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Why Would I Refer You if You Don’t Follow Up? [February Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

You’ll end up paying for it. She made it clear that she wasn’t the final decision-maker and said she would follow up. I always have a follow-up call scheduled before I send anything, but I didn’t this time. I trusted that she would follow up. Just make sure you follow up. No response.

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Booking sales follow-Up calls: 7 tips for success

Salesmate

Statistics show that 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls in order to close. To get to the finish line, you must first master the art of the follow-up. Tips for scheduling follow-up sales calls. If they show a clear disinterest in what you’re selling, then it’s OK not to schedule a follow-up call.

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Why Your Salespeople Won’t Follow Up With Prospects

Sales and Marketing Management

Why don’t salespeople follow-up? Can’t vs. Won’t in Follow-Up . My direct observation is that poor follow-up is almost always a case of won’t more than of can’t. I make this case for one simple reason: follow-up just ain’t that hard. . And if they still won’t follow-up?

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My Latest on Using Email to Book New Meetings

Understanding the Sales Force

Using email to book new meetings sounds awesome. Let’s exclude newsletters that you get but delete, product updates, and other emails from legitimate companies that you may or may not have signed up for. Using email to book new meetings sounds awesome. In our house we seem to have the ability to make a lot of trash.

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Book notes: Success is in your Sphere?

Sales 2.0

I agree with Zvi Band the author of the book Success is in your Sphere that “relationships are our most important asset”. The book presents a framework for building relationships called “CAPITAL”. Zvi points out that consistent execution is actually where we are most likely to mess up. Here’s how the framework breaks down.

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Book notes: The Sales Acceleration Formula

Sales 2.0

I’ve been using the summer to review some of the classic books in sales and marketing and refresh some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines” described. I started with Mark Roberge’s book “The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million”.

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Book notes: No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls.

Sales 2.0

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. The second book I’m covering is No Forms. Latané’s book covers an area of marketing that I have long wondered about: Should you “gate” or should you not “gate” your content?