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Dear SaaStr: Why Do Some People Loathe Sales?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Why Do Some People Loathe Sales? People loathe sales because they are making the mistake of mapping their experiences as, essentially, Very Small Businesses, as the general experience of a corporate buyer. But that’s not what a sales professional does for a Fortune 5000 buyer. Just think about buying a car.

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Suppose the CEO of my competitor contacts me, interested in acquiring my app (privately owned). What steps would I take to avoid giving away proprietary information before the sale closes, if ever?

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The post Suppose the CEO of my competitor contacts me, interested in acquiring my app (privately owned). What steps would I take to avoid giving away proprietary information before the sale closes, if ever? There’s not as much to hide as you think, and often something to learn. View original question on quora.

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How to Be a Much Better Sales Executive in About 60 Seconds

SaaStr

Contact Me has its place, perhaps. As a sales exec, you may not know actually the product well. A few recent examples: Example #1: I was recently chatting with a VP of Sales about a job position, which I get he wasn’t 100% sure he wanted. And when I hit Contact Me? Or to get a demo? Don’t hire that one.

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Personalize your sales process with Contact Custom Fields

CloseSaaS

Today, we’re happy to take this a step further with the launch of Contact Custom Fields. For years, Close users have been using Custom Fields to customize their accounts and collect key information about their prospects.

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

From building an account universe to understanding to orchestrating sales and marketing alignment around touchpoint and messaging, there are a number of variables to consider before launching a program. Inadequate contact inventory within universe.

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How to 10x Your Sales Productivity by Mapping Your Account Contacts

Sales Hacker

The post How to 10x Your Sales Productivity by Mapping Your Account Contacts appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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2023 Was The Year of Hiding Inside the Base. 2024 Has to Be The Year of Growing It.

SaaStr

We saw Cloud and SaaS leaders sending unsolicited 3 year binding contacts to month-to-month customers. And maybe take renewals away from sales — if they took it too far in 2023. But with 114-118%+ NRR, it was still able to grow 18%! 5 Interesting Learnings from Fastly at $500,000,000+ in ARR But we saw it everywhere. Incent it.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals.

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Buyer’s Checklist: How to Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

Leveraging a data provider to help identify and connect with qualified prospects supports company revenue goals by alleviating common headaches associated with prospecting research and empowers sales productivity. Critical integrations that fit directly into your sales processes and workflows. So what’s the problem?

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Intent Signal Data 101

How can B2B marketers reach active buyers sooner in the sales cycle and influence their purchase decisions? This infographic clarifies three common areas of confusion: How does company-level and contact-level data differ? Intent signal data can help. What exactly is first-party, second-party and third-party data?