The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Given that we are sitting in sub-zero temps in the north east, -25 C in Toronto, any call you’re going to make today is going to be a cold call. Pursuit Cadence – It takes a lot more effort to get the attention of buyers these days. Add to that many ignore the first few calls just to separate the strong. Tibor Shanto.

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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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Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2021

You put a lot of effort towards getting your buyers to even visit your site in the first place, so once you have them there, there’s no time to waste. The email should acknowledge your prospect’s interest and offer them an opportunity to take the next step. Besides, it’s now in their calendar too.)

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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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Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2022

Sales sequences don’t belong after the first call in a complex sale. Why buyers ignore your follow-up emails. When a buyer reads a bump email, they’re running a mental calculation. “ For example, you want your buyer to organize a call with three senior-level people — thousands of dollars of time invested.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nail Down Sequences: Build a series of touchpoints based on buyer personas and customer behavior. We increased the average number of qualified opportunities per SDR by 92% that year. We started getting emails like these: Best of all, our reps got out of the spreadsheets and back to what they do best: selling! The results?

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Just like CSI detectives look for facts to back up an assumption or a hunch, you need to do the very same thing with your beliefs about your potential buyers, your existing clients, current partners and prospective referrers. He took a pipeline of qualified opportunities with him. So – back to labeling people –.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 11, 2013

But the transition from a virtual conversation to a real opportunity is complex. 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. They sometimes sell while the Buyer is still defining their problem.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

In this blog, you’ll learn how to create a sales territory plan in 3 steps: Identify buyer-centric market opportunities. Step 1: Begin with a buyer-centric approach. These pain points represent an opportunity in the IT market. What are your buyer needs? What do buyers care about when making a purchase?

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 31, 2014

Total perfection in managing your time is impossible – so try for a 1% improvement in keeping this focus: Important activities that lead you to more / better sales opportunities and ultimately to new revenue. Create email templates for various buyer types and stages of the sales cycle. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

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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. 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.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 15, 2024

Whenever I get on a Zoom call with him, I’m distracted by the classic drafting table on one wall of his office. Always brings back such fond memories. And Barry’s commitment to change that, “I approach every interaction and honestly believe it’s an opportunity to contribute to a better world.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Some things in sales can be called by various names without much consequence, the underlying subject being very much the same, prospect – potential buyer, information gathering – discovery, and many others; it comes down to words not actions or outcomes. Helping the reps to not only widen their view of the deal, but others like it.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. Buyer Personas Don’t Create Urgency to Change.

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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. What follows are five things you can do any time in any year, but given the opportunities, they are crucial this year.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. How do I really get to know my buyers if we can’t meet for coffee, a beer or a round of golf?”. Business buyers seem to feel the same way, so they’re not shopping around much for new vendors. But not referral sellers.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 19, 2012

Nothing has really changed in the sales world, although many pundits rant about the “new normal,” “new realities,” Buyer 2.0, They talk about the “informed buyer.” Is the so-called Buyer 2.0 The opportunities to share information, experience, and evaluation are numerous. Here’s the great news: Buyer 2.0

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a sales rep, you need to tell the difference between opportunities that are just interested from those that intend to buy. You’ll get three questions to ask about your opportunities to quickly identify those that intend to buy so you can close more business. Buyers move fast today but they set a pace based on their own situation.

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Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2020

Step 1: Begin with a Buyer-Centric Approach. These pain points represent an opportunity in the IT market. As a cloud storage provider, the pain points associated with processing speed and data storage present another market opportunity with product development buyers. What are your buyer needs?

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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. Stop back for the rest of the posts in this series, as there are additional data and insights to share. Your Window of Opportunity.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Let’s be clear we’re not talking about fighting the customer, but fighting the urge to give up and go back to inbound prospecting, or perhaps flight to a better strategy and approach to telephone prospecting. But hope is really not a path to successful prospecting, and the best comfort comes from having a pipeline full of real opportunities.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Here are the trends to watch as you enter the new year and the proven strategies (backed by data of course) to thrive amidst change. Be a sense-maker and confidence-builder for your buyers The number of interactions buyers have with sellers is decreasing. Today’s buyers are completing more of their journey solo.

