Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sales teams can no longer be gatekeepers of the buyer’s journey. We’ve created a process where the salesperson is a gatekeeper for information instead of giving it to consumers on their terms. billion dollars in 2018). Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. 40:03] We live in a world of now on my terms.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2020

So unless you have your prospect’s direct contact info , you’re likely to have to deal with a gatekeeper receptionist. link] ( @rsvpselling ) pic.twitter.com/1aBYRL97l7 — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) April 20, 2018. B2B companies receive countless sales calls, which are usually filtered through an operator or phone system.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As more businesses are transitioning to Salesforce Lightning, administrators are increasingly becoming the gatekeepers to their organization’s adoption to Salesforce Lightning. Learn how to reach your full potential, maximize your contributions to your organization and positively impact the business, regardless of your title or skill level.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Top 10 Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018: We can’t find qualified prospects. The stingy gatekeeper won’t let me talk to the CTO. The post The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018 appeared first on Sales Hacker. Our marketing team sucks. Our quotas are too high. My workload is too overwhelming.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018/2019 “Sales Performance Report,” sales leaders say the “most impactful barriers to achieving sales success this year” include: difficult competitive differentiation (39.4%) and inability to generate enough qualified leads (37.8%). percent of sales reps made quota last year. The Odds Are NOT in Your Favor? .

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

These stats certainly grab our attention, especially as Millennials grow into the decision makers and gatekeepers over the next two decades. 7 Professional Events We’re Looking Forward to in 2018. We may be a little biased, but of course, the event we’re most excited for is the 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit! Continue reading.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

If you don’t have their direct-dial phone number, you could plan to spend a lot of time negotiating with admins and other gatekeepers , or pressing buttons to navigate the phone tree. On Mon, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Jack wrote: Hey Josh, I like your approach. On Tues, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Rich wrote: Well done, great email.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Author : Keenan Published: December 3, 2018. In the following sections, the author covers converting your cold calls into warm calls through better conversations and getting past the gatekeeper to close more sales. Why salespeople need this book : Bypassing the gatekeepers and reaching high-level decision-makers is tricky.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Cold calling the CEO is difficult, but not impossible — if you know how to structure your pitch and how to get past gatekeepers. I’ve seen it in almost every new rep: fear of the owner, fear of the gatekeeper, fear of the 2nd gatekeeper (the dreaded executive assistant), and reluctance to even approach the challenge.

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ExecVision

APRIL 25, 2018

ConnectAndSell will get you past gatekeepers and phone trees, but if you skip pre-call research you’ll find yourself faltering in those crucial first seconds. Updated April 2018 for republishing. Be sure your reps are well-versed in these four skills to maximize your ConnectAndSell ROI: Pre-Call Research.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2021

As Ken Baldo puts it in this article: “The salesperson will either give up by hanging up, try some pushy, aggressive way to get through the gatekeeper or call point – to eventually find out it doesn’t work and over-time this creates frustration, desperation and a cry for help to their manager.”

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 14, 2019

The gatekeepers of these communication channels are also becoming increasingly averse to content they deem irrelevant to their users. As was touched on in our predictions for 2018 on the PandaDoc blog, this doesn’t mean abandoning automation. Phone carriers, for example, are very aggressively filtering mass messages.

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Cience

JULY 25, 2019

Your bot is a gatekeeper that answers the questions, redirects inquiries unrelated to sales, and keeps users engaged and entertained. venturebeat.com , 2018). was using chatbots in 2018. Nerdydata , 2018) . 41% of people that start online chats with businesses are executives ( The State of Chatbots Report , 2018).

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2019

Reps were gatekeepers to information and controlled the buying process. According to HubSpot's 2019 Diversity Report , from 2018 to 2019, the number of women on our global sales team increased 4%, and the proportion of our new sales hires who identify as a non-white minority increased from 11% to 22%.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 29, 2019

the “2018 Service Provider of the Year Award”! How to develop an effective elevator pitch Four ways to get past the gatekeeper Why asking for help is a great way to get information Stop pitching the gatekeeper – and what to do instead What to do if the prospect takes only emails. Don’t say that, say this! Who Should Attend?

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 14, 2021

In 2018, the estimated number of business and consumer emails sent daily is over 281 billion. Overcoming gatekeepers! But Dunn doesn’t stop there because he also placed a “Book Online” link on his website’s menu. That means the button will be visible regardless of which page on his website a potential customer is. And their specialty?

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018 Buyer Preferences Study , the average salesperson must now navigate six or more buying influences to close a single deal (which can take five months or more). Some companies intentionally hide them behind executive-assistant gatekeepers.

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LeveragePoint

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Great Value Propositions also address the stakeholder-specific interests and concerns of individual within a buying team, enabling sales to speak the language that resonates with a stakeholder’s function, while helping to navigate the buying process through organizers, influencers and gatekeepers. Value Propositions address the competition.

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 15, 2019

Before going in, the gatekeeper asked them a question to ensure their safety, “Are you pregnant?”. The big trend for 2018 is conversational selling…Trying to treat them more like a human , really engaging with the prospect on a one-to-one basis, and tailoring the message to who they are and their needs at the time.”.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Gatekeeper. In 2018, The Rain Group studied 488 B2B buyers and 489 sellers and found some interesting stats: So why does “the cold calling is dead” myth persist? Gatekeeper. A gatekeeper is a person who works closely with a decision-maker and sorts all the incoming calls. Never sell to a gatekeeper.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 14, 2019

48 million of these automated calls were made in the United States in 2018, and Americans are becoming increasingly fed up with them. As a part of the learning process, it can be worth providing some basic scripts which new reps can use to make it past gatekeepers or introduce what you’re selling.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

I was hired to build out that semi-automation, scale myself to handle hundreds of leads moving through individual buying processes, and get the low-touch conversion from 1% to 2% in 2018. A highly enabled salesperson-gatekeeper is the answer. We did it in 3 months. Shorten Your Sales Cycle with the Low-Touch Sales Model.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Here’s an example of the successful application of our methodology — CIENCE at INBOUND 2018 case study. When talking to a gatekeeper. Gatekeepers have heard about the event their boss is heading to. CIENCE tested the efficiency of this methodology in multiple campaigns. 5 Steps of Event Lead Generation for Attendees.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 14, 2019

A recent study from the Ponemon Institute found that the average cost of a data breach in 2018 was $3.86 When discussing security and vendor reliability, we would be remiss if we failed to mention the digital gatekeepers. Inbox providers are the most common digital gatekeepers. You can never be too careful.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

This “lumpy mail” technique bypasses the gatekeeper and straight into the hands of the decision maker, eager to know what’s inside. Measure your results and, if you’re looking to optimize or things aren’t working anymore, try doing the opposite. Shock-and-awe with direct mail. You see direct mail on the list. You check the date.

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