Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2020

Budgets will be back in place and buyers will need things, in a little whileish. You may easily say “yes” but if I look at real sales people’s actions over the course of a couple of decades, I see that their actions say “no”. He is cartoonist and sends cartoons to his prospects but our mutual friend Dan Waldschmidt sends swords!

Enterprise 416

Enterprise Enterprise Social Media Referrals 416

The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2020

As sales professionals, we need to be cognizant of this while approaching prospects. With many prospects lacking visibility in 2021, forecasting will be more of a black art than ever. Distraction is something you will need to deal with on every prospecting call. Good Enough. Catching Up. Go To The Club.

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Face-to-face Penetration Fashion Forecasting 258

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 16, 2018

The best prospecting strategies require a human touch. Buyers know everything about our companies, products, and solutions before they ever speak to a salesperson. Far too many sales reps do. Perhaps if what you’re doing isn’t working, new sales techniques are in order? What Sales PEOPLE Bring to the Table.

Fashion 219

Fashion Buying Cycle Social Media Survey 219

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Stop confusing your buyers. I was trying to contact a prospect and couldn’t find the company phone number on their website. Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but the phone works. When companies make it difficult for their prospects to buy, they lose business without knowing it. I was so frustrated.

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Loyalty Customer Cold Calling Fashion 249

The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2014

Well it seems that cold calling is coming back into fashion. Just last week I had a notice for a webinar from one of the original Sales 2.0 Other pundits who not so long ago wrapped themselves in the Sales 2.0 Other pundits who not so long ago wrapped themselves in the Sales 2.0 What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Fashion Social Selling 312

Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2021

The pandemic changed the day-to-day processes of the B2B sales organization practically overnight when the world went 100% digital. A recent ZoomInfo survey of about 600 sales and marketing professionals found that most sales reps said they relied on in-person events for prospecting before 2020.

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Survey Top of Funnel Scale Fashion 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As most of you know I am a regular proponent of making cold calling part of your prospecting mix. Beyond the logic of expanding your tool kit to include all things that lead to engagement, how you engage with your prospects will very much inform and shape the conversation you have with prospects. Hey – We’re moving.

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Cold Calling Fashion Inbound Buyer 174

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. For sellers, context is everything.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

PandaDoc

JUNE 23, 2021

Due to the staggering number of new businesses and potential clients that inhabit the marketplace, companies must know the difference between ideal customer profiles (ICPs) and buyer personas, in order to craft the perfect strategy for using them. How to know whether to use ideal customer profiles or buyer personas. Understanding ICPs.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Buyer Customer 94

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 15, 2019

Are there differences selling to men and women in a B2B sales process? In B2B sales, isn’t it all the same? Buyers make decisions the same way – the price, the functionality, the value they get back, and the recommendations from their peers.”. In partnership with leading sales linguist Steve W. 63% of women.

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B2B Cold Calling B2C Fashion 192

The Pipeline

APRIL 16, 2014

Join me on May 8th, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT , as along with the folks from Exponential Sales, we explore sales from the singular view of execution. The best sales organizations are those who excel at executing their sales process; from demand generation, to prospecting to closing and growing accounts.

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Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Fashion Sales Qualified Lead 306

Alice Heiman

APRIL 28, 2022

When was the last time you, as the CEO, listened to a conversation a salesperson at your company was having with a prospective buyer? . Further, you have sales leaders who do that, right? If you were listening to them on a sales call right now, what would you be listening for? . What Do Buyers Want?

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Fashion Buyer Decision Maker Conversion 75

Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2022

Social selling is a sales technique that leverages social networking services to identify prospects, build relationships, and close more deals. In social selling, sales professionals are playing the long game instead of eyeing immediate returns. Top 10 Social Selling Tools 1.

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Social Selling Tools Social Media Lead Rank 100

Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While likability can be a huge plus in sales, it’s not the only reason buyers buy. Buyers buy whether they like the seller or not. Further, those with the weakest sales records were more likely to believe making friends is their greatest asset. All prospects are unique. Plus, buyers are experienced.

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Collateral Social Media Referrals Social Selling 62

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 21, 2015

My colleagues and I would stand outside the buildings where our clients and prospects worked. We were in control of the supply and the sales cycle. The Buyer’s Journey back then was from 37th and 6th (or as many blocks as it took to make our pitch and gain a commitment). Maybe you just missed your prospect on another channel.

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Top of Funnel Buyer Decision Maker Lead Rank 97

A Sales Guy

JUNE 16, 2021

The Sales world is desperate for an upgrade. It’s time sales let’s go of the tired and ineffective belief systems if we’re going to truly deliver the value we say we want to in the 21st-century. Sales management is equally infamous for making the CRM a tool the salespeople hate. Yes, I said the CRM.

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CRM Fashion Face-to-face System 163

SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Most B2B buyers are already 57% of the way through the buying process before meeting with a sales rep for the first time. People are more curious and search for answers before getting in touch with sales, impatient, and have greater expectations than ever before. It also helps group online resources (i.e., Get Ahead of Time.

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Lead Rank Prospecting Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 48

Lead411

MAY 27, 2021

Could Texting a Prospect Double Your Conversion Rates? A buyer’s journey is usually a series of events over time, comparing solutions, doing research, and collecting information before reaching out to and making a decision. Differences in Intent Data for B2B Sales. Could Texting a Prospect Double Your Conversion Rates?

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Conversion Ideal Customer Profile Intent Data Prospecting 52

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This was a tip I learned from one of the most favorite of my 21 sales managers over my selling career – a former IBM top sales rep and leader who would say this so regularly that it was ingrained in my 20-something brain and has been there ever since. Prospects and buyers are so busy. What works for you?

