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MAY 9, 2024

Opportunities are those prospects that have been qualified by your sales team. The key is to increase the number of qualified prospects in your sales pipeline. It may also indicate the health of your prospecting pipeline and lead qualification. What is an example of sales velocity? Why is sales velocity important?

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2023

One was from a business owner who wanted to speak to me about training for his sales team. Yep—the business prospect, of course. If you’re leaving voice messages and not getting call backs, consider whether you’re making it hard for your prospects to write your number down. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How good are you at requalify existing accounts, or prospects you haven’t spoken with in a while? And that means that just because a prospect or client was in charge of a certain function last month or 6 months ago, it doesn’t mean they are in charge of it today. Here are some examples of transition sentences. into requalifying.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Whenever a prospect told him that, he simply asked: “And besides price, what else is holding you back?”. The next time someone tells you they can’t afford it or your price is too high, use my client’s example above. And let your prospect tell you where you need to go next…. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. And we’ve got examples. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. Effective cold email outreach means find something your prospect values – and something you have in common.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And you can search for any topic that is giving you trouble: For example, need help cold calling? The best (and most affordable) on-demand inside sales training program? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Click here. Want to know what a tie-down is and how to use them more effectively? Click here. Click here.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 12, 2022

By now, I hope you have all been incorporating your prospect’s name in your email subject lines. If you have, then you are already getting more prospects to lock onto your email, and that will mean more prospects will read them. The second part of a compelling subject line is to make the rest of it intriguing to your prospect.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2021

I was training a group of new reps last week, listening to one of their calls, and we found that the rep was ad-libbing right from the beginning of the call. This ad-libbing approach led to all the common problems we’ve chronicled before: He didn’t qualify the prospect for timeline, budget, decision making steps or even buying motives.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

By now, I hope you have all been incorporating your prospect’s name in your email subject lines. If you have, then you are already getting more prospects to lock onto your email, and that will mean more prospects will read them. The second part of a compelling subject line is to make the rest of it intriguing to your prospect.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2021

, I’m going to give you two rules for developing an effective elevator pitch and then some examples that you can plug your product or service into. Remember, this is an “elevator pitch” designed to inform and grab interest in a prospect during the time you’re in an elevator together (or during that crucial 20 seconds you’ve got on the phone).

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever had that feeling when you’re talking to a prospect that the person isn’t who they say they are? 3) Use the gatekeeper screen to get further information. Some salespeople dread talking to the gatekeeper (a person whose job is to filter approaches so the decision-makers don’t get hounded by sales calls ).

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 3, 2020

Not only that, but after you’ve given your response, have you ever found that your prospect just comes up with another objection? Example: Your prospect says that it costs too much. Your prospect then says that they have to talk to their boss…. Here’s how: Prospect says, “It costs too much.”. You get the idea.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 31, 2020

If a prospect is looking to move forward “as soon as possible,” for example, it means that budget is in place. In addition, what is also important about timeline is that if the prospect you’re speaking to isn’t in the market at this moment, it means you can relax behind your pitch. Everybody is onboard. Is there urgency or not?

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 5, 2012

As a result, there are tons of training and tips on how to handle such obstacles as well as many alterative prospecting avenues. When the prospect picks up the telephone, you are instantly in their living room, their office or perhaps their bedroom! How’d you get my number/information/pass gatekeeper?”. What do you want?!”

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 3, 2022

Here’s a quick example from a new client I’m working with now: At the end of speaking with current accounts, the habit of the sales team is to ask: “If you need anything, please give me a call…”. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Someone once said, “First we form habits, and then they form us.”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 16, 2021

In sales, this means leading by example. And over the years, I found that this was the best way to train my reps—by modeling the closing skills and behaviors I wanted them to learn and practice. What’s interesting in my training these days is that there are a good number of sales managers who resist this idea. I enjoyed it!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 11, 2020

For years, I’ve been teaching and training sales teams to put in the time and effort to learn the proper sales techniques first, and then, after they understand and have mastered the fundamentals, they can “adapt” them to each particular prospect or situation. Check it out here.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2022

