MTD Sales Training

APRIL 30, 2018

What strikes me as strange and rather puzzling is a piece of research I read this week that said less than 10% of salespeople actually follow up a prospect more than once after they have sent a proposal. I think it is, so here’s some steps that will help you make following up a natural part of the sale for you: 1.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Before you can go setting up meetings, you need to figure out who you need to meet. Your prospect decides to do?

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If you begin your follow up calls like this: “Hi, I just wanted to see if you read the email I sent you?”. Then you’re going to want to read this post all the way through and adopt a better practice way of opening your follow up calls. Especially in sales. That’s why many sales reps don’t get better!

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2019

call to prospects whom you’ve already pitched? Is it something like: “I’m just calling to follow up on our proposal….”. Why not lead your prospect into the sale by referring back to the benefits he or she is going to get by working with you? Try this: “{Prospect}, great speaking with you again.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 8, 2018

So, you’ve got hold of a prospect and they’ve replied to you or accepted your request to connect up with them. What can you say that will build rapport and follow-up that initial interest? Prospects are only interested in results, not products. That’s a great start! But where do you go from here? Happy selling!

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Those prospects who seem to run away from you after a conversation. You have a meeting with a prospect that seems to go well. They agree that it would be a good idea for you to send them a recommendation/proposal/overview and “follow-up” with them. Stop Chasing Your Prospects. Sound familiar?

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you’re getting all the responses you’ll ever need on the first cold email you send to prospects, let me know. But if you need to send one sales follow up email after the next, you’re like the rest of us. The following templates are based on some simple cardinal rules about how to send a follow-up email.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”. Sign up here! Invest in sales team today!

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If you want more “treats” than “tricks” when dealing with prospects, then be bold and call back sooner than you are now. I don’t know why sales reps always default to: “I’ll call you again in a month…” Or 60 days or 90 days, etc, but why would you want to miss all the sales this prospect will place in the meantime?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2022

We struggle to provoke interest, to engage a prospect, to get people to respond to our outreach. In my news feed, I saw an article about an interesting research study on sales performance/productivity. ” The only thing I ever download from this very large sales automation provider are their market research whitepapers.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 29, 2013

One big contributing factor to your sales success is in your follow-up. There are three points to consider when thinking about following up with prospects, buyers, and with leads: A. Most sellers do not follow-up enough. If you master this, you can truly shine in sales. phone calls.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Interactions follow up with prospects following up with prospects How do I follow up' As normal, we asked the client why they chose us and why they. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. I’m sure by now you’re thinking, but Dave, what the heck does that have to do with sales process? As a detective, he always followed the evidence to find the truth. It will be worth it!

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

5 Little-known But Essential Email Follow-up Secrets is a guest post written by Forster Perelsztejn. . Forster gathers sales data at Prospect.io Ever seen this stats collection that says that 48% of salespeople never follow up with a prospect? up their follow-up game and do it like bosses.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

Recently we posted about a study that showed the power and necessity of follow up in building relationships with buyers who ultimately do business with you. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer. Create a Targeted List.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

So many sales professionals ask us to assist them in writing emails to their prospects that we sometimes think we should devote all our time and attention to this one area! It’s natural to want to contact prospects and show them how your world-changing products can make them successful. Another example: Hi Mr Prospect.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 5, 2012

With great skill, you established some rapport and interest and the prospect apparently is looking forward to receiving your literature. Everything is going exactly as written in your sales process. However, when you call back to set the appointment, the prospect seems to have switched to an alternate personality. The Solution.

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 31, 2023

If you’re getting all the responses you’ll ever need on the first cold email you send to prospects, let me know. But if you need to send one sales follow-up email after the next, you’re like the rest of us. The following templates are based on some simple cardinal rules about how to send a follow-up email.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 10, 2018

In my book, Power Phone Scripts , I reveal the secret of sales: 90% of selling situations are recurring selling situations, which means if you want to become a superstar sales person, then you have to take the time to script out a best practice response to them. The same is true in sales. Of course not!

