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“You Can’t Catch Water With A Fist”

Pointclear

The salespeople that cold-call waste time contacting hundreds of people to find a few buyers instead of relentlessly pursuing marketing provided inquires and leads (48% of the salespeople give up after the first call). i JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom Boston, MA : Red Wheel, 2002. 100% accountability, 100% follow-up.

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How To Brand Yourself As Rebel Brand

LeadIQ

Since Jobs had left, Apple had lost a ton of market share to hardware rival IBM, and was battling for software market share with Microsoft. Apple’s big campaign from 1997-2002 appealed to our internal tendency to support counter culture. The year was 1997, and Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple as Interim CEO.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

The Gist: Justin McGill is the Founder of LeadFuze and is determined to kill the cold call. 46 Best Sales Questions to Ask on a Sales Call. The Gist: G2 Crowd is a massive name in the software space. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0