No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 30, 2018

You get every meeting in one call, ace-out your competition, and convert your prospects to clients well more than 50 percent of the time. Dialing for dollars or getting referrals? Instead, they pitch, spam, annoy their contacts, and think that’s actually helping them sell. There is a better way, and I can prove it.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Entrepreneur Blog. Seth Godin's Blog. Gary Vaynerchuk's Blog. Kabbage Small Business Blog. Whether you’re ready to stop dreaming and start doing, or still in the planning stage of turning your ideas into a full-time job, these blogs for entrepreneurs are the right place to start. Blogs for Entrepreneurs.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Author: Jay Mitchell There are endless blogs you can read on how to be a better salesperson. Sure, there is merit to some of these short cuts and quick tips; heck, we have a blog of our own sharing techniques that work for us. If so, it’s time to transition from run-of-the-mill salesperson to trusted advisor.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 3, 2018

Yet, if you research cold calling on the internet, you’ll find blog posts, articles and essays all preaching the death of the cold call. It found that high-growth teams view cold-calling as “very much alive” and see “great results from it” two times more often than low-growth teams. Preparing and practicing the pitch is vital.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 22, 2024

Once you’ve identified the leads most qualified to pursue, it’s time to refamiliarize yourself with their business. Take a look at their LinkedIn profile, website, blog posts, and industry news to find triggers. Keep the Focus On Them Once you do reconnect, it’s important to not immediately begin pitching all over again.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 12, 2018

The real question becomes: how do you get better at prospecting to people you don’t know, and how do you do it effectively? By following the 3 tips below, you can begin building better rapport with all the sales leads you’ve taken the time to learn more about. Cold calling mistake #1: Don’t pitch the gatekeeper.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 12, 2024

Our guest blog explains why you should build relationships with your event staff and learn how a mutually beneficial relationship based on respect can pay off. When you take the time to get to know your team personally, you can foster trust and respect. They interact with attendees and experience your event in real-time.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 24, 2018

Discover effective openings and sample outbound cold calling phone telemarketing sales pitch scripts including the best tips, techniques and examples ever written for closing calls. If you close sales or do sales presentations over the phone, then you might be wondering what the best way to open the closing call is.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

The modern buyer doesn't have the patience to address basic questions with answers that anyone can find through a cursory search — nor do they have the time to fill you in on their challenges. This can help you get a sense of their decision-making authority and place within their organization. Or have they done this many times?

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 23, 2020

Dear Salespeople That Straight Pitch Me, While I consider you my sisters and brothers, we need to talk. Every day, you fill my inbox and my LinkedIn inbox with notes straight pitching me what you sell. Acquiring what you want is only possible when you help someone else get what they want, as Zig never tired of reminding us.

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BuzzBoard

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Truth is, more and more B2B marketers and reps are turning to free, generic AI content generation tools available online, as they are prolific… but businesses get what they pay for! The foundation of AI technology rests on the fact that it can generate polished, human-written blogs, emails, and social posts in just seconds.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you look on the Gong blog , you will likely bump into many articles he’s written. He’s been in pretty much every sales role over those 2+ decades. Before we get into the list of 6, let’s be clear about one thing: You can no longer rely on a unique product. Cold emailing (SPAM) to blogging. Cold calling to SEO.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 12, 2022

A prospect is likely to be excited about the opportunity that the sales team is offering and they also kind of encourage them to take steps to move along the funnel, which is ultimately a good sales pitch. Sales team should use the sales pitch as a compelling story for every client. What is a sales pitch? Cold call pitch.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You are reading this blog post! Try and find the time on their calendar to listen in on calls ?and For most sales calls, it’s about listening (we’ll get to that skill a bit later). It’s not getting them to share their “top strategic priorities.”. 3 Sales Skills for Emailing Prospects: Longer emails perform better.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this blog post, we delve into sales content analytics, exploring its impact on modern sales techniques. This can include analyzing the effectiveness of sales collateral, presentations, emails, videos, case studies, whitepapers, blog posts, and any other content that is shared with potential or existing customers during the sales journey.

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Many fields establish best practices: when professionals have pursued an outcome over a long period of time, they often find the best way to achieve that result. Competitors will ask to connect with you and pitch you the very service you provide. The Straight Pitch. The Straight Pitch. It’s a worst practice.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

There’s no overestimating the importance of a good sales pitch — but where do the best pitch ideas come from? Do you always have to use sales pitch templates or is it better to do what feels best? Fortunately, there are plenty of good sales pitch examples out there to light the way. What makes a good sales pitch?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Here, we'll take a closer look at cross-selling and upselling, go over the difference between the two, take a look at how to do both, and see some examples of what they look like in practice. Get to know your audience. A customer's revenue potential doesn't immediately end at the point of sale. Cross-Selling a Cheeseburger.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 27, 2021

You get recurring, ever-growing traffic to your affiliate website. Let’s get started. While online business SEO strategies come and go, some have stood the test of time. Let’s go over ten reliable affiliate SEO tactics that’ll increase your website traffic and sales. #1. That would be great, wouldn’t it? What is SEO?

