Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

As you speak with your clients and prospects this week, realize that they are all feeling the same stress as well. If I get an, “Ah, I don’t know,” then I once again use layering questions like: “Have you heard of my new On Demand Inside Selling Skills Training?” The point is to ask questions and LISTEN to your prospect’s needs.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2018

By following a logical progression, salespeople can perfect the skill of asking the right questions and getting the necessary answers needed to move towards closing business. Using a sales process also helps them avoid wasting time with the wrong prospects – those that won’t close.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 26, 2015

Every day I get minimally 3 – 5 emails from people proclaiming to me how effective their social media plan is for getting new customers. Each one claims to know exactly why others fail and why they have a plan that works perfect. Along with the emails are the numerous articles on the web about how old school […].

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If it’s not perfect selling skills, then help them upgrade those skills today! Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? And that means more money, more sales, more confidence, more success, etc. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Get Access Today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Why not use them to upgrade your team’s selling skills so they can hit the third and fourth quarter hard? And until you find out what’s really holding your prospect back, you’ll just go around and around in circles. And only when I understood what was really holding my prospect back did I begin to close more sales.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

A great voicemail can be of your best strategies to turn a lead into a prospect. Are your voicemails worth listening to? I hate to say it, but most aren’t and that’s exactly why most salespeople don’t see any value in going through the effort of leaving a voicemail. I’ll argue the opposite, though! The […].

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Exact 100

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

Mindset determines the actions you take, how you deal with adversity, how much you use good selling skills (and how much you invest in them), and how you adapt to the changing conditions around you. Think carefully, because nothing (in my experience) is more predictive of results than mindset. And a lot more! Get Access Today.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 23, 2016

So, now that product knowledge is not the main concern of the prospect , how can you still control the conversation so you are taking it in the right direction? Before you make contact, research what the prospect already knows about you and your company. Happy selling! Have they used your products or services before?

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 28, 2017

If you want full price, you need to spend your time prospecting customers who can pay full price. You can’t take a Walmart shopper and turn them into a Nordstrom customer. It simply is not going to happen, but that is exactly what too many salespeople think they can do. Are you one who […].

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Qualifying prospects is a critical step in the sales process. 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. BANT is an acronym for: Budget: What is the prospect’s budget? .

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RAIN Group

MAY 17, 2023

In our recent study of nearly 400 sellers and sales leaders, we asked sellers how challenging they find various selling skills/behaviors. For the 16 skills we asked about, less than 55% of sellers found each very challenging. Is it simply that these skills come easily to sellers? Not exactly.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 21, 2012

What results are you looking for from your sales prospecting efforts? Sales are slow and there aren’t enough prospects, so a quick plan is developed to send out a bunch of emails make a few phone calls. The expectation is that this single effort will produce plenty of prospects. I’m all for being optimistic.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 27, 2013

The best way to engage your prospect or customer is by asking short questions. Blog Closing a Sale Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills Prospecting prospect prospecting questioning questioning skills' Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 6, 2012

It’s time to put to rest the belief that unless you know exactly what it is you want to say to a sales prospect, you should not call them. The problem I have with this is that far too many people use it as an excuse to get them out of making sales prospecting calls. If in doubt, make the call.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 31, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. 4 Things to Do Right Now to Get Better Sales Prospects. We all need better sales prospects. Rarely do I run into a salesperson who is not looking for more sales prospects. Expand your prospecting funnel.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 12, 2013

Develop 2-3 different points of entry you might be able to use with a prospect. Blog Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills Prospecting prospect prospecting sales process' Having a POE that offers you more conversation with the customer is exactly what you want.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ll also share some of the key challenges and benefits of making the shift to the solution-selling methodology. What is solution selling? Solution selling isn’t exactly a new concept. As the name suggests, solution selling is a sales methodology in which sellers present solutions to prospective customers, rather than products.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Second, accelerate the level of activity you’re having with prospects you’re close to closing. Third, devote an extra 30 minutes per day to telephoning warm prospects. Fourth, set up a weekly blitz of emails to everyone on your prospecting list regardless of what you believe their potential is.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

The challenges your prospects are going through are the same ones you are. Here are some emails you may be getting, and some suggested wording for your responses to them: Email from Prospect #1: Dear…. “I Email from Prospect #2: Dear…. Email from Prospect #3: “Dear…. “I Email from Prospect #4: “Dear….

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criteria for success

MARCH 17, 2021

This way, new hires need to indicate a certain level of knowledge before they are able to engage with prospects and clients. By this point, your new hire should be actively prospecting and selling, and it’s important to make sure they haven't fallen into any old habits, but are instead sticking to your process. Listen Now.

