Vengreso

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Have you ever received a connection request from someone without a LinkedIn photo on their profile? According to LinkedIn, people are 14 times more likely to accept an invitation from someone who has a LinkedIn profile picture. You should not try to “hide” on LinkedIn by going without a LinkedIn profile photo.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Recent statistics released by the LinkedIn Ads group showed that nearly 50% of LinkedIn members are in a key decision maker role such as Manager, Director, Owner, Chief Officer or Vice President – once again proving that LinkedIn really is the biggest and best decision maker search engine in the world!

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SBI Growth

JULY 11, 2013

Face-to-face sales interactions are typically viewed as the most valuable activity by Sales Leaders. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. 5 years ago they were right.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

The truth about salespeople who are reluctant to prospect boils down to two things: First, they are reluctant to prospect because past attempts resulted in failure. Second, they don’t know what to say to prospects. Prospecting reluctance can be the silent killer of sales careers.

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Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a newly-established freelancer who’s trying to generate leads, a job seeker in the market for a new job or position, or a seasoned sales professional, the strength of your LinkedIn profile can have a huge impact on your ability to attract and engage with the right audience.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 14, 2019

Even if we have the right process or the best mindset, every seller is going to encounter difficulties, so we must figure out how we'll stick to our mission and achieve greatness in the face of adversity. He had what he calls a dysfunctional life, but he learned the ability to thrive in the face of difficulty.

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Mindtickle

JULY 29, 2019

Sales and service organizations are facing a perfect storm on many fronts and company representatives that are not equipped to handle complex buyer needs and competitive challenges are being left behind. We use Mindtickle to scale a high-quality, high-impact training experience for our sales organization, our partners, and our customers.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

Finding the right prospective buyers and then actually having conversations with them are the top two challenges most sellers are facing now. look to see other companies my contacts in my client companies are associated with through their LinkedIn profile. Understanding Your Target Market . What characteristics do they have?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

He complained that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. My colleague thought it was rather presumptuous of the prospect to ask him to drop everything and hop on a plane. Technology doesn’t close deals. Relationships do.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. Or possibly our problems are that too many sales people just don’t want to prospect?

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. It is through the use of the right B2B prospecting that we can continue to succeed in this always-evolving field. But before we start, let’s define what sales prospecting is.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 29, 2018

Find out about my new LinkedIn Learning course—plus, what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. LinkedIn Learning has just released my complete referral system. The program includes a series of short videos, which I recorded in the LinkedIn studios. What it takes to earn introductions to prime prospects.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 14, 2012

This post is about knowing about your prospect. Marketing types have actually formalized a methodology around knowing your prospect and call it “persona marketing”. Persona marketing ends up with marketing people having sheets of paper with fictional prospect characters on them. tools in general).

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker.

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Mindtickle

JULY 29, 2019

Sales and service organizations are facing a perfect storm on many fronts and company representatives that are not equipped to handle complex buyer needs and competitive challenges are being left behind. We use MindTickle to scale a high-quality, high-impact training experience for our sales organization, our partners, and our customers.

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Shari Levitin

MAY 19, 2022

Proper training and coaching in a hybrid world is the most important strategy for maximizing the performance of the individuals on your team. Yet the pitfalls in face-to-face training are amplified in virtual training. Pitfall 1: Focus on the training vs. the learning. I even made it myself back in the day.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. This equips them with vital skills to engage with prospects on their preferred social media platforms, building meaningful relationships that lead to increased revenue. Tips for adoption of social selling training.

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Mindtickle

JULY 29, 2019

Sales and service organizations are facing a perfect storm on many fronts and company representatives that are not equipped to handle complex buyer needs and competitive challenges are being left behind. We use MindTickle to scale a high-quality, high-impact training experience for our sales organization, our partners, and our customers.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 25, 2017

Many salespeople believe prospecting to be a one-way journey, where you make contact with the prospect and you have to do all the work to convince them they are making the right choice to talk to you, and eventually buy from you. But what if you could make yourself the target of prospects to contact?

