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. And, since many sales reps don’t qualify thoroughly enough, most of the leads they stuff into their pipeline are made up of 6’s and 7’s.

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Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Scale Call-back 320

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. Harvest referrals. Embrace new things.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Some people hide from prospecting in their pipelines; pretending the opportunities, individually or collectively, are more real than they are. With a 4:1 closing average, every time I close a deal, I must get four more to stay afloat. When it comes to prospecting, there’s real, then there’s pipeline real. By Tibor Shanto.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. Some of the top include: Lead Generation and Qualification Prospect identification Lead qualification Effective BDRs excel at identifying potential leads within target markets or industries.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 118

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2020

You’ll end up paying for it. She made it clear that she wasn’t the final decision-maker and said she would follow up. I always have a follow-up call scheduled before I send anything, but I didn’t this time. I trusted that she would follow up. You can never thank someone enough.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Every new customer you bring on who isn’t the right fit presents a churn risk — and if they don’t follow through, take direction when it comes to implementation, or see value from the product, their bad customer experience reflects poorly on you and your company. Buyer beware.” Seller beware” is becoming the new norm.

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Hubspot Sales Process Buyer Churn 115

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? Shift Your Mindset to Give THEM What They Need Neither of those mindsets serve you or your prospective clients well.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Time is a problem. We never have enough. 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.” And regardless what we do, we never will. Then mail-merge came.

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Retention Maximizer Buying Cycle Social Media 126

No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. He complained that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. I had heard enough. Their outreach took too long.

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Decision Maker Referrals Face-to-face Social Media 156

Highspot

MARCH 21, 2024

The common pitfalls for many emails, whether sales or marketing, include poor timing, unclear messaging, or a spammy feel. It’s ideal for reaching newly discovered prospects, assessing their interest, keeping in touch, or arranging meetings. Do you have irresistible savings, limited-time offers, or other exclusive opportunities?

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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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Hubspot Sales

MAY 17, 2023

The average buyer in this day and age is shrewd — naturally skeptical of salespeople and having certain standards reps have to measure up to. Fumbling Basic Information Calling your prospect by the wrong name or flubbing facts you should have confirmed via Google is always unacceptable. Let's dive in.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 27, 2021

These leads might not have opted in to receive your sales emails; however, if you found the right leads with proper sales prospecting , they may be the most qualified anyway. Building up an email list of warm subscribers takes time and effort, and could require a different skill set.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead How To Campaigns 124

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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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2024

Nobody is answering the phone and emails, and it seems like your prospects are falling off the face of the Earth. Inadequate pipeline management A thin or poorly managed sales pipeline can lead to a slump in conversions, as it fails to continuously and efficiently move prospects to the point of sale. It's official: You’re in a slump.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Cold Call Script Examples How to Create a Cold Call Script The Best Cold Calling Script Ever Cold Calling Script Variation Cold Calling Script Templates Cold Calling Tips Once you have a list of prospects to call, it's time to reach out. Cold Call Script Examples **The prospect's phone rings** Prospect: Hello?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

Slow down to speed up Before working for a Fortune 500 company, Jim Norton (AOL’s former EVP Global Head of Media Sales) worked “an old-school sales job.” If you have itchy feet, Norton recommends that you first “take a step back and realize that in order to speed up, you need to slow down.” But that’s not all.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2024

As sellers, we should strive to make buying as easy as possible by providing the right tools the customer needs to make the right decision at the right time. Take your people’s success personally, build up relationships with your folks, advocate for the needs of your team, and be a model of great leadership and mentorship for your folks.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. Thankfully, there are tactics you can use to encourage buy-in from your prospects. When there’s more budget, perhaps the prospect will return.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Real Estate 100

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Remember, prospects may be bombarded with pitches from multiple salespeople at a time—so your approach must stand out if you want to be different. This approach allows you to step into your prospect’s shoes and see what they are seeing. Now that you know your target customers’ problems, it’s time to set yourself apart.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For example: Invite them on a podcast or host a digital event with your prospects and customers mingling. She has hosted high-end virtual wine events for late stage prospects and had customers join to talk about their experiences with the challenges prospects are facing and how Tackle helped solve them. Let’s get into it.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2023

After all, you've spent time, energy, and resources building a relationship — and giving up means you have nothing to show for it. And even if you manage to convince a poor-fit prospect to buy, you're setting yourself up for an unhappy customer relationship and a potential hit to your reputation.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 112

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Many salespeople waste too much time on prospects with little to no chance of converting. Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. Read on to learn more.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 149

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This means, no matter where you are in the sales process, focus on your prospect or client. Also, thinking about another client or your tee time means you’re not present. Sit up straight. Relate these to this specific client at this specific time. The more you practice, the more there is to learn.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Upfront, it all seems highly time-consuming, especially when one would prefer speaking with prospective clientele. Proof The System Works At each stage of my career, the theme of questions people ask of me include: Do You ever feel like giving up, given all the upsets? Below, we share the sales secrets to exceed your goals.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Set up properly, it’s a wonderful system. However, if leads are passed too early, not followed up on, or handled poorly, your bottom line will suffer. How do you tell if your MQL is an actual potential buyer or if reaching out to them would be a waste of your time and resources? What are their buying behaviors?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2022

You pick up the phone and no one is answering your calls. After countless attempts to connect with prospects and land a meeting to no avail, you’ve hit a wall. When a sales slump hits and your quota is on the line, the first thing you want to do is jump on the phones and contact every prospect and lead you know.

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Gong.io

JULY 7, 2022

He believed he was: Wasting time on inappropriate prospects. Wasting time giving free advice. By building relationships with buyers and offering advice on how to help them overcome pain points, Sandler realized that prospects were no longer hesitant to close the deal. Getting a premature no or a slow yes.

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Decision Maker System Sales Methodology ACT 118

Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

So as revenue teams build up the team for next year, they need to focus on the soft skills and aptitudes that make good producers in the open positions. . Sales enablement teams are realizing that traditional training courses aren’t enough for effecting behavioral changes. Sales enablement starts long before onboarding.

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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. However, if you’ve worked in sales long enough, you know by now not to get too excited. Statistics show that 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls in order to close. Let’s get started.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Each funnel stage defines your steps to turn prospective buyers into customers, even if they’ve never heard of your business before. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel?

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2023

They must do more with less and move quickly to close deals at a time when the B2B sales cycle has slowed. I’ve heard this firsthand from conversations with peers too: Their sales team does all the right things and the business case is strong, but suddenly the prospect’s budget disappears overnight. The result?

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SalesProInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

That’s why the initial questions in any conversation, especially in a prospective client conversation, need to be SMART! Following are starter questions to get your prospect talking and you listening and learning. I suggest you select a couple of “go tos” that are broad enough for the person to respond to.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In sales, preparation is the steps taken to understand prospects and clients at each stage of the sales process. From prospecting through account management, it’s being informed of their personnel, their processes, their strengths, and weaknesses. It’s not enough to know a company makes widgets. And how to get them there.

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Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Referrals 71

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2024

So here we are — a little over a year after OpenAI changed the landscape of what can be sped up or fully automated for anyone using the internet. Salespeople don’t need to be tech gurus to scour the internet for info on a prospect before they make a call. I’ve been in contact with sales experts about how AI has helped them.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Churn 87

Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Data-driven marketing personalization also makes your prospects feel special. for Commercial Real Estate helps you track real estate sales, marketing, and business metrics in real time on its built-in, customizable dashboard. Did you know that 71 percent of customers expect businesses to personalize all their interactions with them?

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