ”—because it perfectly illustrates a key business insight. Plus, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

In sales, as with any other field or practice, sometimes you need to think outside the box to come out on top. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. Our research has shown how much sales calls have changed in the last year. Longer sales cycles.

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