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2012

You made the initial contact through LinkedIn. You then directed the prospect to your company website for additional information. Will you face a strong gatekeeper screen? Will the prospect have time to talk? Email and other e-prospecting and communication avenues are a critical part of doing business today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 19, 2020

I don’t know about you, but all my LinkedIn requests and emails from vendors now begin the same way: “I hope you and your family are staying safe…”. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Your email greeting needs to reflect that urgency….

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. Inside sales teams leverage technology to connect and engage with prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2020

Imagine you’re a prospect, and you stumble across my profile. These five LinkedIn summary templates will help you flesh out your profile in no time flat. LinkedIn Summary Examples for Reps. The most successful reps know that sales isn’t about them — it’s about the prospect. Download the LinkedIn Story summary template.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 6, 2017

Getting prospects to reply to your emails can seem daunting. So, you can utilise this thought in getting prospects to reply to emails. If your prospect sees proof that others have got results from your solutions, he’ll be more likely to consider your offering. Prospects can see a generalised email a mile off. Yeah, right!

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Autoklose

MARCH 11, 2024

Prospecting is a high-stakes game, so many sales reps make the mistake of being too pushy in an attempt to quickly convert leads into sales. Organize an Online Conference, Webinar, or an Industry Meetup First of all, do your research and find out what your prospects deal with and identify their pressing pain points. That’s right!

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 5, 2021

How does being human on LinkedIn help you improve your sales game and increase revenue? In today’s episode, Ellis Stone joins Donald Kelly for a great conversation about being human on LinkedIn and what it means. LinkedIn is such a powerful platform for professionals, but everyone in the space is using it effectively.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 5, 2021

How does being human on LinkedIn help you improve your sales game and increase revenue? In today’s episode, Ellis Stone joins Donald Kelly for a great conversation about being human on LinkedIn and what it means. LinkedIn is such a powerful platform for professionals, but everyone in the space is using it effectively.

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LinkedIn Face-to-face Scale Energy 40

Sales Evangelist

APRIL 5, 2021

How does being human on LinkedIn help you improve your sales game and increase revenue? In today’s episode, Ellis Stone joins Donald Kelly for a great conversation about being human on LinkedIn and what it means. LinkedIn is such a powerful platform for professionals, but everyone in the space is using it effectively.

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LinkedIn Face-to-face Scale Energy 40

MTD Sales Training

JULY 21, 2016

Do you have references and endorsements on your LinkedIn profile? So, how does this sound in reality and what impact could it have on your prospects? Here are some examples: “I was talking to another small business owner like yourself about some similar challenges he was facing, and this is what we were able to do to help him….”.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Sales people have to prospect! At least that was the case in 1983 when I was selling Nautilus exercise equipment, and it still is today even as president of Anthony Cole Training Group. I grew up in a sales world where, if you called yourself a sales person, you prospected for leads.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 20, 2017

This blog post is not going to cover how to handle objections, instead we are going to cover the underlying reasons why prospects don’t buy from you. Objections are, after all, just reasons and points that your salespeople need answer to satisfy the prospect that your product does the job. I mean, come on!

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The other day, I wrote one of my LinkedIn whining posts. I was, once again, whining about how poorly people prospect. As usual, it generated a lot of conversation about how widespread truly ineffective prospecting is. They don’t care, they haven’t been trained how to do this. Can we talk?”

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 10, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report 2020 shows that 44 percent of companies are seeing a significant decrease in responsiveness to social and other outreach because of COVID-19. In a social-distancing environment where there is no face-to-face interaction and no live events, investor and C-level buyer relationships can get started on LinkedIn.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 7, 2020

This isn’t a dogma/camp thing, go to LinkedIn for that. You’re A Prospect – I’ll Sell You. The economy seems to grow in line with the average sales, or is it the other way? And every app you add to the stack, claims to add 30% to your productivity and efficiency. Specifically, an interaction between two people. Data Is Blind.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

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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