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My Cold Calling Epiphany: A Better Way to Prospect

Sales Gravy

d ever generated purely through cold calling. When I started in sales with IBM in the late 1980s, cold calling wasn?t In short order, I was drawing in more high quality leads than I?d What were those techniques? t what most salespeople today know

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Navigating the Future of Partner Selling with Cassandra Gholston (S4:Ep15)

Alice Heiman

22:29] CEOs can train sales teams to properly prepare and bring them in at the right time for customers or prospects. [23:03] 28:06] Outdated sales strategies like cold calling and spamming on LinkedIn are not effective. [31:29] 23:03] CEOs should be involved in sales to show they care about their customers. [24:44]

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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

As a salesperson, I hated cold calling and I regularly chased elephants and pixie dust. A prospecting epiphany. The result of all of this is that I have not made a cold call since 2005. I started B2B selling in 1977. Controlling myself would be a big enough challenge. My selling style changes.

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Best Sales Books: 55 Top Picks for More Sales Conversations in 2023

Vengreso

This book contains hundreds of practical ideas and real sales techniques that can help you: – Prospect more effectively with key decision-makers. DigitalSelling #socialSelling Click To Tweet Buy the Book Here #7 High-Profit Prospecting by Mark Hunter Finding high-quality prospects is vital to a salesperson’s success.

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Managers Don’t Know What Their People Are Doing. Powerful Observation Techniques to Better Coach Your Team to Excel

Keith Rosen

Granted, managers are often left in a state of shock when they see what their salespeople are and are not doing and saying when meeting with and presenting to their prospects and customers. Managers need to observe exactly what their people are doing in the field, during a presentation, during a cold call and when managing an account.

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How Proactive Listeners Sell More, Coach Better and Win Big – Part 1

Keith Rosen

Others blame lackluster performance on poor training, coaching, support, a saturated market, competition, difficult customers, weak leads, and a limited, unqualified database of prospects to call. Okay, maybe not the epiphany you’re looking for yet, right? Nothing new and mind-blowing? Keep reading.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. Your sales process and making it easy for prospects to buy makes a huge difference and can beat out a “better” product on paper.

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