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Inside Sales: Listen Up!

No More Cold Calling

A new ebook from InsideSales.com tells how to turn cold calls into hot leads with referral selling. You really can stop cold calling. Regardless of how you reach out to prospects, your attempt is either: Cold : Your prospect doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. There is no in-between.

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The Rise of Social Selling

SBI Growth

It’s getting harder for your sales reps to get at bats these days. Not long ago, you could cold call and email your way to appointments. As a result, your sales team is missing out on revenue opportunities. Think about the last 3 meetings you took with a sales rep. An unknown call to your mobile phone?

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This may hit your Sweetspot

Sales 2.0

Get a referral into your prospect so you can avoid those “old school cold calls that suck” (you know the ones that take 200 calls to get one qualified meeting). I first created this framework from stressing out about the lousy results my inside sales team was getting cold calling.

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Is There a Lack of Clarity on the Current State of Selling?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote this article questioning the Death of SPIN Selling. Over the years I have questioned the impending death of other important areas like cold-calling, selling, sales process, salespeople and more. Others are from the big new inside sales industry.

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How Data and Intelligence Are Going to Change the Sales Industry Forever

Crunchbase

Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. In fact, implementing a data-driven sales approach can make a business 6 percent more profitable than their competitors. With data, the days of spending eight hours cold calling are over.

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Making It Rain in 2019

Igniting Sales Transformation

Last week, I was making it rain opportunities through networking and education with over 1,000 sales professionals at SalesLoft’s Rainmaker 2019 conference. SalesLoft , a hometown tech success here in the ATL, launched Rainmaker in 2014. I don’t like making ice cold calls sales calls to strangers not expecting my call.

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Forrester Predicts the Death of 1 Million Salesmen by 2020: Henry Schuck Disagrees

DiscoverOrg Sales

B2B companies must respond by implementing digitally-enabled selling models and they must think beyond the front line of sales representatives and create solutions for call center agents, inside sales reps, and the rest of the sales engine network. Source: [link] ).

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