Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If you begin your follow up calls like this: “Hi, I just wanted to see if you read the email I sent you?”. Then you’re going to want to read this post all the way through and adopt a better practice way of opening your follow up calls. I’m happy to point out a couple of things to you—can you pull that up?

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes, even the words ‘cold call’ can send shivers down salespeople’s’ spines. But, if it’s done in the correct way with the correct prospects, making a call to a prospect can be one of the best ways to build you sales confidence, increase your pipeline and open up sales opportunities. 3) Identify your ideal clients.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Add cold calling to your sales outreach strategy. Reports show that cold calling is still among the top five outreach methods in terms of effectiveness. You can get up to 82% of buyers to accept a meeting by starting a series of communication with sales cold calls. What is Cold Calling?

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Allego

MAY 11, 2022

I had the opportunity to talk with Chris Beall, CEO of ConnectAndSell, about the benefits of cold calling during a recent webinar, How to Improve Cold Call Success Rates. What follows are some insights he shared, as well as cold calling techniques that top-performing sellers use to get meetings with prospects.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

As more and more sales people are recognising cold calling is less fruitful than they would like, attention is being focused on what you can do to improve your overall sales success rate. This will provide plenty of chances for you to follow up and reduce your reliance on cold calling in the future.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 30, 2017

They consider it better to not take calls at all, rather than tell the caller they are too busy and please call back later. Well, firstly calculate how many of your calls to prospects actually do end up going to voicemail. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. So what should you do?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 13, 2018

Discover sales training with best tips, rebuttal techniques and responses on how to go about handling and overcoming most common objections in phone cold call prospecting. And, this technique will work with any of the following sales objections or sales stalls like: 1) We wouldn’t be interested. By Mike Brooks, [link].

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 5, 2012

We have heard for years about how much today’s consumer detests receiving the dreaded cold-call. We all know that cold calling has become increasingly difficult and the modern-day buyer has become more evasive, defensive, suspicious and even hostile towards getting a telephone solicitation call. They hang up.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 15, 2012

In spite of a gazillion tips, tricks and magical scripts on cold calling , sales people at every level and in every profession still struggle with this often unavoidable task. The following are three cold calling myths that have shrouded the minds of unsuspecting sales people for decades and can cause irrefutable harm to your career.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2019

call to prospects whom you’ve already pitched? Is it something like: “I’m just calling to follow up on our proposal….”. I’m just calling to see what you thought about our bid?”. The post Stop “Following Up,” and Start Closing appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. How do you open your 2 nd or 3 rd.

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Allego

APRIL 8, 2022

There’s one question I seem to field from sales reps on a frequent basis, more than any other: What are your best cold calling tips to improve effectiveness? I give more than simple pointers, I’m suggesting a 6 stage model to dramatically improve cold calls that I’m sharing below. And my response?

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 6, 2012

In a prospecting cold call , you need to develop a rapport and create a professional, trustworthy image in the mind of the prospect in just a few seconds. In less than 7 seconds, the prospect will have formulated an image of you in his or her mind, and the success or failure of the call depends on that image. Happy Selling!

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2020

Cold calling is (and will always be) a foundational skill in sales. If you want to learn how to cold call — or just improve your skills — your best approach is to watch what experienced sales reps do, listen to recordings , and of course, study cold calling examples. That way, it’s not an entirely cold call.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In today’s world of e-prospecting, social media marketing, texting and sophisticated electronic communication, it seems picking up the telephone is becoming a lost art. The fact is that while the sales call paradigm has changed, as did the prospective buyer, so has the meaning and stronghold of Phone Phobia. The REAL Reason.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 22, 2015

When you get referrals, you get meetings with one call. I’ve heard it takes at least seven to 10 touches for sales teams who cold call and cold email prospects to connect with decision-makers. Because decision-makers don’t take cold calls or respond to cold emails. Who has that kind of time?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Let’s exclude newsletters that you get but delete, product updates, and other emails from legitimate companies that you may or may not have signed up for. Their offerings fall into the following categories: Offshore SEO/web/software development services Lead Generation/Appointment Setting services, lists, marketing etc.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 24, 2011

No More Cold Calling OnDemand™. Referral Selling Training Programs. No More Cold Calling. Pick Up the PACE Handbook. You consider hiring a salesperson to free you up. That’s an expensive and time-consuming process, and it will take at least six months for your new person to ramp up. Consulting.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

In the recent post, “Today’s Warm Call is the New Cold Call,” I uncovered the fact that with today’s modern prospecting avenues, sales people are often able to establish some contact with a prospective customer before making a telephone call. In that sense, the traditional cold call is becoming a thing of the past. .

