No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Seller access is a newly popular term for an old problem—the struggle to bypass gatekeepers and get meetings with high-level decision makers. In late 2019, 61 percent of salespeople said the job was tougher than it was five years before, even though they had better sales technology and more marketing-generated leads.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Training dates: Every Tuesday, from Tuesday, May 7, 2019, to Tuesday, June 18, 2019. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5/03/2019. Join Our Next Training: Agenda 7-Week, Comprehensive B2B & B2C Inside Sales Training Program. Training start time: 11:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York). Total sessions: 7. Who Should Attend?

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Training dates: Every Tuesday, from Tuesday, May 7, 2019, to Tuesday, June 18, 2019. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5/03/2019. Join Our Next Training: Agenda 7-Week, Comprehensive B2B & B2C Inside Sales Training Program. Training start time: 11:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York). Total sessions: 7. Who Should Attend?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 24, 2022

We think of them as gatekeepers and there are endless “experts” telling us how to get around them. Bit And Pieces, September 29, 2019 Bits And Pieces, September 14, 2019 Rethinking Insights. And too often, we ignore these people. Or even worse, we treat these people poorly.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 25, 2019

Always know what you will say if a gatekeeper answers or you get the person’s voicemail. Copyright 2019, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” It’s important that you have an achievable goal of the number of calls or conversations you want to have. Make a goal and then congratulate yourself once you achieve it. Sales Motivation Blog.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 11, 2019

And if you’d like to learn even more proven techniques, including how to: Eliminate call reluctance Glide past gatekeepers Prospect more effectively Qualify prospects more easily Deliver killer presentations that lead to more closed sales Overcome objections And much, much more! Then enroll yourself or your team in next week’s training!

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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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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

7 Cold Calling Tips for Sales Success in 2019. Many salespeople get stuck on the gatekeeper. But learning how to get past the gatekeeper is easier than you might think. Many people in business circles believe cold calls have become ineffective. It may be the case that cold calls rely on the person behind the phone too much.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 15, 2018

For example, practice budget objections on Monday, time on Tuesday, gatekeepers on Wednesday, etc. Join us in Atlanta from March 11-13, 2019 for Rainmaker 2019 ! Make it a scheduled event for your team rather than a suggestion. If it’s not on the calendar, it won’t happen. Have a theme for each sparring session. Click To Tweet.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2020

In our 2019 RFPIO Responder Survey, salespeople in technology, healthcare, and financial services revealed they’re working toward time management and revenue objectives with perseverance. Every day you want to progress toward achieving positive sales performance. 12% only audit their content once a year. 14% prefer monthly content audits.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every sales team is going to be looking back at 2019 and ready to head into 2020. Reps claim the contact data isn’t great and that their connects are mostly voicemails, phone trees or gatekeepers who won’t let them through to the real prospect. If it’s a lot of gatekeepers and phonetrees, you should strategize about data improvements.

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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. It’s hard to get decision-makers, department heads, and people of influence —the people you really want to reach—on the phone.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 29, 2019

Chicago: AA-ISP Leadership Summit: I’d like to take a quick moment to acknowledge all my readers and clients who nominated MIS in two categories this year, 2019. The post A Gift to Our Readers: MIS Wins 2019 Service Provider Award! At the Summit in Chicago last week, MIS was awarded (for the third year in a row!) Upcoming Schedule.

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Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Salespeople are having a difficult time getting past the gatekeeper and making contact with the decision-maker. With the gatekeepers, like receptionists, salespeople have to get assertive to get to the decision makers. Most salespeople don’t want to be perceived as manipulative and try to make relationships a priority.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This usually involved spending a lot of time creating an opportunity to “run into them” or nurture their gatekeepers so I would get some insight on how I could get in front of them. My other alternatives were to get resourceful and find another way. That was hard…and time-consuming.

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SalesLoft

JULY 20, 2015

That simple principle can get you so much additional information from gatekeepers and decision makers. Join us in Atlanta from March 11-13, 2019 for Rainmaker 2019 ! Title, company size, industry, buying cycles, typical spend on something similar to your product, basically anything you can get your hands on.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 9, 2019

You and your team will explode their confidence and crush their revenue goals as they learn to: Eliminate call reluctance Glide past gatekeepers Prospect more effectively Qualify prospects more easily Deliver killer presentations that lead to more closed sales Overcome objections And much, much more! See our week by week curriculum here.

