The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 26, 2022

To win in selling today salespeople need to master social selling, soft skills, how to prospect, how to create value, understand buyer roadblocks, how to deliver points of differentiation etc. Recall is our ability to pull information from our brains that we once learned in the past, an example would be what is a “value proposition” in sales.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We’ll also look at examples of sales objectives that you can set for your sales team. For example, instead of saying that you want to bring in new clients or boost profit margins, you might say something like, “We’ll close more accounts with cold calls.” For example, if you want to close more accounts, then decide on how many. .

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With a customized headline, you’ll instantly distinguish yourself, give prospects and recruiters a reason to view your profile, and start building the case for your product. Click here to jump straight to the best LinkedIn headline examples. It’ll make your prospects trust you less. How to Write a LinkedIn Headline.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If salespeople want to maximize their profits and make the most out of their time, they need to learn how to personalize their prospects while conserving time. While this might seem contradictory, it can be done with good prospecting software and a detailed prospecting plan. . The Importance of Continually Prospecting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 21, 2019

Prospects expect sales pitches to be highly personalized, too. And of course, every sales leader has a set of sales best practices they believe makes a sales pitch successful. Let’s dive into some of the principles that make for an ultra-effective sales pitch, and explore examples of sales pitches that illustrate them perfectly.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These are important to understand of course, but salespeople aren't always going to call just to pitch to a potential customer — the job encompasses so much more. Sales professionals not only convert prospects into buyers, they hold the power to negotiate, upsell, and even problem-solve after the initial purchase is made.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Bigtincan Learning surfaces all training on the home screen where courses and curriculums are searchable and can be filtered by industry, sales stage, products discussed, and a number of other categories so reps can quickly find different trainings. Reps are even able to pick up and resume a training they weren’t able to complete prior.

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Nutshell

JUNE 25, 2021

Newsflash: half of your prospects are a bad fit for the products and/or services you sell. Fortunately, there are ways to identify and eliminate bad-fit prospects from your pipeline before they drag you down. Fortunately, there are ways to identify and eliminate bad-fit prospects from your pipeline before they drag you down.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? Introducing, the “foot in the door” cold email prospecting method! The techniques we discuss in today’s post will help you email any prospect, whether it’s a CEO, marketing VP, industry influencer, or your favorite podcast host.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2023

But despite the speed of innovation in sales tech, there are still large corporations and small startups alike whose main sources of information for targeting are Google, basic contact-scraping software, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Alright now, let’s prospect! In this example, our data quality will range from 85-99% accuracy.

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Allego

MAY 2, 2024

The AI Act’s Impact on Software Users The Act’s passage—at a time when nefarious use of AI has many people worried—was seen as a win for consumers. Deepfakes, automated fraud, and the spread of misinformation, for example, are more prevalent than before because of generative AI (genAI).

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SendBuzz

MAY 2, 2023

Nowadays, the majority of marketers and salespeople believe it is safe to infer that a prospect is indifferent if their email does not receive a response. Instead of using follow-up emails to encourage a prospect to purchase their product or service, they instead move on to new prospects. A follow-up email, what is it?

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SalesFolk

MARCH 2, 2021

On average companies who generically define their buyer personas as “Marketing” or “Technical decision-maker” tend to get 10-30x worse results from their sales prospecting efforts than those with detailed ICPs. . Example of redefining a Buyer Persona & copyediting a real Cold Email. Here’s what you can do…??.

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Close.io

MAY 6, 2019

Here’s how to craft the perfect subject lines, plus examples you can use for your own emails. 22 killer email subject line examples for each sales type. Before you even start a first draft, get into the right mindset to better relate to your prospects, and remind you of key points you can make with your email subjects for sales.

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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. … Conduct Market Research and Determine Your Ideal Buyer.

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy of making marketing decisions based on the characteristics of target accounts and prospects.

