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The Home Court advantage. Are you using it to make sales?

Jeffrey Gitomer

The average professional sports team wins more than 75% of the games they play on their home court. If you knew you could win 75% of the prospects you pitched, you'd do it, wouldn't you? Sales games are no different than sports games. Your strategy should be to make the preliminary call at the prospect's place of business.

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Changing the Odds In Your Prospecting

The Pipeline

How much of a premium would you pay to bet on a sporting event where the odds favoured your team over the other by 6000 to 100? What I am talking about specifically is prospecting, especially for buyers in the deep sea of Status Quo. This why sales people hate telephone prospecting, high rate of rejection, low rate of success.

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The Enterprise Prospecting Guide: 6 Tips for Better Responses

Sales Hacker

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. So, today, we’re going to cover four prospecting tips for breaking into Enterprise Accounts (plus some bonus tips at the end). Building rapport with prospects. Leveraging information to become your prospects doctor. Their calendars are blocked with 76 meetings.

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3 B’s Of Pipeline Success

The Pipeline

To use a sport analogy, your pipeline is your core, no matter what sport you are in hockey, tennis, or running, a strong core, a well exercised and maintained core adds to athletic performance and lifts one competitor to victory over a comparably talented athlete with a less conditioned core. Let’s explain what I mean by binary.

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30 Sales Prospecting Email Templates Guaranteed to Start a Relationship

Hubspot Sales

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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“Are You Experienced?”

The Pipeline

But there is a fundamental question that salespeople fail to take into account, and if they did, they would find it changes the way they see the prospect, and how the prospects respond as a result and become customers. But the reality in a buy/sale cycle is the exact opposite.

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Who Is Responsible for Sales Success?

Anthony Cole Training

He talked about how selling is very similar to sports in many ways except one and that is that in selling there is not contractual agreement that the prospect has to show up to compete. It is the sales persons responsibility to put themselves in a position to be in front of the prospect. Attracting those candidates.

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