No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Then there’s outbound lead generation: identifying trigger events, determining relevant content to send in an email, creating messaging, preparing short videos, and networking on social media. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess? This does, however, explain why prospecting is so challenging for most sales teams.

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John Barrows

MARCH 14, 2018

People ask me all the time which medium is the best one to connect with prospects these days. Before technology, it used to be door-to-door sales, then the phone, then e-mail, then LinkedIn, but now with social media and all the different options, there isn’t one best way to connect anymore. Is it phone, e-mail, Inmail, text, social?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And what could Chipotle, its partners, and prospective partners have done to get in front of the attack in the first place? 2/9/2015: Just four months later, a hacker gained access to the company’s Twitter page and wreaked havoc. 4/22/2015). (10/26/2015) Empower Your Sales Team Get Intel on Your Top Prospect Accounts.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. Second, tune into the changes in the background and expectations of the people that are becoming new sales reps in 2015 and how these people are likely to function in today’s world-of-work. New Media Literacy. Being able to leverage new media technologies for creating and delivering persuasive conversations.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-06-01. Teaser: The need for more face-to-face interaction with prospects and clients in this virtual age has never been more important. Unless you first have established a relationship, e-communications and social media postings can be too easily deleted and forgotten. Author: Doug Abercrombie. read more

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“There is no reason to do anything, other than act like a media company in today’s digital age,” said Gary Vaynerchuk, five years ago. First, you can directly send invites to prospects who are connections. Of course, you don’t have to limit the use of the notification bell to prospects and influencers.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Try looking for the symptoms, like suspects falling out early at the awareness stage, never to return or promising prospects turning cold on the vine as stalled follow-up loses their interest. New business leaders burn out chasing dead end leads instead of nurturing prime prospects. Take mobile, social media, AR/VR for example.

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SalesLoft

MAY 28, 2015

It’s 2015, why wouldn’t we use email in addition to phone for prospecting and outreach? In today’s ever-occupied society you should be using all channels available to break through the chaos that consumes prospects. Phone calls and voicemails will elicit a response from some prospects.

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SBI

JULY 14, 2021

Chorus uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to capture and analyze prospect and customer calls, meetings, and emails. It unearths insights that enable revenue teams to listen to previous conversations, learn from them, win business, and repeat these actions across all prospect and customer deals. Media Contact.

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Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2018

This type of strategy is all about making it easy for prospects and customers to interact with branded content—wherever, whenever, and however, they want. 91% of retail brands use two or more social media channels ( source ). 52% of marketers use 3 to 4 marketing channels as compared to 44% in 2015 ( source ). And the best part?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This type of strategy is all about making it easy for prospects and customers to interact with branded content—wherever, whenever, and however, they want. 91% of retail brands use two or more social media channels ( source ). 52% of marketers use 3 to 4 marketing channels as compared to 44% in 2015 ( source ). And the best part?

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 31, 2015

The two studies we’ve done prove it out, you can download them both free here: Social Media and Sales Quota Attainment. If you’re using social only for prospecting, you’re only getting half the value. Register here: Social Selling Summit 2015. It’s gonna be crazy. Tuesday, Sept 1st at 10:00 am EST.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 31, 2015

The two studies we’ve done prove it out, you can download them both free here: Social Media and Sales Quota Attainment. If you’re using social only for prospecting, you’re only getting half the value. Register here: Social Selling Summit 2015. It’s gonna be crazy. Tuesday, Sept 1st at 10:00 am EST.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

But because selling is a two-way interaction, the science behind sales also covers the other party in the engagement: prospects, leads, or customers, depending on the stage in the sales process at which they are being engaged. Make it something the prospect can be infected by. Set the agenda and stay in control.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 11, 2015

Titled "Marketing’s Role is to 'Follow the Money,'" the program aired August 6th, 2015 as an unscripted live program. Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization by Olivier Blanchard. Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization by Olivier Blanchard.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Now, with a quick Google search and a little time on our websites and social media, they can learn all about us. Before they make contact, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. In 2015, 43.6 However, a few critical sales challenges remain.

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Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

That includes tracking prospecting, networking, email outreach, calls, meetings, pipeline growth, deal velocity, and, of course, closed-won and closed-lost outcomes. In fact, this is why LinkedIn ® asked me to speak at their Annual User Conference in 2015 when I was formerly a VP of Sales. LinkedIn ®. Not Applicable. Seamless.ai.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged. Why Change Now? – Why Your Solutions?

