SalesFuel

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s tough enough to uncover quality prospects. 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. 2 Phrases to Use For Prospecting Calls One of his tips is to open with a business-oriented proposition.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Why I won an award for prospecting. Always be prospecting” is my motto. Yes, sometimes December is super quiet, which means either clients aren’t ready, or you stopped prospecting. Here are some other blog posts you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this quarter. NEWSFLASH: Buyer-Centric Sales Is NOT New.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Have all your calls and emails to your potential buyer not been returned by them? Have you had one conversation and perhaps some interest – then you call back and drop a few emails and get no reply? Sure, it’s very possible your buyer just really isn’t into you – or your products and services. Prospecting'

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The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2019

The focus here is the actual environment of the buyer or environments. Environmentally friendly prospecting is about understanding and leveraging your mutual settings and events. Starting right in prospecting, of course, means putting the buyer at the centre of every action. Let’s Start Right. When in What Environment.

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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. In sales, you create prospecting value through personalization, personalization, personalization. Make Connections.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As technology continues to accelerate the pace of advances, other elements of prospecting are not keeping up. One clear example is the role of the telephone in prospecting success. They need to adopt a new view of the role of the telephone in the age of asynchronous prospecting. So we are down to incoming calls.

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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

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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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2024

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 just need to put in a little more effort, and when I do, I’ll find buyers—just like everyone else is!” “I

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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 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling. We will use fewer cold approach techniques.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Because I wanted to focus on a specific question, I glossed over the question I am sure many had as I set out a scenario, specifically when we ask sellers: “Who is your best prospect?”. What I found that unless you get a uniform answer to that question, you can bet that they don’t even know what a prospect is.

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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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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

Understanding each buyer’s needs : We often think we know our buyers but somehow we don’t really “get it” at a core level. We have a “fuzzy” understanding of why our buyers’ buy and are missing the key emotional levers that really make them commit. It’s time for the dreaded cold call!

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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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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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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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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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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. At its root, whatever we may call it, it is a reaction to something we said. I don’t know why sellers are surprised that prospects don’t like to be interrupted, do you? By Tibor Shanto.

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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

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. Table of contents. Simple, right?

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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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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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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I wasn’t home, but he pitched my wife and said he’d come back. Finally, I called Google Fiber and the next week they came out and ran cable to the side of my house where my existing Internet enters the home. It takes persistence, a proven sales cadence, and many calls to finally persuade a qualified buyer to buy from you.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 4, 2018

These days, it isn’t about how good you are at selling; it’s about how good you are at determining the needs and wants of your buyers. It means knowing what buyers would tell you if you would only listen. Most websites are on-line brochures, and many buyers want to make their decisions before making contact with you.

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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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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In the past I, have highlighted how many sellers are limiting if not sabotaging their opportunities while telephone prospecting. The main reason for that is that they are approaching things from a deficit, they are casting a small and porous net, one that only captures a small set of buyers, those with a defined need.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2023

So many sales reps are anxious when they speak with a prospect. Plus, they know that most of the “prospects” they speak with don’t turn into a deal anyway, so, why not learn who is a real prospect right from the get go? It seems they are afraid and think things like: “Will they like my product or service?” “Am

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Yet, it can actually give us a better understanding of our prospects, making that human connection stronger. Here, I spoke with top sales leaders to learn how to AI to better understand your prospects, lead more effective conversations, and drive more results. How AI Can Help You Better Understand Your Prospects 1.

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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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The Pipeline

JULY 6, 2017

So rather than following the 80% of your peers who go into summer mode, I instead invite you to use the summer to improve your prospecting skills so can remain in that 20% that drives the economy, the 80% is piggybacking on. Every Thursday in July and August, the posts in the Pipeline will focus on a specific element in Proactive Prospecting.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. B2B salespeople all look the same to our buyers. None of us stands out during prospecting. Problem is, buyers don’t actually buy software. The same is true for our buyers. Try this instead. That’s a fact. Can I Trust You?

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Smart Calling

JUNE 22, 2020

When I talk with sales leaders whose reps are struggling with prospecting, quite often I find the root of the problem is actually with the leaders themselves. Upon examination of their methods, processes, and beliefs I often can spot mistakes being made due to belief in one—or many—of the cold calling myths that still are being perpetuated.

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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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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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