Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The gatekeeper keeps dropping my calls into voicemail. When sales are slow, it’s not an excuse to get down on ourselves. It’s an opportunity to get creative and turn things around. Because if you are sitting at the same desk, making the same calls, saying the same thing, the right side of your brain is in hibernation.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

The key to qualified lead generation is being a welcome call, and for busy executives and their gatekeepers , cold calls are definitely not welcome. That means sales reps spend a lot of time on the phone, getting absolutely nowhere. How to Make Hot Calls—Get the Referral Introduction. The person’s name came from a specific list.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2015

It took me one call to get on his calendar. During our 30-minute call, I learned what this CEO expected from salespeople and what initiatives he was driving. When you get referrals, you: Bypass the gatekeeper and score meetings with decision-makers every time. But when you get referrals , you win.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

If a 60% response rate and 80% rate of engagement sound good, read on for a process-oriented approach you can use to get similar results. It’s time to get personal. When you can’t get your target on the phone. From here, we were able to get in front of the right people again and opened a legitimate opportunity.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This is a perfect analogy to what actually occurs in the sales process , where information starts out broad in the beginning and gets incredibly granular towards the end. Get in their head with the following data-driven insights: Intent data : When it comes to intent data you can analyze either internal or external.

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Pipeliner

MAY 30, 2018

Deal with the negative things first to get it out of the way. The fact is, treated with respect, they will be the gatekeepers that will get you into the C-suite. She interrupted to say, “Hold on, the CEO is down the hall, I’ll get him. The other side of this is its perfect practice for improving your negotiation style.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

What You’ll Learn. Before we get there, we’ve got three sponsors: The first is Flockjay. Our second sponsor is Pavilion , the key to getting more out of your career. Participants get access to the exact same system inside the masterclass. The sales reps are like, “they have all these gatekeepers around.”

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Enterprise Enterprise Influencer Sales Cycle 76

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

Yet most salespeople fail to do so — repelling buyers and making them think, "It's a salesperson, how do I get them off the phone?”. They might feel they don't have time to learn and implement your solution. Sometimes, prospects will get testy with you because they don't like how you're selling to them. Cut the clichés.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

I recently learned that an old friend, John, now is responsible for determining if someone qualifies as a patient for the psychiatry ward. On a side note, being unusual has one standing out in the crowded sales arena. An open mind willing to learn from everyone and every experience does far better in the long run.

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Gatekeeper Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Negotiation 61

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

This is why: Sales and marketing teams are getting account-based awareness vs. account-based revenue growth. That means you will get smaller deal sizes as you will face pre-defined buying needs and price pressures. But, the firm has two sides of the business to support: new purchases which are in strong demand, and rentals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If a 60% response rate and 80% rate of engagement sound good, read on for a process-oriented approach you can use to get similar results. It’s time to get personal. When you can’t get your target on the phone. From here, we were able to get in front of the right people again and opened a legitimate opportunity.

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CloserIQ

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Even when prospects are interested (or even curious), they aren’t going to get more excited by a salesperson who does all the talking. And the salesperson doesn’t get any benefit, either! You want your reps asking questions in order to learn about the prospect, so they can have your AEs prepare an effective presentation.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 12, 2023

EAs need to be diplomatic with good communication while remaining a firm and decisive gatekeeper for the executive. This has been helpful to me as my assistant learns more about my life and habits, and she can suggest things that make my life easier.” What are executive assistant interview questions? How to answer : Be honest.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 18, 2014

The concept is that executives get a much better understanding of what’s happening in their organization through informal visits–random tours of factories, facilities, meetings with groups or people/customers. As with MBWA, SBWA is really about observing, discovering, and learning.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Construction Banking 92

Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2021

Don’t get me wrong. You might see this as an indication that fewer deals get stuck in limbo when budget comes up on a call. Clearly, getting the right stakeholders on a deal is crucial to its success and an important early indicator of success. You try to get in with them: on their side. No budget.” “Bad

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Autoklose

JANUARY 22, 2024

There are a number of approaches, tips, and techniques that salespeople use daily to get in touch with new leads. Focus on Benefits Some sales pitches get carried away quickly with a number of product features, packages, and options. You can use tools like ZoomInfo or competitors to get the contact details of your target group.

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LeadFuze

JULY 13, 2021

In time though, you’ll get used to it and realize that it’s part of the business. From prospects who cancel all their appointments last minute to secretaries who won’t let us get any time on the phone with the decision-makers. You will just get burnt out and stop getting results if you play the number game.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2012

As sales people, we always are trying to get into our Buyers’ minds. We need to have both sides of the conversation because they represent the Yin and Yang of the total buying experience. But actually, we are trying to maximize the long term value we get from each relationship. ” Chris: “Absolutely!

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Bonus: 40+ of the World’s Best Sales Training Programs to Get Your Team Into Shape. This approach helps by getting reps out of their day to day routine and forcing them to stop and think about what they’re doing and ideally collaborate with their peers. Creating an Environment of Continuous Learning. Old School vs. New School.

