Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

If people buy from people they know and trust, then it seems reasonable all sales prospecting should build upon that fundamental buying rule. In yesterday’s mail I received a direct mail piece from a realtor with whom I had an extended conversation. Sales prospecting is comprised of strategies and tactics.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 17, 2019

To start, cold calling is defined as an unsolicited call to a prospect. Because no prior contact has been established, the prospect is obviously not anticipating the call. The key difference between warm and cold calling is: warm calling is the act of contacting a prospect that has had prior contact with you or your business.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know the standard sales process looks something like this: You identify a prospect and conduct research, you figure out what pain point or challenge they’re trying to solve, and then you offer your product or services as the solution. Why don’t some buyers admit they need help?

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 8, 2012

If you have spent any amount of time in the direct-mail industry, you will recognize these questions as being the basic elements of what needs to be included in a direct-mail letter. If you’re going to use email as a sales prospecting strategy, take the time to view the email as a sales prospecting letter.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 27, 2018

There are hundreds of different sales tactics that you can use to find prospects, qualify leads, and make a sale. To point you in the right direction, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best and most popular B2B sales tactics from general practices to specific sales techniques you can use to close more of your deals. Prospecting.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Increase Sales

JULY 31, 2015

Somewhere along the annals of history salespeople also became mesmerized by this number especially when it came to marketing or prospecting. Send 3 direct mail pieces. After three attempts to contact the sales lead (prospect) all activity stops and the salesperson looks to the next “hot” sales lead.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 8, 2024

Our guest blog offers insights on maximizing trade show success and business growth. Leverage various marketing channels — including social media, email newsletters, your website, direct mail, and postcard mailings — to generate excitement and drive traffic to your booth. Follow up with leads.

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Apptivo

MAY 16, 2023

From seeds to success: Journey of leads and prospects in sales 2. 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? Let’s take a stroll through the sales garden, examining the subtle differences between leads and prospects.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

The most effective salespeople are those who listen to their prospects and offer solutions that not only resolve their challenges but also propel their business goals. Prospects tend to choose agencies that exhibit a comprehensive understanding of their business landscape and can translate digital strategies into measurable results.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

You just spent 30 minutes researching your prospect; calling him and leaving him a voice message, then you sent THE PERFECT EMAIL. Your prospect needs to know that you care about winning their business. Guess how many direct mail pieces I get? Well done, Inside Sales Rep, well done. They didn’t respond? What the heck?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It can and does take place across all channels, including direct mail, email, phones, text, social/web based channels. Prospecting/Cold Calling, Eroding Every New Channel: Let’s go back into history to think about where the “cold call” might have started, and how it may have devolved.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Dan is the Managing Partner at Prospect-Experience, a company that guides established and venture-backed companies to drive engagement with future customers. And, he has over 20 years of experience in retail and direct mail marketing alongside consulting and training leaders. Subscribe to our blog and newsletters!

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. In the meantime, check out this past blog post for a taste of preview of what you’ll learn. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect?

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Prospecting seems to be getting harder for most sales professionals. Find prospects that match your ICP with Crunchbase Pro – try it free. Why is cold outbound prospecting so hard? All is not lost, though. They’re creative. They’re fun.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 31, 2019

These days, sales conversations are becoming even more buyer-focused, which means sales reps have to get creative when it comes to prospecting. Everyone is scrambling to develop their own hacks, techniques, and processes for prospecting in order to move prospects through the sales funnel and turn them into customers.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Direct Mail. Physical mail has seen a big come back. B2B Direct mail was crushed during the advent of email marketing. Today, physical mail gets noticed. A well done B2B mail piece today is the equivalent of seeing a classic 1966 Mustang Fastback in the parking lot. Three Implementation Phases.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2014

This is garbage, and what makes this one even worse is the person is trying to get me to buy some sort of sales prospecting software. I crack up over this, because clearly this person hasn’t even used their own software to determine who to prospect. This is worse than direct mail! ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. E-mail RSS. Voicemail as a Prospecting Strategy? What this means is you use cold-calling voicemails as one part of your prospecting strategy, and the other parts are going to include email, direct mail, networking, and so forth.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

