DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. Bank of America. FinancialServices.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Sales 2.0

APRIL 6, 2014

I tried multiple times to meet a technology executive at a Wall Street bank. Buy yourself 50 of these cards and when you’ve got an important prospect through a handwritten note into your prospecting mix. Do you use business letters or handwritten notes in your prospecting? Nurturing Prospecting' Real story.

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Prospecting Fashion Banking Commission 315

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every time we onboard a new client, we have a kickoff event where we lay the foundation of the sales process we teach at Anthony Cole Training Group.Inevitably, at some point during that kickoff event we talk about dealing with the competition, specifically how to differentiate yourself from the competition you will face.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Competition Training 177

Artesian Solutions

MAY 11, 2020

Leading lenders agree it will take 1-2 years to establish a stable “New Normal” and digital investment will be key to successful relationship banking in the post COVID-19 age. However, despite this sobering agreement on the challenges facing both banks and their clients, the overall feeling of the group was one of optimism.

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Banking Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2018

If you’ve read any of my previous posts on this blog you will know that I think relationships determine if you will get a meeting with your prospect. These people could work at companies that are vendors, partners, investors, advisors, agencies or banks to your target company. Template #1—ask the “connector”. Light nudging.

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Prospecting LinkedIn Banking Cold Calling 150

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 17, 2018

The next time you’re with a prospect or customer and you want to find information, try this subtle but powerful approach. It would sound like this: Prospect “We really need to improve our cash-flow over the next few months, as we want to expand”. Prospect “We’ve seen the amount of time it takes to complete customer orders increase”.

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Prospecting Banking Up-Sell Course 169

Sales 2.0

MAY 12, 2017

I tried multiple times to meet a technology executive at a Wall Street bank. Buy yourself 50 of these cards and when you’ve got an important prospect through a handwritten note into your prospecting mix. Do you use business letters or handwritten notes in your prospecting? Real story. Called, emailed, nothing.

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Prospecting Fashion Banking Commission 150

Artesian Solutions

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

?. What does Artesian do for commercial banks & Relationship Managers? We’ve spent years refining the best specialist news sources, social media, structured company information and key prospecting data for RM’s – from the surface web, the deep web and paywall protected sources.

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Banking Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Data 52

Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

That’s the problem Capital One’s Commercial Banking business faced before it partnered with ZoomInfo. Today, with ZoomInfo’s Data as a Service delivered into Snowflake, Capital One’s team is able to run a modern go-to-market motion, reclaiming vast amounts of prospecting time for its sales professionals. “My

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Banking Scale Face-to-face Data 130

Artesian Solutions

AUGUST 26, 2020

Mortgages and Charges data added to Prospector to help banks identify and target more opportunities. For several years Artesian has provided this information for individual companies, but this is the first time this data has been indexed in our Prospecting service. This is valuable for a number of reasons.

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Banking Prospecting Segment Competition 59

The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A prospect who was never inclined to make a decision in the first place; their intention was purely to gain more information. Many times, a prospect begins the process thinking they’re going to make a decision; but due to other factors, their thinking changes yet they remain engaged with the salesperson. Sales Motivation Blog.

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Sales Qualified Lead Prospecting Video Face-to-face 155

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? The Benefits of Sales Prospecting Tools.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 103

SalesProInsider

APRIL 16, 2024

Or deposit a compliment in your personal or business bank account? Yet, that’s what can happen when discussing fees for service with prospective clients. The advisor, shared the fee and connected it to the specific, valuable services this prospect was so positive about. Of course not! You would be laughed at!

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Discount How To Banking Compensation 62

Artesian Solutions

JUNE 25, 2019

LONDON, England, June 25, 2019 – Metro Bank, the revolution in British Banking, has signed a three year deal with Artesian Solutions that will help catapult the fast growing UK based software company – better known for its sales engagement technology, into a new segment – technology-driven compliance and KYC management.

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Banking Distribution Insurance Insurance 40

Artesian Solutions

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The banking sector is well-versed in digital disruption. It also has many years of experience in utilising the potential for automation to deliver new efficiencies and banks and financial service institutions have become active adopters of digitisation. The term for such change? Distributed compliance – the future of CDD and KYC.

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Distribution Banking Face-to-face Fashion 40

Artesian Solutions

MAY 14, 2019

The impact of regulation and KYC adherence on customer onboarding in banking. This is especially an issue in the banking and financial services sector, where thanks to increased regulation and KYC requirements, customer experience is suffering. It costs banks an average of $40m per year to onboard new customers.

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Banking Distribution Policies Commence 40

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.

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Prospecting Hiring Objections Sales 161

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Some objections you can bank on, you know they are coming, like any pro, practice and you’ll improve. Sure we should be able to leverage the same process that you do in handling the five most common objectives we face while prospecting. By Tibor Shanto. But then there those objections that come out of the blue.

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Margin Objections Face-to-face Banking 206

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I’m going to share with you a system for account based prospecting that will get real results. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. What Are Account Based Prospecting Strategies? ABM maturity model. That spend money on Adwords.

