No More Cold Calling

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Are You a Sales Stalker? [Q3 Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

To stop acting like sales stalkers and start acting like salespeople (“people” being the operative word). Read “ How to Harness the Power of Business Referrals ”) [New Book Alert] Carole Mahoney’s Must-Read Strategies for How to Put Your Buyer First Business book testimonials are all the same.

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6 Ways to Beat Lower-Priced Competitors

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Example: Amazon, unlike traditional brick-and-mortar bookstores, offers buyers the ability to quickly choose from a huge inventory. Example: IBM sales reps in large accounts often act as general IT consultants and informal members of the customer’s IT staff—helping to guide overall IT strategy and acting as a purchasing liaison to IBM.

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Are Blackouts Threatening Your Q4 Results? [October Referral Selling Insights]

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Considering only about 18 percent of buyers fully trust salespeople, perhaps more salespeople should be acting like bulldogs — i.e., acting like successful women in sales. And that’s what all salespeople should be doing to earn trust and promote business development. Read “ It Takes 3 Things for Women in Sales to Be Bulldogs.

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To Get B2B Leads, Pick Up the Damn Phone!

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So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. This pattern of ever-increasing sophistication not only creates an intensely competitive marketplace; it also places further demands on us to act and react quickly.

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Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side

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At most companies, the sales process is a balancing act that doesn’t always work so well. In a survey of business buyers, 76.2 Why is getting past the gatekeeper and finding qualified leads so challenging for salespeople? Because the process has gotten incredibly complicated, even though it can almost be a no-brainer.

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To Get B2B Leads, Pick Up the Damn Phone!

No More Cold Calling

So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. This pattern of ever-increasing sophistication not only creates an intensely competitive marketplace; it also places further demands on us to act and react quickly.

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April Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

We all look the same to our buyers, and that’s a problem. He said the most important questions salespeople need to answer for their buyers are: “Why Change and Why Us?”. Answer those questions, and you’ve created the buyer’s vision for the future. That’s not winning. Prospects are bored, and salespeople have become a commodity.

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