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CloserIQ

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

To do this, you need to fully engage your prospects and get creative with your sales pitch ideas. . Here are six fundamental sales pitch ideas to help you create a human connection with your prospects: 1. Listen to your prospects. When you’re making sales pitches, pay careful attention to what the prospect is telling you.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Qualifying prospects is a critical step in the sales process. It’s easier said than done, of course. How do you determine if a prospect is a good fit for your products or services? It helps sales teams qualify prospects and determine if they have a high chance of converting. The same is true for your prospects.

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LeadFuze

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Examples of where to implement a successful automation. These include removing reps from the human sales tasks you need to connect with prospects. For example, your plan might be to cut your reps’ time on data entry from two hours per week down to just 15 minutes. Do’s and don’ts of sales process automation. Compare tools.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 15, 2020

While making sales is, of course, the cornerstone of our profession, making purchases during this time is far from a priority – or even a possibility – for many of our prospects. Acting with thoughtfulness and a relaxed expectation of when the sale needs to be closed will mitigate the risk of you turning prospects off to your business.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 24, 2020

How To Easily Track Your Leads From Prospect Status To Closing the Deal Salespeople track leads from prospect status to closing the deal because that’s how the sales process flows. However, when Toni looked for apps and software that could help, he found there were no available tools that existed.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Leveraging technology, social selling , and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone pursuing a career in sales. Buyer behavior and selling motion are completely in sync and it is through correct B2B prospecting that we can succeed in this always-evolving field. What is Sales Prospecting? Click To Tweet.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Now that we’ve briefly covered the seven factors of sales training, let’s dive deeper into each one of the sales techniques and how you can use software to satisfy them. For example, a rep may take a product training on handling objections in March. Questions prospects may have about contracts or other document details.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In this post, “How to Calculate Total Addressable Market and Perform TAM Analysis,” you can find out what TAM is, how to quantify it, and see real-world examples. It’s a science — understanding the market + humanization + appeal = (hopefully) more fitting prospects. Organize Prospect Info by Building a Database from Scratch.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. No, this isn't an infomercial.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2023

What do ebooks, graphic design software, and online courses have in common? For example, let’s say you have a print magazine. Digital products can complement physical products — for example, an artist who sells ceramics can create an educational podcast about their practice. They're all digital products.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sometimes, the insight you get can help you shape more sound, thoughtful sales efforts — giving you a framework to help you better understand your prospects and how to cater to them. You want to cast as wide a net as possible — prioritize volume over personalization when communicating with prospects.” But there's a flip side.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 13, 2017

Configure price quote software makes approving complex sales orders easy and fast. Trust Your Configure Price Quote Software. Or, are you embracing a more customer-centered approach designed to help your prospect make the right buying decision? It Starts with Guided Selling Backed Up by Configure Price Quote Software.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

Of course, changes in the sales landscape and marketplace have a profound effect on your business development strategy. And this often begins with prospecting. However, a Janek survey revealed 18% of sales leaders do not have set prospecting metrics. In addition, 32% don’t know how much time reps prospect. Only 31.5%

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2018

The acronym BANT stands for: Budget: How much is the prospect able and willing to spend? Need: Does the prospect have a problem your product can solve? fails when salespeople use it like a checklist, meaning they ask prospects a series of rote questions without truly listening to their response or attempting to add value.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

It listed information for all the prospects in my California territory including the company name, revenue figures, address, telephone number and — of course — the decision maker’s name and title. It’s much easier now to find out what you need to know about a prospect or a client. A lot has changed since then — or has it?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For example, intent data can help sales representatives send automated prospecting and follow-up emails, while firmographic data is helpful for sales operations teams that need to more effectively route leads to their sales team. These days, of course, maintaining robust, accurate, scalable contact data is a massive undertaking.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Prospecting 131

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. You’ll also know why you need a strong sales prospecting process and exactly how that will benefit your business. It’s not so much knowing about sales prospecting vs lead generation, as knowing how and when to prioritize one or the other.

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