Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The follow-up email is a key component of sales communication. When done right, a follow-up email can keep your company top-of-mind with prospects, demonstrate your investment in your customer relationships, and convey the value of your business without being intrusive or obnoxious. What strategies to use.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

There’s been a shift in how B2B organizations communicate through follow-ups and outreach. Eight out of ten business buyers want the same experience as when they’re buying for themselves. In this article, we’ll look at five sales follow-up tactics that will help you do just that. Sales Follow-Up Tactic #1: Email.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2024

I can’t believe this company is asking me to actually show up to an office!” What this means is that rather than let that random, negative self-talk just pour into you, you should instead talk back to yourself in advance and feed the positive self-talk you need to succeed. I can’t make any real money here.” “I

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 31, 2021

But if you need to send one sales follow up email after the next, you’re like the rest of us. That’s fine, because we’ve got your back, with a list of follow-up email templates you can use to reach out to your prospects and get responses. What Should I Write In a Follow Up Email? I get that.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2020

That can lead to a lot of opportunities for things to break down and for buyers to fall through the cracks. They don’t offer an omnichannel experience in terms of the lead follow-up process. They may or may not have developed a follow-up schedule but are not continually testing. How can we patch these gaps?

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SalesProInsider

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The following quote by Roy T Bennett from The Light in the Heart captures the main message for successful virtual sales follow up in this episode of Virtual Selling, Concreate Results. Why does that capture the key to successful follow up? The Follow Up Gap. 44% give up after 1 follow up.

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Shari Levitin

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Your prospects are desensitized to emails and voice messages that contain the same boring language as your competitors: To break through the noise today, try the following sales hacks to get more callbacks and meetings. Slow Down to Speed Up. Build rapport by looking up the interests of your prospects on LinkedIn.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 26, 2021

If you've done your pre-call prep work, you probably put together a list of sales questions to ask your prospect an hour or two before your appointment. However, there's also a downside to using questions prepared in advance on a sales call. Buyer : Sure thing. That's good -- preparation is an important key to success in sales.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A few months ago, both AT&T, and then Google Fiber, dug up our street and lawns and bushes to install fiber Internet cable. Then a Google rep showed up out of the blue, canvassing the neighborhood. I wasn’t home, but he pitched my wife and said he’d come back. Then they showed up because my neighbor switched to them.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Objections that come up during a prospecting call are entirely different from the ones that come at the end of a sale. Objections that come up at the end of the sale we should be aware of in advance. Give It Back. That’s right, straight up an objection. The expert answer is to ask better questions.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 10, 2021

Chorus research shows that in January 2020, it took reps just over 150 cold calls on average to strike a deal. By July of the same year, that cold call average was almost 200. Given the heightened difficulty of cold calling , it’s little wonder that one successful call will feel like a major victory to a lot of reps.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. That’s why I’m not the biggest fan of the one-call close. Some of the characteristics and behaviors that define a good-fit buyer are obvious, while others are a bit more nuanced.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Importance of Sales Follow-up Emails. There’s a good chance you’re giving up on sales follow-up emails too soon. Where a prospective client may not respond to your initial email, they may do so after the second, third, or fourth follow-up email. When To Send a Follow-up Email.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 13, 2021

But when you’ve done a presentation and then don’t hear back from a prospect, it can often mean the kiss of death. While it seems counter intuitive, I’d rather know up front if I’m wasting my time or if this is a real prospect. 2: Make more calls without leaving a message. I take the opposite approach: I call. What to do?

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Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we will discuss why it’s vital for marketing to develop a training guide for sales so all are on the same page as far as understanding what constitutes a lead in your organization, and what’s the best way to follow up on one. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead.

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 31, 2023

But if you need to send one sales follow-up email after the next, you’re like the rest of us. That’s fine, because we’ve got your back with a list of follow-up email templates you can use to reach out to your prospects and get responses. Offer a clear call to action. Open with a strong subject line.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Sales Call Tips. Start Sales Calls with a Bang. On the other hand, the use of science in sales focuses on two areas: the seller and the buyer. Proactive sales psychology to prepare for the toughest buyer objections ahead of time by establishing the right mental and emotional state. Start all sales calls with a bang.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

It’s like back pain. You can stretch and put heat or ice on an aching back, but unless you treat the source of the pain—a pulled muscle or degenerating disc—your back will continue to hurt. The buyers had no idea why they were meeting, and the salesperson didn’t ask enough discovery questions to offer tailored solutions.

