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Do You Have Prospects or Suspects? 10 Ways to Know the Difference.

The Sales Hunter

Too many prospecting pipelines are plugged. They’re plugged with suspects taking up valuable time. Keeping the pipeline full of only great prospects allows it to move faster and does not require the pipeline to be as big. It’s better to have a narrow fast-moving pipeline than a large slow-moving pipeline.

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Set Yourself Up for Successful Prospecting: Truths 41-50

The Sales Hunter

Throughout my many years of selling, I have been constantly gaining new insights and ideas. It’s up to you to determine how you want to hear the noise. I do see technological advances helping us in sales, but sales is still about human interaction and emotional decisions. This is where prospecting has to come in.

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How Will Advances In Artificial Intelligence Change The B2B Data Industry?

Zoominfo

An (admittedly) oversimplified explanation of GPT-3 is as follows: a language processing tool that can do everything from creating poetry, writing code, or answering questions about the world. You could ask GPT-3 to write a poem about baseball, with a caveat that the prose should mimic Emily Dickinson’s style. You want proof?

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“Short Cuts” Seldom Prove To Be Short!

Partners in Excellence

I suspect it’s human nature to constantly be in search of short cuts. We want to get a desired outcome without doing all the work one would normally have to do to achieve that outcome. Imagine how I could waste that time doing something else… ” Or, I tend to be an impatient driver.

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Approaching 2015 From a Sales Perspective

Understanding the Sales Force

You may have even set your goals for 2015. But what can you do to kick-off the New Year so that 2015 is your best sales year ever? Here are my top 10 tips: Go All In on Your Goals and Write a Plan. Here are my top 10 tips: Go All In on Your Goals and Write a Plan. You now have the activity required.

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10 Ways To Prepare For Your First Cold Call

MTD Sales Training

The very thought of picking up the phone or writing an email to a prospect who has never heard of you or knows little about your products can be so daunting to a sales professional that they spend hours doing other things so that the inevitable rejection doesn’t have to be faced. That brings us onto….

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Situational Adaptability

Partners in Excellence

I got a prospecting call. I suspected his playbook had another set of questions–not about my issues, but they must have been “plan b” in the playbook. He didn’t know what to do, apparently he couldn’t find my issues and questions in his playbook. He didn’t know what to do.

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