The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. But while prospecting part/start of the sales cycle. By Tibor Shanto.

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Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

Among such strategies, webinars come out on top. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service. This format allows companies to engage with prospects and customers and receive feedback in real-time. But marketers often struggle to quantify the success of B2B webinars.

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Allego

JANUARY 6, 2023

2023—It’s a new year with new sales goals and expectations. How can your sales team do more with fewer resources? Do your sales reps have the skills to sell in virtual or hybrid settings? Top 5 Sales Enablement Webinars. Do More with Less: Driving Sales Efficiency and Effectiveness in a Recession.

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Vengreso

MARCH 12, 2021

B2B sales professionals are missing out if they’re not using social media, and especially, in their LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Modern B2B buyers are now harder to reach through traditional channels than before. Modern B2B buyers are now harder to reach through traditional channels than before. Current Company.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

In sales, a business development strategy is central to understanding and engaging with your customers. Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 18, 2015

If you are in sales, you are also in prospecting. Getting in front of the right buyer is critical for sales success, yet many sellers struggle to maintain and leverage a consistent prospecting regimen. You will also learn how to deal with the most common objections you will face while prospecting.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2014

Join me for this special webinar looking at: The Objective Seller – presented by salesforce.com. All businesses have objectives, focusing on objectives and the buyer’s desired return on those objectives, are the most effective way to engage and align with buyers. May 12, 1:00 pm Eastern – register here.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Over the next couple of weeks I will be presenting three different webinars on 3 related topics that you should register for and attend. October 23 - Time – Prospecting – And Getting the Jump On Both. Sales Process Sales Skills Tibor Shanto' October 24 – Cold Calling: How to Handle the Objection.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Coming up tomorrow and Thursday I will be presenting two webinars dealing with two critical aspects of prospecting. Improve your rate of connecting with the right decision makers, and you will increase prospects, sales and profits. We will be sharing best practices and everyday techniques for improved prospecting.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

From Sales Science to Sales 3.0, Bob has developed a prospecting app that is based on science and driven by numbers. Bob has developed a prospecting app that is based on science and driven by numbers. Over the years we have shared close views on the fundamentals of prospecting. come along. Follow The Science.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 8, 2014

Return On Objectives - Harnessing Objectives to Drive Better Sales Conversations. Learn how to change the sales conversation and who should be having that conversation with! Impervious to pains, needs or solutions, a large segment of your market is better able to cocoon themselves from traditional sellers and sales conversations.

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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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The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2014

Yesterday on this blog, I wrote about sellers who drive commerce for their buyers have greater success than those who just drive sales. As it happens, rather than having to do a post about that, this coming Thursday, July 17th, I will be delivering a webinar along with the good folks at DiscoverOrg , addressing that specific process.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies noted the importance of BDRs.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Pipeliner’s John Golden hosted me on #SalesChats recently and the topic was prospecting. John asked two questions: Which stage of the buying process should a salesperson engage with a prospect? I quoted experts during the video as follows: Consultant/author Mike Weinberg (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. Simplified.”

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Want to get slowed down as a sales prospector and waste a lot of time? Call on the wrong prospects. You can waste literally days out of every month looking for the wrong buyers. I would go so far as to say that some sellers waste 2 months out of every year going after the wrong prospective customers. LinkedIn Power Tips.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 16, 2014

Because sales is about relationships – not numbers, you need to have real conversations. For starters, asking someone to “join your network” on LinkedIn is just about the worst way to introduce yourself to a prospect or potential business partner. Many sales people still believe that LinkedIn is purely a numbers game.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Welcome to the age of the informed consumer, or the digital buyer … or “Buyer 2.0.”. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made salespeople irrelevant.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Last week another social warrior decided to take to the soap box, and tell us why cold calling is dead, and for him and his followers, it may be, but it can still play a role in your sales and prospecting success. Specifically, that many in sales blame the medium, in this case the phone, rather than the message.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

