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When Should You Use a Telemarketing Firm to Schedule Sales Calls?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan If you have no desire to find a lot of new business from new accounts, you don't need telemarketing (and you can stop reading this article). You can hire telemarketers - inside salespeople who will make calls and schedule appointments for your account managers.

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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? Emails, articles, news flashes, blasts, webinars, podcasts…they make my blood boil.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

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

No More Cold Calling

Emails, articles, news flashes, blasts, webinars, podcasts…they make my blood boil. 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. Consider the opposite sales approach.

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Personalize Communications and Win High-Value Clients With Account-Based Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

An essential tool for doing that deep dive to gain intelligence about the account is your inside sales team or telemarketing firm. Also, because you’re talking with many team members, you’ll be less likely to be blindsided by an unforeseen complication that can ultimately delay or kill the sale.

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Is Cold Calling Dead? A Guide to B2B Cold Calling

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As daunting as cold calling may be, it still has a place in today’s sales pipelines. In the age of COVID and increased remote work, sales development representatives (SDRs) and account executives (AEs) are finding that cold calling can be an effective means of reaching prospects — when handled correctly. Is B2B Cold Calling Dead?

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15 Expert Opinions About Business Data

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Everywhere we look there’s talk of data-driven sales, data-driven marketing, predictive learning, data hygiene , and so on. The use of Big Data, combined with your intelligence, can create growth, profits and more sales.”. Only last week I heard a story of a telemarketer who asked for a person who had died seven years ago.

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