Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 30, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I have to question Geoffrey James for an article he recently posted on Inc. In his article he shares a systematic approach for prospecting " loosely based upon a conversation with Thomas Ray Crowel." Isn''t this a prospecting call? It certainly doesn''t apply to a complex B2B sale!

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Prospecting Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 239

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. Cold calling is a duplicitous, disingenuous sales tactic. If you make 100 calls, you’ll talk to about 20 people, schedule 10 sales appointments, and if you’re lucky, close one new deal. Why would you bother with a sales system that gets such dismal results?

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Cold Calling Social Media Telemarketing Referrals 365

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

Register for Back in The Black Sales TV—first episode on January 19. The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. Why am I doing a monthly Sales TV Show? We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2022

If you Google "How to close a deal", you'll quickly stumble across some tried-and-true best practices for sealing a sales deal. But, in reality, sales deals can be unpredictable and often require sales reps to think on their feet. Read on to learn the wildest ways five HubSpot sales experts have closed deals.

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Closing Telemarketing Hubspot Proposal 86

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 29, 2012

Yes, you can prospect using voicemail. Here is the best way to sales prospect with voice mail: To make the voicemail message fly, it needs to be short. Want to know about successful sales prospecting? Until then, check out this post I recently wrote about sales prospecting.

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Prospecting Telemarketing Energy Benefit 174

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JANUARY 30, 2023

When you’re prospecting, do you ever get the feeling that the buyer on the other end isn’t listening to you? If a prospect is having a bad day, or is engulfed in a whirlwind of meetings, or is preoccupied with an urgent task, getting them to listen may be just about impossible. Telemarketing call!”

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Prospecting Telemarketing How To Face-to-face 59

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn cold calling techniques for handling and overcoming the most common objections in telemarketing phone sales including the best call rebuttal responses for “not interested.” ” One of the main reasons sales reps dislike prospecting and cold calling is because of all the sales objections they get.

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Cold Calling Objections Telemarketing Face-to-face 148

One of a Kind Sales

AUGUST 29, 2022

When seeking more qualified appointments for their sales team, many businesses outsource to an appointment setting service. These services focus on the “pre-sales” process, which includes implementing professional telemarketing campaigns designed to prospect from a list to set up appointments.

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Outsourcing Services Campaigns Telemarketing Industry 71

The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Recently, I worked with a very capable salesperson who had a great sales plan and great leads; yet, she failed miserably in at hitting her number. How do I Overcome my Lack of Confidence When Prospecting: It’s sad to say, but this situation is a major issue and one of the biggest reasons why there’s such a high turnover in sales.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 23, 2013

Lousy voicemail messages will kill sales faster than you can hit speed dial. If you’re going to sales prospect by way of the telephone, then you better be able to do it with energy. If you’re going to sales prospect by way of the telephone, then you better be able to do it with energy.

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Telemarketing Cold Calling Energy Consultative Selling 229

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Earn trust and credibility with your prospects, who are pre-sold on your ability to deliver results. Convert prospects into clients at least 50 percent of the time (usually more than 70 percent). Meet with hot prospects while your competitors are still figuring out how to get in. What Does Your Sales Future Look Like?

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting 120

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Even with the growing number of digital routes, outbound phone calling, or teleprospecting, remains a powerful method to engage personally with your prospects. Sales is sales. No one outside gets us.

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Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 24, 2018

Discover effective openings and sample outbound cold calling phone telemarketing sales pitch scripts including the best tips, techniques and examples ever written for closing calls. If you close sales or do sales presentations over the phone, then you might be wondering what the best way to open the closing call is.

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Cold Calling Examples Telemarketing Outbound 144

The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2012

In the first two installments we looked at the anatomy of the typical objection to a prospecting call, that is being an Interruption , and the Conditioned Response to Interruptions. One reason people hate the mid-dinner telemarketing call is the one sided nature of the call: Telemarketer – “if you sign up today….”.

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Go for No!

MARCH 1, 2021

He was prospecting like mad. That kind of production is not easy although, for someone in telemarketing, they could do probably do that by lunchtime. So, it depends on how much time you are actively prospecting or having conversations with customers. There’s a saying that goes: sales solves all problems.

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Workbooks Telemarketing Referrals Lead Generation 139

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These “gatekeeper” tactics are insincere, duplicitous, unprofessional, offensive, and a waste of sales time. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career. A waste of your time.

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Gatekeeper Cold Calling Telemarketing Referrals 303

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

These are the five essential channels you can rely on for generating a steady stream of inquiries that you can then convert to qualified leads, and have a prayer of closing enough sales to meet your revenue quota. Your website The source of your cheapest and most qualified sales leads is right at your fingertips: your company website.

