The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Want to get 2016 off to a fabulous start? Below are 7 big sales questions you need answered: 1. How do you keep your pipeline packed full of qualified opportunities? How do you accelerate the sales cycle to close more deals faster? How do you leverage a sales stack to protect the golden hours? 4. […].

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 4, 2020

I wasn’t sure what the answer would be when I made the call. I was speaking in London in May of 2016, and I figured it would be a hop, skip, and a jump from there. The post How Barb Giamanco Became My Dear Friend appeared first on No More Cold Calling. I’d always wanted to visit St. Petersburg, Russia.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 1, 2016

Get my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents. It’s been 10 years since No More Cold Calling ™ was published on April 14, 2006. To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Maybe your pipeline is always overflowing with hot leads, you never have to place a cold call or send a cold email, your sales cycle is complete in a matter of days, and … Read More » Maybe you’re 100% perfect at your job.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The survey was originally conducted in 2016 with 433 respondents and again in 2019 with 308 respondents. In 2016, 18% of the businesses surveyed were not using marketing automation, by this end of 2019, this stood at 1 in 8 businesses. To view the full study click here. CommuniGator discusses the comparisons below.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 7, 2016

Don’t miss your chance to cash in on my No More Cold Calling book anniversary! One week from today—April 14, 2016—marks the 10-year anniversary of my first book, No More Cold Calling ™. What Readers Have Said About No More Cold Calling. What’s in the No More Cold Calling ™ Book?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

Dozens of cold calls to uninterested leads a day can be demoralizing. In 2016, she founded Packed with Purpose , a corporate gifting company that embeds social impact into the everyday act of gift-giving, from empowering underserved women with job skills to supporting sustainability efforts. Build confidence.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Dozens of cold calls to uninterested leads a day can be demoralizing. In 2016 she founded Packed with Purpose , a corporate gifting company that embeds social impact into the everyday act of gift-giving, from empowering underserved women with job skills to supporting sustainability efforts. Build confidence.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In 2016, it was 53.3 Help your team understand how referrals guarantee a one-call meeting. The post Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side appeared first on No More Cold Calling. In 2015, 43.6 percent of firms identified this sales execution challenge.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

So, we set up training for recruiters to help them message and speak about the company’s strengths and differentiators just like we did for sales and marketing; the training involved role-playing, one-minute pitches, email messaging, cold call prospecting, and SLAs for response times. Cold calls.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The post Misconceptions Matter: August Referral Selling Insights appeared first on No More Cold Calling. There are many misconceptions that trip up modern sales leaders. environments.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In fact, 72 percent of companies in the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2016 Employee Benefits survey said they currently offer some form of wellness program, . That’s why it makes so much sense for businesses to emphasize wellness as part of their company culture. The digital connection.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016. 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). Want to pump the pipeline for success in 2016?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 31, 2016

Tired of watching your sales reps spend hours on the phone, calling prospects who rarely ever call them back? Then it’s time to stop the cold calling madness. During the “Turn Cold to Gold” webinar I hosted earlier this month, I polled the audience to uncover their greatest lead generation challenges.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Even if they don’t re-engage now, they are likely starting the planning cycle for 2016; early bird is a good thing to be. While I still believe in cold calling, referrals are nice too. But you will also need to go beyond the comfort zone, and that’s where cold calling will come in.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 24, 2016

Referred salespeople get in the door with one call. The “ 2016 CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization Study ” reveals lead generation is the top priority for sales leaders this year. Connect with No More Cold Calling. appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Problem solved.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

CSO Insights’ 2017 Best Practices Study revealed that quota attainment—averaged across all geographies, industries, and company sizes—dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Only a little more than half of salespeople made quota, and we’re OK with that?

