Category Archives for "Sales Tip of the Day"

11% of the year, the Status Quo Fallacy & 10 Selling Ideas You Can Use Right Now

By Scott Sambucci | January 15, 2021

  I’m already hearing it … “Nobody’s buying this time of year…” “I’m focusing on Q1 deals now…” “My prospects are all telling me to ping them in January…” What? Did you know you still have more than 11% of the year left? There are 28 working days left in 2020. That’s 11.1% of the […]

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Pricing, Negotiations & The Transparency Sale

By Scott Sambucci | January 13, 2021

  If you’re in this zone where deals are coming in that are way lower than what we charge, I would go back and ask “Are you sure you are targeting the right people in the first place?”. It was great having Todd Caponi on our show. His expertise in transparency negotiations & pricing brought […]

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Sales Prospecting: How to use “Permission-Based Selling”?

By Scott Sambucci | January 12, 2021

  Good work! You’re off and running with your sales prospecting work for your startup: 1/ You’ve built your target list – specific people within an industry or market segment, and 2/ You have some valuable content to share – a white paper, case study, blog post, webinar recording, video, etc. Now you’re out there […]

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The Product Champion

By Scott Sambucci | January 11, 2021

The Product Champion is your coach and cheerleader. He or she is the person who is internally helping you to sell your product by providing access to the other buyer types and coaching you on the sale to the company. Imagine if you meet somebody at a conference, and that person tells you his job […]

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You might not realize this…

By Scott Sambucci | January 8, 2021

“You might not realize this, but you have a distinct advantage right now as a startup—you don’t need that many new customers to make a huge amount of progress. If you’re truly starting up, you need your first one, then 10 more, then 10 more after that. Even if you have 10 or 100 customers, […]

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