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Training Top of Funnel Sales Methodology Distribution 75

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. We reached out to several of our friends — all successful sales pros in a range of roles — to get their input: Mark Kosoglow. Your 20s are for learning, your 30s are for earning.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Up-Sell Hubspot 79

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Whatever your B2B niche, the landscape is changing fast with companies going through M&As, purchasing decision-makers getting promoted or leaving the company, and new projects being kicked off all the time. And buyers always want to learn about the price tag as soon as they can. Availability of sufficient budgets.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Prospecting Top of Funnel 98

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The second exercise was too artificial to learn from. Learning is Listening. Exercise #1 Learning is Listening. It allows for rapid fire objection response and peer coaching, while also helping people get over their fear of public speaking. Examples are CEO, Director X, or gatekeeper. The third one is worse.

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OnePageCRM

JUNE 15, 2017

Now that you’ve prepared, it’s time to get in the zone and start dialling. How to get past gatekeepers. The best way to get past a gatekeeper like this is to reframe how you approach the call. The best way to get past a gatekeeper like this is to reframe how you approach the call. Kraft and Sarah D.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 17, 2009

Then stop stressing over how to do it and attend this live, 60-minute Audio Conference that I’m delivering in two weeks and learn how to cold call and prospect like a sales champion. • How to get past the toughest gatekeepers and straight to the decision maker. How to Make the Gatekeeper & Voice Mails Your Ally.

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ExecVision

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Sales leaders and managers need to know how to spot dial dread early and help reps get back on the phones faster. For reps who aren’t getting on calls because they’re afraid of getting tongue-tied or forgetting key points, give them talking points to follow. Here are nine ways to help reps overcome sales call reluctance: 1.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

If a 60% response rate and 80% rate of engagement sound good, read on for a process-oriented approach you can use to get similar results. It’s time to get personal. When You Can’t Get Your Target on the Phone You want to call a prospect whom you know is a great fit, but you just can’t get them on the phone (ahem * the CMO * ahem).

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SBI

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Get the most updated version of that. I’m just curious as we get going coming out of Dream Force, where’s your head as we sort of think about the whole space? I’m just curious as we get going coming out of Dream Force, where’s your head as we sort of think about the whole space? Are you seeing that?

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Vendor Ideal Customer Profile 139

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We can get locked into a chicken-or-the-egg scenario, where fear breeds inaction, and inaction breeds fear. We’re accustomed to getting things easy (and right away) and we seek that dopamine release faster and faster. Studies show that when we switch to a new task, our brains get a shot of that sweet ol’ pleasure chemical.

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Journal Chemicals Face-to-face Gatekeeper 52

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Then take those learnings back to it. Yes, using social selling can get you fired or even cause you to time warp backwards down a 12 to 18 month spiral of your hard won efforts! Aggressively pushy, quota-crusher selling behavior on social will get you blocked or deleted. Should you get rid of your desk phone?

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Keith Rosen

MAY 28, 2009

Lately, I’ve been getting a high volume of calls from sales managers and their salespeople struggling to meet their sales goals. You get to your office, sit down at your desk and open up your calendar. ” You don’t leave a message because you never get your calls returned anyway. You find some people to call.

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Cold Calling Prospecting Gatekeeper Strategy 48

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 28, 2019

Letting them learn through trial by fire. We neglect coaching good performance at our own peril because, as the great management author Ken Blanchard says, “Good performance that gets noticed, gets repeated.”. Explain how it gets them/us where we want to go. Catch people doing things right. Don’t wait. Don’t email.

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The Science and Art of Selling

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Here is a transcript of my interview: The New Rules For Sales — When Features and Benefits Don’t Get It Done . And every time I train, I learn that introverts have more potential to be successful at sales. They learned how to use their natural strengths to sell. Or that they could get a lot of strength from that.

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Benefit Lead Rank Lead Scoring Real Estate 64

Cience

JULY 25, 2019

Some good music to get that particular mood: Before beginning the in-depth discussion of the chatbots for B2B lead gen let’s outline some basics to make sure that we’re on the same page here. Preprogrammed – a user is offered to choose between several questions and based on their choice gets an answer. To chatbot or not? .

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead B2B 56

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Learn data-driven strategies that support each stage of the sales funnel, along with key performance indicators (KPIs). This is a perfect analogy to what actually occurs in the sales process, where information starts out broad in the beginning and gets incredibly granular towards the end. Does your (sales) funnel have flow?

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Top of Funnel Funnel Data Sales Qualified Lead 246

LeadFuze

AUGUST 10, 2021

For most, it’s a long journey that involves plenty of falling down, picking yourself up, and getting back out there. There are also those who strive to learn how to be a good salesperson. By being on the side of the customer and not looking judgemental, a salesman may earn their trust and create rapport. 4 Ego-driven.

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Gatekeeper Sales Qualified Lead How To Cold Calling 52

OnePageCRM

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A great salesperson is willing (and has the ability) to listen, learn, and quickly adapt. They’re going to hear a lot of NOs before they get a YES. What happened and what did you learn from it?” Any replies you are going to get from email 1 will be within a day of that open. Coachability. And that is why I succeed.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 52

OnePageCRM

MAY 25, 2017

For an inbound lead who just filled out a contact form or sent you an email, you can dive right into discovery mode and learn about their situation. You have only seconds to get your prospect to buy into the conversation so a classic AIDA formula can work (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action). Get in the right mindset.

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