I have spent a lot of time recently contemplating the state of outbound prospecting. I also need to make it very clear that, as we discuss these methodologies, we are looking at them for use in cold prospecting. So, that leaves us with direct mail, SMS, attraction marketing, and face-to-face cold calls. Direct mail?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. So, today, we’re going to cover four prospecting tips for breaking into Enterprise Accounts (plus some bonus tips at the end). Building rapport with prospects. Leveraging information to become your prospects doctor. You can even write the next blog.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. First, it depends. What is your sales process? Care to share?

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Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

In today’s blog post we break down your bad sales habits and teach you the tactics you need to be more productive. Luckily, there are many ways for you to establish contact with a prospect before calling them – a technique aptly titled “warm calling.” You don’t disqualify prospects until it’s too late.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services. 22% of B2B businesses reach out to prospects with lead nurturing on a weekly basis ( source ). Over 50% of B2B marketers do not use direct mail to generate leads ( source ). As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. That won’t change.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Now social marketing specific to B2B is a subset of marketing just as direct mail, advertising, business to business networking and promotional items all are. For some social marketing is considered inbound marketing activities where the more traditional marketing of advertising, direct mail, B2B networking, etc.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services. 22% of B2B businesses reach out to prospects with lead nurturing on a weekly basis ( source ). Over 50% of B2B marketers do not use direct mail to generate leads ( source ). As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. That won’t change.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 6, 2018

In-house tele-prospecting costs more than outsourcing and by outsourcing you can find superior services (however, you must be careful because there is a lot of mediocrity in the lead generation space). A poor “script”: Prospects don’t want to be tricked. Not leaving voicemails and/or not sending emails is a huge mistake.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Successfully engaging prospects depends on a mix of tactics to maintain positive awareness of your offering until it’s time to buy. Our clients’ prospects need an average of 12 contacts to engage, and lead nurturing can take even more touchpoints. Results multiply when lead nurturing strategies multiply.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In fact, email marketing has a median ROI of 122%– more than 4 times higher than other marketing channels, including social media, direct mail, and paid search ( source ). As you grow your email database , you increase the opportunity to reach potential prospects and customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2012

Shift the focus of your emails to your prospect (it’s not about you) and watch your sales take off! In keeping with my theme of “Get Personal,” I’m sharing with you a blog by email marketing and copywriting guru, Ivan Levison. It’s all about “I,” “us,” “we,” “our,” and only incidentally about solving the prospect’s problem.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A sales strategy outlines the goals you will achieve and how you will go about qualifying prospects, overcome objectives and gain commitment. Direct mail or through advertising in various strategic locations. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. Purely on-line with service back-up.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2012

” One of the key themes in these discussions is prospecting, with people taking all sorts of positions, and lot of discussion about the “C” word–yes, Cold Calling. Let’s face it, most of us don’t like prospecting. Prospecting is critical! But it’s still prospecting.

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eGrabber

JANUARY 5, 2021

Lead generation is a process that initiates each buyer’s journey helping you find potential prospects. It transforms those prospects into valued customers down the line. Generating leads helps you reach out to as many number of prospects you want, generating more traffic which may lead to conversion of such leads into customers.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 6, 2014

The New Year has many small business owners to sales professionals listing all their New Year’s marketing resolutions or goals including: Blog postings from consistency to quality. Direct mail marketing. Invest 20 minutes per day prospecting through LinkedIn if you are engaged in B2B. Networking. Email marketing.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The other opportunities existing within the market can only be identified by continuing to touch the same sales prospects using multiple media across additional cycles. At that point, a prospect has received an average of 41 different touches over a period of 15 months. Sales lead rates decline after the fifth contact cycle.

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Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy of making marketing decisions based on the characteristics of target accounts and prospects.

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