No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Find out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling in recent months. That’s why it’s important to nurture those relationships year-round, year in and year out. That’s why it’s important to nurture those relationships year-round, year in and year out. I admit those were excuses.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2018

It’s time to get serious about business referrals. But the first step to harnessing this power is understanding just what referral selling is and how it feeds your sales machine. They’re not just calling names on lists; they’re calling bona fide decision-makers who expect to hear from them and want to take their call.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 4, 2019

Watch out for the gap in your referral business! Why do they always leave out the word “qualified”? I have a few guesses: Maybe they think it’s too tough to get only qualified leads? I have a few guesses: Maybe they think it’s too tough to get only qualified leads? Referral sellers. It’s an epidemic.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. They believe the fastest ways into the C-suite are digital: targeted emails, cold calls , social media outreach, and inbound marketing automation. But selling is (and has always been) a person-to-person business.

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Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

So if you’re ready to be more productive in your sales job and learn new strategies to improve sales productivity, keep reading! In today’s blog post we break down your bad sales habits and teach you the tactics you need to be more productive. You make too many cold calls. Cold calling is ineffective 90.9%

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

Have you forgotten that selling is social? Turn off your computer. You’re actually going to have to turn off your phone and discover all that is human around us.” Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2019

We get the main point through a story. Facts tell, stories sell.” How do you answer the question: What do you do? Prospects don’t care about your facts. When someone asks what you do, frame your response like this: “The best way to explain what I do is to give you an example.” Take your time. No one cares.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 15, 2017

Referrals might be your silver lining. I pulled out all the stops. We had a stellar account-based selling team. I was already planning how to spend my commission. I called and called, and was repeatedly told they hadn’t made a decision. Kept pushing out the milestone dates we agreed upon.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 27, 2021

And a discovery call “best practice” that actually tanks your success rates. How did we do it? To give you a competitive edge and boost your earning potential. . To help you get the most out of your year end, I pulled together the 5 best data-backed tips of 2021. . Why did we do it? Share ‘em. (I

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 20, 2021

COLD EMAIL. an unsolicited e-mail that is sent to a receiver without prior contact; the email equivalent of cold calling. Below are 7 cold email stats that will help ensure your soon-to-be new client opens your email and responds (positively). Cold Email Stat #1: DO send longer emails. Need a visual?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

SDRs can focus on discovering how best to connect with leads while automated software does the mundane work of identifying, contacting, and following up with prospects. SDRs can focus on discovering how best to connect with leads while automated software does the mundane work of identifying, contacting, and following up with prospects.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 23, 2018

Author: Mark Kosoglow Every year, sales reps quotas continue to climb and simultaneously get harder to hit – an unfortunate fact straight from the horse’s mouth. Stop diminishing the importance of your requests with weak apprehensive phrases like “just,” “quick,” and “short”– be confident in your ask.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

Are your sellers using a sales methodology to guide them, step-by-step, in their daily prospecting and closing sales activities? As a sales leader, you must have a playbook and a sales methodology that every rep on your team can follow during the “pre-hello” to hello phase, also known as the prospecting phase.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I threw my three bananas, ketchup, and plastic mustard bottle on the counter and stomped out of the store. There was some problem, so the cashier stopped everything and called for help. That’s when I decided to get my bananas, ketchup, and mustard someplace else. Don’t get me started on that last one.).

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As with any tool or process, the measure of success should be the end, the outcome, not the means, in this case, the apparatus, process and the reams of data many of the tools regularly and ongoingly spew out. Much of the call for, and reasons for automation, related to what has come to be called “inbound” sales.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 10, 2023

What’s the secret to getting everything you want in sales? Modern sales professionals understand selling is more than a numbers game. In this article we explore how cold outreach has changed and the best way to approach cold outreach without looking desperate and achieving your desired outcome, more sales.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

How do they do it? By analyzing millions of sales interactions captured by Gong’s Revenue Intelligence Platform across web-conferencing, phone calls, and emails. Then they look at how seller and buyer actions impact success rates. Sales Stat #1: DON’T use ROI in cold emails. ” Or “How is Tuesday, 9 AM?”.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What rules your sales team – order or chaos? Do your reps follow a consistent and repeatable process that makes it easy to predict quarterly sales? Or are they flying by the seat of their pants, following their own playbooks, and sending your metrics all over the place? Some of the best sales teams start that way.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Said the Cold Call To The Socialite. Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. Let’s Spin Some Stats!

