The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not that people don’t like cold calling, mostly they don’t like the outcome, which often is very little, leading to disappointed, and anemic pipelines. Frustrated, they seek expert advice on how to get more buyer engagement while avoiding the dreaded cold call. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

According to recent research from SalesLoft best-performing senior salespeople (like Account Exectuives) need to self-source around 48% of their pipeline–rather than having leads come from a sales development rep (BDR, SDR etc.) or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department. It’s time for the dreaded cold call!

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 16, 2020

Which side are you on in the email prospecting vs cold calling argument? RELATED: 8 Days Of Email Marketing | Guide To Email Sales. Why a Phone Call Can Sometimes be More Effective. When to Use Email Prospecting. When to Use Cold Calling. When to Use Cold Calling.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Home About The Pipeline. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Is Cold Calling Dead? Stored in Cold calling , Planning , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Success , Video , execution. What’s in Your Pipeline? Is Cold Calling Dead?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2017

Here’s how to cure your prospecting problem. Let’s set the record straight: Most everyone on your sales team has call reluctance—whether they’re cold calling or asking for referrals. What’s to fear about prospecting? That may seem absurd today, but it was a creative prospecting strategy in 1995. Surprised?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2014

Well it seems that cold calling is coming back into fashion. Many closet callers are coming out and proudly proclaiming not only that they regularly part take in cold calling, but that it producing results that exceed the expectations many, and helping many exceed quota. gang, inviting me to a webinar on cold calling.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? Let’s jump in.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2017

You already know my point of view on cold calling. No salesperson should ever have to cold call to generate sales leads. It’s an ineffective prospecting strategy and a nuisance to buyers, most of whom ignore cold calls. Stop Fooling Yourself—Your Prospecting Is Cold.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 11, 2014

As we have all noticed more and more companies are putting the Twitter and Facebook icons/logos not only on their marketing materials, but on trucks, and the signs on their buildings. Unless it involves a company you want to approach in order to do business with them, basically someone you want to prospect. Whats in Your Pipeline?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2022

The truth behind improving your cold calling (and cold emailing) is also a larger truth about sales in general — it’s not about volume, it’s about productivity. Here’s how you can work smarter by working with the right data to improve your cold calling. What’s the impact of bad data? Your ideal customer profile.

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The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not that people don’t like cold calling, mostly they don’t like the outcome, which often is very little, leading to disappointed, and anemic pipelines. Frustrated, they seek expert advice on how to get more buyer engagement while avoiding the dreaded cold call. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

But it seems that that’s exactly what some of the “ never cold call again ” crowds are suggesting, no insisting. The problem for me and the no-callers is that dancing is fun for those who enjoy and know how to do it, and I don’t; and cold calling works for those willing to and can do it, which clearly the no-callers can’t.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 1, 2018

Here’s what you might have missed last month from No More Cold Calling. Every sales rep asks that question, and surveys of sales leaders confirm that getting leads in the pipeline is their top challenge. Reps have KPIs for cold calling, sending emails, and making connections on social media. No phone calls.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

Home About The Pipeline. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 3 Ways To Reduce Friction In A Cold Call – Sales eXchange – 104. Stored in Attitude , Cold calling , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , execution. What’s in Your Pipeline? Cold calling is alive and kicking!

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

On Monday, in the first post of this series , we defined “cold calling”, and looked at overlooked real opportunities for sales and revenues one misses when not including cold calling in their biz dev routine. The rule being that cold calling is a key and necessary (evil) part of successful B2B selling.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 16, 2014

The best sales organizations are those who excel at executing their sales process; from demand generation, to prospecting to closing and growing accounts. The best sales processes are those that evolve and reflect the changing nature of their clients and markets. Why Cold Calling and social selling are not mutually exclusive.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

I've written many blog posts on the fact that cold calling isn't dead. In fact, doing the right amount of research, adding a personalized touch to your outreach attempts, and a lot of persistency will help you get in the door for more prospects than you might think. Cold calling is about quantity, not quality.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling. At the same time, driven by a softening economy, account executives have been pushed to “self-source” more of their pipeline ( 60-70% according to Jason Bay.)

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There is no hotter topic in B2B sales than cold calling, does it work, and is it necessary in today’s social environment, call screening, voice mail , and “inbound” universe. Definition: To start we need to define “cold call”, there are almost as many meanings as there are pundits.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 7, 2014

Bob Terson posted my article, Are Your Salespeople Still Cold Calling - The Ugly Truth over at the Selling Fearlessly Blog. When marketers and writers tell us that cold calling is dead, they never remember to qualify what they are trying to sell us. New to selling? New to the industry? New to the vertical?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. Five, that’s all, how hard can that be ? Changing Focus. Sell Different !

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2021

In an effort to simplify things, sellers and marketers want to put people in neat categories and boxes. They understand that they need to meet your prospects on the right plane, theirs. Successful sellers understand that to sell in today’s economy, we need to function and meet your prospects on the right plane, theirs.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 10, 2016

Here’s the thing: Cold-calling prospects gets a bad rap. Today, buzzwords like “social selling” drown out the importance of actually calling prospects. In fact, as a direct result of social selling entering the scene, it isn’t uncommon to hear statements like “ cold-calling is dead.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Your website is your best source to pull inbound leads into your pipeline.

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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. 76% percent of BDRs report to sales over marketing. BDR achievement has remained steady.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Plus, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this summer. Obviously, I’ve never been a fan of cold calling, but now the uninvited sales pitches are multichannel. On that note, take a look at what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling about relationship building and referral selling ….

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

You made five hundred cold calls in one day. In four hundred calls, no one answered, and in another fifty, the potential clients said a hard no. In twenty-five calls, you received maybes; in the last twenty-five calls, the potential buyers said yes. It’s just the old methods of cold calling are dead.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling. Q4 has now begun, which means it’s time to build your sales pipeline for Q1. If you make the mistake of being 100 percent heads-down getting deals done, you won’t have qualified leads in your pipeline for next year. Tough, right? I’d had it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2019

Author: Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ I was recently working with a new client. He told me that he was reaching and having brief conversations with some prospects but those conversations went nowhere. He said he was trying to be consultative, to elicit details and to drill down on prospect objections.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 27, 2016

Even if you have the most killer marketing team, it is highly unlikely that you just sit back in your big, cushy office and wait for the leads to come in – and even more unlikely that those leads are all great fits, pre-qualified and warmed up enough for a slam dunk close. You call 1,000 OK fits and 3% convert. Lead Selection.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What I will offer up here, and in a webinar, this afternoon, are specific steps you can choose to implement and see an immediate difference in your prospecting calls. The number one barrier to prospecting success is our willingness to put a well-thought-out plan into practice or action. Real World Cold Calling Success.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 16, 2023

Cold calling is dead – That’s what everyone’s been saying for the last few years. However, many companies, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, still use cold calling to fill their pipelines all year round. 82% of buyers book meetings with salespeople after a series of contacts that start with cold calls.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2020

Do cold calls work? How can you find more success with cold calling? We often discuss how to make a cold call, but rarely the next step after your cold call fails to get picked up. Sales Voicemail Statistics Today’s sales professionals have more ways than ever to get in touch with prospects.

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Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2024

From making the first contact to nurturing a lead, sales prospecting is a delicate art. You must determine which outreach channels your leads will respond to and approach your sales prospecting tactics accordingly. But for that, familiarizing your sales team with the differences between cold emailing and cold calling is essential.

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