Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

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. Avoid banging your head up against the same wall over and over again. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 4, 2018

The Sale is in The Follow Up. Learn how to sell and improve sales skills with secrets of closing more leads and deals via follow up prospecting message, phone call and letter techniques. The first company, Air Aggressive, followed up five days later. In other words, I don’t give up.

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The Pipeline

JULY 17, 2014

If you follow this blog, you may have seen that several times I have suggested that those people who are not cut out for a career in sales, should seriously consider transitioning to a career in hospitality. Here we are more than month later, no proposal – no follow up. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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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. Happy selling! That’s a great start! Sean McPheat.

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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. You get the idea.

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Close.io

JANUARY 21, 2020

And that person won’t stop blowing up your inbox. But really, how important is it to follow-up ? A study by Harvard Business Review found that 56% of prospects complain about poor follow-ups. And 48% of those prospects will tell at least 10 people about their poor follow-up experience.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 25, 2017

A few months back, I had a specific problem in my business and I needed help. I began searching on the Internet and talking to others I knew about who might be the right person to hire. Over the course of a few days, I visited a number of websites and downloaded information from several of them. […].

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Salesmate

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In this article, you will learn about creating your own sets of automated text messages with text (SMS) sequences and merge them with your email drip campaigns for successful follow ups. We already have shown how sequences can be used as drip campaigns for putting your email follow-ups on autopilot. For instance.

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In selling efforts, though, we are more likely to run into non-responders. Those prospects who seem to run away from you after a conversation. You have a meeting with a prospect that seems to go well. So you conclude: They’ve decided it’s a “no” and stop following up. Then reality hits.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Most of your business’s prospective customers will not buy from you instantly. If you’re guilty of this, you might need to perfect your sales follow-ups. Mastering your sales follow-up is a critical skill for reps however, many are not following up enough. Sales Follow-Up Techniques.

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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. But they really aren’t interested the things I’m interested in, they are interested in their own interests–to sell me something. And it’s not the fault of the sales people that are making these lead follow-up calls.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 26, 2017

Let me ask you this: If you just met with a really hot prospect, how long would you wait before you followed up? Here’s my experience with a couple of real estate agents a while ago: My wife and I were selling our home and interviewed some real estate agents to represent us. Did we get a follow up email?

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Salesmate

MAY 27, 2020

For sales reps, one of the most gratifying feelings is getting a prospect on a call after weeks (sometimes even months) of chasing. Statistics show that 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls in order to close. To get to the finish line, you must first master the art of the follow-up. Let’s get started.

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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

JULY 13, 2023

Since the earliest days of selling, our vision is to free up sellers time to sell! Ideally, we’d like them to spend 100% of their time working with prospects and customers, helping them navigate their buying processes. There are some necessary things–training and development to improve our ability to sell.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even once a prospect expresses an avid interest in your company, you still have to make a sales pitch. That’s why you need sales follow-up strategies. You obviously don’t want that to happen, so it’s good to follow up periodically. But what should following up on a sales pitch look like?

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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. . Ever seen this stats collection that says that 48% of salespeople never follow up with a prospect? Yeah, it’s fake , but still, most salespeople are bad at following up. Why is it I have to do that?

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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

JUNE 26, 2017

Let me ask you this: If you just met with a really hot prospect, how long would you wait before you followed up? Here’s my experience with a couple of real estate agents a while ago: My wife and I were selling our home and interviewed some real estate agents to represent us. Did we get a follow up email?

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 13, 2020

As much as you want to believe it’s the client, it’s more likely your approach to following up. If you send an email to follow up when a client goes dark, you did not follow up. You didn’t even attempt to follow up. You are not calling to check in, touch base, or follow up.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 18, 2021

You’ve just had a great discovery call with a qualified prospect. You need to ensure that they follow through and show up to the demo, while also setting yourself apart from the other vendors that they’re evaluating. Your prospects will love it! Chances are this is a big decision for your prospect.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Now is the perfect time to follow up with your clients, prospects, and Referral Sources. When I attended this year’s Dreamforce conference , I heard numerous speakers and presenters echo the same valuable message I’ve been stressing for years—the importance of following up. Or just say “Happy Holidays.”

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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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Sales 2.0

APRIL 8, 2016

I’ve actually wondered about the best messaging to follow up on an ebook download and David makes it very obvious how to do it. The problem was that in downloading the paper, I immediately get emails and phone calls asking my interest in Marketing Automation Solutions — because that’s what this particular company sells.

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Selling Energy

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At the conclusion of your first meeting (online or in-person) with a prospect, do you schedule a follow-up interaction… or do you wait and do it later? If you wait, you give your prospect time to second-guess the urgency of your offering, you risk playing phone tag, and you may wind up losing the sale.

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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. So why all the problems with follow-up? phone calls. voice mail.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Everything from the channel you select to the language you use impacts how your prospect will respond. Today we’ll cover a list of insights around sales follow-up productivity, channels, cadences, and effectiveness. B2B Sales Follow Up Statistics Sales Follow Up Productivity 1. emails, 35.9

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Pipeliner

MAY 29, 2020

Many representatives will fall-down on the follow-up is that the thought brings up fear and negativity. So it is only a small percentage of salespeople who tirelessly work to prevent falling down on the follow-up. In the first week of my second year of selling, I heard the all-time worst advice. Every day?!

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Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2020

They don’t offer an omnichannel experience in terms of the lead follow-up process. They may or may not have developed a follow-up schedule but are not continually testing. Reps are giving up too early/don’t know when to move on. to entice the prospect, but the prospect makes the first move.

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SalesProInsider

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The following quote by Roy T Bennett from The Light in the Heart captures the main message for successful virtual sales follow up in this episode of Virtual Selling, Concreate Results. Why does that capture the key to successful follow up? The Follow Up Gap. 44% give up after 1 follow up.

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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. Of course not! The same is true in sales.

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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. However, when you call back to set the appointment, the prospect seems to have switched to an alternate personality. The interest and rapport are gone and the prospect rushes you off the telephone.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2024

We sent them a proposal and even flew out for a second in-person follow-up. I like to call this “ghosting” — when a sales process is chugging along smoothly with a client, you feel positive that the deal will close, and then your prospect disappears without a trace. 4 Reasons Your Prospects Ghost You 1. Boom — ghosted.

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Pipeliner

JULY 22, 2019

When it comes to business, people get to know their prospects and their clients better if they follow the right follow up strategies. They build quality relationships by engaging in follow up. Wanda Allen: Follow-up Strategies. What is the exact meaning of follow up?

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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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Selling Energy

MAY 19, 2021

A famous comedian once said, 90% of success is just showing up. Many times in sales, at least 90% of your success is following up ! Here are a few tips on how to stay in touch with a prospect.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? How did you find those prospects?

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