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MAY 26, 2014

This is one way to learn how to have executive level conversations with your buyers. Regularly see what your buyers are reading about so that you can be in the same conversation. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. If you have an upgraded LinkedIn account, send an InMail.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Get a valuable conversation going with a decision maker. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. That’s why we went back to the Score More Sales blog vault and put together our top tips from the popular “Inside Sales Tips” series we ran this past year. Expand Your Pipeline.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

Share enough when making first contact to pique your buyer’s interest so that you can talk in further detail at a next conversation. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Write brief email messages – copy yourself and then view one on your smart phone. Increase Opportunities.

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MAY 19, 2014

When it comes to business conversations how you set things up will help you move forward and close business in the future. This is someone she spent two detailed conversations with and presented information back so that they could do business. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+.

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JUNE 16, 2014

Buyers have an uncanny way of knowing when a seller is not comfortable or not confident with what they are talking about – it is difficult to fake an executive conversation with insight about your buyer and how your service or product offering may be of great value to them. This conversation requires you to do your homework.

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JULY 21, 2014

In your follow-up: do you do what you say in the actions after a conversation? In your activity: are you inspired to have one extra conversation today? How about five extra conversations? email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Yea, be that person. It will show.

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JUNE 18, 2014

You get great practice talking with EAs and AAs using your best executive level conversation skills. Rather than only talking to execs, create many more high-level conversations sharing with their assistant why you think it is a good use of their boss’ time to talk with you – the WIIFM factor. Increase Opportunities.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Stop telling everyonehow BUSY you are and start having a professional conversation around why you will be successful and accomplish the results you were hired for based on a plan that you have, or will put, in place. Well-crafted messaging : voice mail, e-mail, and for direct conversations. Measure your actions and time spent.

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JULY 17, 2013

Sometimes the first conversations you hear at an event stay with you the whole time. Big ideas are created, and all sorts of side conversations erupt. Session there, and he was most impressed by something Google is doing causing tremendous success. “We People do not want canned conversation.

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JULY 28, 2014

Help your buyer to make a decision and bring the opportunity to closure through more conversations and by showing them the return (ROI) their company will likely gain by making this decision. We will check their social posts and see what they are talking about, tying that into a conversation when possible. Check this every day.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Koka Sexton of LinkedIn posted his thoughts about helping to push this conversation further. Jill started asking sales conference leaders over 10 years ago to have more women sales experts on the main stage – it often fell on deaf ears and the conversation itself got misunderstood. Read his post here. Increase Opportunities.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Recently I had a great conversation with Fred Studer, GM of Microsoft Dynamics at Microsoft. Find ways to participate in conversations without trying to sell them. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. There’s an app for that too. Lots of them. Increase Opportunities.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

” That’s fine unless your buyers are moving to Google+, then what? Remember you’re having a 2-way conversation now with them, so you have to listen and respond. I have heard companies say, “We just focus on Twitter and LinkedIn – we don’t have any more bandwidth than that.”

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MAY 24, 2012

Of course we’d all take the 20 higher caliber conversations over a “dialing for dollars” mentality. Don’t forget free tools like Google Alerts and Twitter for research. The question I was asked: “Would you rather make 100 cold calls or 20 well-researched calls to b2b sales prospects?” ” (A trick question?).

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JULY 15, 2014

If you are over 40 and can’t understand why anyone would text a conversation, your buyer may not agree. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. This also means that just because YOU prefer the telephone, your buyer may not. If you prefer email communication your buyer may not.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

If someone has come back to your site multiple times, are you sharing the same message or taking the conversation further? email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter |Visit us on google+. Have personalized interaction - have content for each stage of the buying process. Did you know that you can do that now?

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JUNE 3, 2014

Now that you have their OK, reach out and should the conversation go dark, you have another strategy to reach them. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Connecting – always ask a prospective client after you speak by phone if you can connect on LinkedIn. Increase Opportunities.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Have you had one conversation and perhaps some interest – then you call back and drop a few emails and get no reply? email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Have all your calls and emails to your potential buyer not been returned by them? Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Our prospecting tool, Prospector allows you to use Google to search for LinkedIn contacts, and to easily export them to a spreadsheet so that you can speed up sales campaigning. LR: Why don’t more sales people really understand the power of LinkedIn? They think it doesn’t apply to them.