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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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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

A few decades ago, salespeople were gatekeepers of information. Salespeople aren't gatekeepers anymore — the sales process can largely happen without us and we need to add unique value along the way to ensure our prospects choose us, not our competitors. There's no such thing as a typical salesperson anymore.

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Cience

JULY 25, 2019

Bots, at least in 2019, can sometimes get away with more than humans when it comes to the delicate dance of top-of-the-funnel positioning. . Your bot is a gatekeeper that answers the questions, redirects inquiries unrelated to sales, and keeps users engaged and entertained. chatbotslife.com , 2019). Chatbot magazine , 2019).

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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. I’d love for you to see how DiscoverOrg can align with your goals to help your teams crush the rest of 2018 and get 2019 started off right.

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Close.io

JANUARY 7, 2019

But today, there are so many channels where you don’t have to rely on a gatekeeper. And whatever platform you pick, you need to play the game on it well before launching. Back in the day, this meant building a relationship with a TechCrunch reporter. You can launch on Product Hunt, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.

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Close.io

JANUARY 7, 2019

But today, there are so many channels where you don’t have to rely on a gatekeeper. And whatever platform you pick, you need to play the game on it well before launching. Back in the day, this meant building a relationship with a TechCrunch reporter. You can launch on Product Hunt, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Only 48% of SDRs consistently reach their targets according to TOPO’s 2019 Sales Development Benchmark Report, 48%… that’s it. You can try to bypass the gatekeepers by chatting directly with a customer service representative and gathering information on your prospects. Yeah, you read that title right.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Sales calls the wrong people or reaches a gatekeeper, where they will ultimately get turned away or begin the tedious process of calling up the chain. Watch our 4-part true story of Account-Based Everything: Note: DiscoverOrg acquired ZoomInfo in 2019. Burned by Churn. When, Where, and Who Your Prospect Wants to Buy.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 23, 2023

The subject line is your gatekeeper, so 50% of email work should be spent crafting and testing different subject lines. Editor's note: This post was originally published on March 7, 2019 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Download Now 1. Craft an exciting subject line.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Are events even a thing in 2019-2020? Senior Vice President and General Manager, American Express Meetings & Events, Issa Jouaneh predicted a boom in the event industry for 2019 after a tremendous slowdown as recently as 2015. Bonus: Check out the latest email we wrote for our campaign for INBOUND 2019. Yes, they are.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

When sales teams know how to ask for referrals, they don’t have to worry about identifying decision-makers, bypassing gatekeepers, or proving themselves trustworthy. Learn more about how to ask for referrals in my Summer 2019 Virtual Referral Selling Workshop. Ready to tap into those referral riches?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

When sales teams know how to ask for referrals, they don’t have to worry about identifying decision-makers, bypassing gatekeepers, or proving themselves trustworthy. Learn more about how to ask for referrals in my Summer 2019 Virtual Referral Selling Workshop. Ready to tap into those referral riches?

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Appbuddy

JANUARY 9, 2023

I recall back in 2019, when we did about 50 projects a month with about 10 builders. Before you create and deploy an email, pretend you are an email client gatekeeper (not AI-based) whose job is pre-screening emails to decide if they are worth reading or deleting. In 2022, we sent 40 percent more emails than the previous year.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Editor's note: This post was originally published in November 2019 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Get your team together and brainstorm the various job titles that could be impacted by your solution.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To build the report we leveraged data from millions of cold calls taken across 300+ organizations between January and June of 2019. Throughout each section we’ve also included data from our recent State of Conversation Intelligence report. With this data we can better understand how top-performing teams work their cold-call process.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2019

With 2019 coming to a close, it was time for a new look. 2019 was also time to learn new skills and really stretch my abilities. I cut my hair and added teal highlights. Why is this a big deal? Because I’ve never colored my hair in my entire life. (I I love it!) It was time for some business changes as well.

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Rob Jolles

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And would you believe I know in 2019, 140 presentations a foundation that bax him a movie on his life that’s out there. I don’t talk about a whole lot, and I should, because if can’t get through a gatekeeper, the rest of my four hour program isn’t going to help us a whole lot. Beautiful story. She judged.

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