Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When it comes to sales, there's a lot of innovation happening — and therefore, a litany of new tools. But only one type of tool is considered "effective" by 78% of global sales professionals. What's this magic tool? Create personalized email sequences to engage prospects and improve response rates.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 23, 2019

The answer is simple: Prospects now have more ways of identifying sales reps they don’t want to speak with, and now have more ways of evading them. It’s the same for your prospects. While it seems counter intuitive, I’d rather know up front if I’m wasting my time or if this is a real prospect. What do you do?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you're in sales, you know that finding prospects isn't easy. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the top social selling trends to reach more prospects and close more deals — all at your fingertips. Let's take a look at the top social selling trends of 2022. The same can be true online.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

According to research firm Gartner , 75% of B2B sales organizations will augment their traditional sales methods with guided selling solutions by 2025 to better connect with customers and drive conversion. But what exactly is guided selling, and how does it benefit your business? How Does Guided Selling Work?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2020

Once your company spends money to find a prospect, the clock starts ticking. However, the perishable asset issue arises when leads are not followed up promptly or at all. Companies are not immune from the same issue – no (or slow) follow-up, no sale. Prospects often ignore delayed responders as they no longer need information.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2023

B2B ecommerce strategies also differ greatly from B2C (business-to-consumer) ecommerce. In B2B, transactions involve two businesses, while in B2C, businesses sell directly to consumers. ecommerce tools fall into the following categories: Online store hosting: Build an online store from scratch.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 31, 2020

If a prospect is looking to move forward “as soon as possible,” for example, it means that budget is in place. In addition, what is also important about timeline is that if the prospect you’re speaking to isn’t in the market at this moment, it means you can relax behind your pitch. Everybody is onboard. Upcoming Schedule.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

What’s the number one blow off/stall prospects use these days? And unfortunately, chasing down busy professionals—especially people who don’t want to be followed up with—will make reaching these prospects very frustrating… The solution? And then when a prospect blows you off with, “Can you email that to me?”

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I was listening to a client’s closing call last week, and when the prospect asked a buying question, the rep answered it and then just remained quiet. Now direct them to the signup paperwork, online form, or whatever you use to sign new clients up. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day?

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

What do you say when you get this objection while prospecting ? If you’re like many sales reps, you accept this stall and become a willing participant in the follow up drama that ensues. Let’s face it: This blow off is just a variation that prospects have been using for years. Allow you to set a definite follow up appointment.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Do you need customized keynotes or breakout sessions on subjects like: Prospecting – Both B2B & B2C Dealing with gatekeepers Overcoming objections and Stalls Virtual Presentation Skills Setting follow-up appointments Motivation and Attitude Adjustment And much more! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Their main pain point that needed to be addressed was prospecting. What takes up the most time in your and your team’s day? The list, sadly, can seem endless.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

Would you be as successful if you couldn’t reach out to these prospects and introduce yourself and your company? For example: many real estate agents have put together an up to date, free market analysis of comps of other homes in the area and call local homeowners to give this away. If your answer is Yes, then guess what?

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

You felt like you had a really qualified and interested prospect, set the demo call, looked forward to what you thought was for sure your next sale, and…. The good news is that this is a repeatable selling situation, and if you’re prepared for it with good scripted response (or three!) Don’t you hate when this happens?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As B2B companies continue to expand their digital marketing efforts, they can cull lessons from the B2C clashes like that between Airbnb and Vrbo. In the B2B world, you need to adopt the methods that the B2C people use in a different way, and that’s not going to be natural,” Westerman told SMM in a telephone interview.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

You felt like you had a really qualified and interested prospect, set the demo call, looked forward to what you thought was for sure your next sale, and…. The good news is that this is a repeatable selling situation, and if you’re prepared for it with good scripted response (or three!) Don’t you hate when this happens?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Their main pain point that needed to be addressed was prospecting. What takes up the most time in your and your team’s day? The list, sadly, can seem endless.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 1, 2019

Want to get your team excited about selling again? Would you like to be motivated to pick up the phone instead of sending yet another email? Get ready to get excited about selling again. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? The post Sell More! Better training = more sales.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 7, 2019