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 30, 2018

They agree that it would be a good idea for you to send them a recommendation/proposal/overview and “follow-up” with them. You call to check in – Crickets. You call again. So you conclude: They’ve decided it’s a “no” and stop following up. Then reality hits.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2024

What Not to Say Unless you remove the following problematic soundbites from your vocabulary, you won’t be able to fully achieve the authority you need. Overuse will make you sound like you’re back in high school, and decrease the likelihood of prospects taking you seriously. It’s also the natural follow-up to the previous phrase.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 21, 2018

That’s when active selling skills get put on ice and reps have to flex their follow-up email or phone call muscles instead. We asked five sales experts for their most effective follow-up email templates. You tried calling, but your prospect didn’t pick up. I was calling because [explain your purpose].

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 4, 2019

So, you followed our tips for the perfect cold-calling approach. You nailed your sales call, dispelling your prospect’s early misgivings, and they sounded enthusiastic about taking things forward. That’s a lot of follow-up sales calls! Consider it the most important part of your call.

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SalesProInsider

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this episode of Virtual Selling, Concrete Results , I’m talking about sales follow-up messages. The Nuances of Follow-Up Messages. To build off of the last episode in which I shared the 4 key components of good follow-up sales messages, let’s talk about the “little things” or the nuances of our follow-up messages.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2023

Salespeople need to be able to neutralize and move past buyer objections to be successful, but there's a distinction between objections and brush-offs. Brush-offs are time savers — ways for prospects to get you off their back without much regard for what you‘re selling or how you’re selling it. That means learning to be disruptive.

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Score More Sales

JULY 15, 2014

We talk to sellers all the time that assume a buyer is thinking in the same ways that they are. You know the old saying, “never assume… ” To build business you cannot afford to assume what’s in my head is the same thought that is in my buyer’s head instead think like your buyer.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2023

If you’re a salesperson, you have to learn about your buyer. And too often, I see salespeople taking the quick and lazy path on discovery calls — the path that alienates and annoys the very prospects they’re trying to win over. And your buyers hate it. And once you learn how to use them, you’ll never go back.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

They may get some leads out and set up some “demos or presentations,” but because they didn’t discover whether a prospect was truly a buyer and in the market at that time, their close rate is a disappointing 2 sales out of 10 full presentations…. with your voice lifting up at the end of the word. Adopt the word “Oh?”

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

But if it takes many emails just to get one response back, then this post is for you. We have compiled a list of follow-up lead email templates that will help you follow up with your prospects and get them to, actually, respond. This is crazy specific, but you could find all the people that match the following: .

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SBI Growth

MARCH 11, 2013

I discuss how these Reps align themselves with the Buyer’s process to be successful. Then I provide a Buyer Alignment Tool to enable success in these environments. Frequently, Sales Reps are busy pitching their products without listening to their Buyers. They sometimes sell while the Buyer is still defining their problem.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Though the Harvard Business Review prematurely declared it dead a decade ago , today’s top sellers have found new ways to leverage solution selling that speak directly to the attitudes and needs of modern buyers. Buyers in 2012 had come a long way from the buyers of the 1980s. You talk up the benefits. Table of contents.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

At first, it seemed almost rude to utter it… But let me ask you: out of ten prospects you pitch to, how many end up actually buying? Yep, two out of ten prospects you speak with turn into buyers. It took me years to believe this. And this means that you spend hours each day pitching to people who are never going to buy! Who’s next?”

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Smart Calling

MARCH 22, 2018

Do you really know where you stand with the prospects in your follow-up files right now? I’m not trying to make you feel bad, but my experience is that many sales reps have no clue where they are in the sales process with a majority of the people they are following up with. Let’s zoom in to a call.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 20, 2018

Buyers feel like the rep is virtually poking them, making them reluctant to answer. But reps still need a way to get in touch with buyers who’ve gone dark. These “just checking in alternatives simultaneously add value to the prospect while putting the salesperson back on her radar. Enter these 23 email templates. Hi [prospect].

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While many salespeople will call anyone that breaths a prospect, others want proof. Easily done, usually through a plan, one easy for a serious buyer to agree to at each stage. In order not to get a false sense of security from your pipeline, do the following stress test every week. Let me know what you thought.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Everyone in sales talks about how you need 5, 10, 15, or more touches to engage a buyer. Stop back for the rest of the posts in this series, as there are additional data and insights to share. Sales reps only have 14 days to engage a buyer before the conversion potential is so low that it’s no longer worth following up.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Know The Prospective Buyer. Buyer Traits. However, you will find that they provide a good overall view of commonalities in the different types of buyers. You may feel that this is giving up or accepting defeat. Different Prospective Buyer Types. The Assertive: This buyer personality is often difficult to deal with.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2018

You call a prospect at the scheduled time and the line rings and rings and rings. You send a short follow-up email to set up another call. And don’t give up. Most sales reps have a basic follow-up email template to send to no-shows. Just following up to reschedule.”. Don’t panic.

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