Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 13, 2021

But when you’ve done a presentation and then don’t hear back from a prospect, it can often mean the kiss of death. What to do? While it seems counter intuitive, I’d rather know up front if I’m wasting my time or if this is a real prospect. Speaking about prospects hiding behind emails, etc., That’s right.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 11, 2024

It can happen in an elevator, or at a networking event, or when you write a prospecting email. You need to say what you do. How do you help people? I think Aaron Ross nailed it. Change your mindset from answering the question “What do you do?” to “How do you help people?”

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Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

This is number 7 in a series of interviews I am conducting with subject matter experts and practitioners in the sales profession. I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. This interview is with Heidi Messer Co-Founder of Collective[i]. Traditional sales models vs. AI-enabled selling.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 11, 2023

I suck at this!” The leads are trash, and I actually agree with some of my prospect’s objections!” “I I wonder what I can sell that’s easier than this?” Should I go back to school?” What did you do wrong? How are you going to keep from talking past the close? This product will never sell!” “The

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Do you remember Dicken’s book, A Christmas Carol ? While reading this this December, it reminded me of an encounter I had that was a chilling reminder of the bad “Ghost of Christmas Future” I narrowly avoided all those years ago. A city bus pulled up outside and a bunch of people got off. Yes” I said. I was sold.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. It’s just a symptom.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Be honest: Do you dutifully send an email and then ask when you can follow up when you get this blow off objection? Believe it or not, over 90% of sales reps do just that. But top producers are prepared for this common stall/blow off, and they know how to qualify past it. Right then! Let me ask you…”.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2021

Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success. What follows are five things you can do any time in any year, but given the opportunities, they are crucial this year. Take time to catch up with your inbox. Take time to catch up with your inbox.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 30, 2021

Note to my readers: Because of my heavy client load, I am reducing my blog articles to bi-weekly starting today. Wouldn’t it be convenient to have a list of 5 questions you could use to get your prospect talking, to get them to open up about how they’re feeling and what you might need to concentrate on? Happy Selling!

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Marc Wayshak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a world filled with various methods to reach prospects, the follow-up call remains the gold standard for setting appointments. However, the key to success lies in having the right process and approach when making follow-up calls. Think of your first 17 seconds on a follow-up call as similar to a first date.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 24, 2023

Though we’re sometimes not aware of our tone and demeanor, other people do feel its impact, and they react to it as well. A few years back, my wife and I were on vacation in Venice, Italy, and we were having trouble navigating our way back to St. I was a little harried, and I approached a local who was sitting by a fountain.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

Welcome back to the office, how do you feel? As you speak with your clients and prospects this week, realize that they are all feeling the same stress as well. Then I hit mute and take notes. If they need a little help here, I use layering questions like: “And what was your revenue like last year?” Overwhelmed?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. It start with how sellers think about time; which is why in sales, time is value not money.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the most important things I learned early on in my sales career is that attitudes are contagious. My manager told me that when I’m on the phone with a prospect or customer, someone was going to sell someone—either the customer was going to sell me on why he wouldn’t buy, or I was going to sell him on why he should buy.

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The Pipeline

JULY 20, 2021

One of the reasons I like sales is you don’t need an MBA to succeed. Mostly because it is about what you do, not about what you think or believe. Which is why it is a surprise that many who avoided academic endeavours in the past, want to do so much research. I’ll follow up by asking “for prospecting and selling?”

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My wife and I have been known to binge-watch a TV series now and then, and this weekend, we watched the first three seasons of The Chosen. I’ve written hundreds of articles with analogies to sales using athletes, musicians, actors, CEOs, politicians, inventors, songs, movies, TV Shows and their leading characters.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We’ve all been there – you call your prospect back at the appointed time for your presentation and they tell you any of the following: This isn’t a good time, OR. How long will this take?” What to do? And you can imagine how they are when reps reach them. Our presentation is pretty in depth, but I can do this.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 16, 2023

I was watching a crew install a walkway made up of very large stepping stones. These 9 steps are pretty standard for a crew doing this type of installation. It’s quite a process for the crew to complete this project. But what if they were salespeople and not a stone crew?

