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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

This is especially true in enterprise software and it’s this idea that talking with sales teams is broadly fruitful. Reason one: New deals don’t keep customers happy Most sales compensation plans are focused on new deals only , not on keeping existing customers happy. For two specific reasons. Do you see the problem?

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Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | Stephen Allott, Seedcamp| BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

When you organize your territories do you have people focusing on the base or new business or do you in territories have named accounts. Things like Qualifying the lead properly at the beginning, in fact sales qualification is one of the favorite topic of sales professions and I should add I’m not a sales professional.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”