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[Missed Connections]: December Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )? And which tactics will help us keep our pipelines full in 2015 and beyond? And certainly not when you cold call. Goodbye, 2014. Hello, New Year!

Referrals 260
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How One Entrepreneur Leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to Build His Business

Sales Gravy

Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. Because I was good at selling and great in the corporate world, there wasn't a lot of incentive until I found myself on the street trying to figure out what I was going to do. There wasn't a lot of sales training.

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October Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. In 2015, 43.6 Why is it that companies spend tons of money on client events, company celebrations, sales incentives, and work-life balance perks like childcare, but then they skimp on investing in building permanent, repeatable sales skills for their teams?

Referrals 120
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Marketing strategies from the Grateful Dead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: SMM staff This summer’s Fourth of July weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” three-night curtain call at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Like other daring visionaries, the Grateful Dead rejected conventional wisdom. Create a unique business model.

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[VIDEO] Top Qualities of High-Growth Companies: A Conversation with Henry Schuck

DiscoverOrg Sales

Henry : The two things that jumped out from the study about doing the hard things are, you can see that high-growth companies view cold calling, or basically outbound sales development, as something that’s alive and adding great results at more than two and a half times more frequently than low-growth companies.

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Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016

Customer Centric Selling

Results from a survey of senior executives in the high technology industry identified cold calling as the least probable reason they would agree to speak with a salesperson (Selling to Senior Executives). Even in our recent 2015 CCS® Index, 50% of salespeople indicated cold calling as the least effective method of prospecting.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

They had this position called international management trainee. What it really was, was cold call sales in the Philadelphia office. Took a running start into sales, cold call to close, that was ups and downs. So the inflection point was 2014, 2015… 2014, we did 750,000 and S in ARR. Total dog s**t.