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Account Based Marketing Account Prospecting Lead Rank 52

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

How do I stay fired up when I prospect? I listen intently and try to figure out what makes each business model unique and each prospect like a snowflake. Bank on it! A good sales job interview question is, “Will you bank-roll me at relevant conferences 100 percent?” Passion – Prospects smell fear. h/t Rowley).

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B2B Banking Conference Decision Maker 319

The Sales Heretic

JULY 7, 2020

Part of that effort included contacting a variety of businesses: the moving company, the title company, utilities, banks, two phone companies, and more. I recently helped my 82-year-old aunt move from Maryland to Texas. And at various points in the process, people from five different companies promised to call us back. And never did.

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Call-back Banking Company Buyer 277

Artesian Solutions

MAY 31, 2019

According to McKinsey, the risk function within banking and financial services will have a dramatically different role by 2025. The detection, assessment and mitigation of risk must become part of the daily job of all bank employees and not only those in risk functions. Until now….

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Distribution Banking Policies Data 40

John Barrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What is your prospects buying process? Your prospects, and vendors don’t want that either. We’ve all had that experience where a prospect will tell you they should know something by the end of the day, or week. Look, Mr. and Mrs. Prospect, I need you to be an ideal buyer, just like you need me to be your ideal solution, right?

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Education Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 118

Anthony Iannarino

APRIL 23, 2020

Prospecting is difficult when you don’t have a well-developed plan. In Eat Their Lunch , you will find a framework for a prospecting sequence for professionally pursuing your dream clients, gaining the commitment for time, and helping them explore change. We use the word prospect in many different ways. Dream Clients.

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Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead eBook Lead Rank 98

Partners in Excellence

MAY 2, 2023

A major bank gave me a couple of offers in strategic planning and operations planning. An investment banking organization offered me a role in analyzing companies. I had to go to Manhattan for final interviews with the bank and one of the consulting companies. Then I joined a team selling to the 3rd largest bank in the country.

Banking 104

Banking Retail Call-back Engineering 104

LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Yes, Twitter can be a powerful lead prospecting tool. Here’s how I use find leads on Twitter, connect with prospects and convert them into customers. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. Step 1: Know Who Your Prospects Are.

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Twitter Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 52

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 23, 2017

But many sales people cherry pick time, and use it to avoid things that have to be done, like prospecting for example. Regularly when I ask buyers why they didn’t prospect, or when they plan to prospect, I hear “I’ll get around to it when I have time”. Which may lead one to conclude that they do not want to prospect.

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Banking Sales Qualified Lead Proposal Quota 268

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Let’s say you work at a financial technology (fintech) company that sells software for credit unions, investment firms, and commercial banks. Now, imagine two prospects working for different organizations. On their way to work, both prospects see your company’s billboard and think to themselves, “Hmm, I should check that product out.”

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 147

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 13, 2012

If you want to succeed in sales, you must have a prospecting plan — and actually use it! Here are 3 things you must know about successful prospecting: 1. If you can’t prospect, you can’t sell. Successful prospecting demands that you be proactive. Not all prospects are created equal.

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Prospecting Guarantee Face-to-face Banking 201

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2021

Remember, this is an “elevator pitch” designed to inform and grab interest in a prospect during the time you’re in an elevator together (or during that crucial 20 seconds you’ve got on the phone). Your customers (and your bank account) will thank you for it! Focus on the direct benefits to your specific type of customer.

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Advertising Advertising 231

The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 16, 2022

We are always asking our salespeople to prospect and keep their eyes open for new potential clients. The most effective way to ensure you’re able to hire better talent is to build and maintain a strong talent bank. As sales managers, we need to treat recruitment the same way. Recruitment will continue to be a buyer’s market in 2022.

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Hiring Banking Positioning Sales Management 116

LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We send out a proposal, and the prospect never responds back. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. Why your prospect hates your sales proposal process. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? It†s happened to all of us.

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Proposal Prospecting Hiring Vendor 52

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

No deep geeky conversations to have that would surely persuade other brilliant techies to sign large contracts and make contributions to my firm’s and my bank account. Once the realization hit me that setting meetings with prospects was the key to my success, I went to my sales manager to find out how to do this.

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Engineering Small Business Small Business Banking 262

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Let’s say you work at a financial technology (fintech) company that sells software for credit unions, investment firms, and commercial banks. Now, imagine two prospects working for different organizations. On their way to work, both prospects see your company’s billboard and think to themselves, “Hmm, I should check that product out.”

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 130

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 8, 2015

During my career in the finance industry, I had many occasions to discuss opportunities with prospects that centred around their investments, pensions, banking circumstances and the like. We’d have maybe spoken a lot about how the prospect had got to this situation and detailed how he felt about the whole thing. Ah, gotcha.

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Exact Prospecting Construction Banking 120

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Salespeople are preoccupied with closing; makes sense, that seems to be where the pay-off is for everyone, at times even the prospect. Number of prospects in Discovery that move to Proposal. I know I need four never spoken to prospects to close a deal. By Tibor Shanto. The average conversion rate of Proposals to Close.

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Closing Quota Proposal Face-to-face 292

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2021

They recognized that asking clients for referrals was the way to gain access to prime prospects. Or are you taking a new, fresh, and measurable approach to prospecting? The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. They were smart. How do I know this? How about you?

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 371