Categories: Sales Negotiation | Sales Process
A well-defined negotiation strategy is a critical component of an organization’s success. A great negotiation strategy goes beyond individual seller skills - leaders should create a repeatable framework to ensure negotiation is being executed consistently across all deals to ensure maximum revenue. If your team repeatedly loses margin on deals, loses to competitors based on price or struggles to expand deal sizes, it may be time to assess your negotiation strategy.
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Categories: Sales Coaching Tools | Talent Management
Sales talent is a cornerstone to a best-in-class sales organization. As a sales leader you need the right people on board if you want to hit your revenue goals every quarter. Without a process to attract, hire and retain top sales talent you will waste money on mis-hires, lose talent to the competition and have no way to build a bench strength for growth.
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Categories: Customer Success | Sales Messaging | Scaling Sales
A recent piece by McKinsey notes that 80% of startups who landed Series A funding failed within eight years (n=3164). Using interviews with B2B SaaS leaders who beat those odds by scaling from startup to over $100MM in ARR, McKinsey's recent playbook examines how these companies set up their organizations, common challenges they overcame and the actions leaders can use to emulate these pathways to success.
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Categories: Economic Change | Sales Messaging | Sales Negotiation
Today's sales environment is highly competitive. Recent economic hurdles mean that many buyers are adopting more complex purchasing processes, and sales organizations are looking for any way to preserve vital margins. You have ambitious revenue goals for the year - you can't afford for your sellers to resort to discounting to close deals.
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Categories: Podcasts | Sales Kickoff | Sales Leadership
Scot Loeffler knows a thing or two about leadership. He knows about leading a change initiative, getting the most out of high performers, and what it takes to be elite. Scot has worked with some of the most recognizable names in college and pro football as a quarterbacks coach or coordinator. In 2018, he became Head Coach at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) and began the task of turning their football program around. Recently, Coach Loeffler sat down with John Kaplan and John McMahon on the Revenue Builders Podcast to share his experiences and insights on leadership. In a candid discussion, Scot and the hosts break down the strategies he leveraged to engineer a new era of success for BGSU football and how the same tenets apply for leaders of any high-performance team.
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Categories: Podcasts | Sales Kickoff | Sales Leadership
Force Management Co-Founder John Kaplan and five-time CRO John McMahon recently had an in-depth discussion on the Revenue Builders Podcast about sales kickoffs. Combining their years of experience, they hashed out what works and what doesn't when it comes to planning and leading a kickoff event as a revenue leader. Listen to the full podcast conversation here. Today, we're sharing the top leadership tactics that Kaplan and McMahon have seen make a successful SKO that drives productivity, revenue and valuation. Keep reading for four things that all the best SKOs do.
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