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Two Bad Habits That Are Costing You Sales (And How to Overcome Them)

Sales Hacker

They could have a lack of trust from above due to a predecessor doing a bad job. It starts with overcoming those 2 bad habits we mentioned earlier by developing a learner’s mindset and finding the right solution by staying curious. 3 ways to develop a learner’s mindset: Study or read something that is new to you.

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10 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Perfect Sales Team

Sales Hacker

More and more people in sales are finding that rigorous follow-ups, a solid pitch, and great objection handling skills just aren’t cutting it anymore (at least not on their own). Instead, top reps are leveraging the latest thought leadership topics to form connections with prospects and spark mutually engaging conversations.

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Six Traits of a Successful Sales Leader

Sales Hacker

As someone who’s grown from an Inside Sales Consultant with absolutely no technical experience in sales to my most recent role as VP of Sales for Zillow Group Rentals, I have spent nearly a decade hiring hundreds of sales professionals and developing a handful of those hired into leadership positions and beyond.

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How to Transform Customer Success Into a Profit Center with Metrics and Forecasting

ChurnZero

Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Customer Success teams that own one or both of these revenue sources get viewed as a profit center by the business. Growing their organizational trust with forecasting.

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How to Instill a Growth Mindset in Your Company

Baremetrics

Especially as the majority of a business’ activities are structured around growing one’s audience, sales funnels, budgets, and influence. Executives’ jobs are highly focused on motivating their team members to be as growth-minded as possible. At Venngage, we believe in winning and losing together, as a team.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. These metrics will vary by company, but can include elements such as the following: Sales Funnel. The path to success is not linear.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing?

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