Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Now look a little more closely at your clients and think about the types of people that buy from you. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems Your prospect decides to do?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 31, 2022

I was giving a training today and emphasizing the importance of directing the sale, assuming the deal, and leading the prospect through the close. As I did, I reminded the team of closers of my very favorite closing phrase, and one that has literally made me millions of dollars in my career. Here’s what I recommend you do…”.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You had a great sales interaction: Both you and the prospect were calm and comfortable. You developed some rapport and the prospect showed some positive buying signals during the meeting. This question is simple and helps the prospect understand that what you have just proposed is, at worst, reasonable.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 11, 2024

Zoom became a lifeline for millions working from home and a savior of reps competing for a remote sales closing. More Channels Provide More Personalized Choices for Sales Closing Finding a comfortable way to communicate with key clients is essential. To fail a sales closing is costly. Researching the media options.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The excitement you feel when you get a positive response from your prospect is palpable. All that hard work, all that research, all that grafting and painstaking questioning and presenting has paid off and the prospect is heading towards buyers-ville. Your closing presentation didn’t quite work. It’s all going so well.

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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. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2019

With regularity, most active sales trainers and I get the following question: “When is the best time to prospect?”. First, wanting to stay real and all, what they are really looking for is either a reason not to prospect or absolution from having not prospected for a while for all the wrong and usual reasons.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. Salespeople score meetings with qualified prospects in one call. Overall, they make fewer calls, talk to the right people, ensure qualified leads, decrease time to close, and drive revenue.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

If you get this objection—while closing or qualifying—then the worst thing you can do is try to answer or overcome it. And until you find out what’s really holding your prospect back, you’ll just go around and around in circles. And only when I understood what was really holding my prospect back did I begin to close more sales.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. For every action a prospect takes, they create a trail of intent data across the internet.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Prospecting is always a core activity for successful sales professionals, but never more so than in Q4. There is not only the opportunity to close the year strong but to set yourself up for a great start to the new year. The post 5 B2B Prospecting Best Practices appeared first on TiborShanto.com. By Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Salespeople are preoccupied with closing; makes sense, that seems to be where the pay-off is for everyone, at times even the prospect. However, the biggest challenge most sales organizations have is not closing but opening. One challenge is that most salespeople do not know what they “need” to close to make quota.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 14, 2021

Then hit that oh-so-important MUTE button, and let your prospect tell you how to sell them. You’ll be amazed at what you hear—and how much further you can take your prospects…. The post One Great Close You Should Be Using appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. Get Access Today.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 23, 2018

We had an enquiry last month from a sales manager who asked us to work with his sales team for half-a-day on closing techniques. He said his team was good at relationship-building but when it came to the close, they needed help. They simply didn’t know what to say to get the order without it appearing to put pressure on the prospect.

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Zoominfo

MAY 7, 2021

“The summary of it is that we prospected like heck, we did probably 50 to 100 demos, we struck out a lot, and every time we struck out we just kept going and going and going. Fast forward seven years later, and Lyon has just closed the biggest deal in ZoomInfo history: an eight figure deal. Challenges to Closing Big Business Deals.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2023

A closing call is like the finish line of a marathon. It’s nerve-wracking for you and your prospect. As a salesperson, you’ve invested a lot of time in your prospect by the time a closing call rolls around. Whether your prospect says yes or no is up to them. In this article: What is a closing call?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2022

The same can be extended to the airlines where the virus won't spread if you are unmasked with your mouth open to eat or drink, but will most certainly spread if you are sitting with your mouth closed without a mask. Have you or your salespeople ever been told by a prospect that they can't:

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Imagine your sales team is extremely close to signing an important deal with a prospect. At that moment, with revenue in the balance, the team has to convince the prospect that your product is indeed the right fit and that this soon-to-be customer is a priority. It’s time to bring in your CEO to close the deal.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Wondering if the prospect is sold and/or what they’re going to do next? Remember: You can’t close an unqualified lead. Try this today and this week during the beginning of your demos and listen to how your prospects respond. The post One Question to Close More Demos appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. Get Access Today.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Because most salespeople are quota drive, they get distracted by close dates. They forget that there is no getting to closed without the journey. That’s a great place to be if you use it to help the prospect rather than an unfair advantage. It is all a question of what you focus on. Getting From Now To Then. Head Fakes.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 5, 2021

You need to develop a strong strategy that allows you to close B2B prospects in an effective way. So read on to discover the steps you need to take to close your first B2B prospect easily. The behavior patterns of your prospective customers. … Close the Deal. What the current market trends are.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2019

Good questions and the answers they produce can make a huge difference in your ability to close deals faster. So keep reading as we provide you with our top 12 B2B sales questions to close deals faster. It provides insight into where your leads are coming from and what channels are providing you with the most sales-ready prospects.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To shake loose accounts that need an extra push to close, sweeten the deal by sending gift cards, a direct mail campaign , holiday cards, handwritten notes, buy one/get one offers, or a free 30-day trial. Scenario Towards the end of the month, quarter, or year, sales teams want to get as many deals finalized as possible.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

How Sales Dialers Help Close Deals Faster. If you’re still not convinced, here are a few ways sales dialers allow your sales team to close more deals, fast. Streamlined Prospecting. This helps reps target the right leads at the right time, thus ensuring more closed deals. That way, they have more time to prospect.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights? What are prospecting insights? It turns out they’re pretty important.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” Here’s a simple fact: you can’t close a sale until you have someone to sell to. So what does it take to successfully prospect? Have a dedicated time on your calendar to prospect. Don’t allow interruptions!

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Marc Wayshak

MARCH 13, 2024

One aspect that consistently sets top performers apart from others is their ability to ask quick questions that motivate prospects to open up. The data indicates that the more a salesperson can prompt a prospect to talk , the more likely they are to close the sale successfully. Check it out. Quick Opening Play.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 12, 2024

A guide to closing sales with ABC, or “Always Be Closing,” is a learning journey for salespeople looking to improve their sales performance, or “Return on Sales Effort (ROSE). Closing sales is about consistently moving customers towards a desired action or outcome. What does ABC, or ‘Always Be Closing’ really mean?

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Marc Wayshak

JANUARY 26, 2023

Don’t you just hate it when the sale seems to be going well…but at the end, the close ultimately proves elusive ? It might seem like the end of the sale is the key moment to close the deal. But in reality, the earlier part of the sales conversation is what ultimately results in a closed deal—or not. Prospects today are smart.

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