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Marc Wayshak

AUGUST 24, 2021

So you’ve finally got a prospect who’s interested in what you have to say…and actually wants to hear you present. Actually, no —that’s old-school selling, and it simply doesn’t work anymore. Feature and benefit selling has been around for a really long time. And that’s the last thing any prospect wants to hear.

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criteria for success

MAY 24, 2022

Having a consistent 30-second commercial allows you to ensure that prospects are hearing the same message, one that is aligned with your company’s ethos. First, work with your team to develop a series of 30-second commercials targeted towards your key prospects. This exercise can be covered in one sales meeting or split into two.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 14, 2023

We can spend a lot of time focusing on specific selling skills, for example questioning, probing, objection handling, presenting skills, closing skills. Some of the more advanced thinkers will focus on value creation or Business Focused Selling (which is another of my hot buttons.

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Ideal Customer Profile Pipeline Margin Construction 78

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The pool of prospects next year is going to grow. There will be more prospects than ever, and the good news is more of them will actually buy. The internet continues to open up new areas and this means prospects can come from more places. Prospects are going to engage you later than ever in the process.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

A referral introduction guarantees you score almost every meeting in one call, and you convert prospects to clients well more than 50 percent of the time. Prospects and clients aren’t happenstance. The key to increasing revenue and achieving quota isn’t cramming the top of the funnel with as many prospects as possible—qualified or not.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 15, 2023

Inability to build trust with the prospect : Many reps find it easier to build trust in face-to-face interactions where body language, proximity, and even a friendly handshake are all at their disposal. While connection over a distance is one of the biggest benefits of virtual selling, it can also be a drawback.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Remote sales or virtual selling is the process of prospecting, engaging, and closing deals from a remote location. Instead of traditional in-person sales meetings, the salesperson and the prospect are in different places such as their home or work. Why remote selling is the future of sales . Keeping prospects engaged.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Lead Rank Pipeline 108

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We toss the term around casually, but when I look at too many pipelines or prospecting programs, the ICP is not discernible. We have a tendency to try to sell to anyone. Too often, we don’t take the time to do the research to make sure the prospect is in our ICP. The link will take you to that collection.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Pipeline Enterprise 48

Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2022

Or you may identify opportunities to upsell the prospect on additional features or training depending on their needs and concerns. . Consultative selling helps you meet the desires of buyers, too. Now let’s talk about how to improve those consultative selling skills. Actually listen to what your prospect says.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

And at the end of it, remember to move when your prospect is engaged so the opportunity doesn’t pass you by. . Your prospect is more likely to attend something you agreed to together on the phone or in person than a meeting you invited them to via email. The stakes are obvious: the current pain and potential benefits are spelled out.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 19, 2020

In addition, it states that “Sales reps can reach more customers with virtual selling or even reach customers in various geographical locations.”. Here are some ideas that will help when you are holding a virtual meeting with a prospect online. Don’t try to ‘sell’. Do think about what is on the prospect’s mind.

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Allego

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For reps to build up their selling skills and gain the insights they need, they require ongoing coaching from sales managers. For instance, a seller can record themselves doing a practice selling session and show how they’d approach a call, share it with their manager for review, and then receive feedback on improvements.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

Here’s another common scenario: They use LinkedIn to find mutual connections with their prospects, reach out to those connections, and say, “Hey, I’m trying to get a meeting with so-and-so at XYZ Corp. My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you.

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Referrals Scale How To Lead Rank 297

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Finding ideal prospects means your SDRs must be experts on your products and services, and be able to communicate how they can solve your potential customers’ problems. Related: The Definitive Guide to Sales Prospecting With Proven Outreach Methods. Before a new customer deal can close, an SDR has to find that customer. New accounts.

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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. The training program, called "Professional Selling Skills," took a then-new consultative approach to sales. Qualification.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 137

criteria for success

JULY 15, 2021

We’ve all been there: a major prospect said no and our pipeline suddenly disappeared. Build a prospecting action plan for the next month to fill it, and make sure you establish better prospecting habits moving forward so it doesn’t happen again. State of Emergency. Or maybe our biggest client switched vendors. Life Is Good!

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

Here is what makes a buyer persona useful… to a salesperson: Based on reality, not guessing or assuming (yes, you’ve heard that before ): Interview customers and prospects. Chris recommends interviewing 7-10 people for each persona — with a mix of prospects and customers (leaning on new customers). Here’s how it’s done.

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Buyer Persona Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Hiring 118