No More Cold Calling

JUNE 19, 2014

Of course you would. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people these executives know and trust, your prospects (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. So why are you still cold calling? Think again.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 30, 2014

A prospect recently left a voicemail for me and stated his phone number so quickly that I had to listen to the message three times from two different phones. This, of course, means making it easy for them to reach us. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business'

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 17, 2014

But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. Some of us get lucky and thrive under a brilliant sales manager. In fact, three out of four salespeople aren’t performing up to par, according to research from sales training consulting firm, Kurlan & Associates. The same is true in sales management.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business is booming, and the adrenaline is coursing through your veins. You’ve still got to prospect. This is especially true if you’ve been so busy closing deals that you lost focus on the business development part of your career, and your sales pipeline has dried up. By putting better systems in place.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These approaches are enhanced with sales training technology to provide on-demand access to engaging microlearning content, such as video-based presentations and interactive quizzes. Below, we’ll take a closer look at 10 sales training ideas and activities to revamp your strategy for 2024 – and ensure your reps stay prepared.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 12, 2015

Here’s how to implement real change in your sales organization. Why do so many salespeople refuse to learn new prospecting strategies or to change sales tactics that aren’t working? Referral Selling: A Change Worth Making Sales leaders get comfortable too quickly when introducing new prospecting strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 3, 2017

With the long history of data availability available to B2C salespeople, they’re able to better track, recognize, and understand their prospects and the buying trips they take. For business-to-business, there’s an added layer of complexity. Of course, some of this has to do with data sets. Big Data Means Big Pain Points.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

On the other hand, for a field sales rep, those activities might be opportunities discovered, VP-level conversations, face-to-face meetings, and proposals sent. Next, interview your sales managers and reps for their perspectives on key activities. Two salespeople might contact the same number of prospects.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2015

For ideas to fill that funnel and make 2015 your best sales year ever, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: How to Avoid the Trash Folder If you’re sending emails to prospects you don’t know, don’t be surprised when you get deleted. It’s not only stupid; it’s a waste of sales time.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

Don’t run ads on the weekend If you’re a B2B company, prospects are primarily searching for you while they’re at work. To save money, consider only running ads during business days and hours. For example, if it’s small business owners, they often work every day of the week, so running ads on the weekends might make sense.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 23, 2020

Robert Miller and Stephen Heiman have urged salespeople not to lead with a sales pitch. They must seek to understand how much the prospect understands their product and uncover the potholes in their decision process. As a business owner or manager, train your sales team, ask smart questions that fall under these five categories.

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Having a clear set plan of action is crucial for a sales manager. Of course, things may change on your daily schedule, but if you have your priorities for the day, it will help you accomplish more things on an everyday basis. CRM has become an integral part of any business, whether a small one or an enterprise.

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Sales Evangelist

JUNE 18, 2020

Mark Evans has been a salesperson all his life, starting with his parents’ small business, practicing being a salesperson. After finishing college, he got back into sales. Now, Mark has a sales consultancy where he helps companies build their sales playbook. It will help them elevate their sales game.

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Rob Jolles

OCTOBER 22, 2021

When you’re a sales person, you live to sell; it’s in your blood. You are programmed to turn suspects into prospects – prospects into qualified prospects – and qualified prospects to satisfied customers. Of course, you don’t really want to sell everyone… do you? It’s as easy as that.

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Gong.io

JULY 20, 2022

No matter how skilled your reps or what sales methodology you use, you can’t close someone who has no need for your product or service. To get super narrow on the types of prospects you need to speak to, you need well-developed sales ICPs (ideal customer profiles). Small business owners. Sales organizations.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 11, 2011

Say the speed with which an athlete run 100 metres, the batting average of a ball player, the length of time from hand shake to close, or the rate of conversion of prospects to proposals, etc. In other words, measures of actions or factors that help a sales person hit or surpass their target. Prospecting. Sales Bloggers Union.

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Rob Jolles

MAY 5, 2023

Persistence: continuing firmly in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. In sales, you need to be persistent, but you will never win in the long term by being pushy. Sales managers will encourage the sales people they manage to stay front of mind of their prospects. You bet there is!

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Rob Jolles

MAY 5, 2023

Persistence: continuing firmly in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. In sales, you need to be persistent, but you will never win in the long term by being pushy. Sales managers will encourage the sales people they manage to stay front of mind of their prospects. You bet there is!