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You must have a strong enough relationship to feel confident that this person will follow through, earn the prospect’s trust, and take care of your contact just as you would. If you don’t know someone well enough to pick up the damn phone and talk to them, you don’t know that person well enough to be asking for referrals.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 14, 2023

Simply call your reps in, one by one, and ask them: “If I gave you a pencil and asked you to sell it, how would you go about it?”. Let’s first look at how most sales reps go about doing it. After letting a rep tell me how good of a closer they are, I pull out a pencil, hand it to them, and tell them to sell it to me.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2021

How many times have you been told to build value when you get the price objection? Managers tell reps to stress the quality, the warranty, the features and benefits, but your prospects have heard all that before, haven’t they? Now, do you want to start with the X size order or would the Y size order be better?”

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I had a fascinating conversation with an outstanding sales person today. We were talking about his prospecting challenges. He was very focused on the customers and people he was prospecting. He leveraged trade shows to meet people, then followed up with prospecting notes. How do you know if he cares?

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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? Commit to a Prospecting Schedule.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Not long ago, I was speaking with a group of sales managers. They weren’t great, but they were better than most I see. I asked them, “What’s happened on those action plans? What progress are your people making, where do they need help?” No one follows up to see, “What happened?”

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And regardless what we do, we never will. Whatever time we tend free up, is immediately filled with something else and we become time poor, once again. If I think, for example, the evolution of “prospecting letters.” ” I started in sales, about 5 years before emailing became popularized.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. Let’s take a look at what should go into cold calling guidelines, what regulations to follow, and how to create a cold call script. Guidelines for cold outreach may vary by company and department, but every organization must follow SEC regulations.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

A Very Short History of Personal Branding Although he didn’t define it as such, the underlying concept behind personal branding can be traced back to Aristotle, who observed in his Nicomachean Ethics , “These virtues are formed in many by his doing the actions” (Side note: That quote “We are what we repeatedly do. But it’s true.

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Marc Wayshak

MARCH 20, 2024

How you start sales conversations often predicts how the rest of the conversation will go—and determines whether you’re going to close the sale. Those initial moments of a sales conversation have a ton of influence over how the whole interaction will play out. Why should I talk to you? Why should I talk to you?”

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 22, 2024

Key Takeaways from the Post: Understand Your Prospect: Have a nuanced grasp of the audience mindset to solve a real problem they care about right now. Get More Context: Gain more powerful insights into your prospects, and uncover their underlying thoughts and needs through generative AI-powered tools. It’s frustrating, right?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible.

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Anne Miller

MARCH 13, 2024

The bad news is you are not alone; your competition is also there talking to these same prospects. How do you stand out? Missed Opportunity “I attended a network meeting this week and each person had 30 seconds to introduce themselves and their business. There were 60 attendees. And my favorite from Lynn).

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

What’s your mindset around follow-up efforts for reconnecting with prospects who have stopped responding? What about those who haven’t followed through on the actions that they said they would? Do you get into a mindset of negativity? Do you feel frustrated that you must keep chasing them?

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SalesProInsider

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ahhh, the excitement of a prospective client sales conversation: Finally, someone is interested in you and your services! How can you follow-up and be there for them when they are ready to take the next step or talk again? How can you follow-up and be there for them when they are ready to take the next step or talk again?

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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. Don’t request anything from them, including an invitation to show up to your demo or a phone call. Here’s how. Table of Content Leverage the Reciprocity Principle 1. That’s right!

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2024

And today, I want to, um, share some of what I’ve learned with you — if that’s okay? If you’re a salesperson and you speak like this, here’s a reality check: It is going to be very, very hard to convince prospects to buy. No matter how much you know, if you don’t speak like an authority figure, you’ll never be treated like one.

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Autoklose

APRIL 22, 2024

So, before you make a big mess and jeopardize not only your outreach but also your online reputation, let’s discuss some data hygiene best practices and how to implement them. You can get blacklisted How do spam filters work? Accurate analytics How to keep your list clean 1. That’s bad because of the following: 1.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

But before I give you the keys to the castle, let's learn more about cold calling and look at a typical cold call. (If Cold calling is a way to engage prospects one-on-one to move them to the next step in the buying process. But that's no longer the way to do it. But that's no longer the way to do it. What is a cold call?

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