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MARCH 30, 2011

Storify provides an easy to use, flexible tool that allows you to gather information that you feel is relevant to your customers from sources across the web, and package into a format that is helpful for your prospects and customers. You can become THE information source for your industry with your prospects and customers. URL’s.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

He explains in detail how to simplify, accelerate, maximize value, Follow-up, prospect, and qualify your opportunities. Sales people should answer these three questions according to the Author: How much prospecting must I do? What prospecting activity is the most effective use of my sales time? What am I good at doing?

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JANUARY 15, 2020

If you want your site and products to be the first ones found by prospective customers, you must be proactive about optimizing for voice search. Sales organizations count on their website to position their offerings, provide customer services and to attract new customers. Keeping it current and up to date is an ongoing activity.

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MARCH 6, 2014

Consider some of the changes that have occurred as a result of technology and tools: Prospect Research. Old Rule: It was not too many years ago that one of the key activities of a sales rep was the annual process of requesting a copy of each prospects printed Annual Report. The Gatekeeper. Preparing Quotes and Proposals.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

From capturing names and email addresses of prospective customers to providing professional quality newsletter templates, AWeber makes the smallest of companies look like the largest with automation that can be customized to reflect the uniqueness of your business and your customers. Ideally you want to be getting several prospects a day!

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Digital Postcards delivers information that your prospects and customers find useful. Real-time tracking and analytics (you might not like this stuff but I’ll bet your boss will!) - receive notification by email immediately when a prospect views your message. See exactly what they clicked on when they clicked.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

When I led the Large Corporate Accounts (LCA) inside team at Dell, my sales reps were tasked with making as many phone contacts as they possibly could to both existing customer as well as prospective customers. Rerun your call-backs – through the system as many times as needed to filter down the prospects that are truly interested.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For me the key was that it was a visual representation – alleviating me from having to sift through LinkedIn, Twitter and my database to figure out the most efficient path to my desired prospect. Outbound Lead Prospecting -. That capability is still here and I recommend it even more now.

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MAY 8, 2014

When you place your focus on closing the current deals, you are not spending time on prospecting and moving fresh leads further into your sales funnel. Qualify and/or re-qualify your prospects. This can take the focus away from what got you those opportunities in the first place – leads and business development activity.

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MAY 31, 2011

Getting through a maze of organizational charts and administrative staff to reach your desired prospect has always been a time-consuming, long-term project. However, a new generation of web tools has enabled sales execs to reach their prospects considerably faster than even five years ago. Using the Web can be a tremendous accelerator.

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JUNE 30, 2014

Are your prospects clicking away without action? Open a recent email you have sent to a prospect or customer. Are you spending your sales and marketing efforts in the wrong area? How are you delivering your messages and information to those most important to your business success? Just try to fill out one of your forms on your phone.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Identifying what the top problems with getting your email into the hands of your prospects and customer is more important than ever. Don’t settle for naked email lists! Contact Ready adds fresh demographic and social data to your customer lists to help you increase sales.You can never know enough about your customers and prospects!

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APRIL 21, 2011

By far the most use salespeople and companies are getting from social media is in the area of prospecting–finding new prospects to contact using traditional means, not in making sales. On the other hand, if you’re not using social media to help identify and research prospects, you’re probably wasting a heck of a lot of time elsewhere.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Present a PowerPoint deck to a prospective customer using your online meeting tool (GoToMeeting/Google Hangouts/ Skype). Check Twitter to review activity from your current prospects and customers. YouTube to email – sends an email when a prospect adds a new video to their YouTube Channel. Add all new contacts to your CRM.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Driving to your next appointment and want to know what prospects or customers are on your way? Spending some time in an unfamiliar city and want to see what customers or prospects are nearby? iMap will show how close your next prospect, friend or contact is from your current location. There is an iPhone version as well.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

They were: Jigsaw – to capture the email and phone number of the prospects in my territory. InsideView – to monitor the activity and changes within each of my prospect companies. LinkedIn – to complete both the Buyer Profile and the Company Profile of all of my prospects and customer.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

How do you know how you compare to your competitors from your prospective customers view? A clear path to connect with more prospects will be laid out with the facts, rather than your gut or filtered feedback. How effective is your marketing? How do you know? A gut feeling, or what your customers are telling you?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Your prospects and clients have been using the social web for quite some time. Your prospects already have one or more vendors in play, and probably have a favorite. Don Fornes , Founder and CEO at Software Advice wrote a post back in October, 2010 on the B2Bsaleslounge blog that asked that question.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Too many times the word “selling” implies talking or presenting ideas and products to a prospect/customer. Each of us in sales has prospects that we have tried to engage with that simply are not interested in hearing what we have to say. Is this your experience as well? How does this help in my social selling endeavors?

