The Sales Hunter

JULY 29, 2013

Thinking about a prospect is not the same as contacting a prospect, so it’s about time we quite confusing the two. Far too many salespeople spend all of their prospecting time working on their prospecting list, gathering information, and thinking about how they’ll prospect and what they want to say.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2018

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series—these monthly blog posts published by ZoomInfo highlight some of the great work our writers have contributed to outside publications. However, a data-driven marketing strategy revolves solely around customer data. Today’s blog post is a primer on data-driven marketing.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

One of the easiest things sales managers and senior management can do is to call every person they know at a client company. First is to get the name of your company back in front of the customer/prospect, even though the person might not be our buyer. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Far too many salespeople have been conditioned to believe they need to have everything perfectly prepared before making a prospecting phone call. Yes, I agree we need to be prepared when we are making any type of prospecting call, whether it be in person or on the phone. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 15, 2013

Too many salespeople have prospects in their pipeline that are nothing more than suspects taking up space. A simple rule I have is a prospect cannot stay at the same level of ranking in a sales pipeline for more than 2 calls. Problem is too many sales managers also use the same thing to hide themselves.

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Pipeline Prospecting Scale Motivation 211

Braveheart Sales

AUGUST 12, 2021

We know that sales managers require different skills and strengths than salespeople. Sales managers need to recruit the right individuals, coach, hold people accountable, and motivate their teams. The same is true of sales managers vs other managers. Additional Sales Management Abilities.

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Sales Management Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Coaching 76

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

There’s more sales content than ever before – how do you sort through the noise? Since we deal with sales content on the daily, we thought we’d save you some time. Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Sales Hacker. Topics and discussion channels include: Sales management.

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Apptivo

MAY 16, 2023

From seeds to success: Journey of leads and prospects in sales 2. What is a sales lead? What is a prospect? Lead Vs Prospect: what’s the difference? Where are prospects and leads in the funnel? How to turn a lead into a prospect? What is a sales lead? What is a prospect?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 14, 2011

Tweet Share To maximize your networking effectiveness, you must follow one simple rule: Rule A1A — go where your customers and prospect go, or are likely to be. This is the best place to learn about your product, your competition AND your customers at the same time. Your best customer(s) trade or professional association.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 27, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. 5 Sales Training Tips for Sales Managers AND Salespeople. Learn something from every sales call. prospecting.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. 7 Sales Prospecting Ideas That Work. Here’s a list of 7 sales prospecting ideas you can use right now: 1.

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Motivation Prospecting Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 275

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Customer acquisitions often require a combined effort from sales, marketing, product leaders, and executives. For account-based selling to be successful, everyone must maintain a comprehensive understanding of the customer. Enter, the Customer Insight Report. What is a Customer Insight Report?

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Report Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 138

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It seems odd to write a post for sales professionals (and unprofessionals), posing the question, “Are You Curious About Who Your Customer Is?” But, sadly, too many sales people don’t really care about who their customers are. Our customers cannot be defined in terms of what they are buying.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 5, 2022

In a perfect world, prospects would immediately recognize the value your product or solution delivers and take the required actions to secure the solution for themselves. Therefore, value can be proposed but until prospects recognize value, they will remain hesitant to move forward in the sales process.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting Scale 62

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , e-mail , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales!

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. Roundtable , Sales Skills , Sales Success , Tibor Shanto.

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Webinar Metrics Pipeline Strategy Prospecting 193

SalesFuel

APRIL 10, 2024

And nearly 40% want to work with reps who know and understand their customers. They didn’t just perform basic research; they dove in to learn about the prospect’s customers, industry and other business elements. “62% And doing this in-depth research also builds credibility in sales.

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Research Hiring Social Media Trends 115

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution.

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Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 216

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. Prospect Needs Analysis.

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Software Software Sales Management Proposal 81

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. Prospect Needs Analysis.

Software 81

Software Software Sales Management Proposal 81

The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Cold Calling 216

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Customer acquisitions often require a combined effort from sales, marketing, product leaders, and executives. For account-based selling to be successful, everyone must maintain a comprehensive understanding of the customer. Enter, the Customer Insight Report. Free Trial What is a Customer Insight Report?

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Report Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 130

The Sales Hunter

MAY 14, 2012

Prospecting for sales is hard enough, but it’s made even harder when the strategy being used is either based on hope — or worse yet something like spraying and praying. I talk a lot about the need to have a very clear sales prospecting process. Once you have your sales process established, then stick to it.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 28, 2024

She’s well-respected and her sales skills list includes working with builders to represent the interests of prospective buyers. If you are not adding value or substance to the prospects’ life, then don’t bother clicking ‘send’. Where is Your Email Sending Your Customer? Disturbingly, she had zero responses to her offer.

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Hiring Social Media How To Hubspot 114

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. ” Salespeople love to spend time with major accounts, because I believe they would rather do that with their time instead of sales prospecting. Who is right?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Fewer customers are responding, so to make our numbers, we have to make more calls. Customers just aren’t responding, they aren’t engaging. If you expect us to make our numbers, we need more customers to call!” We can have fewer, higher impact conversations, with customers that really care and want to change.

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Prospecting Conversion Maximizer Research 90

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

There’s so much quality information online — in blog posts and ebooks, on social media and review sites — sellers have a shortened opportunity to impact buying decisions. That means sales reps must make the most of every chance they get to interact with a prospect. All three pillars rely heavily on sales enablement software.

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Sales Enablement Tools Customer Hiring 52

Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Hiring Sales Management Training Lead Gen 62

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

If that’s the case, then why are you acting like a customer service person? I’m not bashing customer service people. They play a key role in the sale process, but I believe strongly salespeople and customer service people are to be doing two different tasks. That is what I see as the primary role of sales.

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Customer Service Customer Discount Maximizer 251

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Hopefully, most sales people recognize they create more value when they are being helpful to the customer. But do we really understand the help our customers need, and are we providing that help? These organizations and salespeople think the process of handing customers from one person to another is helpful.

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Customer Face-to-face Groups Competition 87

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

Inbound sales is a personalized, helpful, modern sales methodology. Inbound salespeople focus on their prospect's pain points, act as a trusted consultant, and adapt their sales process to the buyer journey. Here's how to understand the difference between inbound and outbound sales. Give a tailored presentation.

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Inbound Top of Funnel Outsourcing Services Hiring 138

CloserIQ

DECEMBER 26, 2018

One of our goals this year was to create and curate the best sales content out there for advancing your career and building top sales teams. Every week we compiled our favorite posts on everything from sales strategies to hiring plans. Here are 20+ of our favorite sales blogs from 2018.

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Hiring Decision Maker InsideSales Face-to-face 79

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Customer Hot Potato – Sales eXchange – 117. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Customer Care , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. With so many opportunities to ensure customer satisfaction, it is a wonder how some companies keep blowing it.

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Pipeline Customer Demand Generation Agencies Hiring 227

Showpad

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I’ve worked myself into a marketing job, but 80% of my career has been in sales, account management, and creating marketing programming and other services to support sales teams. . My passion is around creating customer value—and I saw an opportunity to do this at Kaiser Permanente. .

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Conversion Top of Funnel Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 98

Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Ways To Win Prospects And Contacts At A Networking Event. If you network smart, it’s the easiest way to make sales contacts. If you network smart, it’s the easiest way to make sales contacts. Hot sales contacts. ways to win prospects and contacts at a networking event: 1. Get Sales Blog Updates.

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