First, the bad news: Most B2B buyers don’t trust salespeople. These 30 findings from our extensive study tell salespeople exactly what to do to change this dynamic, and how to win back the respect and partnership the B2B sales-buyer relationship needs to be mutually successful. Buyers don’t really don’t trust salespeople.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 7, 2017

So you’d think that with years of practice, today’s sales reps would know how to ace this objection right? Sign up for Mike Brooks’ new Webinar “How to Overcome the Price Objection” this Thursday, April 27th, at 1pm EST (10am PST) Sign Up Here. All you have to do is sign yourself – or your team – up to this Thursday’s webinar.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. As opposed to whole blog posts, webinars, eBooks, and other digital content, the landing page is a simple design to bring the reader to a call to action. And that content is a gateway to a possible sale.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

Among such strategies, webinars come out on top. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service. This virtual event format allows companies to engage with prospects and customers, receive feedback in real-time, and ultimately generate leads. Keep reading!

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Like many people with sales in their job descriptions, Vengreso CMO Bernie Borges recently faced a common dilemma. A qualified prospective buyer completely fell off the grid. In this article and the video below, you’ll learn about prospecting methods to bring your buyers back from the dark side.

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Vengreso

JULY 31, 2023

Sales folks, we have a problem with UFOs. Let’s talk about how you can kick your B2B buyer intent data to the next level, end the guessing game, and turn those UFOs into SQLs. We could see that someone at a particular business was showing signs of interest, but we couldn’t narrow that interest down to the individual B2B buyer.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 13, 2023

Learn more about the science (and art) of referral selling in my new webinar with Finlistics. In the summer of 2015, I got an urgent call from Barry, a colleague who was working with Dr. Stephen Timme and Finlistics on their sales strategy. We discussed why every company should be using referrals in their sales strategy. (In

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John Barrows

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

John Barrows wasn’t born a “great sales trainer”. The skills he teaches and the processes he implements into sales teams have an origin. Early on in his entrepreneurship, John attended many sales training sessions from several organizations. They just want to sell me something” is often the perspective of a cold prospect.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 21, 2016

Do your sales reps really prospect based on fairy tales? Yet, many sales reps buy into the mythical statistics and ridiculous promises floating around the Internet about how to drive sales leads in the digital age. Believe that 57 percent of the buying process is complete before a prospect ever talks to a salesperson?

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criteria for success

JULY 8, 2021

Are you struggling to make headway with indecisive prospects? When working with indecisive prospects, it can be extremely difficult to move forward in your selling process. The 5 following approaches can be your solution for dealing with indecisive prospects without seeming desperate and pushy. We can help! Lead with honesty.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

In the sales domain, this big change has accelerated the trend to digital selling. As sales forces have been sent home and told their clients won’t meet them with them in-person, they have had to use new digital tools just to keep doing their job. Prospecting. Given this, now it as great time to connect with your buyer.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2023

The point is: If you want uncommon results — revenue that’s literally unmatched by anyone else on the leaderboard — then you’ll need to develop a set of uncommon sales practices. Tested, hard-won uncommon sales practices. Last year, I spent over 100 hours researching and compiling a 15,000-word library of uncommon sales practices.*

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 16, 2020

Face Facts: The Client Is Not Always Right, and Your Sales Pitch Is Annoying. Buyers don’t trust salespeople, because many are arrogant and never stop pitching. In fact, just 18 percent of salespeople are classified by buyers as “trusted advisors” whom they respect, according to research by Steve W. In a word, it’s fidelity.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Let’s break that down. And you improve your ROI.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

Or worse, could you lose your sales job altogether? You could be vulnerable if you’re not sharpening your sales skills and honing the tactics that will help you succeed in 2020. Forrester analyst Andy Hoar didn’t mince words when he spoke at the 2015 Forrester Sales Enablement Forum. Host webinars. They have questions.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 7, 2023

As a salesperson, much of your success relies on prioritizing the right prospects. According to Marketing Insider Group, salespeople who used prioritized sales lists took 20% more actions per lead , meaning they were able to make more contact attempts and increase engagement time.

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