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JUNE 30, 2014

Assess everyone through metrics and conversations. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter |Visit us on google+. Studies show this is the best place to invest in training with follow-up coaching for reinforcement. If your frontline sales managers get it right, they will impact everyone on their teams.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Effort is where more or less dials are made, more or less conversations are had and more or less emails are crafted and sent. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Skill is the training piece – how you prospect, message, engage, follow-up, track and help clients buy.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

This conversation continues with more about other mobile tools in a future post. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter |Visit us on google+. Sales content management was most-cited as a regularly used feature (37 percent), even ahead of reviewing and inputting contact information (31 percent).

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JUNE 9, 2014

The bottom line on this is that when you are a human dealing with humans all day and working to earn conversations with prospective buyers, you need to feel confident, committed, and appreciated. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. ” He’s right. Increase Opportunities.

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JULY 30, 2014

Just like meeting someone in person, you start with a handshake and short conversation to learn about them. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter |Visit us on google+. In this case, the social tool helped me find someone, connect to someone, and ALSO gave me confidence. Increase Opportunities.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Our first two conversations were difficult. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Be of the mindset of a learner, rather than a student. Take initiative and be of support to your immediate team. I recently talked to a sales rep who I was asked to coach by his sales manager.

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MAY 12, 2014

Start being more conscious (if you are not already) about how many conversations (in general) it has taken with prospective buyers in order to find common ground and a win/win situation that becomes a legitimate, qualified sales opportunity. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

If you can look at someone without limits – and have conversations that teach you about who they are, what they are working to accomplish, and what is going on in their company, you will learn all you need to know to help them as a buyer – or to realize they will not be a good fit for your company and products / services. Close More Deals.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Afterward my contact stepped out and told me that there had been a discussion about such extreme disappointing revenues company-wide that the conversation just before me was about closing manufacturing plants down – including the location I was meeting them at. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Start conversations about them – and I don’t mean by asking them about the weather. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Be Buyer Focused: We confuse buyers when we speak all about us and when we spew information about our wonderful products and services. Expand Your Pipeline.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Create the perfect conversation with your potential buyer. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter |Visit us on google+. Newer sales reps need to feel comfortable with what it is that they are saying and to whom. That’s why my best tool for doing this is…….drum drum roll…….your your smartphone.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Hopefully you have been working in Q4 to set up meetings, demos and conversations in January. Most of us here have a complex sale – in other words, it takes multiple conversations and there are multiple people involved. Being cordial and friendly is great, but don’t get lured into long conversations. Do not procrastinate.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Your Google+ business contacts. As a company that has gained our last 3 new clients from LinkedIn and Twitter, we encourage you to exchange conversation with the people who know you and are out looking for what it is that you do. The 500+ contacts you were once so proud to have accumulated in LinkedIn. Twitter followers.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Gaining access, having intelligent conversations, and working toward closing business EVERY day is also tough. 35) Know the business conversation of those in each of your product’s niches. 39) Plan “Quadrant 2” time in your schedule (Google Steven Covey Quadrants of Time). 32) Learn about tone and modulation.

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MARCH 25, 2014

3) Listen to the conversations already happening (where you want to be an influencer). email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile | twitter |Visit us on google+. Jill Rowley offers her advice: Becoming an Influencer in your industry takes time – it’s a journey, not an overnight success. . Close More Deals.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

It is critical to pique your buyer’s curiosity in advance of an actual conversation when possible. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. What 5 sales prospecting lessons can we take away from the big event? 1) Inbound Gets Your Interest. All that talking reminds us of the upcoming game.

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MAY 29, 2013

Have a multi-faceted approach to reaching buyers – between voice mail, e-mail, direct conversation, Twitter, and/or a handwritten note when applicable. Offer a different message for the different buyers and recommenders in the company – an executive buys for different reasons than a mid-level manager or a user does.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Understand your metrics – really know just how many potential buyers you need to speak with in order to convert those conversations and relationships into wins for you and for the buyers. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. Call High and work your way down. Increase Opportunities.

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