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Pitch Your Product in Two Sentences

Mr. Inside Sales

Elevator pitch example #2: “ _, we make inside sales teams as much as 33% more productive by providing them with a best practice approach that helps them cold call more effectively and close more qualified prospects. Your customers (and your bank account) will thank you for it! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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How to get past the velvet rope

Sales 2.0

Back in the day when I was selling technology to banks I used my social selling approaches to get a meeting with a super-senior executive in a super-large bank (you know it, but I can’t tell you which one on a blog post.). Meanwhile many of us “classically trained” sales people think of executive assistants as “gatekeepers”.

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How to get past the velvet rope

Sales 2.0

Back in the day when I was selling technology to banks I used my social selling approaches to get a meeting with a super-senior executive in a super-large bank (you know it, but I can’t tell you which one on a blog post.). Meanwhile many of us “classically trained” sales people think of executive assistants as “gatekeepers”.

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How to Conduct Effective Sales Cold Calls with ZoomInfo Insights

Zoominfo

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. These tidbits can be the difference between an average sale and a humongous deal.

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Call low

Sales 2.0

I wanted to become a rock star sales dude and I was mentored by my boss that the trick was to call CIOs (Chief Information Officers) early in the morning. My value proposition at that point had evolved from “we have some cool technology talent” to we “we have some cool technology talent and work with banks like yours”.

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How to Spark Your Sales Creativity

Janek Performance Group

The gatekeeper keeps dropping my calls into voicemail. Maybe I don’t belong in sales. These are thoughts we’ve all had during a sales rough patch. When sales are slow, it’s not an excuse to get down on ourselves. Sales Creativity Needs to Be Cultivated. Changing perception is the start of sales creativity.

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Sales Outreach: Why Old School Hunting Doesn’t Work

criteria for success

For this week's blog post, I sat down with our CEO and Founder, Charles Bernard, to discuss why old school hunting in sales outreach doesn't work in today's market, and what new school outreach asks of salespeople and leaders. Sales Outreach: Why Old School Hunting Doesn't Work. Read on to learn more! I'm tired of order-takers.

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