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80% Of Prospects Use One Of Five Common Objections

The Pipeline

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. Over the years it has proven very hard for most to deal with the most common objections.

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The Best Sales Book, That Isn’t a Sales Book

A Sales Guy

In celebration of over 50,000 copies of Gap Selling sold, I wanted to take a moment and highlight other books that influenced my perception or help expand on concepts within Gap Selling. It’s a book on execution. How is that a book on execution has become my favorite sales book? So what makes execution a sales book?

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Six Books to Make Your Selling Bright

Alice Heiman

I read at least one book a month and this past year so many important books on selling were published. This reading list will help you modernize your sales strategies and achieve your growth objectives. Helen’s book is truly a guide that will help love your team. The Sales Innovation Paradox by Dr. Howard Dover.

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Peak Performance: Quick Book Summary 

Tenbound

Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness Purchase the book here. Surround yourself with objects that invite your desired behavior. The work environment matters. Your environment will enhance your productivity. Giving back is a powerful antidote to burnout.

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4 Types of Sales Positions That Can Never Be Replaced by AI

Understanding the Sales Force

Back then, new digital marketing companies were telling everyone that salespeople would be replaced by inbound marketing. And the very same companies who were claiming that their SaaS marketing platforms would replace salespeople actually required salespeople - lots of them - to sell their applications. meetings booked per week!

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Predictable Prospecting – Quick Book Summary

Tenbound

Rather, it should be internalizing enough information to enhance the ability to convey the company’s value proposition and to help handle most objections. Chapter 2: Developing an Ideal Account Profile The Ideal Account Profile (IAP) includes the identification of the most desirable prospect companies to contact based on market segmentation.

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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

Pointclear

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Maybe I was just sensitive.

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