Salesfolks

JANUARY 26, 2025

In the current economic climate, businesses must carefully consider whether discounting is the right strategy to maintain or grow sales. While discounting can stimulate demand, clear inventory, and improve cash flow, it also comes with risks such as margin erosion and brand devaluation.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2024

Believe it or not, two of the least likely allies in a B2B company – sales and compliance – can successfully work together to achieve a harmony that benefits both internal stakeholders and customers. Sales teams often achieve this by showcasing features and functionalities that they think customers want and value.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 20, 2021

Top pros are using this time to sharpen their sales skills so they can make a killing in the fourth quarter. For a proven way to make more money, with less rejection, and a way to become more confident and make more sales, take advantage of our Summer Sale! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Summer kind of slow?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Author: John Larson A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend, a successful executive who has run large sales organizations for three different companies. In the B2B world, your sales force is actually your loyalty program. Loyalty, at the end of the day, is not created by offering discounts or exceeding customer expectations.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JULY 25, 2024

Rusty sales skills won’t win the gold. It’s the same for your sales team. If you want this to be a game-changing year, it’s up to the CRO to make skills-building and practice a requirement, an integral part of your culture, and a major component of your sales strategy. What sales lessons can we learn from them?

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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. Let Employees Make Decisions.

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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

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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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

JUNE 18, 2020

Urgency is always a battle cry at sales meetings, one on one or the team. But if all you have is a discount and a free feature, you’re beat. You need to win over their minds and hearts, no one will risk their job for a 5% discount. Especially when they know that the discount will be available whenever they are ready to sign.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2021

Join me and the Canadian Professional Sales Association for a special Virtual Workshop: Coaching For Sales Performance and Growth. USE CODE SHANTO20 TO RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT. How to design an individual coaching plan tied to your sales process without reinventing the wheel for each rep. Why Attend?

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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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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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The Pipeline

JUNE 4, 2019

Not a popular refrain among sales types, which may explain why nearly half of B2B reps will miss quota this year. In a world obsessed with ‘big,’ even more so than sales success, make it small may seem counter-intuitive. While I am not working with sales teams, I am buying. I Wanna Believe. Can You Repeat That?

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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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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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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. We also offer In-House Sales Negotiation Training. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

All we have to do is focus on demonstrating our product is better than the alternatives…… And we can always discount to win!” They have their playbooks, something that produces sales, probably not much different from others. It makes our jobs so much easier, the customer does most of the hard work!

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Your sales team is likely to feel the strainespecially since sales is listed in the top ten of Vivian Healths rankings of the most stressful industries. Its thus vital for the sales team manager to prioritize employee well-being in the workplace. However, that often doesnt cover things like vision care.

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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.” Referral Request Emails Happy customers are some of the most lucrative resources any sales org has at its disposal.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 23, 2019

Back in the 1960's it made sense for gasoline prices to be discounted down to the nearest 9/10 of a cent because gas prices ranged between 17.9 I loved the Leavitt/Dubner series of books on Freakonomics and thought I could share some interesting sales and sales management data that make little sense.

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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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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.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 14, 2018

Bernadette McClelland is a Keynote and Sales Kick-Off Speaker, Executive Sales Leadership Coach, and published author. It just slips out, it’s ingrained in our thinking, it’s a default mechanism. But guess what?

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Cross-selling is more than just another sales technique. Cross-selling is a sales strategy where sellers encourage customers to buy additional products or services alongside their original purchase. An example of cross-selling is when you buy a new Apple Pro laptop, and the sales consultant suggests adding a laptop sleeve.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2024

That exact same thing happens to salespeople on their sales calls. You probably ended the call with a mind-blowing, spectacularly biased perspective on your likelihood of getting the business and, if forty years in the sales development business has taught me anything, your perspective could be completely wrong. What did you miss?

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 31, 2024

With the newest enhancement to custom fields, you can also specify which custom fields apply to your different sales pipelines. Per-pipeline custom fields are fields you designate to apply only to certain sales pipelines in Nutshell. Need a volume discount? Learn more about Nutshells per-pipeline custom fields!

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Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2025

Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Sabir discusses several prevalent mistakes that e-commerce brands make, such as hiring the wrong people or agencies based on flashy promises rather than proven results and mismanaging promotional codes and discounts. online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP!

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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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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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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 15, 2024

This is a great time to upgrade your sales team. A sales team evaluation shows who will and won’t be able to develop the necessary skills to succeed in this worsening selling environment. Not just any sales training, but results-focused sales training with role-plays, and with your sales leaders becoming effective coaches.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 29, 2025

Introduction: Navigating the Sales Maze In sales, speed, and accuracy arent just advantages; theyre expectations. Thats where configure, price, quote (CPQ) software acts as your sales teams GPS, guiding them toward faster, more accurate quotes while ensuring every configuration and price aligns with your business rules.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 18, 2025

Photo by Geralt Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Use Inventive Ways to Enjoy More Sales Most people experience slumping sales periodically, necessitating finding a way around the problem. Our collaborative blog offers insights on ‘How to use inventive ways to enjoy more sales.’

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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. This is exactly what you are doing when you choose to discount instead of sell. If it isn’t quota, then why discount? Not only wasting time in the process but then doubling down by offering discounts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

know what kinds of discounts you can offer while “expanding the pie” in other areas to recoup those losses). Perhaps you can maintain a premium scope while offering a first-month discount (e.g., If the $5,000 discount isn’t possible, you must articulate the lowest you can go and why. Control the timetable. Trade for value.

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Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And with envy you remove everything that is strong and good and clever and amazing about you, completely discounting and devaluing it. Bernadette McClelland is CEO of 3 Red Folders – a modern day saleswoman and keynote speaker on business growth, personal leadership and sales performance. Then envy kicks in.

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