2012, Examples, Prospecting and Training

30 Ways to Reach Prospects

Score More Sales

MAY 29, 2013

I also encourage you to post YOUR thoughts on any of these, and ultimately, what you do to reach prospects – what is your best tip? Don’t be afraid to let them know that you feel they could be a great prospective client / customer. Find triggers that affect your prospects, and tie them into your messaging.

Prospecting

Prospecting Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring

Voicemail as a Prospecting Strategy? YES! | Sales Motivation and.

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Voicemail as a Prospecting Strategy? Feb 14, 2012. What this means is you use cold-calling voicemails as one part of your prospecting strategy, and the other parts are going to include email, direct mail, networking, and so forth.

Motivation

Motivation Cold Calling Strategy Prospecting

Do Prospects Lie to Your Salespeople Like the Airlines Do?

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prospects must think that salespeople are morons. These symptoms are examples of some of the hidden weaknesses that Objective Management Group identifies as reasons why salespeople don't perform as well as you need them too. c) Copyright 2012 Dave Kurlan They must think we are morons. Do you know who else thinks we are morons?

Airlines

Airlines Prospecting Decision Maker Vendor

What You Must Do for BETTER Sales Prospecting

The Sales Hunter

JUNE 13, 2012

Do you struggle with prospecting by phone? For many salespeople, having to make prospecting telephone calls is one of the most difficult parts of their job. If you want greater success in prospecting — and more sales! Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Focus by key industry.

Prospecting

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4 Twitter Prospecting Strategies

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As a long time Twitter user and fan, I have directly seen how more than 100 companies – mostly B2B find prospects and even close business through their Twitter account. Doing this alone can give you enough good reasons to contact prospects and existing customers to add value. and learn how to listen.

Twitter

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4 Reasons Why Prospects Fear Cold Calls

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 5, 2012

As a result, there are tons of training and tips on how to handle such obstacles as well as many alterative prospecting avenues. When the prospect picks up the telephone, you are instantly in their living room, their office or perhaps their bedroom! However, at the time of the call, the prospect knows almost nothing about you.

Cold Calling

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3 Ways to Research Prospects Online to Grow Sales

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JANUARY 10, 2013

A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying. They just set a first meeting with this prospect company who earlier would not interact with them. HELPFUL: Download InsideView’s Twitter for Social Selling Guide here. Start with simple Google searches.

InsideView

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter.

Pipeline

Pipeline Training Twitter Hiring

Turn the Prospect into a Customer with the “Engagement Process”

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Every salesperson has had at one time or another a prospect who just won’t move forward and buy. Best way to understand the engagement process is by giving you an example. The next step in this process might be for you to provide the prospect a worksheet with some diagrams of how systems might look in their building.

Prospecting

Prospecting Customer Insurance Insurance

4 Sales Tips for Reaching Prospects by Phone

Score More Sales

APRIL 27, 2012

Of all the ways we have seen people actually talking to prospects, it most often is in a combination of the following: 1) Simple web research. 3 )Have data and knowledge of your prospect’s world. 3 )Have data and knowledge of your prospect’s world. Example: A marketing executive prospect works for an electric utility.

Prospecting

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4 Sales Tips for Reaching Prospects by Phone

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APRIL 27, 2012

Of all the ways we have seen people actually talking to prospects, it most often is in a combination of the following: 1) Simple web research. 3 )Have data and knowledge of your prospect’s world. 3 )Have data and knowledge of your prospect’s world. Example: A marketing executive prospect works for an electric utility.

Prospecting

Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cold Calling

The Pipeline ? 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI ? Sales.

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Some aspects of sales training are easy to measure others not so, but it is a fair question when I am asked what they can expect from an ROI standpoint. December 2011.

ROI

ROI Pipeline Training Twitter

Who is Your Lexus? | Sales Motivation and Sales Training

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. The company I use most often as an example in my speeches is hands-down alone at the top… Lexus of Omaha. Sales Training Tip #345: What is Your Advantage? prospecting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip.

Motivation

Motivation Real Estate Training Hiring

Is Your Sales Training Tethered to the Stone Age?

Increase Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Recently I spoke with a potential client who shared with me in had invested $80,000 in sales training over the course of three (3) years. Further discussion revealed this expensive sales training focused on technical sales skills and failed to address the people side of selling or people skills. It did not increase sales.

