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Power Opinions - BANT is BUNK … Revisited

Pointclear

I have written articles and blogs against BANT (as a lead qualifying criterion) for years. I summarized Ardath’s thoughts, and mine, in a blog published on July 11, 2013. If you have not killed BANT in your lead qualification process, do it now. I think you will enjoy their comments: Jill Konrath (author, consultant).

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'Gold Calling' Is Alive and Well

Pointclear

In reality, all three channels work together to help each other and I get more catalogs in the mail today than I did in the ’80s. Cold calling is all about generating a list, a script and spending some money and hoping a bunch of leads are produced. Originally published on salesandmarketing.com, June 7, 2013. or cold calling.

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Andrew Berger Built Square’s Sales Organization. Here’s His Advice on How to Motivate a Sales Team

Troops

From 2011 to 2013, he spent time in both the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants farm systems and had, as he put it, “a cup of coffee” at the AAA level. Not just one sales team, but a bunch of them: Sales Development: global inbound lead qualification. Today, Andrew oversees multiple sales teams at Square.