Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

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. I literally wrote on a napkin.

InsideView 309

InsideView Cold Calling Decision Maker Twitter 309

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Provide the right processes, tools, structure and guidance to best deliver revenue. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Are they mainly a result of out-bound telemarketing & cold-calling? Your goal is to best enable sales.

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Buyer Telemarketing Cold Calling Buyer Persona 288

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 11, 2016

Marketing automation, CRM, social media , and other technology tools enable sales reps to sell more efficiently and cost effectively. But the most powerful tool in your sales toolbox is still you! In May of 2014 (the most recent data available), the BLS asserted that there were 14,248,470 such workers employed in the U.S.

Face-to-face 120

Face-to-face Social Media Cold Calling Call-back 120

SBI Growth

JULY 23, 2013

Sign up for the onsite session for your leadership team: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Both the session and the tool focus on driving revenue through: Persuading the entire leadership team to take action. Understanding the drivers of Sales Force Effectiveness in 2014.

Social Selling 323

Social Selling Benefit Top of Funnel Guidelines 323

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Find out if they have any questions for you as they plan for 2014. For more referral-selling success secrets, check out the latest from No More Cold Calling: 4 Tips for Holiday Networking Success. It’s not cheating if that book happens to be something that will help you become a better salesperson in 2014.

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Follow-up Face-to-face Referrals Social Media 237

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A couple of weeks ago I went to the 2014 version of Inbound with about 10,000 other people and was thrilled to not only attend David’s talk but get him to do an interview about his new book and his thoughts on social selling. For example, a company that still insists on cold calling and judges reps by the number of calls made per day etc.

Lead Rank 300

Lead Rank Cold Calling Lead Scoring CRM 300

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

His targets are a motley group of real estate salesmen who cold-call their way through leads taken from handwritten response cards (hey, it was 1992!). Glengarry” companies have turned to AI automation tools to reach out to every lead, personalize each message and improve response rates. The qualified leads.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 185

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Sure some are sticking with their predictions, because if you say it enough it may come true one century, and there will always be those lost souls who are so deathly afraid to pick up the phone to prospect who wish with all their hearts that this is the year that clod calling does die. So what does 2015 hold for sales?

Data 275

Data Cold Calling Revenue Social Selling 275

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Cold Calling. First and foremost, he suggests that reps stop cold calling. He says, "Don't cold call anymore — cold calling returns about 1.25% yield if you take a list and indiscriminately call 100 people at random and say the same stupid script.

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Case Study Cold Calling Hubspot Ideal Customer Profile 135

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Closed You may be wondering how this is any different from the days of making 40 cold calls/day. The reality today is that this model might not require any cold calls to generate those 31 Conversations each week. 6 conversations per day could be achieved in a number of ways without having to make cold calls.

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Lead Rank Sales Methodology Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 240

SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." And in turn increasing sales sooner than then outdated prospecting: cold calling and email. Sign up for the " How to Make Your Number in 2014 " research tour. But what you do about it is not.

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Hiring Top of Funnel How To Social Selling 325

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Gaining B2B prospects via LinkedIn referrals is the best way to succeed in 2014. Don’t waste time on cold calls with a 1-3% appointment success rate (AAISP, 2012). Download the Tool (free event registration required) so that you''ll be able to leverage your database along with my upcoming blog and tool. Hands down.

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Referrals LinkedIn Social Selling Cold Calling 331

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 5, 2015

” That’s what a shocked colleague asked when I told him I was including my entire referral process in my first book, No More Cold Calling. CSO Insights explains this concept well in the “ 2014 10th annual Lead Management & Social Engagement ”: Not every social outreach is going to result in a sale, nor should it.

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Networking Social Media Referrals Cold Calling 120

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

If so, you can forget about exceeding quota in 2014. Plus, check out the latest from No More Cold Calling: We’re Smarter Than Our Buyers. the most powerful tool in your sales toolbox is still you! You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 263

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2014

Jan 29 2014 2:00 pm. The rapid growth of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and a whole range of other social selling tools, has lead an entire generation of sales people to abdicate their sales duties to technology.

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Webinar Metrics Social Selling Referrals Twitter 159

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 8, 2015

Android and iPhone users age 18 and over spend 30 hours and 15 minutes using apps each month—a full half-day more than in 2011—according to a 2014 Nielsen study. The problem is, we are not productive with the tools we already have. We try out a new tool for a while and then move on to the next. We’re fickle.

Fashion 120

Fashion Twitter Small Business Small Business 120

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With data, the days of spending eight hours cold calling are over. Access to customer information stored in CRMs, and other tools, can help identify the right contacts to sell to in an organization, which leads to intelligent and strategically made calls. CRMs store a tremendous amount of information about customers.

Industry 98

Industry Data Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 98

SBI

JULY 30, 2013

Do they make too many cold calls that end in poor or no result? Do you wait on your salespeople to log sales calls or enter activity reports before you can assess performance or know how to coach? Do they have a high cold call-to-appointment close ratio because of a focus on “the numbers game?”.