Training

Training Proposal Webinar Metrics Government

The Pipeline ? 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into.

The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. There are steps to follow that can make prospecting easy and effective. December 2011. November 2011.

Pipeline

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Ideal Customer Profile

Sales Amateur or Sales Professional? What are You? | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Feb 13, 2012. Guest post Monday and we have Owen Van Syckle of the Van Syckle Group , a sales training and consulting group. Manipulative questions are designed to “set up” the prospect. Client List. Testimonials. Negotiation.

Hiring

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Facebook

The Pipeline ? Put Price in its Place

The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. March 2nd, 2012. Much easier to show value to a customer than to a prospect. March 2nd, 2012. As a sales person you should be able to take what you know from existing clients, and apply them to new prospects.

Pipeline

Pipeline Twitter Lead Rank Lead Scoring

The Pipeline ? Contest ? Enter To Win!

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. PROACTIVE PROSPECTING! Prospecting. Sales Training.

Pipeline

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STOP Letting Customers Control Sales Negotiations | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Jan 11, 2012. Before you doubt me and stop reading, let me give you a couple of examples. The questions or comments your customer states might not be one of the examples above, but the objective is the same — they want you to cave.

Negotiation

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5 Deadly Sins People Make When Networking | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Feb 16, 2012. I saw an example of this recently at and event with nearly 100 people. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” prospecting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip.

Networking

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B2B Phone Sales Cold-Calling: It Still Works! | Sales Motivation and.

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Feb 03, 2012. The reason I share these two examples is simple: The time periods you select to use to make cold-calls may very well consist of nothing more than 45-minute or one-hour windows on a daily basis. prospecting. sales training.

Cold Calling

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3 Technology Traps to Avoid in Sales

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In sales we work hard to create mutual next steps with prospective customers and ultimately to help buying opportunities for these prospects – these buyers. For example, set prospecting time right into your calendar so you and those around you can know clearly what you are working on.

CRM

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Inside Sales Power Tip 116 – Call Deep

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JUNE 3, 2013

Oh, you might do a little research and maybe even call someone else in the prospect company, but we often stick with that one guy or gal who actually took our call or replied to our email. Are you calling deep and wide into prospective customer accounts or are you sticking with your one contact in the company? Increase Opportunities.

Inside Sales

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Solution Selling Is Exactly What Today’s Buyer Wants

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A whopping 50% of your prospects may not be a good fit for the product/service you sell. So why did HBR declare the solution selling methodology dead in 2012? Buyers in 2012 had come a long way from the buyers of the 1980s. Think of the times a prospect has needs which extend beyond the scope of your off-the-shelf products.

Solutions Selling

Solutions Selling Exact Buyer Sales Methodology

Sales Motivation: Customers Will Always Pay More For Confidence.

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. An example I like to use in training programs is comparing two similar items — one being offered on eBay and the other by a store you’ve been buying from for years. prospecting. sales training. sales training tip.

Ideal Customer Profile

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Inside Sales Power Tip 115 – Be Social

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MAY 27, 2013

If you haven’t already had amazing things happen by being online, you will see how you can be blown away by the prospects, former customers, and soon-to-be-strategic partners just waiting for you to define yourself, your market niche, and the value you add to doing business with others. Gain Connections. What is stopping you?

Inside Sales

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Inside Sales Power Tip 109 – Listen

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APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve gone through all the training, and have so many stories to share – so the suggestion today is this: Be selective about what you talk about. . Example of a question that is not powerful: “How are you today? Example of a question that is not powerful: “How are you today?” Ask powerful questions.

Inside Sales

Inside Sales Outbound Buyer B2B

The (New) New ABCs of Selling — Alignment, Belief, and Consistency

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The sales profession often drives people away because its training methods need updating. And these tactics make those salespeople — not to mention their prospects — uncomfortable, decreasing any successful outcome. In 2012, Daniel Pink proposed a new ABCs of selling in his book, To Sell Is Human: Attunement, Buoyancy, and Clarity.

Social Media

Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring

Why Companies are Transitioning from Traditional Training to Enablement and Readiness

Mindtickle

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more companies are transitioning from traditional training methods like classroom training and webinars. They’re recognizing the need for a change and transitioning from traditional training to sales enablement and readiness instead. It’s been known for some time that training isn’t productive by itself.

