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 Training

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you’re getting all the responses you’ll ever need on the first cold email you send to prospects, let me know. But if you need to send one sales follow up email after the next, you’re like the rest of us. The following templates are based on some simple cardinal rules about how to send a follow-up 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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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.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. 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.

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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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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Know The Prospective Buyer. Buyer Traits. While every person is different, you will find that most prospective customers fit into certain categories. However, you will find that they provide a good overall view of commonalities in the different types of buyers. Different Prospective Buyer Types.

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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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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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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. Not sure what I mean? Here's an example. Here's an example.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

The average buyer in this day and age is shrewd — naturally skeptical of salespeople and having certain standards reps have to measure up to. To help you avoid those pitfalls, we've put together a list of eight of the main mistakes reps make that make them seem less credible to potential buyers. Let's dive in.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Not all objections are fatal, most, based on how we interpret and handle them, can usually add to the conversation and ultimately to converting the objecting prospect to a client. Objections that come up during a prospecting call are entirely different from the ones that come at the end of a sale. Give It Back.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2024

If you’re a salesperson and you speak like this, here’s a reality check: It is going to be very, very hard to convince prospects to buy. And prospects don’t buy from salespeople they don’t trust. It’s not easy to build authority, especially if your prospects can’t see you. should be deployed sparingly.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

Problem: Salespeople talk too much when they finally get a prospect on the phone. They talk over their prospects and generally learn very little about what it takes to close a sale. This may sound easy, but if you’ve listened to any of your rep’s calls (or your own), then you know how hard it is. Like you’re really curious.

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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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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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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 31, 2023

If you’re getting all the responses you’ll ever need on the first cold email you send to prospects, let me know. But if you need to send one sales follow-up email after the next, you’re like the rest of us. The following templates are based on some simple cardinal rules about how to send a follow-up email.

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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. Dare to be different.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2023

That means reps need to provide prospects with helpful and specific resources as opposed to stuffing irrelevant information down their throats — but you can't get there if you don't understand where your prospect is coming from. I don't always engage prospects at this stage, but if I do, I use a very light touch.

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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!

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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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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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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

MARCH 25, 2024

Here it is: Prospects aren't always easy to deal with. So to help you get a sense of the kinds of buyers you need to look out for (and what to do when you‘re dealing with them), we asked some sales leaders for their takes on the most difficult types of prospects to work with and how to engage with them effectively.

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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. So what’s a sales rep to do when the deal rests on a prospect’s responsiveness? And don’t give up. Just following up to reschedule.”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 23, 2019

Back in the day, you left $1 stapled to your card and they called back. “I The answer is simple: Prospects now have more ways of identifying sales reps they don’t want to speak with, and now have more ways of evading them. It’s the same for your prospects. 2: Make more calls without leaving a message.

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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

MAY 21, 2018

But showing off these talents depends on getting on prospects’ calendars in the first place. 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.

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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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The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2021

Vacations over, back to work, finishing the year and setting the table for next year. While this year is no different, there is greater anticipation in light of vaccine and people’s back to work attitude. Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Some people hide from prospecting in their pipelines; pretending the opportunities, individually or collectively, are more real than they are. When it comes to prospecting, there’s real, then there’s pipeline real. While many salespeople will call anyone that breaths a prospect, others want proof. By Tibor Shanto.

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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. A whopping 50% of your prospects may not be a good fit for the product/service you sell. You talk up the benefits.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

Sales reps run into trouble when they try to go into a call totally cold. The modern buyer doesn't have the patience to address basic questions with answers that anyone can find through a cursory search — nor do they have the time to fill you in on their challenges. The 18 Best Places to Research Buyers Before Sales Conversations.

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