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To all the presales managers out there... you are distracting your team if you are randomly pinging them for deal updates. Do this instead! 💪 ✅ Schedule recurring deal reviews with your sales engineers, typically on a weekly basis. ✅ Keep them simple; you will have a lot of deals to review in a short amount of time. ✅ At a minimum, include these 5 items in your deal review checklist. ----- ✅ PRO TIP: Run your deal reviews directly out of your presales management solution (for example, Homerun Presales). When everyone is working from one central location for all-things-presales, you (1) eliminate the need for 'side tools' used for reviews and status updates, and (2) you eliminate all the admin burden and manual data entry by your SEs to provide ongoing updates. ----- If you want to see how to run effective deal reviews with your presales team… come get a demo of Homerun Presales: https://lnkd.in/gYKA6UvE #presales #salesengineering #technicalsales #salesengineer #cro #sales

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Can presales & PMM alignment be a secret weapon for GTM success? We think so. Join James Kaikis Kaikis Head of Go-To-Market and Meghan Spork, Product Marketing Lead as they take a deep dive into how to maximize the relationship between these critical stakeholders. They’ll cover:  Why alignment is crucial between presales and product marketing teams Some common misconceptions about these stakeholders and their functions How should presales & PMMs should work together tactically How to measure results that impact revenue and overall GTM success RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gkvRFP-K

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Sales360's automated custom pricing changes the game and shortens turnaround times. Simply... 1) Enter details and get a quote 2) Send to the customer for DocuSign 3) Instant automated enrollments + confirmations Book a free demo. ➡️ https://hubs.ly/Q02D_M0l0 #energysales '#fastercontracting

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BIG COMMISSION CHECKS ARE NICE Consistently big commission checks are nicer. With Scratchpad sales teams have everything they need to maintain a healthy pipeline and close deals with speed and consistency. 📈 Zero Boards wipe out non-compliant opportunities 📈 No-code Automations for instant Salesforce updates 📈 Deal Rooms promote proactive collaboration on your biggest deals Check out all this and much more at the 🔗👇 #Sales #Revenue #GTM

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The best salespeople pass along key deal data to onboarding teams by doing this...🎥 The handoff from Sales to Onboarding is crucial. A poor handoff can lead to churn. Efficient teams have their CRM configured to make it easy for Sales to capture key data and pass it downstream. Watch the full webinar, "Nailing Customer Lifecycle Transitions: Part 2" with Jeff Kushmerek, to learn more strategies to successfully move customers from sales, to onboarding, to long-term success. ➡ https://bit.ly/3Wv1k1i

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People don’t realize what “closing skills” are in sales, and they’re not “is persuasive.” Reps with closing skills CONSISTENTLY know, can choreograph and advise on how the deal gets signed and returned. And their forecast accuracy reflects those skills.

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Top Sellers aren't begging for specific features to beat competitors Or more training... what do they think will help drive more revenue?? 👀 See the report below for the real data 👀 Met with killer revenue leaders at Gong's annual conference last week and read their report on the "State of Sales Productivity" Similar to what we saw re: GTM Execution being a top priority for Founders / CEOs, this report shed light on top challenges impacting reps and hindering productivity... And it resonated. The least motivating thing when I was a seller? Wasting time OFF THE FIELD updating fields + busywork that didn't help my customers / prospects. I've yet to meet a successful seller who'd rather focus on internal tasks vs spending time moving deals forward... No surprised the top 3 areas that negatively impact rep productivity: 61% - Admin Tasks 47% - Inneficient processes 37% - Time management *Spending time on non-selling activities is de-motivating *BS internal processes slows down deals *Time is the most valuable asset to sellers / Opps (time does kill all deals) From spending time obsessed with making customers successful and being at the top of the leaderboard, I can tell you firsthand most GTM tools don't help with what frustrates the field the most. And is why I felt passionate enough to quit an amazing gig at Stripe to build Accord. To win in 2024's market, every moment counts. Revenue leaders can’t expect their team to be hit targets if they are not setting them up for success. Take the admin work out of it, and have fields populated automatically IN the flow of work. Build a repeatable playbook that is foolproof and can help leaders identify slipped deals, before they slip Make sure you team isn’t spinning their wheels on pipeline or activities that don’t move the needle. Are you making sure your team is motivated, focused on their customers, and setting them up for success going into the final weeks of the year and into 2025?? 📈

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How do you set Gen Z sellers up for succes? Calling all sales leaders! This is a must-listen to cap off your week: https://lnkd.in/gj9izm8M In case you missed it, we've just launched a new season of the Redefining Sales podcast. Listen to our first episode with our fantastic guests Lucy Lee and Danielle Dacunha-Howarth from PurplePatch, and stay tuned for new episodes dropping soon. #Sales #Podcast #AIinSales #Prospecting #SalesEnablement #SalesStrategy #SalesTraining

