2019
I am talking to every sales rep, SDR, BDR, Sales Manager, Head of Sales. Spoiler alert: YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE DEALS! Yes, you are no matter how good you are. How good your company is. How great your product is. Therefore, you can take these losses two ways. 1). Cry and play the blame game. […]
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Know Your Customer or KYC is a term used in the financial services industry and is regulated by FINRA. It is meant to protect the investor and ensure their advisor knows their situation inside and out and make the appropriate recommendations. While all sales reps are not regulated, we should be taking the KYC, discovery […]
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Can you tell me what your pricing is? A question that is bound to come up at some point. Sometimes, not until the very end of your presentation, and other times right after you exchange hello’s. Sales people, switch roles for a second. You are the buyer and you have to work with a sales […]
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Normally creating buyer personas is the responsibility of the marketing team. I would suggest if you inherit buyer personas and you are not in agreement with them or think new personas should be created, set a meeting with head of marketing and have a nice discussion. Nice, being the key word. If you do not […]
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All I hear and read is the new way to sell. You need to engage this way, and the buyer is doing more research than ever before you even speak to them. You must engage with them socially first, but don’t try and sell them. Use data and spreadsheets to sell. Blah…Blah…Blah. Can we be […]
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2019
TAM is so important for understanding the potential and opportunity for a given business. Management needs it. Board expects it. Investors demand it. This is a metric that should be a living breathing number and tracked and entered into board decks and discussed at length. HOWEVER, your TAM is NOT a bunch of Opportunities that […]
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The dreaded weekly pipeline call. Sales people are notorious at having a bloated pipeline filled with Opps that will never close. Why? Because most sales reps think when it comes to pipeline, size matters…which it does. A rep typically needs 3X their quota in actual pipeline to hit their numbers. However, a bloated pipeline, filled […]
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So many companies get to the point to hire sales people and build a professional sales team. GREAT! But, it’s not all about human capital. You need to have an infrastructure in place in order for these new sales professionals to hit the ground walking and be successful. A sales team is just one part […]
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What is your average sales cycle? Important question to ask. An even more important answer to have. I am baffled when I look through a company’s pipeline and see opportunities that are 700 days some even 1,000+ days old. Really, you have a 2 or 3 year sales cycle? I am a firm believer that […]
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Almost every company goes from not having a professional sales team to having one. Many CEOs think the first step is hiring a head of sales. And sometimes that makes sense. We think for every other time using a sales consultant to come in and establish and enable a sales team to perform their jobs, […]
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