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[Missed Connections]: Referral Selling Insights from February

No More Cold Calling

For more on the power of a referral program, check out this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: How Getting Referrals Got Me to the Protected C-Suite. But that almost never happens, because CEOs and other senior decision-makers have a powerful weapon at their disposal—their trusty gatekeepers. B2C incentives work like magic.

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How to Identify Prospects: Decision Makers, Gate-keepers and Influencers

MarketJoy

Gatekeeper. Incentives to pass the information on the need to be compelling. Or, you can simply find away around the gatekeeper, for example using sales activities that approach decision makers “out of office” such as at networking events or in the evening. The title is pretty self-explanatory.

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How Sales Configurators Are Ushering In a New Age of Selling

Cincom Smart Selling

Once they uncovered the right person with the right pain, they started throwing incentives at them that were designed to motivate the prospect into making a buy decision today instead of next week, next month or next year. The post How Sales Configurators Are Ushering In a New Age of Selling appeared first on Cincom Blog.

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4 Skills Sales Reps Need to Get the Most Out of ConnectAndSell

ExecVision

Use CAS as an incentive for reps to improve their conversion rates. ConnectAndSell will get you past gatekeepers and phone trees, but if you skip pre-call research you’ll find yourself faltering in those crucial first seconds. Steve originially posted a version of this blog on FunnelClarity.

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How To Connect And Engage With C-Level Executives

InsideSales.com

Cold calling the CEO is difficult, but not impossible — if you know how to structure your pitch and how to get past gatekeepers. I’ve seen it in almost every new rep: fear of the owner, fear of the gatekeeper, fear of the 2nd gatekeeper (the dreaded executive assistant), and reluctance to even approach the challenge.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your B2B Marketing Plan

LeadFuze

Companies produce white papers, original research and blogs on their own websites or elsewhere in order to show off the skills of employees. Create an incentive compensation plan for every market segment. Gatekeepers are there to keep the flow of information under control. What blogs, websites or influencers do you follow?

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[Part 3] Execute on Account-based Marketing: Value Selling to Stakeholders at Key Accounts

LeveragePoint

Part 1 of this blog series focused on Value Propositions as the most important piece of content for B2B Account-Based Selling. This blog focuses on stakeholders within an account and how sales teams can address them as audiences using Value Propositions as central content for ABM and ABS. Organizers.