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Understanding SDRs, AEs, and SEs: The Ultimate Sales Analogy Join us as we break down the roles of SDRs, AEs, and SEs in sales through a relatable analogy! Discover how each plays a crucial role in building relationships and closing deals in the sales process. #SalesStrategy #SDR #AE #SE #SalesProcess #RelationshipBuilding #SalesAnalogy #TechSales #SalesTeam #CustomerEngagement

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To all SDRs or anyone entering B2B sales, read this post to avoid falling into common traps. 1. The most successful AEs I have met were the best SDRs. 2. SDRs who didn’t excel in the role and are now AEs are still struggling to generate their own pipeline. 3. AEs who skipped the SDR role, often due to an MBA or strong interview skills, fear switching jobs and roles without inbound leads. They’ve never faced the grind of building a pipeline from scratch, filled with rejections. 4. AEs who have never been an SDR majorly rely on their SDRs or Inbound leads from marketing to help them build pipeline and if any Quarter they don't get inbound or enough meetings from SDRs they sh** in their pants. 5. When these AEs become managers, they often question their team—"Where are the numbers?" or "Why isn’t there a pipeline?"—instead of guiding them on building it. Lacking experience in pipeline generation, they fail to lead by example and eventually lose the respect of their team. Learn the art and science of being an SDR and excel at this job at any cost, you will never have to look back or depend on anyone for pipeline EVER. Prospecting and Generating Pipelines is fundamental to Sales whether you are an SDR, AE, Sr Manager, or VP if you don't know how to do OUTBOUND you will continuously live a sales life of fear and anxiety. So SDRs ask yourselves do you want to be such AE and Managers in the future who depend on others to determine their performance and faith or would you like to own your job? #sales #prospecting #outbound #pipeline #sdr #ae #b2b #saas

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ICYMI This month, Gong was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Orchestration Platforms For B2B, Q3 2024 report. The report evaluated 12 ROPs providers across 29 criteria. Here’s how Gong stacked up: ✨ Top score in the current offering category ✨ Highest possible scores in more criteria than any other vendor evaluated ✨ Only vendor to earn top scores possible across the three AI criteria For context… Revenue orchestration platforms (ROPs) combine sales engagement, conversation intelligence, and revenue ops, serving as a key partner for GTM teams hoping to streamline workflows, save time, and drive growth. Hungry for more? Forrester’s report highlights what *exactly* revenue orchestration platform customers should look for from providers. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gUmxBBdq

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Presales IS in the business of deal gen and pipe qualification. If you're producing things that go on the website like a demo - tie that to a marketing campaign! "...and dang it - go get some KPI credit for it!"   Didn't catch our last episode of Presales in a Pod? 🎙️ Listen in, and catch up before the next one drops: https://lnkd.in/eEDUgqqA #Presales #SolutionsEngineering

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Renewals are the new GOLD. It will be THE top growth initiative in 2025 says Gong Do you want to grow at 25% plus in 2025? You better have a comprehensive Renewals plan. This is where #RevOps can step in. 🚀 CSM's are trained and fully enabled with the tools they need 🚀 Customer insights are regularly being shared with Product Team 🚀 Regular interaction with existing customers is being tracked as a KPI 🚀 Dashboards to proactively identify potential churn 🚀 Creation of innovative usage-based pricing alternatives The company that is truly paying attention to their existing customers will win. If you think Renewals is a simple 30 day email reminder ... then you will lose. What would you add to make your Renewals program the center-piece of your growth in 2025? #renewals #growth #customers

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Unify is pulling back the curtain on how they built their automated outbound program from the ground up - going from $0 to booking over $1M in pipeline per month.   In this comprehensive year-in-review, you'll discover: - How Unify scaled to 75+ meetings per month using intent-driven automation - The exact plays and intent signals that drove Unify’s success - Unify’s step-by-step playbook for building automated outbound Key learnings and improvements from Unify’s journey Plus, get a sneak peek at exciting new features coming to Unify in 2025, including enhanced reply classification, new intent signals across Github, X, and LinkedIn, and much more! Download Unify's 2024 Year in Review! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dBHnDtwr

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Not sure how to create a GTM motion that results in a healthy pipeline? Watch episode 17 of B2B Pipeline Pioneers, featuring Asher Mathew, the CEO of Partnership Leaders, to learn how he strategically shifted toward attracting enterprise buyers after realizing missed opportunities in 2023. Asher told our CEO & Founder, Manoj Ramnani, that he is doubling down in two channels this year to strengthen their market presence and win more business. What are these two channels? Watch the full episode to find out. https://hubs.ly/Q02tKfpw0 #enterpriseselling #icp #revenue

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How did ZoomInfo Copilot help Account Manager Dave Howell close a $195,000 deal? 🤔 From surfacing insights about customer sentiment and product interest to identifying a C-level decision-maker who helped seal the deal, Copilot empowered Dave with everything he needed to win his client's business. Watch the full story below. ⬇️ #ZoomInfoCopilot

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