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Sales Process Transportation Collateral Cold Calling 131

No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2015

percent of sales reps made quota in 2014, according to the CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization study. Put down that ice-cold phone. Commit to referral selling as your primary outbound prospecting tool, build skills in referral selling, and coach and reinforce referral activities. That’s 5 percent less than in 2012.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 120

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

and withstood the emergence of high-powered tech tools that promise to put so many aspects of engaging customers on automatic pilot. If you’re a good storyteller, your customers will never feel that way.”. Stories get a revival. Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and

Marketing 226

Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2014

As I later discovered, this person is an expert in prospecting and cold calling so I expected to learn a huge amount from his prospecting approach. He cites one job he’s had since January 2014 but no descriptor in the job, and no other information. The total number of words in his profile is roughly 180-200.

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Prospecting eBook Cold Calling Promotion 93

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? Search less. Close more.

Ideal Customer Profile 111

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Rank 111

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

By Tony Albachiara, Sales Benchmark Index Your Reach on LinkedIn will be one of your best sales assets in 2014. Furthermore, compare it to the 1-3% cold calling success rate.linked-in-reach These numbers leave little room for doubt: More referrals = more qualified opportunities = more sales. How do I know? e-mail open rates.

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LinkedIn Buyer Persona Training Referrals 49

LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2014, marketing automation was the most popular new trend for sales teams across all industries. We hacked it and created a virtual hand shake tool that was automated. In a DiscoverOrg survey, 55% of companies who experienced at least 40% growth over the past 3 years listed cold-calling as an effective way to find new business.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Hiring Scale How To 52

LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Social networking can be a very helpful tool for building relationships with prospects whether you’re a large corporation or a small business, whether you sell jet skis or homemade granola. In 2014, LinkedIn first introduced the idea of SSI. How Can You Use Social Selling Index to Boost Your Sales?

LinkedIn 40

LinkedIn Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 40

LinkedFusion

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Social networking can be a very helpful tool for building relationships with prospects whether you’re a large corporation or a small business, whether you sell jet skis or homemade granola. In 2014, LinkedIn first introduced the idea of SSI. How Can You Use Social Selling Index to Boost Your Sales?

Social Selling 40

Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 40

Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

2014), a book that explains a step-by-step guide on how marketers can set up and use joint ventures to help your business grow. Once I have given value, there is no longer need for a “cold call.” B2B : What are some unique tools you use to connect with build relationships (other than phone, email, and LinkedIn)?

Lead Rank 40

Lead Rank Networking Decision Maker Webinar Metrics 40

SBI

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some years ago, marketers used cold calling as their main way of getting in touch with prospects. An example of a tool you can use to track social mentions is Awario. The tool tracks all the major social media networks and websites to find the terms you want to monitor. Leverage user-generated content on social media.

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Social Media Social Selling Media Influencer 103

Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

SalesLoft , a hometown tech success here in the ATL, launched Rainmaker in 2014. That means doing your homework, and this is where tools like LinkedIn, the internet, company websites, Twitter, or InsideView can play a huge role in more effective sales messaging. Not everything about selling is dead.

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Conference InsideView Cold Calling Scale 101

Sales Hacker

JULY 2, 2019

2014 saw the rise of marketing automation. We hacked the system and created a new tool for shaking people’s hands — 100% virtual and automated. According to a DiscoverOrg survey , 55% of high-growth companies — those who experienced a minimum of 40% growth over the previous three years — stated that cold calling is very much alive.

Top of Funnel 103

Top of Funnel Social Media Scale Face-to-face 103

Gong.io

AUGUST 8, 2022

But when done right, social media can still be a great tool in your sales arsenal. It can be a tremendous relationship-building platform that lets your business focus less on old-school prospecting practices like cold calling. . Cold calling is a tried-and-true part of the sales process that shouldn’t be ignored or downplayed.

Social Selling 62

Social Selling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn 62

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Salesy comments are unsolicited, and will annoy group members just as a cold call or email would. Use Google alerts or a social listening tool (HubSpot customers can use Social Inbox ) to set up notifications about when your prospects or customers experience a trigger event, or post a possible sales opening. Warm lead unlocked.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Twitter 126

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the 2014 State of B2B Procurement Study by Accenture’s Acquity Group , 94% of B2B buyers gather data and research online before buying. They want to have a tool, or solution, for every situation. In addition, our data-driven hiring tool, Sales Indicator, can predict sales success with up to 85% accuracy.

SalesForce 40

SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 13, 2015

sales productivity tool to quickly identify qualified leads from among millions of potential contacts from cloud-based data providers Fliptop, Netprospex, ZoomInfo and/or Full Contact. Advanced filtering delivers just the leads that sales reps have mutual connections into, which helps turn cold calls into warm introductions.

Lead Rank 40

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting Webinar Metrics 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

AJ Bruno: QuotaPath is a dead simple sales compensation tool for sales teams, for ops, for finance, anyone that’s ever struggled with comp plans, struggled with the ins and outs, explaining it, what if I close these deals, we built a tool for you. We have a few thousand folks that use the tool every day.

Call-back 74

Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 74

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I scheduled a demo on my very first cold call and that felt like the first “aha moment” of my career! She uses her expertise in talent analysis and strength management as well as our state-of-the-art tools to help her customers recruit, select, develop, and retain the very best. Always stay relevant. Jacquelyn Nicholson.

Hiring 130

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

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. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0 Sales Technology Blog (Smart Selling Tools).

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98