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The ROI of ROI

No More Cold Calling

Guest blogger, Michael Nick, explains where (and how) to use ROI in your sales process. In this month’s guest blog, Michael breaks the ROI process into simple, easy-to-follow steps. The whole process, if done correctly, should be as natural as asking prospects about their budgets. Listen and learn. Qualify a prospect?

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The 18 Best CRMs to Integrate with Gmail

Hubspot Sales

Since its launch in 2004, Gmail has become one of the most popular email systems with 1.5 Wouldn’t it be helpful if you could harness powerful CRM technology to organize contact data and streamline the sales process from within your Gmail inbox? Pipedrive is designed to make your sales processes more efficient.

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15 best cold calling books to take your sales team to new levels

Close.io

However, you can still leverage social selling technology in your daily sales activities and integrate yourself into the customer’s buying journey. The author introduces you to tools and tactics that you can use alongside old school sales techniques. Author: Keith Rosen Published: August 3, 2004.

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TSE 1293: Learn To Prospect Like An Expert

Sales Evangelist

He built the company over 18 years and they specialized in creating a unique process for salespeople to prospect. From that point until 2005, the primary tools for prospecting were basically telephone and email. In 2003-2004, social media started gaining popularity, especially platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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Is It Time to Get Real About Social Selling?

Jonathan Farrington

Rather than trying to take credit for the term though, I want to suggest that you, as a sales leader, need to be wary of the sales trainers and software platform sellers merely trying to capitalize on a “buzz term” they think is hot. Use of technology is NOT a sales strategy! Use of technology is NOT a sales strategy!”.

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Business Value Selling and Sales Turnover - Continuous Working for Change

The ROI Guy

Solution or value selling methodology training and processes including CRM integration to help track the process 2. Account intelligence tools to help understand customer issues and engage on a consultative basis 4. Each year, one in three sales professionals is new. As such, we recommend the following best practices 1.

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They Actually Said My Sales Lead Generation Is Old School

No More Cold Calling

I joined LinkedIn in March 2004 and Twitter in May 2009, and I often write about the benefits of social selling (and the pitfalls). A huge problem today is the belief that sales lead generation can be automated. Technology is an important tool. You can automate your sales process, but you can’t automate relationships.