The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What you plant now, you will harvest later.". -Og > How to Build Trust & Deepen Connections With Your Buyer While Selling Virtually – LinkedIn. And we’ve seen that you can still be present for your prospects even when you can’t physically be with them. >>> - MOTIVATION -. Always do your best. Og Mandino.

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Harvest Trends LinkedIn Motivation 80

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Tuesday we enter the “final half” of the sales year, the unofficial intermission that is summer comes to a figurative end, and harvest season is upon us. Now if you did a good job of ploughing, seeding and nurturing (even fertilizing), in the spring, you are truly in a position to harvest.

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SBI

APRIL 25, 2011

Great sales people are generally not good prospectors or long-term nurturers—they’re hunters who are motivated and incented to close deals with short-term, sales-ready buyers. Ironically, marketing’s success in delivering large quantities of interested prospects creates a problem. A lead farm success story. About the Author .

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Harvest Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

By Dan Sixsmith According to a newly published report, there is a serious disconnect between the content that B2B buyers expect from marketers, and what is actually being produced and delivered. So how do marketers better align their content marketing to what prospective buyers want? Translation: a sales pitch.

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Buyer Marketing Harvest B2B 83

BuzzBoard

AUGUST 19, 2023

For a long time, even until the recent past, the only available means to scale outreach and prospecting efforts was limited to free or in-house created templates that were life savers for reps, who used them to bulk-email prospects. Or worse—reps ignored them.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 23, 2023

Because your prospect is uncertain. Buyers will pick up on your attitude. Be relaxed and ready to serve with a positive attitude — and the conviction that if your solution is a good fit, you will be direct and honest with the prospect to persuade them to walk across the bridge toward their transformation.

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Closing Harvest Top of Funnel Relationals 52

Allego

JUNE 29, 2021

62% of sales professionals say they’ve lost a sale because they couldn’t meet personally with a buyer. But with reps AND prospects working in a hybrid world—with some back in the office and some remote—making quota is harder than ever. This data reveals the impact of the pandemic. Use AI to Scale Programs.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

” Don’t panic, that would just be a waste of your time, and time is something you don’t have in abundance; instead, get prospecting. Prospecting in two ways, first reworking all your current assets, the second is going beyond to prospects and buyers that you will need to identify, engage and move through the process.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2013

A lot was written in 2012 regarding the change in buyer behavior. Gleaning was a practice where farmers left some of their crops in the field post-harvest. He’ll reveal tips and tricks used by LinkedIn to prospect and grow business. Your prospects and customers are doing the same. With that change came concern.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Harvest Social Media 321

Showpad

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This is a big trend – a new holistic approach around communicating value to your buyers and customers. Harvest your customer projects and extract the relevant data on specific business problems, investments, and actual customer value that has been delivered using the metrics that matter to them. Yes and no.

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Trends Sales Enablement Harvest Data 119

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s the perfect place to meet prospects in similar life stages who are awestruck by the home you’ve helped their friends buy. Websites like Zillow offer advertising options for realtors -- a smart move since 44% of buyers look for houses online before reaching out to a realtor. Not hitting up open houses to harvest new leads?

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Real Estate Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 136

Pointclear

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Just like listening to a conversation in a language you don’t know, without context, information is simply various data points – which means the silos of Big Data you’ve purchased or harvested, waiting to be leveraged by some brave salesperson or marketer, are just silos full of noise. This is a two-way analogy. So what can you do?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Harvest 180

Pointclear

JANUARY 17, 2012

Short-term leads, also called qualified sales opportunities, are ready buyers that have the potential to close within one or two sales cycles. Management rightfully motivates and compensates sales people to focus on making the immediate numbers, not on building a pipeline of prospects. They just won’t do it.

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Lead Qualification Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Lead Leads 133

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Whether you’re assessing new potential customers and buyer personas, catering to existing customers, refining your onboarding process, or evaluating sales training methods, you may find that best practices have shifted. Being able to advance deals, mitigate risk, approach the right prospects — it’s all more difficult post-COVID-19.

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ROI Buyer Persona Churn Follow-up 118

Apptivo

AUGUST 17, 2022

It is definitely hard to keep oneself motivated in spite of being rejected and working among uninterested hostile prospects. Different prospects will prefer different selling styles and the salespeople have to adapt to such styles in order to receive good results. What you plant now, you will harvest later – Og mandino.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Is your prospect moments away from throwing a mouse at the screen share? Ever feel like you nailed a presentation only to find your prospect staring at the screen share … silent? Start by confirming the qualification criteria you or your BDR have harvested. Even the best products don’t make sense for every buyer.

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How To Harvest Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 94

Showpad

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This time period coincides with the rise of data analytics and the belief that nearly all of an organization’s operations will be significantly improved if they are informed by insights that have been carefully harvested and meticulously analyzed.

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Data How To Lead Rank Sales Enablement 64

The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In the business world, there are times when we, too, are interested in a bigger fish story – winning larger accounts, from a more fertile pond, representing a potential harvest that can propel our revenues manifold. Know the Buyer. How do we service this account? And will they be a reference?

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Account Scale Decision Maker Harvest 72

Gong.io

JUNE 29, 2022

No matter how intuitive and well-designed your product is, you can’t expect your buyers to know how to use it. The best SaaS onboarding processes help buyers achieve their goals and make it part of their workflow. However, if buyers aren’t achieving desired outcomes, your chances of retaining them decrease significantly. .