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Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2017

Some companies have several inside departments to take in, qualify, nurture, and filter sales leads to such a finite extent that few leads go to anyone. You are: Delaying talking to buyers and reducing your chances of making the sale by 50%, because salespeople, on average, aren’t getting the leads until weeks after they’re created.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Telemarketing 140

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 15, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I was on three separate calls with sales managers whose salespeople needed to fill their pipelines but hadn''t. A perfectionist must do things perfectly and if ever there was a sales activity that was ripe for imperfection, it would be the prospecting call.

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Telemarketing Pipeline Course Meeting 259

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The art of door-to-door sales is timeless — even during the rise of modern sales strategies. There’s no two ways about it: D2D sales can be tricky. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. Table of Contents What is door-to-door sales?

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 98

SBI Growth

JUNE 14, 2013

I sat across the desk from Mike, the new VP of Sales. Before his promotion Mike was the can’t-miss Sales Manager. Now he was just another VP of Sales in the crosshairs. After a quick conversation, we found he was committing 3 of the sales myths below. The majority of Sales VPs are guilty of at least one.

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Sales Management Hiring Telemarketing Demand Generation Targets 326

Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2021

You can‘t keep making calls without putting thought into how the call impacts your leads and potential prospects. . Sales is definitely a contact sport where success is obtained not just in the first outreach, but in the follow-up. . When it comes to sales, the goal is to be effective– more doesn’t always mean better.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 135

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 6, 2012

Every sales person knows that today’s modern buyer has had enough of the old smile-and-dial cold calling methods of the past. However, as mentioned in, “4 Reasons Why Prospects Fear Cold Calls,” most buyers still seem to harbour fear and animosity toward receiving a telephone solicitation call. Many feel a cold call… #1.

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Cold Calling Telemarketing How To Buyer 291

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 23, 2012

Whenever the idea of a planned presentation comes up, usually the first thing sales people think about is a “canned script.” Such was a primary tool of sales people, in particular telemarketers, years ago. Defining a Planned Sales Interaction. A Planned sales interaction is a strategy. A Strategy.

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Telemarketing Fashion Exact Education 271

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? Prospects and customers either answered the phone (or pager) or their PA did.

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Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Pointclear

JUNE 4, 2018

There's another win-win value proposition that applies to outsourced tele-prospecting: “Costs Less. Outsourcing inside sales really does save you money while at the same time providing you the leads and revenue you need to be successful. The fact is, insourcing tele-prospecting is harder, and more expensive, than most imagine.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 6, 2012

In a prospecting cold call , you need to develop a rapport and create a professional, trustworthy image in the mind of the prospect in just a few seconds. In less than 7 seconds, the prospect will have formulated an image of you in his or her mind, and the success or failure of the call depends on that image. Happy Selling!

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Cold Calling Telemarketing How To Call-back 279

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sales ops executives are charged with improving sales effectiveness and efficiency. Your goal is to best enable sales. Look across the spectrum of Sales Operations. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Review your Sales Process.

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Buyer Telemarketing Cold Calling Buyer Persona 288

Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. And, it’s irritating to your prospects. Their fear that you’ll turn on the hard sale based on that form is one reason they lie. Actually I take that back, it’s not okay if you pass those 10 leads to quota-carrying sales reps.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2016

A LinkedIn connection is not a sales lead. ” It’s exactly the same as telemarketers and their cold calling blitzes. Sales reps abuse social media to the extent that I typically delete more LinkedIn invitations than I accept. (No, Qualified prospects are actually interested in your product or solution.

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Social Media Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Media 239

Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is a statement emphasized by legendary sales expert Zig Ziglar. This eye-opening observation exposes a hidden opportunity for sales professionals—the transformative power of vocal training. Most salespeople need to recognize their voice’s pivotal role in the sales success.

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Telemarketing Intent Infusion Pivotal 62

Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

Buyers are already short on time, and the last thing they want is to listen to another sales pitch. Research from our 2023 State of Sales Productivity Report found that during a call, buyers asked an average of 18 questions, a significant increase from 13 questions in the 2022 report. As sellers, you’re even more in the hot seat.

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 98

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 16, 2016

How many times do you ask for the sale during a close? Top Characteristic Part Seven: Be prepared to ask for the sale five times – or more! Most sales reps I listen to (while reviewing their closing and presentation calls), ask for the sale once. It’s rare that I hear someone ask for the sale more than three times.

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Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Objections Decision Maker 120

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers.

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Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Despite the huge growth in marketing and sales automation, along with the growing popularity and acceptance of self-service sales processes, reports of the death of the salesperson are greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain. Higher value B2B sales still need a competent salesperson to close the deal. The audience.

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Research Sales Process Lead Rank Lead Scoring 89

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In today’s world of e-prospecting, social media marketing, texting and sophisticated electronic communication, it seems picking up the telephone is becoming a lost art. Although we all know that no matter how the future continues to unfold, the telephone will always be an integral part of sales success. The REAL Reason.

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Face-to-face Social Media 291