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Do Prospects Lie to Your Salespeople Like the Airlines Do?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan We've all been on planes when they tell us to put our electronic devices into airplane mode so that the devices - your laptops, ipads, ipods, kindles and phones - do not send a radio signal looking for a connection. Prospects must think that salespeople are morons. Scary stuff!

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Do prospects lie? How does the answer impact sales success?

Anthony Cole Training

Many years have passed since that day and I've had the opportunity to talk to hundreds of prospects and sales people about their prospects. Here is a guest blog from Sales Development Expert, Author and Highly Recognized Leader in Sales Force Evaluations - David Kurlan. The answer to that question is: YES!

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Your Prospect Knows More About You Than You Think

The Sales Hunter

Don’t kid yourself — the prospect with whom you’ve set up a meeting knows more about you than you realize. Not a whole lot, but it allows people from airline employees to customs agents to police and others to determine if you can proceed. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Sentiment Analysis: A Primer for B2B Marketers

Zoominfo

The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. Sentiment analysis helps you pick up on customer attitudes quickly to tailor your strategy to fit their preferences. So, we recommend you build a strategy that combines the efficiency of AI with old-fashioned human expertise.

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Turn a hard no into a yes with the easiest follow-up technique I know

Close.io

Every sales rep hates hearing no. You can’t win every deal and when a prospect turns you down, it’s time to just move on. This small shift in thinking can have a profound impact on your sales outreach and follow-up success. And all it takes is trying one simple strategy I recently discovered: HUCA (Hang up and call again).

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Sentiment Analysis: A Primer for B2B Marketers

Zoominfo

The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. Sentiment analysis helps you pick up on customer attitudes quickly to tailor your strategy to fit their preferences. So, we recommend you build a strategy that combines the efficiency of AI with old-fashioned human expertise.

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