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Don’t Miss This Event: The Gatekeeper Died

No More Cold Calling

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? They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Always free.

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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

Pointclear

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Sales is sales. Most of the good sales people do not dream of becoming technical experts.

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4 Ways to Get Past the Gatekeeper (No Tricks Required)

No More Cold Calling

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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Marketers are the Real Creators of Wealth in B2B Companies

Sales Lead Management Association

Marketers and their surrogates, the agencies (on-line, branding, direct marketing, content creation, digital marketers, PR) telemarketing and trade shows are the hammers by which B2B marketers create wealth. If company presidents were to measure the amount of revenue created per marketer, they would be astounded.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

Pointclear

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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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

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.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

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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