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since a SaaS product is typically more complex to use than a physical product, prospects need a lot more education and training from sales reps before they feel prepared to buy. Educational selling is very important for my team,” says Kyle Ferretti , the US Sales Manager at SEMRush. Type of Customer.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. There’s a mix of free plans and paid plans with various pricing tiers in our rundown, so you can find a lead generation platform that meets your business needs. Visit their pricing page to learn more.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Jason Bay , Chief Prospecting Officer at Blissful Prospecting , a company he built to coach B2B reps in outbound sales. Join us for a high-energy, people-focused conversation about doing a complete 180 with your outbound sales framework. powered by Sounder.

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Salesmate

JULY 7, 2020

Did you know that a sales team can be 13% more productive when they work remotely? However, there are many moving parts to a sales process, and leading a remote sales team isn’t a stroll in the park. Here’s how you can effectively manage a remote sales team: 1. Invest in the right tools and resources.

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Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

LinkedIn has become the defacto standard for the professional world, prospective employers to find job seekers and for an account executive to find potential customers. You always want to focus on them (the prospect, the HR director, the client) and how you can help them be more successful. With their permission of course.)

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2015

Salespeople are failing to make quota in large numbers, but management continues to increase sales goals. In the same report, almost half of sales execs said enhancing lead generation is their top initiative. Of course it is. So how do you fill your sales pipeline with nothing but hot, qualified leads?

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LeadFuze

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are a number of simple and yet powerful campaign management tools which have become crucial to saving time and eliminating manual grunt work. While sales process automation can free up time, it comes with a few pitfalls as well. These include removing reps from the human sales tasks you need to connect with prospects.

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Gong.io

JULY 13, 2022

So how do you work with these types of prospects? SNAP Selling provides a framework that sales reps can follow when selling to frazzled prospects (and of course, unfrazzled ones, too). Here are the core principles of the framework: Keep it S imple: Prospects don’t want to add any more complexity to their lives.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 27, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reported ongoing sales chicanery at the company, and traced its roots back to 2004 ( American Express Gave Small Business Customers One Rate, Then Secretly Raised It ), July 31, 2018). A sales trick that predates the invention of snake oil. Unless, of course, you’re making a goal.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 21, 2015

But when you have your eyes glued to a device, keeping up with what’s going on “out there,” you miss out on the important people right in front of you —your loved ones, colleagues, customers, and prospects. A great question for clients and prospects begins with “when.” Of course not. Scrutinize carefully.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales professionals won’t be working from home all the time. However, outside sales teams will not be in the field as much as they used to be. The first thing you need to know is how remote selling is different from traditional selling or otherwise known as field sales. How to Hire a Remote Sales Team. Why Vengreso?

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Good persona building will make prospecting and turning those prospects into qualified leads much easier. Start off by making sure that both sales and marketing are tailoring their work to the same set of buyer personas. Average cold call conversion rate: How many prospects are your reps qualifying per call?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

Location: If your offices are spread out, it might make sense to use a channel sales model. That makes creating multiple sales teams unnecessary. Of course, you can also use an inside sales model where appropriate. If you need money sooner rather than later, focus on direct sales for now. Channel sales manager.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 4, 2015

After all, I’d only done my job (very well, of course). Management had announced the winners to the entire company, and I’d been on an amazing trip. But I was a seasoned sales pro working with a winning sales team , so how much acknowledgment did I really need?

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

2 Predictable Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting brings in some of the top minds in lead gen, social selling, and sales process. You’ll be sure to hear the importance of prospecting as well as dynamite for the rest of your sales process, even if you listen to a few episodes. 3 The Sales Podcasts.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

But before your company forks over any more of your hard-earned revenue on sales training, you should check out the hours of free training on YouTube first. An award-winning author and highly sought-after keynote speaker, Konrath provides practical and modern strategies in her videos to help sales teams generate and close more leads.

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ExecVision

JUNE 24, 2019

Selling software isn’t the same as selling consumer debt repair or small business loans. Small Business Owners & Consumers. Prospects who fill out web forms to request a call with a sales rep typically are in an active buying cycle. No, of course not. As such the ranges are 55%-65% talking with 2.5-3.5

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Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2020

. “The key to both generating leads and increasing the close rate is to find the right leads to feed into your sales process. ” — Jason Aten, Sales Analyst at Fit Small Business. At this point, you know what your team’s average close rate is and the number of sales you’d like to hit every month.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 15, 2014

For more on how to develop respectful relationships that translate into sales, check out the latest from No More Cold Calling: LinkedIn Is Not a Place to Sell. Social media is a great tool for researching prospects and Referral Sources, and for sharing interesting, relevant information. Small business owners are a target.

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