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 222

Zoominfo

APRIL 13, 2020

Are there differences in selling to women vs. men in the B2B sales process? In B2B sales, isn’t it all the same? Buyers make decisions the same way – the price, the functionality, the value they get back, and the recommendations from their peers.” In partnership with leading sales linguist Steve W.

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Cold Calling B2C Fashion B2B 130

The Pipeline

JUNE 26, 2018

Last week I looked at the power of the small word ‘NO’ in halting sales, preventing President’s Club, and more; but we looked at it in the context of the prospecting experience, very early in the process. ” The average close rate for Sales Qualified Leads is 16.5%. By Tibor Shanto. Follow The Stats.

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Sales Qualified Lead Objections Fashion Call-back 200

The Pipeline

JUNE 14, 2013

People always want to present themselves as being unique or different, even as they are lined up overnight for the latest iGadget , all adorned in the latest gadget-ware from Fashion Star. So I am rarely surprised when sales people tell they or their products are different. It’s a grind and a struggle for some of the AE’s.

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Sales Qualified Lead Fashion Top of Funnel Lead Rank 288

MTD Sales Training

JUNE 28, 2012

There are a million tips all over the world on what to do to help you close the sale. In addition, in some places, like here at MTD Sales Training, you will find some very sophisticated and powerful closing processes that will help you be more successful. Never Force the Prospect to Make a Logical Decision. Emotion vs. Logic.

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Closing Fashion Proposal Education 280

Sales Hacker

APRIL 18, 2022

This is still an article about sales. But just because it’s about sales, doesn’t mean the dragons are not real. I’m talking, of course, about sales myths – giant, all-consuming ideas that seem to loom over the sales mindscape and impact our every action. What does that have to do with us sales professionals?

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Cold Calling Call-back Lead Rank Decision Maker 90

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

No B2B buyer wants to hear that from a vendor when they place an order the old-fashioned way, by phone. At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. Author: Sean Parnell “Wait?—?let let me get a pencil and paper to take that down. Pause) OK, what was it you wanted?”.

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Outsourcing Services Channels B2B Incentives 156

HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 23, 2017

Martin Sales Research Originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review. This is the first of a series B2B Buyer Persona Research articles. I recently conducted an extensive research project of B2B Buyers t o understand how they perceive the salespeople they meet. The B2B buyer is fixated on risk mitigation.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer B2B 68

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 23, 2012

Whenever the idea of a planned presentation comes up, usually the first thing sales people think about is a “canned script.” In a canned script, I am referring to the old-fashioned, smile-and-dial era, word-for-word, rehearsed, “ Pitch.” Such was a primary tool of sales people, in particular telemarketers, years ago.

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Telemarketing Fashion Exact Education 271

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI AI is the future of all sales, but it hasn’t gone from 0-1 yet in the B2B space,” says George Kocher, CEO of Brand North, a digital marketing and growth consultant. CRM will become more predictive.?AI

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Everyone knows that the prospect should be doing most of the talking during a sales call. That is one of the big challenges in sales, everyone knows what they have to do, but do they do it? Buyers are practiced too, they can see when it is real, and when it’s shtick, even when it’s good pundit shtick.

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Revelation Fashion Buyer Education 120

Allego

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

How do you transform someone who has no cold calling experience whatsoever into a fully competent and confident prospecting superstar? How to Create Cold Calling Confidence in 10 Steps For sales reps to succeed at cold calling, companies must have a structured process for training them.

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Cold Calling Jigsaw Call-back Face-to-face 77

Nutshell

MAY 9, 2019

Fashion works in cycles. Nearly every fashion-forward retailer sells their version of the mom jean. When something works, it works for a reason, and this same concept applies to sales. Just like the surprisingly edgy comeback of mom jeans, here are some old school sales tactics that are due for a revival. Now-or-never.

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Webinar Metrics Fashion Face-to-face Strategy 112

Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s been six weeks since you gave your prospect a demo. Your worst fears are realized… Your prospect has ghosted you faster than your last Hinge date. For sales professionals in particular, it’s become far more normal for prospects to drop out of the picture after a seemingly great conversation. And then, poof.

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Prospecting How To Call-back Face-to-face 94

Salesmate

MAY 27, 2020

For sales reps, one of the most gratifying feelings is getting a prospect on a call after weeks (sometimes even months) of chasing. However, if you’ve worked in sales long enough, you know by now not to get too excited. Statistics show that 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls in order to close. Let’s get started.

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Follow-up Social Media Call-back Lead Rank 122

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2017

So why is the sales profession still so far behind the curve when it comes to gender? In sales, women make up : 25% of salespeople in tech companies. 12% of sales leadership. Women usually remain in their sales role longer, decreasing turnover. And yet, women are vastly underrepresented in the sales industry.

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Hiring Face-to-face Promotion Retail 235

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The Salesloft team relentlessly focuses on expanding the capabilities of our industry-leading sales engagement platform. As we considered the best way to describe this new capability to our customers and prospects, we came across a novel approach. How can sales teams improve meetings so buyers view them as a worthy use of time?

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Prospecting Scale Outbound Fashion 52

SalesProInsider

JUNE 11, 2020

With more virtual sales conversations occurring these days than ever, what can you do to make sure that you maximize the productivity and the efficiency of your efforts in that conversation, in that sales opportunity? So, we’re going to break the preparation into two levels for these virtual sales. What Can You Control? .

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Conversion Face-to-face Video Fashion 111