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged, with little reason for optimistic spending growth predictions. YoY decline from 2014. increase compared to 2014.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

These fictional characters usually have names, and they embody all the traits of your ideal prospects. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. In 2015, an average of 5.4 Here’s why. people needed to formally sign off on each purchasing decision.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2015

For ideas to fill that funnel and make 2015 your best sales year ever, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: How to Avoid the Trash Folder If you’re sending emails to prospects you don’t know, don’t be surprised when you get deleted. It’s why social media adoption has skyrocketed.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 7, 2021

seconds in 2015 (and additional research shows it at about 8 seconds in 2020). Whether it’s emails, phone calls, text messages, alerts that pop up on our screens, colleagues at work (this has changed a little since WFH), social media. It’s not new, but the evolution of our attention spans is alarming.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 18, 2015

Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Hired a social media marketer. Marketing and sales leadership can use the assessment to determine the stages of the buyer’s journey where prospects disengage and disappear. Increased spending on lead generation. Added an SDR team.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Chorus helps Revenue leaders enable their team to win and be productive in any environment by using advanced AI-driven insights to understand the relationships between sellers and prospects, as well as how those correlate to revenue. Media Contact. About Chorus.ai. is the No.1 Jake Doll BLASTmedia for Chorus.ai The post Chorus.ai

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

It, however, was back in 2015. The reply would be: “Vengreso helps business owners, reps, and sales teams to create more sales conversations and grow their sales pipeline through digital sales prospecting training.”. If they don’t have experience in that area, it doesn’t mean they will not close deals with prospective clients.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

It, however, was back in 2015. The reply would be: “Vengreso helps business owners, reps, and sales teams to create more sales conversations and grow their sales pipeline through digital sales prospecting training.”. If they don’t have experience in that area, it doesn’t mean they will not close deals with prospective clients.

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Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

This is the final installment of a three-part series in response to the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Tactically this can be easier to do within functional groups (inside sales, paid media, etc.).

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

If, for example, you are trying to close a complex sale, prospective clients probably won’t take your word alone as proof your company can seamlessly deliver on your proposal. You might need to bring along another senior leader to demonstrate how much your company values these prospects’ business. © 2015, Negotiating Women, Inc.

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 27, 2015

The respected McKinsey & Company recently shared (italics mine) this: “E-mail remains a significantly more effective way to acquire customers than social media— nearly 40 times that of Facebook and Twitter combined.” For the record – Email is still significantly more effective than all social media channels combined!

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 27, 2015

The respected McKinsey & Company recently shared (italics mine) this: “E-mail remains a significantly more effective way to acquire customers than social media— nearly 40 times that of Facebook and Twitter combined.” For the record – Email is still significantly more effective than all social media channels combined!

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

YoY increase from 2015. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 22, 2015

Instead, I leverage a different strategy (and help my clients with it): leveraging one of the hottest media tactics around: podcasting. If you go to a trade show hoping to connect with 2,000 of your closest prospects, you will also fail. Don’t forget to set a specific date/time with the prospect for the interview. Yes really.

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Tenfold

JULY 18, 2017

Marketing, on the other hand, involves all those actions that a business takes to reach and recruit prospects. The number of ‘touches’ a prospect requires to convert into a sale varies, though research suggests anywhere between three and twelve touch points. Podcast listening increased by 23 percent between 2015 and 2016.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

It’s where the tide is turning, due to higher productivity and the ability to reach more prospects. Included in this category are CRMs , intelligent dialers, social media selling tools, messenger programs, web-conferencing programs, etc. Sales reps use an average of six enablement tools , according to Sales for Life.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 15, 2020

Here’s a print version… The REPLY Method For Cold Prospecting. The fundamental principle behind every prospecting activity should be: Don’t prospect to make a sale, prospect to start a conversation. The goal of prospecting is not to sell your product/service. Results — Get the prospect’s attention.

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Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2012

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. For further inspiration, see how Kinaxis set itself apart in the marketplace using content (and social media). Champion Content Marketing.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect, every time, enabling personalization at scale, previously unthinkable. It’s not 2015. At N6A, I mean, we really disagree with that. I believe that PR deserves an up-front-and-center place on a brand’s P&L.

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