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. We read about how email is failing, phone calls, social, and virtually every other engagement platform. We have continuing debates about “Is cold calling dead?”

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Alice Heiman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

How can this be? But really, your salespeople are reporting that they are experiencing significant virtual sales challenges? Stop making virtual #selling hard than it really is! And by people, I mean CEOs and those responsible for revenue and sellers… . Good selling is good selling.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Social media, marketing automation, the cloud, and other technological innovations have transformed the way we work , but not how we sell. Social media, marketing automation, the cloud, and other technological innovations have transformed the way we work , but not how we sell. Order your copy today.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 21, 2022

Apparently, I stuck my foot into my mouth, but I’m getting use to the taste of shoe leather. I was reading a LinkedIn article on “Cold Calling… ” I’m beginning to think articles or surveys about cold calling happen when you don’t have anything else to talk about.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You venture out to your mailbox. Your first and last name and address are handwritten. Your interest has been officially piqued! In this NY Times Best Seller, Dr. Cialdini says here , “Simply put, people are obliged to give back to others in the form of a behavior, gift, or service that they have received first.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 5, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Can You Sell Without Selling Out? Note: Andy Paul provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Can You Sell Without Selling Out?’. Andy Paul is a bestselling author, sales leader, speaker, and global sales advisor focused on human-first selling. Can You Sell Without Selling Out?

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Salesmate

AUGUST 28, 2020

“Cold calling” is one of the sales tasks that most salespeople wish to skip. Well, because it is the first contact with a prospect who has no prior knowledge about the call. Most sales professionals dread that first interaction with the prospect as they have no clue how the prospect would react to the cold call.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 15, 2021

Let me share with you four strategies that came out of the podcast that all CEOs should embrace to ensure sustainable sales in today’s environment. . As a #CEO are you finding it hard to ensure sustainable #sales in today’s selling environment? Check out these 4 strategies that can flip things around!

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Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s how they engage with prospects and it can make a big difference in their results. While the perfect sales message will connect and engage the buyer (eventually leading to a sale), a weak sales message will just be ignored, or worse, will damage the reputation of your company. Things Every Sales Messaging Strategy Needs.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s how they engage with prospects and it can make a big difference in their results. While the perfect sales message will connect and engage the buyer (eventually leading to a sale), a weak sales message will just be ignored, or worse, will damage the reputation of your company. Things Every Sales Messaging Strategy Needs.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 9, 2014

There’s no excuse for not doing your sales homework. They’ve been calling me en masse. I actually listened to his message because he outlined how his company and No More Cold Calling were aligned. So Seller 2.0 “My CEO will be in town, and I’d like to schedule time for you to meet with him.”

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The reason you need to integrate social selling, traditional phone work, and other elements of prospecting, is to ensure that you are covering all bases the process of converting a stranger, into a bonified pipeline opportunity. There are two things sellers can do, with focus and practice, to avoid being victim of dynamics.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2017

I’m a big baseball fan, and I’ve often pondered how much account based sales reps could learn from the game. Account based selling reps are responsible for scoring meetings, advancing the sales process, and winning deals. Account Based Selling Requires a Team Approach. Don’t Strike Out with a Fast Sales Pitch.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Toss anecdotes and opinions out the window and let data tell the REAL story. That’s everything captured using Gong during web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails. Then we look for patterns to see how they impact deal success. Presenting ROI to your customers awakens the wrong part of their brains.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2023

Let’s talk about how to spot overcomplication in your sales process and what to do about it. To understand how complexity bias works at a fundamental level, imagine someone who wants to lose weight. Blame it on your complexity bias. Regardless, our hypothetical dieter might still complain about not losing weight.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Anyone who has to cold call as part of their sales career knows how hard it can be. Many sales reps cringe as they dial a number and wait for the receptionist to answer: “Who’s calling?”. Will he know what this call is regarding?”. are such big sellers. are such big sellers. Tip #5: Pick up the phone.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you're in sales, chances are you've encountered plenty of situations in which you're trying to reach a CEO or C-level executive to pitch your product or service. only to get stopped by a gatekeeper. But experienced sales reps know that gatekeepers don't have to be a roadblock in your sales process. Tarzan and Clayton.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2018

It is not a divine document passed on to Chuck Heston by a white-bearded guy or your VP of Sales. I know many of you are shaking your heads saying “duh, we know that Tibor.” So then why are so many out there losing deals and opportunities by following their organizations’ sales process? Slaves To The Clock.

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