By booking Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales, you will ensure that your inside sales team returns to their offices not only pumped up, but also equipped with proven sales skills they can use to instantly perform better! Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? Who Should Attend? Upcoming Schedule.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This means that in 17 years, you might be selling space voyages. Of course, when we talk about the future of sales, it's less about the products we might sell (flying cars, anyone?) and more about how we'll sell them. Here's why: The traditional way of building trust with prospects was relatively straightforward.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 22, 2019

If you have to pick up the phone for a living, then I’ll bet making cold calls isn’t one of your favorite activities. If not, then you’ll spend your time between calls researching, reading blog posts, looking at websites, taking lunch, and then not calling enough prospects to make a difference. 3: Take the pressure off yourself.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 6, 2020

How good (or bad) does your sales team sound when prospecting over the phone? Me: (I was in a good mood, otherwise I would have hung up right there): “That’s me, Mike Brooks, how can I help you today?”. We’ve been in business for over 15 years and I want to know how I can set up an appointment to speak with the owner about this?”.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

2013 is the year Social Selling became Mission Critical. Social Selling is a proven method of securing the first appointment with buyers inside of target accounts. There’s a lot written these days on Social Selling. At its core, Social Selling is a modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

After using the generative AI tool for more than a year, though, I am a lot less worried. That’s because gen AI tools still need humans to create quality content. Gen AI tools are another tool in my toolbox, much like Google Search or my MacBook. They help me do my job better and faster. But they can’t do it alone.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 11, 2020

For years, I’ve been teaching and training sales teams to put in the time and effort to learn the proper sales techniques first, and then, after they understand and have mastered the fundamentals, they can “adapt” them to each particular prospect or situation. It’s up to you! How does your sales team handle this? Who Should Attend?

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. January 2012.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Objection handling: Sales reps address any concerns or doubts the prospect might have, showcasing their expertise and the value of their solution.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What characteristics make up leadership? Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? Are you born with these traits, or can you develop them? How early in life do you know you were meant to be a leader, and how do you position yourself, throughout your career, to express and expand on this calling?

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2019

call to prospects whom you’ve already pitched? Is it something like: “I’m just calling to follow up on our proposal….”. Why not lead your prospect into the sale by referring back to the benefits he or she is going to get by working with you? Try this: “{Prospect}, great speaking with you again. You isolate that stall!

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LeadFuze

JULY 5, 2023

We’ll explore strategies for understanding your prospective customer’s circumstances, crafting personalized introductions, preparing for objections effectively, encouraging two-way communication and showcasing unique features early on in the call.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2022

We surveyed over 1,000 sales professionals around the globe to find out the top sales trends of 2022, and one thing is certain – the pandemic made a lasting impact on the relationship between salespeople and their prospects. Selling by offering a solution rather than pitching a product/service is key to sales pros.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 16, 2019

We’ve all been through it: You set an amazing demo or presentation call and, and…they don’t show up! Or, you have an amazing and, what you think is an, engaging demo call and you set a call back and, and…they don’t show up! The way most sales reps set appointments now is to just ask when a day and time might be good for a prospect.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Just last week, I received this email question from a reader: “Hi Mike, question: After I send out information to prospects, and I come back to them with an idea do I ask them if they have a minute before going into my pitch?”. I’ve been making calls—both prospecting calls and closing calls—for a long time. Happy selling!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 1, 2019

Here are 5 things you can begin doing right now: Email Secret #1: Use the prospect’s first name in the subject line. Putting your prospect’s name in the subject line (first name) will immediately distinguish your email from the hundreds of others your prospect gets. Email Secret #3: Keep your email short and easy to read!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 11, 2019

And until you find out what’s really holding your prospect back, you’ll just go around and around in circles. Here’s a simple technique that will allow you to do just that: Whenever your prospect says, “That price is outside of our budget,” simply respond with: “And besides price, what else might hold you back today?”. Sound familiar?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

What skills and tools do reps need for success? Inside sales teams leverage technology to connect and engage with prospects. Some methods inside sales reps use to engage with prospects include: Phone calls Video conferencing Email Social media Other online channels Conversely, outside sales reps rely on face-to-face conversations.

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