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Unless you’re cold calling someone whose office is on fire, there’s a good chance they have time for you. If prospects were really busy, they’d simply hang up—or ignore your call altogether. So how do you make your cold call a priority? On cold calls, it’s your job to demonstrate value early and often.

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Increase Sales

APRIL 11, 2014

Many small businesses use cold calling to increase sales. From call centers to individual salespeople, dialing for dollars continues to be a marketing strategy. Yesterday, I received a cold call that stated with the following: “Do you guys use credit cards? ” And I hung up.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2022

Help us plant 50,000 trees this holiday season, and sign up using a friend’s referral link. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2023

OR “When would be the best time for me to follow up with you?” (And And then call them two weeks before whatever date they give you!) The bottom line is that most sales reps simply don’t have any idea of when they should follow up—because they never ask! Ask them and follow up sooner than are now!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 10, 2018

Think about it: you wouldn’t want a dentist to make it up as he goes along, would you? You count on your dentist to be prepared and trained on the up to date, best practices for handling your dental situation. And one of the most recurring situations is calling back prospects three or four months later. Of course not!

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Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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. However, to ensure success, cold-calling needs to be part of a holistic lead generation strategy.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 10, 2021

Chorus research shows that in January 2020, it took reps just over 150 cold calls on average to strike a deal. By July of the same year, that cold call average was almost 200. Given the heightened difficulty of cold calling , it’s little wonder that one successful call will feel like a major victory to a lot of reps.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”. Then give your team access to my award winning inside sales training!

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Score More Sales

MAY 24, 2012

The question I was asked: “Would you rather make 100 cold calls or 20 well-researched calls to b2b sales prospects?” In fact those days of calling anyone without research are long O-V-E-R. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside and outbound sellers in technology and services companies.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

B2B Phone Sales Cold-Calling: It Still Works! Recently I wrote about why I think phone sales cold calling still works , and the feedback has been amazing. All of the feedback I received confirmed that cold-calling does still work when it is done right. They call it cold-calling for a reason…it’s cold!

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

I don’t understand why it is acceptable for a process like cold calling (now often started via email) to work one in a hundred times–or in email efforts one in a thousand times. Before you can go setting up meetings, you need to figure out who you need to meet. I used to work for a major semiconductor manufacturer.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 8, 2024

Sales training is one of the most significant investments an organization can make in their sales team. In fact, research cited by taskdrive.com shows sales training has an average return on investment of 353 percent. In 2023, on average, Janek clients realized a 1188 percent return on their training investment.

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MTD Sales Training

MARCH 15, 2012

The cold call went so well, you wished it were recorded so you all of your peers could hear. The prospect sounded glad you called, and seems anxious to receive your information package. However, when you call back, it sounds like you are talking to a totally different person.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 19, 2019

Cold calling is still a key strategy for successful sales teams. Here’s the proof: one survey by DiscoverOrg found that 55% of high growth companies (those with at least 40% growth over the last three years) identified cold calling as one of their key strategies. Can I have 20 seconds to tell you why I’m calling?”

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. Despite the heavy investment in training, some businesses won’t benefit as much as they should. What The B2B Sales Training Program Should Include The average organization spends $1,200 a year on professional development per employee.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 29, 2011

It took a few minutes, but you established some rapport in the initial cold call. You sent out your information package and called back in anticipation of setting an easy appointment. The call starts out seemly more frigid and awkward than the first cold call. Is this a warm call? Happy Selling!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

Use or adapt the following opening to get your prospect to open up and reveal the answers to the questions above: “Hi _, this is with XYZ company. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! That’s why the top reps are in the habit of asking more questions than they are of talking at their prospects. How’s your Tuesday going?”

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

And certainly not when you cold call. Newsflash: Most CEOs do not respond to cold calls or emails, and neither do their gatekeepers. One assistant told me many cold callers lie and tell her the CEO asked them to reach out. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Stop Cold Calling.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

The salesperson left without getting agreement on next steps or scheduling the next call. Follow-up consisted of a series of emails that promoted products, didn’t address the client’s unique concerns, and had no calls to action. What is their sales plan for following up? Save your money.

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