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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

Pointclear

The entire day was spent talking about prospecting. movement harshly declare that proactive targeting and prospecting for new business is dead. These so-called experts proclaim that cold-calling is ineffective and pursuing prospects that aren’t coming to you is a waste of time. The more you prospect the luckier you get.”.

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Depend on Recurring Revenue? Here’s How to Contain Creation Costs

Braveheart Sales

An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear]. Unfortunately, I have often seen, particularly in the security industry, that customer service personnel are slapped onto the phone untrained and then called inside salespersons. Source: com]. They are not one and the same.

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Salespeople Must Accelerate Response or Fail

Pointclear

Halfway though the book, I rode along on a phone call with one of our senior sales representatives, with Steve Simons, a new prospect. The representative opened the call well, searched out the prospect’s needs, addressed concerns/objections nicely, switched to a quick live demonstration, developed rapport, and finally came to the next step.

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PowerViews with Ginger Conlon: Trustability & Your Customer's Voice

Pointclear

She is responsible for the direction and day-to-day editorial operations of award-winning publications including the executive journal, Customer Strategist; online business publication, 1to1 Magazine; its e-newsletter, Weekly Digest; and Think Customers: The 1to1 Blog. Ginger has covered the industry for more than 25 years.

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PowerViews with Bob Thompson: Evolving from RPM 1.0 to RPM 2.0

Pointclear

He also suggests that more sales reps blog, adding, “I know that’s a controversial idea. It’s about how do we make the experience that customers have when they interact with our prospecting process in marketing and sales such that even if they don’t buy, they believe it was a good experience. I think all that’s to the good.

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PowerViews with Dan Waldschmidt: Changing the Conversation

Pointclear

Click to start video at this point — “What we try to do with EDGY is look at why business is broken,” Dan says, “not why cold calling is broken or why prospecting is broken. Treating employees, customers, and prospects as fellow human beings first influences both your tactics and your outcomes. The EDGY Strategy.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. Adaptive Business Blog. Sales Management Blog. Yesware Blog.