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Churn Retention Cancellation Analytics 62

Vengreso

DECEMBER 6, 2018

During sales conversations, we do so by speaking to buyers in ways that demonstrate our genuine concern and care for them and their needs. When you learn how to do this in every conversation, it’s not only a relational win, it’s a sales win that yields a harvest in the future. Listen to hear Adam explain how to do it.

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Closing SAP Pivotal Harvest 111

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While it is true that the only reason for a prospecting call is to set up the first formal interaction, there is so much more that can be accomplished. One thing that many fail to do in prospecting calls is set the momentum for the Discovery and beyond. Most are focused on and working on getting that primary directive right.

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Prospecting Harvest Call-back SME 210

Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sales Training Article: The New Door Opener = Social Selling By Joel McCabe, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) A lot was written in 2012 regarding the change in buyer behavior. Gleaning was a practice where farmers left some of their crops in the field post-harvest. He’ll reveal tips and tricks used by LinkedIn to prospect and grow business.

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Social Selling Training Harvest Ideal Customer Profile 55

LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

2 Predictable Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting brings in some of the top minds in lead gen, social selling, and sales process. Episode 158: Revenue Harvest – Nigel Green. You’ll be sure to hear the importance of prospecting as well as dynamite for the rest of your sales process, even if you listen to a few episodes.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Twitter Lead Scoring 98

Allego

JULY 21, 2022

All of which severely impacts buyers and sellers alike. They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. All these challenges are forcing sellers to change their approach.

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Sales Enablement Company Collateral Hiring 117

Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2015

List vendors have the ugly practice of harvesting their names, appending the @excellenc.com to them and put them on a list. Moral of this story, “Buyer beware,” too many list providers intentionally or sloppily seem to provide more crap than real lists. George still gets lots of email from enthusiastic marketers.

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ACT Marketing Construction Harvest 48

HeavyHitter Sales

JUNE 10, 2013

The goal of sales linguistics is to understand how salespeople and their prospective customers use and interpret language during meetings and presentations. One line in the article was very thought provoking; ‘If seal pups were as ugly as lobsters, their harvest would go unnoticed.   1. .   Closing Thoughts.

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Hotels Lead Rank Lead Scoring Harvest 122

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

It could be a target prospect account you’re already researching, or a current client you’d like to expand. and now they want to introduce themselves to potential Novartis buyers in other strategic locations around the world. Define parameters for sales prospecting. Find the buyers. Who owns the global campaign?

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Account Campaigns Engineering Harvest 289

The Pipeline

AUGUST 9, 2020

Let’s explore how August will shape your fall harvest. Most salespeople are planted firmly in their lane, trying to snag unsuspecting buyers into their lane. Salespeople who have looked at August as a period of planting for the future harvest. See all upcoming Proactive Prospecting Club events. It Was Wrong Before.

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Harvest Call-back Face-to-face Trends 376

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

JANUARY 5, 2009

Prospecting (9). When customers/prospects try to get you to come down on price, discuss value. Sidestep their price-squeezing tactics, tell them to put price aside for the moment, and ask your customers and prospects how they define and determine real value. Dont get too cozy with purchasing agents and buyers. Contact Us.

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Marketing Face-to-face Harvest Pharmaceuticals 53

Salesmate

APRIL 7, 2020

So that they can give their complete attention to engage and convert prospects into paying clients. Using the built-in telephony you can always stay closer to your prospects and clients, whilst email tracking allows you to know when the recipient has opened your email. Send emails, text message and make calls from the CRM itself.

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Tools Marketo Harvest Ideal Customer Profile 130

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

I help my clients learn how to scout, hunt and harvest whales– companies that can sign contracts 10x to 20x the size of my clients’ current average deal size. Buyers driven by fear. But they hadn’t given any real thought to underlying concerns of the buyers. My clients have similar stories. Whale Fears.

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Outsourcing Services Harvest Face-to-face Enterprise 75

Cience

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Always the stalwart, outbound emailing has become more sophisticated, smarter, and prospect-focused in recent years. The background research on the prospect, of course. According to LinkedIn, 76% of buyers are ready to have sales conversations via Social Media. I definitely do, and your prospect does as well!

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Outbound Campaigns Channels Ideal Customer Profile 63

Allego

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By the year 2020, customers will manage 85% of the buyer’s journey without interacting with a single human being. Even before the pandemic, B2B buyers were spending more time doing their own research before ever sitting down with a seller. It fosters communication between reps, managers, subject matter experts, and buyers.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Strategy Exercises 71

Revegy

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Traditional CRM platforms provide a backward-looking view of sales and customer activity, but key account managers need a forward-looking view into how well they’re executing their strategies and plans, both for new prospects and growing existing accounts. Download the KAM Solution Buyers Guide to Learn More.

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CRM Account Harvest Analysis 40

Jeff Shore

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Let’s talk about it today on “The Buyer’s Mind.” ” Recorded voice: Welcome to “The Buyer’s Mind,” where we take a closer look deep inside your customer’s decision-making mechanism to reverse engineer the perfect sales presentation. .” They wanna buy?

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Top of Funnel Call-back Up-Sell Sales 65