Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From prospecting to discovery and demo calls, executives like CEOs and CFOs have become not just a name on an invite, but an active participant with plenty of questions and unique problems to solve. . We’ve found, as a best practice, deals that progress have most often included five engaging questions from a rep to a CXO during the meeting.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The prospect agrees to take your meeting, and they even agree to your demo call. The solution lies not in being more forceful with how you close, but rather, being more open with how you prospect. Your goal is to build on the customer’s ego in the prospecting phase and not when you’re trying to close the deal.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

As startling as that statistic is, it’s not all that difficult to believe, what with buyers having ready access to digital content, their reliance on social media and the rise of e-commerce. Here are eight tactics and techniques that can help you meet your 2020 sales goals. What comes after prospects consume your content?

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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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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. But they are completely ignoring the buyers’ state of readiness. That is the time between NOW, and when the buyer indents on making a decision. The challenge is that the number of Active Buyers is tiny. By Tibor Shanto.

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Gong.io

APRIL 2, 2021

Sales prospecting is dead. Sales prospecting is an essential part of your process. . That’s why I stole these 10 sales prospecting techniques from the best-of-the-best sales pros. Prospecting Technique #1: Use This Cold Call Opener. Want to totally level up your sales prospecting game? Dramatic pause*. performs 6.6X

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

Photo by ELG21 via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: What Do Buyers Want Regarding House Sales In 2024? In the changing real estate industry, keeping up with the trends is crucial for attracting potential buyers and getting the most out of your property.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

He once said to me, “Sean, what do you do after a sales meeting that ensures the next one will be even better?”. But it got me thinking about what would be the best way to learn from the meeting experience and determine how I could improve next time. Ask yourself questions like these: How did the meeting start?

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2019

The common goal in sales is winning your prospect’s prospect. The fact is that most buyers only focus on pleasing their direct customer when we help them do that better, they win, and we win. Again, this makes the people your prospect is trying to win, your responsibility as well. Who’s Paying For This? Deliver More.

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Vengreso

MARCH 9, 2022

As a B2B sales professional, you’re missing out if you’re not leveraging the power of social selling to enhance and accelerate your LinkedIn prospecting activity. By using social media tools, such as LinkedIn Free, Premium or LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you can make prospecting even easier and more personalized.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas. Here, we’ll go a step further and show how to utilize them to meet your customers’ needs.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Why I won an award for prospecting. I got a job offer on December 28 and had two in-person meetings on the afternoon of December 24. Always be prospecting” is my motto. Yes, sometimes December is super quiet, which means either clients aren’t ready, or you stopped prospecting. NEWSFLASH: Buyer-Centric Sales Is NOT New.

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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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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. Throw an objection at the prospect!

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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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. When a prospect finally lands on your website, those efforts have reached a critical moment: you have their attention, and it’s time to build a relationship. What is Conversational Marketing?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. Now, we’ll go further and explore strategies and best practices for improving prospect qualification. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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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. Some of the characteristics and behaviors that define a good-fit buyer are obvious, while others are a bit more nuanced. The prospect is not in your sales territory.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Author: Kelly Bosetti Salespeople once played a significant role in educating buyers about their options and helping them come to a decision regarding a product or service, but times are changing. Because of this, it’s no surprise that the buyer’s journey has undergone a fundamental shift. Reaching More Educated Buyers.

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criteria for success

MAY 11, 2022

As a sales leader, you’ve had your fair share of sales meetings. Think of how much easier sales meetings would be if all parties involved knew exactly what everyone was expecting to gain from them. No confusion of the prospect’s problems or what they may or may not be interested in. All you have to do is set expectations.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Over the years, I have found that some of my best prospect interviews have come as a result of something another prospect asked me. As a bonus, your prospects/customers will help you sell your next deal without them even knowing or caring. Refining how they prospect and conduct discovery. Train The Prospect.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Virtual selling is a new way to sell—and it’s so much more than simply moving your meetings online. Some of you may think, “The best way to sell is face-to-face” or “Technology creates a barrier between me and a buyer.” It can be challenging to juggle tech while engaging prospects on the call and doing the best presentation possible.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 11, 2023

There’s a lot of excitement from sellers about the power of AI tools like ChatGPT, we can inflict infinite amounts of content on unsuspecting prospects. We can meet and exceed Gartner’s projection of 66 touches per meeting with all sorts of sequences that can be generated in a few minutes.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 30, 2023

Does your sales approach take buyer personas into consideration? You know, that ideal customer profile of your best potential prospect? In this article, we will explore the concept of buyer personas and how sales reps can apply the principles of perception and persuasion for improved performance.

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criteria for success

AUGUST 3, 2022

They might then react in a way that doesn’t serve them or their buyer. Let's say you're a super social salesperson who frequently meets people at networking events. If you listen to head trash that tells you to not come across too “salesy” – you'll be less inclined to follow-up and schedule prospecting meetings !

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” But these pipeline reviews should be true coaching sessions — not data-scrubbing meetings. If so, you’ve come to the right place.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But whether you are struggling to connect with your targets or you are acing your way to President’s Club, you have to accept that Buyers Do Not Have To Take Your Call, before you leave your house in the morning. And guess what, it led to a scheduling of a further meeting with the key executives’ direct involvement, direction, and blessing.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Getting a further meeting with a client isn’t always that easy, especially these days when buyers are so busy that the urgent often takes over from the important. Here are three tips that will help you bag that next meeting: RAP Up The Current Meeting. Firstly, you Review what you have agreed at this meeting.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The challenge with prospecting is that it takes place between two human beings, and as with anything human, subjectivity instantly and permanently plagues it. I recently read a piece presenting the case as to why prospecting should be automated. The author gave some valid arguments as to why elements of prospecting should be automated.

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Emissary

JUNE 25, 2021

In the Emissary Buyer Snapshot for Summer 2021 Playbook, we asked 191 senior executives, responsible for billions of dollars in technology spend, how they view the barrage of outreach they receive from IT vendor and technology marketers and sellers. Of course, getting the attention of buyers has never been easy. Download Now.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Sellers can and should take the concept of open ended and closed ended, and apply it to actual sales meetings. What you’ll find is that sales meeting properly executed should be more of a closed ended event, but all too often they end up being an open ended, in fact too open-ended, often becoming ever meandering affairs.

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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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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” With the inability to travel or actually meet F2F, we had to find a new method for engaging our customers. We’ve learned that reducing travel frees us up to spend much more time actually “meeting” with customers. ” We have always thought of things in terms of a seller interaction directly with a buyer.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 11, 2024

Sales leaders recently gathered to discuss the many ways that buyers are changing. As Amari Gonzalez writes for LinkedIn : “Over the past few months, we sat down with some of the most innovative sales leaders today … And [we] asked them how they are connecting with buyers.” A variety of factors are influencing their behavior shifts.

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