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7 tips to improve your cold calling and lead generation

Markempa - Inside Sales

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. Make sure that your cold-calling connects to your other ongoing marketing and reputation-building activities.

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How to Build Your LinkedIn Center. Social Selling 3.0

Tony Hughes

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). Most importantly, no sales messages to links being posted to selling websites or marketing videos. This Social 3.0

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How to Write a Lead Generating Cold Calling Script for Financial Advisors

Pipeline

In the old(er) days, companies used cold calling as a part of business-to-customer telemarketing to sell their products to a broader audience. Improves Employee Training A cold calling script is valuable for training new sales employees. This potential customer also has no prior communication with the company.)

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Desperate and Fearful: Need Pipeline – Want Sales Lead Generation

Pointclear

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. You can read the blog here. In that blog, I wrote: “When the pipeline is weak, desperation and fear take over. There’s a reason why there’s no alignment between marketing and sales.

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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

Pointclear

Jim recently interviewed PointClear’s Dan McDade about the five most important things he’s learned in business and life—in one of an ongoing series of radio programs featuring sales and marketing industry leaders. In my work the first question I ask marketing leaders is “what does success look like to you?” You're absolutely right.

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What is a contact center? How to create a successful contact center.

Apptivo

Streamlined customer information: The contact centers while interacting with the customers, will get to know about their preferences and behavior which will help them to devise the marketing techniques accordingly. Organizations mostly use call centers for gathering information, telemarketing , and paying off debt.

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Sales Leadership: What? All my numbers are back to zero?

Your Sales Management Guru

Just today, 1-2-11, I heard on TV that hiring for sales positions is expected the biggest percentage increase in all hiring for the New Year and if you are in IT, the market was the hottest in years! (We I wish you all the best for this year and I appreciate your interest in our organization and our tools and blog thoughts.