(And here is the key): The real use of this question is to gage carefully the receptiveness of your prospect and then to respond accordingly. If you make calls for a living, then you know you can tell exactly what kind of mood a prospect is in simply by listening to how they answer the question, “How are you today?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 9, 2020

Let’s review: There are six primary areas that you need to qualify a prospect on: Buying motives Red Flags: Why they won’t buy Decision maker(s) Decision process Timeline Budget. Timeline is the best indicator of a prospect’s seriousness, readiness, and, yes, budget. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

Example: I’m working with a coaching/consulting organization right now that has many related companies in their portfolio. They have specific, aggressive goals for the acquisition of business (and I mean, really big target revenue goals); They invest in sales training for their team. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2020

If you want to learn how to cold call — or just improve your skills — your best approach is to watch what experienced sales reps do, listen to recordings , and of course, study cold calling examples. Then, I’m going to give you real-life cold calling examples that my team and I use on our best calls. Let’s get started, shall we?

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 9, 2019

Of course, the world doesn’t work that way, and there will be prospects and customers who will reject your advances and avoid you at all costs. Calling a dozen times doesn’t change the underlying dynamic that is causing your prospect not to see you. 4) DON’T judge the prospect because of their unwillingness to see you.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And leaders lead by example. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today. Remember one thing—as the manager, you are the leader.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 30, 2022

For example, what does your team say when they are told to “Just email me something”? If you’d like to know how to improve those skills, then get your team into my new on-demand inside sales training! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! How about: “We wouldn’t be interested right now?”. See it here.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It’s packed with useful, no-nonsense examples that will really resonate. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For example, when I ask people what their financial goal is, they often tell me, “To earn more money than I made last year.” ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

Would you be as successful if you couldn’t reach out to these prospects and introduce yourself and your company? For example: many real estate agents have put together an up to date, free market analysis of comps of other homes in the area and call local homeowners to give this away. If your answer is Yes, then guess what?

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

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. 2) Do your prospecting professionally.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2020

Having a variety of cold calling scripts on handmakes sales training easier for new hires as well. And when their phone training wheels are taken off, reps can tailor their scripts to personalize their message using their unique voice. So whatever you pitch to your prospect needs to work for their purchase-savvy staff.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

To add insult to injury, executive-level assistants are trained to be gatekeepers. Stay relevant to what your prospects do, need, and hope to achieve. Position your product or service as an urgent need or else your prospect will continue to put off buying. A – Always align. P – Raise Priorities.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. And we’ve got examples. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. Effective cold email outreach means finding something your prospect values—and something you have in common.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2020

If so, you know how tough it can be to connect with busy executives, To add insult to injury, executive-level assistants are trained to be gatekeepers. Stay relevant to what your prospects do, need, and hope to achieve. Position your product or service as an urgent need or else your prospect will continue to put off buying.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2022

I don’t know what I would do without your scripts and other training material! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 25, 2020

Do any of these email responses from prospects or customers sound familiar? Of course, you’ll want to soften your response by showing empathy for what your prospect or client is going through. Another example: Dear Prospect, Good to hear you’re keeping well. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 22, 2019

They get the prospect on the phone, go through a PowerPoint slide presentation, drone on and on for a half hour or more, rarely checking in their prospect—and if they do, it’s a weak, “does that make sense?”–and This is just one small example of introducing an objecting by pitching past the close. And on and on.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2018

To add insult to injury, executive-level assistants are trained to be gatekeepers. Keep reading if you’re ready to bypass gatekeepers and set more meetings with the C-Level. Stay relevant to what your prospects do, need, and hope to achieve. Every step of the buying process should be easy. A – Always align.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 16, 2019

And it starts when prospects begin asking for a lower price or a “deal,” or for a reference before committing, or for a free trial to demo services or products. If you’ve done this yourself, then you know all too well the sickening feeling of “giving away the store” only to have the prospect then refuse to do business with you.

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