Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a newly-established freelancer who’s trying to generate leads, a job seeker in the market for a new job or position, or a seasoned sales professional, the strength of your LinkedIn profile can have a huge impact on your ability to attract and engage with the right audience.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many sales reps and sales managers commented and shared about the previous post on How Salespeople Goof Up on LinkedIn so we were compelled to share more ideas to help sellers do better. First, I wanted to share that our blog is up for an AWARD – as one of the top Sales Blogs at Top Sales World.

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Close

JUNE 9, 2023

Learn how to use Boolean Search on LinkedIn to find prospects matching your target persona, save time on creating lists of leads, and grow your pipeline.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 17, 2022

If you are in sales, you are likely on LinkedIn. And if you are on LinkedIn, you’ve definitely seen promotions for LinkedIn courses and coaches. Today, there are plenty of LinkedIn gurus, who have “cracked the code” and want to help average sales reps transform into six and seven-figure superstars.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 12, 2022

Have you ever wondered about the purpose of having a LinkedIn company page? For sales reps, it is a place to research prospects. But for sales leaders, CEOs, and business owners, it can be a missed revenue opportunity. Why don’t LinkedIn company pages generate revenue? Turn LinkedIn Followers Into Valuable Leads.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 23, 2014

You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps. Your VP of Sales is sick of the excuses. Your team needs to take more responsibility setting appointments with prospects. The number one way teams are doing this today is through Social Prospecting. Reps that can execute Social Prospecting win for 3 reasons.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 24, 2018

If you’re researching the latest and greatest sales trends, you just might fall victim to the bright-shiny-object syndrome. Just because certain sales prospecting techniques are all the rage, doesn’t mean they’re right for you or for your buyer. Sales productivity tools are everywhere, but do they really enhance productivity?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. We know prospecting is important, but we don’t do it on a regular basis.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2017

LinkedIn headlines are essentially the professional version: They ask you to describe who you are and what you do in just one line. But letting LinkedIn choose your headline for you is a mistake. Here are the four secrets to writing an effective LinkedIn headline. How to Write a LinkedIn Headline. Include your value prop.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 23, 2018

Want to become a prospecting superstar? LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a fantastic resource. It simplifies the process of finding, contacting, and staying up-to-date with prospects, referrals, and customers. Rather than spending hours manually tracking prospect activity on the platform, you can get instant insights.

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Frontline Selling

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Salespeople want to be found on LinkedIn. Sales managers want clients to find them on LinkedIn. Millions of professionals use LinkedIn for prospecting, thought leadership and engagement, The post LinkedIn Skills are Your Ticket to Sales Success appeared first on FRONTLINE Selling.

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’ve been a sales manager for a while, it's inevitable that one or more people – or even your entire sales team – will get into a prospecting or selling slump. 7 Sales & Prospecting Slump-Busters. Have everyone set an individual weekly goal for how many prospecting activities they will perform.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. And it only works if you have a referral system in place to ensure sales reps ask for referrals every day. Spend more time with customers and less time prospecting. What does it take to guarantee referral prospecting success?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Sales Managers should be spending 75% of their time coaching their team. Every sales manager wants a team of ‘A’ players.

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Frontline Selling

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Salespeople want to be found on LinkedIn. Sales managers want clients to find them on LinkedIn. Millions of professionals use LinkedIn for prospecting, thought leadership and engagement, with the hopes of piquing the interest of a prospective client. Who are the sales leaders in your company?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 28, 2014

Recently I filled out a form on a website for one of my prospects and requested a demo. It’s not a sales secret; when you prospect through referrals, you’ll always connect. Getting prospects to call you back is deceptively simple. Your Referral Source talks to (or emails) your prospect and gets agreement to meet with you.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sales process efficiency. Sales processes have room for improvement in nearly all companies. Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. Sales management.

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Vengreso

MARCH 19, 2019

Investing in LinkedIn Sales Navigator for your salespeople isn’t enough. It’s an all too familiar story among sales management teams that purchase Sales Navigator. They expect their team to hit the floor running but only provide product training from LinkedIn. There, I said it.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily. Think about it this way: If you're a sales manager and you help each of your 10 reps sell 20% more, you've essentially just "created” two new salespeople. Motivate Reps.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. This One-on-One Coaching Tool was customized by sales managers facilitating the training.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

In real estate, you have to understand that prospects aren't going to appear out of thin air. This is a concept known as real estate prospecting. And in the highly competitive world of real estate, prospecting can be challenging. Prospecting should be a fundamental part of your business strategy as a real estate professional.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2024

Example One: Dave had a tough few days on the sales trail. He used email to reach out to three prospects but didn’t get a response, he messaged three others on LinkedIn, but had the same result, and he didn’t pick up the phone even once! Would your news feed sound more like example one or example two below?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

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. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. It’s just a symptom.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. The Secret to LinkedIn that You May Be Missing. Want to know a secret about LinkedIn? Copyright 2011, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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SBI Growth

JULY 11, 2013

The primary differentiator of today''s top Sales Rep is the ability to prospect. This could be prospecting for new business or different buying centers within existing customers. Managing a relationship or taking orders from existing customers are table-stakes. He couldn’t articulate their prospecting strategy.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system , your sales reps will continue to struggle. That’s just the symptom.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 14, 2015

No one had time to prospect, because they couldn’t keep up with the business coming in every day. The problem was that sales management had their heads in the sand. Leadership and Management—You Can’t Have One without the Other There’s an important distinction between sales management and sales leadership.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s LinkedIn: Social-ism Meets Capital-ism – Sales eXchange – 98. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Sales 2.0 , Sales Leadership , Sales eXchange , Social Selling , Social media , execution. First, it gave us Sales 2.0, Prospecting. Sales Compensation.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But those methods will only treat the symptoms, not the real sales management problem: a lack of proper planning. It’s similar to the conversations most sales reps have with prospects. Sales management: Listen up. It’s your sales team’s expertise in defining and communicating prospects’ problems.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). hit-team campaigns on two fronts: Engaging LinkedIn communities where the target executives participate or monitor.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Are your reps just clicking buttons to invite people to connect on LinkedIn? Invite me to connect on LinkedIn without a personal message , and you’ll be one of the 150 invitations I have yet to answer. Worse yet, perhaps they plan to spam me with sales pitches that are just as impersonal as their attempts to connect.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 10, 2016

So while the Internet has enabled us to connect with more prospects than ever before, it’s also ruining our ability to do so effectively. Sales managers, listen up. Even the most effective sales techniques fall short if your team sounds, well … stupid. Come on, salespeople are smarter than that!

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden transition to digital selling, lengthened sales cycles and personnel changes such as layoffs and furloughs, not only has the flow of prospects in sellers’ pipelines trickled to a drip, but customers have also become harder to reach and deals have become more challenging to close.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 13, 2016

People talk about prospecting as though it is open to interpretation, it should not be. Prospecting is the act of engaging with someone with the purpose of initiating a sales cycle. There is a singular purpose to prospecting, that is to engage. The only ones who say things like that are people who do not prospect.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

As someone who for thirty-eight years has led a global sales consultancy specializing in sales, sales management and sales leadership training, I can use the same words to describe people “who belong” to the sales profession. They should be attending weekly training.

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eGrabber

DECEMBER 10, 2020

High Probability Prospecting begins with a clear idea of “whom to target” But, with the concept of High Probability Prospecting being new to the marketers, building a highly focused list doesn’t sound to be easy. What is High Probability Prospecting? Such prospects are 20x more likely to buy what you sell.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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