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The 6 Worst Decisions Sales Leaders Make

SBI Growth

Bad decisions can cause your company to miss the number. When the decision is made at the top, the collateral damage is multiplied. Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. It will help your team better understand how your Customers make a decision. Bad decision.

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Painless and profitable: Our guide to winning at price negotiation

PandaDoc

Sounds obvious, but this is one of the classic errors of newbie negotiators — they easily lose their composure under the pressure, which makes them weaker in the opponent’s eyes. The affect heuristic reflects the relationship between emotions and the decision-making process. Such tools can help you be more decisive.

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How to Measure the ROI of Your Sales Enablement Program

Mike Kunkle

Then, the rest of this makes sense and can be really valuable. Targeted Performance: meaning a specific effort focused on a KPI in need of improvement, such as decreasing Closed-Lost or No Decision rates and improving Closed-Won rates, or improving overall profitability in a certain product line where deep discounting is rampant.

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5 Principles of Partnership: What they are and Why they Matter

Upland

Rather, it’s vital to the success of each and every deal we make. There’s a real, profitable value in understanding our partners, and building that solid relationship and foundation. Simply put, exceptional sales organizations make their customers’ goals the number one priority. These teams never ask “What can I sell?”

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How to Sell Digital Products [+ 10 Best Digital Products to Sell]

Hubspot Sales

What do ebooks, graphic design software, and online courses have in common? Because digital products are so ubiquitous, selling them can be profitable for your business. These advantages make selling digital products a good option for artists, educators, writers, freelancers, and more. Ebooks are favored for their convenience.

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The Enablement Profession at a Crossroads

Mike Kunkle

To firmly establish the function as required and themselves as integral players in their companies, enablement experts must be equipped to prove their worth by improving sales results and bolstering profitability. They must show that they can make an impact with enablement and move the needle on the metrics that matter most.

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How to avoid the Causality Trap of Black-Box Machine Learning

QYMATIX

However, they often want to find for themselves what the characteristics of their main profitable customers and leads are. The chart represents each decision-node with a diamond-shape, each possible option by a square. Often in B2B, it is relevant to explain the decision made by an algorithm. You know this situation well.