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Gong.io

MAY 6, 2020

That includes everything captured by Gong’s software during web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails. Then we analyze how seller and buyer actions impact deal success. . For this report, we analyzed 140,566 sales opportunities, including the sales calls and meetings that occurred within those opportunities.

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 2, 2022

In sales, or in customer service, we have a short period of time to identify certain customs important to buyers. And if we don’t, we won’t build trust quickly and that can stall the opportunity to lead them through the information exchange needed for them to make that decision. We call it the Neutral Zone. Word choice.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 14, 2020

Of all of the bad advice around sales, the most reckless and worst counsel you will read from charlatans and know-nothings is the idea that your buyer has all the power in the relationship, that they are some large percentage through their buying process, and that you should wait for them to reach out to you.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s even more difficult to keep their attention and capture interest during a prospecting call. And research shows that prospecting calls are a serious struggle. SalesFuel reports on a survey that found “approximately one-fifth of sellers’ monthly outreach calls never turn into a sale.” They listen to people they like.

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Highspot

JUNE 9, 2020

But even in the most trying of times, opportunities surface to those who look for them. Leveraging these opportunities will not only help you sustain through the downturn, but will strengthen your enablement program in the long run. Here are three opportunities to seize today. HARNESS THE POWER OF YOUR TOOLS.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 27, 2024

Buyers won’t answer every phone call. Sellers need to use effective voicemail techniques to get their calls returned. There’s opportunity to get your sales calls returned by simply being prepared. So, when your call isn’t answered, you leave a voicemail that inspires a call back.

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SBI

MAY 21, 2019

Transforming Sales: Buyers are Telling us What They Expect and That Will Continue. The buyer-seller mismatch” – FinListics. The good news is that buyers are telling us what they expect and will continue to. Has the organization agreed on the ideal client profile, and is the messaging tailored to the individual buyer?

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Sales has changed for one primary reason: the buyer is in control. Sales Has Changed For One Primary Reason: The Buyer Is In Control. Even more to the point, we have the opportunity to check out companies, products, and salespeople independently without them even knowing about it. RevenueGrowth #NEXT2020 Click To Tweet.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 23, 2021

Due to the staggering number of new businesses and potential clients that inhabit the marketplace, companies must know the difference between ideal customer profiles (ICPs) and buyer personas, in order to craft the perfect strategy for using them. How to know whether to use ideal customer profiles or buyer personas. Understanding ICPs.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2021

They learn to tailor their approach for each customer and are always trying to find a better way to convert leads into opportunities. On average, SDRs still need to attempt contact five to eight times before a lead converts into a sales opportunity. There are many best practices about how to get this right.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

There’s no doubt about it,” Salesforce president and COO Brian Millham said in a recent earnings call. Then, if one line goes cold, you have several other opportunities to continue the conversation. Simplifying the purchasing process will give your prospective buyer reassurance that their needs are important.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

In order to exceed your sales targets (if you’re in a closing role) or your opportunity creation targets (if you’re in a sales development role), you must plan your approach, create your messages, identify and research contacts, and more. Know "who" your buyer is. TB : Create a pre-call plan for every contact. Invest in data.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, on the show, we’ve got Shruti Kapoor, co-founder and CEO of a company called Wingman. Shruti, one of the things we like to do when we start is to give you an opportunity to tell us a little bit more about your company. We bring in insights from different types of sales interactions across calls, emails, video meetings.

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Highspot

MARCH 3, 2022

Sellers today can meet with buyers in several different ways: in-person, virtual, telephone conference calls, or any combination of the three. Before the pandemic, most sellers and buyers met in person, which gave them the opportunity to build rapport face to face. How Enablement Can Adapt.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s not beat around the bush: nobody likes getting cold calls. Buyers are already short on time, and the last thing they want is to listen to another sales pitch. This means customers are scrutinizing purchases more and are even more reluctant to take a cold call. First things first: Is cold calling legal?

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