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The 18 Best Places for Sales Reps to Research Prospects [Expert Tips]

Hubspot Sales

Prospect research is a challenge that's every bit as frustrating as it is essential — so to help you out, we've put together a list of 18 of the best places to research buyers before sales conversations. If you decide to leverage LinkedIn to guide or support your prospect research efforts, there are some key steps you should follow.

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Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore?

Your Sales Management Guru

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. First, it depends. What is your sales process?

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Jan 2: Is Your Sales Game Ready?

The Sales Hunter

For you, the objective is one thing — make sales calls! Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Blog Cold-Calling Networking Prospecting Sales Motivation cold calling prospecting sales call sales motivation sales prospecting' The calls you make today will be totally bonus.

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‘Tis the Season to Follow Up

No More Cold Calling

Now is the perfect time to follow up with your clients, prospects, and Referral Sources. Successful salespeople regularly follow up with every important contact —including leads, prospects, clients (current and former), and Referral Sources. Now is the perfect time to touch base with everyone in your professional network.

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Are you in Social Media Denial?

SBI Growth

It provides objective criteria for reviewing and evaluating your LinkedIn presence. Get the Checkup when you sign up for SBI’s 7 th annual research tour: How to Make the Number in 2014. I was surprised (and in a way not) to find he had a LinkedIn network of 5 connections. SBI is predicting 69% by 2014. In 2013 it was 65%.

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Why Are You Trying To Kill Me?

The Pipeline

You know I have never read an article or a post that was written by an advocate of cold calling, suggesting that social selling is bad, ridiculing people who use the practice to engage with prospects, suggest that it is inadequate, or about to die. To start with not every buyer has a Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account. Why do Socialites?

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My Top 21 Keys to Help Your Sales Force Dominate Today

Understanding the Sales Force

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. Image Credit Lightspring via Shutterstock.com (c) Copyright 2014 Dave Kurlan' Everything is relative.