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.

Sales Qualified Lead 140

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

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These “gatekeeper” tactics are insincere, duplicitous, unprofessional, offensive, and a waste of sales time. Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Consider the opposite sales approach. A waste of your time.

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Gatekeeper Cold Calling Telemarketing Referrals 303

Pipeliner

MARCH 9, 2018

As sales managers, you all know how important it is to be effective at managing your sales staff and sales pipeline. At times, being reminded of 3 Steps to effective sales management can have a profound impact on your effectiveness. Sales Culture – What makes up your sales culture?

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Sales Management Hiring SalesForce Policies 40

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? Although I’m not sure selling, per se, has changed! But the drawer is empty today.

Telemarketing 150

Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

His book, “Sales Manager Survival Guide” , is the best I have read on that subject matter. Recently Dave published a couple of articles on prospecting where he shared that, when sales are low, the answer that most sales managers have is … “We need to fill the pipelines! I read every word of his.

Telemarketing 77

Telemarketing Social Media Cold Calling Call-back 77

The Sales Association

MAY 22, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Why Telemarketing Remains the Unsung Hero of Lead Generation. By Kathy Tito Denise Clancey is a true luminary in the field of telesales and telemarketing. How does a sales organization reconcile all of the options?

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Telemarketing Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 24

Green Lead's B2B

JUNE 27, 2019

Whether it's mentoring someone to take over your role when you ascend the corporate ladder, or taking a rep with just enough potential under your wing, ultimately, the job of a manager is to improve his or her team. The Sales Manager is always looking for better performance from a team, and in order to get that, you've got to give a little.

Inside Sales 21

Inside Sales Motivation Sales Management Construction 21

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 and isn’t that our goal in sales?—?a But where to begin?

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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

Pointclear

MAY 15, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Quota dollars / average sales price / buying percentage (45%) ii / close ratio (your market share) = inquiries needed to make quota.

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Quota Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Follow-up 165

Sales Training Advice

MAY 29, 2017

One of the most important qualities to look for in a sales rep is the ability to learn. For one reason or another, many sales reps are resistant to trying new techniques and accepting criticism. In other cases the problem is overconfidence in himself or lack of confidence in you, the sales manager. Tales of the Tape.

Telemarketing 40

Telemarketing Training Film Sports 40

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps. But what is inside sales, really?

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Telemarketing Salary 31

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve heard sales experts say it takes seven to 10 touches for most reps to reach prospects. What Does Your Sales Future Look Like? Picture a sales world where all your prospects want to talk to you—a world in which you never have to cold call, send cold prospecting emails, or entice prospects with special offers.

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting 120

InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. 7 Sales Best Practices. Celebrating success in competitive sales.

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Data Hiring Analytics Top of Funnel 86

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While there's no definitive standard for segmenting salespeople, there are some archetypes that sales professionals tend to fall into — categories that can help reps better understand how they sell and what they should work on. Here are the four primary selling styles that most sales reps fall into. Selling styles aren't set in stone.

Telemarketing 131

Telemarketing Engineering Top of Funnel Territories 131

Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Boosting sales performance is a critical aspect of almost any operational management strategy. But for many companies, the goal of making sales personnel more productive, increasing their output and personal efficiency and evaluating performance through traditional metrics has become something of an elusive process.

Buyer 54

Buyer Hiring Telemarketing Cold Calling 54

Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Boosting sales performance is a critical aspect of almost any operational management strategy. But for many companies, the goal of making sales personnel more productive, increasing their output and personal efficiency and evaluating performance through traditional metrics has become something of an elusive process.

Buyer 54

Buyer Hiring Telemarketing Cold Calling 54

Cience

JULY 9, 2020

If you’ve worked in marketing or sales over the past decade then you’ve most likely heard it said: “Cold calling is dead.” Telemarketing. How to Handle Objections In Sales Calls. Cold Calling Tips From Sales Pros. The cold calling technique takes its origin from door-to-door sales. How is cold calling still viable?

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Decision Maker 79

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). Create an initial team of 5 of your best sales people. Here is how it can work. This Social 3.0

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Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 83

InsideSales.com

MARCH 11, 2020

Cold Calling Motivation for Sales Teams: What Sales Managers Can Do to Motivate Reps. If a sales rep doesn’t respond fast enough within 30 minutes , then the chances of contact and qualifying the lead drop 100 times. That way, you will be able to lead them further along the sales funnel faster. Persistency.