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Highspot

JULY 5, 2023

Streamline Consistent and Compelling Messaging A rep’s first touchpoint with a buyer begins with the initial pitch – often via email, social media, or over the phone. Messaging created by individual sellers risks being off-brand and inaccurate, and the process is time consuming.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

How did you get started in selling and when did you begin adding social selling to your business? Nine times out of ten, that help ends up being sharing knowledge, making an introduction, or helping with exposure. But if one out of ten becomes a solid business prospect, or better yet a client, the process is working well.

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Marc Wayshak

JUNE 8, 2021

Should you start with a pitch , or should you start with questions? If you want to learn how to be a better salesperson, follow these 7 steps —and forget all the conflicting information you’re bombarded with every day. This mindset is crucial if you want to learn how to be a better salesperson. Get rid of your nerves.

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Autoklose

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Table of Content Tip #1 – Don’t Get Angry Tip #2 – Don’t Be Consumed With Self-Doubt Tip #3 – Find Out Why Tip #4 – Rethink Your Approach Tip #5 – Know Your Strengths and Weaknesses Tip #6 – Preempt the Objections Tip #7 – Don’t Contradict Your Prospect Tip #8 – Follow Up! It’s crucial to be gracious in defeat.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

And AI (particularly ChatGPT) has supercharged my productivity and learning — and helped me get back some of my oh-so-precious time. no more updating the CRM): Automating the repetitive, manual tasks means more time spent on meaningful tasks. Imagine being free to spend more time on strategic thinking and relationship-building.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 17, 2024

You’d better know what you will do with it before you collect it.” In this blog post, we’ll explore the reasons behind low conversion rates and provide actionable strategies to boost your win rates. It signifies efficient lead nurturing, effective sales pitches, and successful closing techniques.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Our collaborative blog offers insights if your answer is a Yes! Get Board Approval Picture found at Pixabay – License CC0 First, you must secure approval from your board of directors when selling stock in a small business. Yes, it can provide capital to help get you out of a tight spot or further expand your business.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 28, 2023

Over the last few months, I’ve met with dozens of CROs and RevOps leaders to understand their biggest pain points, all of which have been amplified by the current market conditions. ” “One or two over-performers won’t cover our delta. How do I get them personalizing and building better business cases?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Due to the reasons above, it's key for you and your team to leverage the right strategies to ensure your outbound calls don't result in hangups or unproductive conversations that waste both you and your prospects' time. To get started in writing one, check out this template.

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Marc Wayshak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you just go for the hard close , they get turned off immediately. PEP stands for pitching, enthusiasm, and persuasion. They’re used to being pitched; they’re used to overly enthusiastic salespeople who are bubbling over with excitement about their offerings. Check it out: 1. No more PEP. Dig super deep.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 1, 2021

Every business needs copywriting skills and copywriting examples for their marketing strategy in order to create compelling content and get the attention of potential leads or customers. The goal is not to write an article or a blog post, it’s to engage the reader and get them interested in what you have to say.

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Autoklose

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Set individual and team goals Get to the bottom of why Get personal 9. If they have to click back and forth and search for the bits of data they need, they will lose a lot of time and miss a lot of opportunities. Doing this quickly can affect the performance of your entire time and jeopardize the growth of your company.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 27, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. This article isn’t out to answer which one is better. Building up an email list of warm subscribers takes time and effort, and could require a different skill set. They might also choose emailing cold leads over warm ones because of efficiency.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2021

All the things you would expect came up in the conversation, absence of targeting, lack of understanding about the company and the individual, poor writing, lack of relevance, constant pitching and prospector focus on themselves and their products. I’ve got a lot of filters in place to get rid of the obvious junk.

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Crunchbase

MAY 26, 2022

The author is an expert in their field and we are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. Hearing “no” over and over again can take a toll on anyone. As a salesperson, you’re used to hearing no in all its forms: “We’ll get back to you on that.”

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SalesHandy

JULY 7, 2021

SaaS users get access to new features and updated versions of existing software instantly. This saves them money and time on research, configuration and tracking. If you build a SaaS product without planning to market and distribute it, you’ll have a hard time selling it. Getting more SaaS users isn’t as easy as it sounds.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

Many people conflate elevator pitches and personal branding. While elevator pitches are an important part of personal branding, they’re just that – only one aspect of the whole. This is a hard concept for some people to get around. And if you approach it the wrong way, you might not get a chance for a second impression.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll outline the unique challenges faced in pharmaceutical sales training and provide practical solutions. This lack of insight makes it challenging to provide timely feedback, identify sales coaching opportunities, and assess the effectiveness of sales strategies.

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