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Ian Moyse was rated #1 on “Social for Cloud” in both 2015 and 2016 by Onalytica , and “Top 20 for IOT” in 2016. appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Do you need to wake up and smell the social, and make pragmatic steps and decisions? I would suggest so.”. About the Author.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The post Why CEOs Are Failing Account Based Sales Reps appeared first on No More Cold Calling. They’re expected to land and expand within their named accounts. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. According to CSO Insights, only 55.8

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Zoominfo

APRIL 8, 2018

In 2016, 36% of Fortune 500 companies had a public blog ( source ). Inbound marketing methods, such as business blogging, generate leads that cost an average of 62% less than leads generated via outbound methods (such as cold calling) ( source ). Blogging and SEO Statistics: 10. Miscellaneous Blogging Statistics: 27.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Webinar is next Thursday, December 8th, 2016, at 3 PM Eastern. In addition to her strategic planning work, she is called on to improve sales and marketing results for companies throughout the US and Canada. Sign Up Here. Don’t miss it. And she makes it so easy to do the things she teaches.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 29, 2016

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Were you as amazed as I was at the will, focus, fortitude, and dedication of the 2016 Olympic athletes? The post [Missed Connections] Referral Selling Insights from August appeared first on No More Cold Calling.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Department of Labor projects employment of sales managers will increase by 8 percent through 2022, and a 2016 CareerBuilder study predicts sales hiring will increase by 27 percent this year. appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Moreover, the U.S. As sales jobs in some sectors decline, they are growing in new areas.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

Adopted in 2016 and enacted in 2018, the GDPR was created to improve data collection, processing, and usage. Are you allowed to cold-call prospects in this country? It’s important to understand where they overlap, how they differ, and what this means for your business. What is the GDPR?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And most specifically, that cold calling is (was) dead. Well it seems 2016 the pendulum is coming back to centre, where all techniques can be leveraged and combined for sales success.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you find Walton’s proselytizing as entertaining as we do, there’s plenty more to be had in his own 2016 memoir, “Back from the Dead: Searching for the Sound, Shining the Light and Throwing It Down.” It all seems so simple — yet so frustratingly elusive. We all have two eyes, but still some of us can’t see.”. Create a unique business model.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

Cold calling. If you’re still cold calling prospects and think it’s a great way to generate new opportunities, stop selling now. Cold calling is hard, wasteful, ugly, and negatively impacts your brand and potential success -- it's also not nearly as effective as inbound selling. Drop the 18 tactics below.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Only a little more than half of account based sales reps made quota in 2016, according to CSO Insights. Learn more in this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: Is Failure an Option for Your Account Based Selling Teams? . What’s the #1 way to start the New Year strong? Failure is not an option.”

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SalesLoft

MARCH 9, 2016

Day 2 of Rainmaker 2016 is well underway, and in case you missed it, we’ve been live blogging the keynotes , panels , and breakout sessions throughout the event. Do you use some form of call recording? Do you do call coaching with those recordings? The rise of the Sales Development Cloud is officially here.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

The standard, inbound-lead, follow-up cadence primarily consists of phone calls, email, and LinkedIn. The 2016 Sales Development Benchmark Report indicated that SDRs who leveraged a triple touch approach (phone, email, LinkedIn) had a 28% higher SQL conversion rate than SDRs who only used phone and email.

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Pointclear

JULY 20, 2016

If you are a “cold calling is dead, inbound is king – long live inbound” fanatic—you can stop reading now and go back to the smaller, low-level so-called leads your current inbound strategies are probably driving.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 4, 2017

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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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Why are so many calls made and emails sent that don’t even attempt to connect with the absolute highest decision-maker ? Cold calling the CEO is difficult, but not impossible — if you know how to structure your pitch and how to get past gatekeepers. One way to do that is by prioritizing referrals over cold calls or emails.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 28, 2020

Inbound Sales isn’t about making 80 cold calls and then celebrating three answers. Editor's note: This post was originally published in February 2 , 2016 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. It’s about delivering customized, relevant messages to prospects who are already interested in your business.

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MarketJoy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

You must have heard it many times that cold calling is dead, but it isn’t. Since on a call a prospect can’t see you that means 93% of the success of your cold call will depend on the tone of your voice. Now that you know that tone of voice can make or break your cold calling success, it’s time to use it correctly.

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 13, 2016

I have been telling everyone I know about a terrific webinar coming up on Wednesday, January 20th called Virtual Sales Kickoff 2016. Crush Cold Calling Now! Here is an example that I hope you will take advantage of. The response has been tremendous with over 6,000 sales professionals already signed up. Anthony Iannarino.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 12, 2019

They listed on the Australian stock exchange in 2016 and their share price has risen more than 600% in the last 3 years. With the exception of WiseTech, data in the above graph was sourced from Bloomberg.com published on May 18, 2016 in an article by Dina Bass titled: This $5 Billion Software Company Has No Sales Staff.

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