Discounts are the proverbial ‘double edged sword’. Discounting is without a doubt a powerful tool in the right hands when used sparingly. Having worked with so many organisations in the past, we have discovered that discounting is largely misused and can cause more har...

Closing deals is an art, how many times have you heard that line? Do you agree? I don’t. Closing deals is a science, it’s about knowing your market and above all standing your ground. Before I dig deep into this post, I want to give you a quick disclaimer: Some of the...

Long time no post! Things have been busy and work has started on an e-book. Here is an excerpt from the upcoming e-book, watch the space!!

How the internet changed selling

The first real revolution that changed sales forever was the internet. Before the internet, sales i...

Most SaaS based organisations will go through multiple iterations of pricing during their lifetime. This means, you are looking at customers base on different pricing plans and with different product plans.

To make sure that everyone is on a single pricing plan, you mig...

Ever been in a situation where your services go kaput and you are faced with a barrage of customers/prospects? Well, situations like these will always test your mettle as a sales individual or as a support agent. What you do in a time of a crisis is not just a reflecti...

Product walkthroughs are an amazing opportunity and probably your biggest stumbling block as a sales individual. Let that statement sink in.

Yes, no amount of phone calls, cold calling, emails or product information can compete with the instant impact of a product walk-...

At insdieselling.org our speciality is the inbound process. An essential in the inbound process is making sure that account executives engage prospects in conversations.

Most modern day products are designed to be ‘self-service’ but are really not!

The role of a sales in...

Sales process design is a challenge. Every SaaS product has its own nuances and specific selling methods that are never the same for each organisation. Add to that, the different sales team structures that are thrown in, you have a puzzle with a thousand small pieces t...

At InsideSelling.org we believe in investing in software that will increase productivity.

Being bootstrapped also means that we don’t have a tonne to spend on tools. We abhor piracy so our next best option: to look for freemium software. Having spent countless hours in...

Inside Sales has evolved over the last 20 years. From the introduction of SPIN selling, the advent of value selling and the introduction of challenger selling, inside sales has progressed rapidly. Each selling method has created a clear ‘level’ of sales individuals. Th...

We wrote about how important it was to invest in your career this year. As part of that investment, we recommended reading more books to improve your skillset. At the outset, we would like to say that there are ways you can hack reading. Videos, podcasts and audio book...

2017 is gone and 2018 is here. Most people invest in a new year’s resolution list that centres around their own personal goals. There is absolutely nothing wrong in that! However, what makes great professionals is their capability of setting themselves professional and...

Our twitter handle has been buzzing with sales tips on a regular basis. If you haven't already followed us, follow us now on @insideselling. 

We thought it would be a good idea to condense all the sales tips into a single pdf. So here it is!

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As a sales individual, we are sure you have come across scenarios where your competition won. Worse still, it is possible that you are stuck selling a product that is considered the 'economical' version of your competition. So, what differentiates your product as ‘econ...