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Many that are already on our prospect list. Relationships are critical to our success and it is challenging to identify all of the players that influence our prospects and customers. Plenty of people that we know and are working with. What is the big surprise is how many people listed we had never thought of connecting with.

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MARCH 26, 2013

With each new notification in my inbox, I have been able to stay aware of mentions of my company name, stay current on competitors activities and most importantly for my purposes, monitor information about each of my key customers and prospects. It has always been fresh and relevant reason to contact my customer or prospect about the info.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Not only does it create a more effective communication process, it tracks and prioritizes prospects, provides integrated real-time communication while analyzing and helping to improve message effectiveness at the same time through what they call Smart Messages. This ensures that your prospects and customer experience zero friction.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is also a great way to learn what prospects are thinking about on a particular topic or product. The thinking is that by answering the questions of others in a thoughtful way, you are establishing your expertise and building your reputation as a go-to source for that topic.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Communication and information customized to the needs of each prospect/customer is typically a primary factor in winning or losing in sales. Postwire lets you collect & organize all of your content and then select & publish private, personalized, visual views of it for each prospect, client, customer, or member.

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APRIL 14, 2011

We cover key developments in Prospecting, CRM, Social, Communications and more. Registration Link. Here is what is on the agenda for Tuesday’s Briefing: Newest Sales Web Tools. You will be introduced to the newest sales web tools. Conference to rave reviews. I have been using this and it has yielded measurable results within days.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you are a reasonably active Twitter user, you are sharing valuable content and creating your own ideas that your customers and prospects can benefit from. You just share and publish content that your customers/prospects will find valuable and Twylah does their magic and turns you into a professional online star.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

Prospecting in the new B2B sales paradigm. SIX OF THE WORLD'S MOST RESPECTED SALES THOUGHT LEADERS DISCUSS THE REAL SECRETS TO CLOSING MORE SALES AND ACCELERATING CUSTOMER ACQUISITION. How to accelerate pipeline velocity. Leveraging customer acquisition tools to generate more leads. Closing techniques that really work.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Entering a list of new prospects to learn about. You can click on each link individually, or click the “Open All” button and each site will open in its own tab and you are ready to get to work. Here is a two-minute video that shows how easy and convenient it is to use: What types of activity can this be of value?

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APRIL 19, 2011

Sales people are finding it increasingly difficult to decide which social tools to use for effectively identifying and engaging with their customers and prospects. When registering, use priority code 15800 and discount code F2716129 for a 20% discount.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

Mark Hunter: Wake Unresponsive Prospects. Mark gives you an actionable framework for dealing with awesome prospects that have suddenly gone dark. Miles gives you the tools to identify and engage with key Influencers in your accounts. Learn how to leverage these connections to ace your competitors.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

In this day of Twitter and text messages, the importance of a short, tightly-focused message to potential clients and prospects is more important than ever. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. Prospecting is a topic that every sales organization should be talking about every day. Simplified.:

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

TimeTrade solves one of the biggest nuisances and time drains in every salesperson’s week – the back and forth email and phone-tag scenario to simply set an appointment with a client or prospect. I offer a few 6:00 am time slots in my Pacific time zone to accommodate the desires of my east coast and european customers/prospects.

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MARCH 17, 2014

It has influenced prospects to choose to do business with you. Your experience will vary based on your industry and prospect pool, but the ability to listen to your message from their computer, smartphone or iPod, or even from iTunes can get your message delivered in completely new ways.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

We are expected to understand and please our customers, our prospects, our manager and even our banker. The never-ending battle to effectively engage with prospects and customers. Let’s not kid ourselves. B2B selling is a very challenging, competitive and sometimes overwhelming occupation.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Most likely you are already sharing content that is helpful and relevant to your customers and prospective customers. In addition, when they know you learned about this from Fill the Funnel, you will also receive a stack of eight additional bonuses that I have added that compliment the power of this new tool.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

It is also a great way to learn what prospects are thinking about on a particular topic or product. The thinking is that by answering the questions of others in a thoughtful way, you are establishing your expertise and building your reputation as a go-to source for that topic.

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MARCH 6, 2015

What and who were shaking things up with our customers and prospects? You should have in-depth reporting on every stage in your sales cycle, for every prospect and customer, in multiple formats and on multiple devices. New products and pricing adjustments were on the table.

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