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A few months ago, both AT&T, and then Google Fiber, dug up our street and lawns and bushes to install fiber Internet cable. Then a Google rep showed up out of the blue, canvassing the neighborhood. Then they showed up because my neighbor switched to them. What does this teach us as sales reps? One touch isn’t enough.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

What’s the number one blow off prospects use these days? Not only is it hard to get prospects back on the phone, when you do, you usually lead off with the ineffective opening line of: “Did you have a chance to review that email I sent you?” And then when a prospect blows you off with, “Can you email that to me?”

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. However, many B2B sales teams struggle with inefficient qualification processes. In fact, two statistics cited in Spotio are eye opening: 46% of B2B sales reps list lead quantity and quality as their top challenge.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

I watched a sales rep making cold calls the other day. He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. What was missing was the common currency of human interaction to set up the call.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 26, 2021

If you've done your pre-call prep work, you probably put together a list of sales questions to ask your prospect an hour or two before your appointment. That's good -- preparation is an important key to success in sales. However, there's also a downside to using questions prepared in advance on a sales call.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 10, 2021

Research shows that 92% of all salespeople give up on a lead after four rejections, while 44% give up after only one. All of this, despite the fact that our latest research shows that an average sales cycle for closed-won deals is more than 80 days (though it’s sometimes faster ). That adds up to an awful lot of follow-up.

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Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

This broken link is to blame for sales teams’ biggest closing mistakes. “My This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. It’s just a symptom.

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Smart Calling

MARCH 22, 2018

Do you really know where you stand with the prospects in your follow-up files right now? I’m not trying to make you feel bad, but my experience is that many sales reps have no clue where they are in the sales process with a majority of the people they are following up with. Come on, really now?

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 4, 2019

So, you followed our tips for the perfect cold-calling approach. You nailed your sales call, dispelling your prospect’s early misgivings, and they sounded enthusiastic about taking things forward. As a sales rep, getting to this point alone can feel like a victory — and it is. That’s a lot of follow-up sales calls!

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

Recently we posted about a study that showed the power and necessity of follow up in building relationships with buyers who ultimately do business with you. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer. Create a Targeted List.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

We have compiled a list of follow-up lead email templates that will help you follow up with your prospects and get them to, actually, respond. First of all, you need to understand that when sending follow-up emails, there are general rules to keep in mind. What Should a Sales Follow Up Email Contain?

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John Barrows

JUNE 13, 2018

As most of you know I’m not a huge fan of templated e-mail cadences but I do appreciate creating efficiencies throughout the sales process and adding structure where appropriate. One area in which we can add structure to is how we follow up with a prospective client after a good discovery call. ” After the Call.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 7, 2020

This week, I listened to a closing call from one of their reps, and here is how the prospect opened the call: Prospect: “Let me just tell you upfront that we’re looking at a lot of different options right now of which yours is just one…”. Here’s what I teach: Prospects have all the answers. Take what a prospect gives you.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. Despite the heavy investment in training, some businesses won’t benefit as much as they should. That’s because they overlook the way the B2B sales world has changed. Today’s B2B buyers research their options online long before they connect with any sales rep.

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The Sales Heretic

JUNE 12, 2013

For most salespeople, professionals and business owners, the sales process begins with prospecting. And yet, too often, we unwittingly sabotage our prospecting efforts. If you don’t have the number of quality prospects you’d like, chances are you’re making one or more of these common mistakes.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 11, 2019

Do you want to be a top producer in sales? If yes, then do what I did: Get the best training you can and use what you learn. Enroll yourself or your team in next week’s 7-week online training program. And until you find out what’s really holding your prospect back, you’ll just go around and around in circles. See it here.

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Close.io

JUNE 25, 2018

Every sales rep hates hearing no. You can’t win every deal and when a prospect turns you down, it’s time to just move on. This small shift in thinking can have a profound impact on your sales outreach and follow-up success. I used every sales strategy and negotiation tactic in the book. I’d called.

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