Cold Calling 77

Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back eBook 77

Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 1, 2011

Whether it's mentoring someone to take over your role when you ascend the corporate ladder, or taking a rep with just enough potential under your wing, ultimately, the job of a manager is to improve his or her team. The Sales Manager is always looking for better performance from a team, and in order to get that, you've got to give a little.

Inside Sales 33

Inside Sales Motivation Sales Management Construction 33

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 2, 2011

Sales Leadership: What? Yes, that is the reality of every sales organization at this time of year, even with sales backlogs, recurring revenues and hopefully a pipeline of opportunity-this is a psychological issue that you, as sales leaders must address. All my numbers are back to zero?

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Sales Leadership Hiring Telemarketing Face-to-face 66

Vengreso

JULY 10, 2023

Unlocking the power of sales might seem like a Herculean task, but with the right approach, it can become an achievable goal. Sales goes beyond merely selling products or services; it involves comprehending the desires of your customers and providing tailored solutions that meet their individual needs. What is Sales?

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Hiring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Forecasting 40

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! 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. Collin Cadmus.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Up-Sell Hubspot 79

Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2018

If you’re confident you understand your buyer’s personal decision-making process, you can also incorporate this when creating your wider sales and marketing campaigns. Taking a personal approach in engaging with prospective customers is the best way to understand your buyer’s goals and build trust.

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B2B B2C Telemarketing Decision Maker 76

Sales Training Advice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

For a quick sales training course we are going to share two similar techniques named parroting or paraphrasing. Sales is not a fight. They just have to give you the sale and buy from you. Follow thee simple principles from our sales training course, “Selling is Easy” and you will listen, learn and sell. Keep it simple.

Hiring 77

Hiring Telemarketing Lead Rank Call-back 77

MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It doesn’t matter how frequently you call prospects or how many years you’ve been in sales, you’ll always feel some anxiety before you dial. When I was a sales manager, I’d hold a calling contest with a “no” quota whenever I wanted my reps to spend more time on the phone. And that’s a good thing. 1) Make Getting a “No” a Goal.

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Prospecting Telemarketing Quota Call-back 40

MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It doesn’t matter how frequently you call prospects or how many years you’ve been in sales, you’ll always feel some anxiety before you dial. When I was a sales manager, I’d hold a calling contest with a “no” quota whenever I wanted my reps to spend more time on the phone. And that’s a good thing. 1) Make Getting a “No” a Goal.

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Prospecting Telemarketing Quota Call-back 40

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Sometimes I wonder about the discussions I hear about Inside versus Outside/Field/Direct sales. In ancient times, when I started selling (the ’80’s), I started as a direct/field sales person. In those ancient times, inside sales started changing a lot, primarily with new phone and computer technology.

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Telemarketing Inside Sales Face-to-face Field Sales 48

Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

Lead Generation in B2B Sales is a topic that usually ends up in finger pointing and a verbal bun fight, between the people in Sales and Marketing. No Sales Leads , or even poor quality sales leads usually means no Sales, so surely this needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. So whats the answer?

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services Leads 49

Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2018

If you’re confident you understand your buyer’s personal decision-making process, you can also incorporate this when creating your wider sales and marketing campaigns. Taking a personal approach in engaging with prospective customers is the best way to understand your buyer’s goals and build trust.

B2B 40

B2B B2C Telemarketing Decision Maker 40

The Sales Association

JUNE 14, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Just Making More Calls Doesn’t Guarantee Sales Success. If you answered yes to these questions, you may be one of the many sales representatives who mistakenly believe that being busy is the same as being effective. by Susan A.

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Guarantee Telemarketing Cold Calling Quota 40

Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wondering what the right sales approach for your company is? Should you build an inbound sales machine, set up an outbound sales team, or take a hybrid approach? Inbound sales is famous for being able to attract customers to any business, be cost effective, and scale really well. Pros & cons of inbound sales.

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Paid Content Outbound Inbound Top of Funnel 64

LeadFuze

JUNE 28, 2021

Another common misconception is that cold calling is simply a numbers game – the more calls you make, the better the chance of making a sale. By preparing for each call and creating a personalized pitch for every prospect, you’ll have the best chance of making a sale. That’s simply not true. You need to be aggressive.

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Call-back 59