Training

Training Company Hiring Webinar Metrics

Why Companies are Transitioning from Traditional Training to Enablement and Readiness

Mindtickle

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more companies are transitioning from traditional training methods like classroom training and webinars. They’re recognizing the need for a change and transitioning from traditional training to sales enablement and readiness instead. It’s been known for some time that training isn’t productive by itself.

Training

Training Company Hiring Webinar Metrics

You Help People. Does that Sound Better Than "Salesperson.

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. EXAMPLES: “I help people gain more free time to do the things they really want to do.” prospecting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip. Archives Select Month March 2012. February 2012.

Ideal Customer Profile

Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Hiring Facebook

3 Steps to Grow Your Online Visibility and B2B Brand

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JUNE 26, 2012

There are many cloud-based tools to help grow your visibility, do niche research, and learn more about your existing and prospective customers. Research is critical, because you are learning online where your prospects and customers are, and coexisting. As in real life, you need to go where your customers are. What communities?

B2B

B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring

Identify the Blind Spots of Your Competitors Sales Team

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Before that I spent a small fortune on sales training. All 2012 did was buy me some time. I showed him a couple of examples. Note: If you want to see an example of a Sales Productivity Benchmark, click here. The first example showed Charlie how the SPB helped launch a new product. Last year we implemented CRM.

Banking

Banking Software Software Competition

12 More Ways to Build the Strongest Client Relationships | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Feb 10, 2012. Examples include: in-person, telephone, voice mail, text messaging, email, etc. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales Prospecting: Office Phone or Cell Phone? prospecting. prospecting.

Ideal Customer Profile

Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Hiring Facebook

Emotional Intelligence Grows Sales

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

I had the pleasure to sit down with Emotional Intelligence (Ei) Sales Expert Colleen Stanley recently and we talked about how sales training – sales skills – can fail because our reps were not aware of their emotional awareness. Inconsistent prospecting activity – low impulse control or delayed gratification.

Decision Maker

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Are You Embracing Social Business

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

McKinsey Global Institute Report, “The Social Economy: Unlocking Value and Productivity Through Social Technologies” – July 2012. IBM Social Business Global Client Creates Products Faster, with a 23% Improvement in Cycle Time for New Products – July 2012. You can accelerate business transformation by 23%. Check out Signals here ).

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Are You Hanging Around with Pond Scum? | Sales Motivation and.

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Let me share with you an example. prospecting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip. Archives Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. © 2010-2012 The Sales Hunter.

Motivation

Motivation Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Negotiation

The Pipeline ? Get Your Veteran Salespeople to Take Baby Steps

The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. December 2010. . • 85% offer quotes or proposals too early in the sales process. • 86% take prospects at their word – they trust enough to not ask a clarifying question. Your email address will not be shared. December 2011.

Pipeline

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The Power of the"Ultra-Price Package" | Sales Motivation and Sales.

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. The Power of the “Ultra-Price Package” Feb 28, 2012. For example, they may place a luxury purse on the middle of a display, and then surround it with lower-priced purses. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

Motivation

Motivation Ideal Customer Profile Discount Retail

Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

Score More Sales

JANUARY 4, 2013

If you are in outside sales, the number of targeted events you attend (events where your customers and prospects are). These examples stand out because if you do some of these things above, you will work toward finding and closing qualified sales opportunities. Number of qualified strategic or referral partners that you talk with.

Sales Qualified Lead

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The Pipeline ? Mine the Gap!

The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. This is why the “let’s wait” school fails; they see a prospect “at rest” and respond leaving it “at rest”; sure doesn’t take long for nothing to happen, that’s not selling. December 2011.

Pipeline

Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead

Walk the Flight Line: Get Dirty With Your Troops | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Jan 23, 2012. Just a few hours earlier before taking off on a training mission, I had reprimanded my 22-year-old crew F-16 chief for shorting me 500 lbs of fuel. prospecting. sales training. sales training tip. training tip.

Motivation

Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation

Here Are The Dumbest Questions Salespeople Ask ? And Why.

Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 21, 2011

Online Training. It never ceases to amaze me, that with all the options salespeople have, they choose to alienate, anger or cause doubt in the mind of the prospect by setting the wrong tone with their questions. And maybe the prospect feels that’s none of your business. It’s a waste of the prospect’s time.

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