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Sales Leads and Why Marketing Sucks

The Sales Hunter

How many times have you complained to Marketing about the poor quality of leads they give you? Go ahead and complain some more — tell them and everyone else in your company about how much more effective you would be if only Marketing would get their act together. Quit waiting on Marketing. Quit blaming Marketing.

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5 Steps to Effective Selling With Referrals

SBI Growth

Gaining B2B prospects via LinkedIn referrals is the best way to succeed in 2014. Don’t waste time on cold calls with a 1-3% appointment success rate (AAISP, 2012). Instead, invest your time and energy into improving your LinkedIn game. These are business contacts with an “in” to someone you’ve deemed a qualified prospect.

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4 Ways Tech Can Support Sales During Conversations (Not Distract)

SBI

Showing discomfort can lead to our prospects ignoring our meeting requests. If we’re spending too much energy on making the tech function, we’ll have less energy to focus on providing our expertise and paying attention to buying signals. . Prospects expect us to know a lot—likely more than anyone can be expected to know offhand.

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Solutions to Your Small Business Sales Challenges | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Worse, they often present only superficial solutions to deeper problems and divert time and energy away from real solutions. The result is often more pressure, more confusion, and more energy expended in the wrong areas. prospecting.

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Where did you learn to sell? How have you modified it? | Jeffrey.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Why would I waste that energy on having lunch with co-workers? I wanted to channel that energy, harness that energy, and direct it toward a sales prospect. There is no time like the present to change things up in 2012 to ensure its better than 2011! Return to top of page Copyright © 2012 All Rights Reserved.

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

Pointclear

Here are some truths you should know about selecting a partner among lead generation companies: Virtually 100% of marketing qualified leads should become sales accepted leads. Students, prisoners (yes, there’s a company out there that does this), appointment setters and offshore call center staff should not be contacting your target market.

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The Pipeline ? How Your Sales Team May Be More Like Santa's.

The Pipeline

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. Energy is high when Prancer is in the office and everyone loves Prancer. Her or his ability to market and brand herself or himself is extraordinary. Prospecting. When Sales Met Marketing. December 2011. October 2011.

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