Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Prospecting is one of the most fundamental sales skills. However, as the sales environment shifts, sellers must update how they prospect. Last July, we hosted the webinar, Mastering the Art of Prospecting: Key Strategies for Success. Here, we examined the fundamental principles of modern prospecting.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Earlier this week, the forecast called for a big nor’easter to drop 8-13 inches of heavy, wet snow in our area. It harkened me back to the good old days before the incredible weather technology we have now. We got 3 inches. When I say pre-technology, I’m not talking about pre-Doppler radar and computer models.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a business grows, so will its lead generation channels and strategies. With this in mind, it’s important to identify the best tools to automate lead generation and why your team should invest in them. Lead generation falls into two key categories: Outbound lead generation: direct mail, email marketing, and cold calls.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 24, 2021

Businesses have taken their tents and found a new place called the internet. Companies have started to build a workforce that finds prospects inside four walls. Best inside sales tools. Inside sales teams are the first members who connect with prospects, understand their needs, answer their questions, and qualify them as a lead.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But no matter which path works best for your team, you can’t prospect effectively without a deep understanding of your product, a firm grasp of your ideal customer, and the specific steps needed to connect the two. These cold email templates can help you use the customer data at your fingertips to convert prospects faster.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With a daunting array of tools, an endless list of growth strategies, and constantly evolving communication channels, there’s compelling evidence that modern work is facing a crisis of disconnection. The ZI Labs team then analyzed the data to develop a combined score called the Inbound Index.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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Showpad

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

They’d replaced their steak dinners with phone calls, their site visits with emails. Our customers told us that they were looking for new ways to stand out in a remote world and engage with their prospects. Simply put, today’s B2B buyers want communication on their terms: their channel, their schedule, and their purpose.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How Sales Tools Increase Revenue. Sales tools are the technologies sales professionals use to carry out and streamline their activities so they can close more deals. Research shows that the average seller uses around six different tools. Avoid the Trap of Too Many Sales Tools. Sales Engagement Tools.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. For sellers, this makes access to prospective buyers the first chokepoint. How do you get access to your prime prospects?

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Pipeliner

JULY 23, 2021

Therefore, it’s very important to use the right tools and services for collecting leads, developed to solve such problems. This article will tell you about the best lead generation tactics and tools that will keep you afloat. By the way, you have a lot of such tools on LinkedIn alone, but first things first.

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Crunchbase

JULY 16, 2019

It’s challenging to find a quality list of prospects. You don’t want vital resources wasted on prospects that don’t end up going anywhere. In order to maximize converting prospects into new customers, you need to have a solid plan as well as a great set of sales prospecting tools. Identify emails.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 7, 2021

This article addresses ways to bring back prospects who stopped interacting and offers creative ideas on how to warm up, re-engage, and reconnect with cold leads. Discover new prospects with Crunchbase Pro – try it free. So, what are the creative ways salespeople can use to win back the attention of cold prospects?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Covid-19 and subsequent office closures forced every sales team to use virtual channels in situations they never would have considered before the pandemic: complex buying cycles requiring careful orchestration by veteran sellers. Company size has no bearing on the willingness to use virtual channels.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

CRM tools help companies nurture their leads and stay in touch with current customers to cultivate relationships. Want to learn how CRM tools can help grow your small business? This blog post is for you and will discuss the following: What are CRM tools used for? As a result, you can make decisions backed by data.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

95% of our prospecting is just wasted time, so just stop it! “Dave, I’d like to tell you about our products… ” You follow those with phone calls, that’s much more time consuming, even if you have an intelligent dialing system that only connects you to the few people that pick up the phone.

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Showpad

MAY 27, 2020

Sales development focuses on the early stages of the sales cycle, including customer research, prospecting, lead qualification and initial outreach. Just like salespeople, SDRs need tools and support to be successful. Types of sales development tools. Task management tools. Sales prospecting tools.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

We read about how email is failing, phone calls, social, and virtually every other engagement platform. We have continuing debates about “Is cold calling dead?” ” We look for new channels or methods of engagement. ” And we keep coming back to the same thing. ” “Is outbound dead?”

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Cience

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Don’t get me wrong, I do like all these channels to generate demand and leads. However, like Eric Quanstrom, CMO at CIENCE calls out almost daily: “With inbound, you get what you get, but with outbound, you get who you want. ”. But outbound is back, and the right multi-channel strategy is the ticket to accelerate and scale growth.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 7, 2022

Resource #1: Access to proven prospecting skills by getting a free chapter right from my bestselling book, Power Phone Scripts. If you want to get better selling over the phone, then start where it counts: getting better at making outbound calls. And then watch your sales go up, your confidence go up, and your income go up!

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The Pipeline

MAY 8, 2018

I do a lot of work with organizations trying to improve their prospecting, and the piece they look to from me is the telephone component of a robust prospecting routine. Most people hate voice-mail, due to a deadly combination: 80% or more calls made will go to voice-mail. A Tool and His Fool. By Tibor Shanto.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Key Considerations in Choosing the Ideal Sales Tools Software 4. Top 10 Tools to Boost Sales Productivity The Sales sector in businesses is ever-shifting with the newest trends and tactics that raise new challenges annually. To tackle these challenges, sales professionals need the right tools.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

They’ll have personalized conversations about a prospect's specific needs and why their product or service is the best-fit solution. LinkedIn as ruler of the prospect research process. LinkedIn has been dethroned as the most effective platform for prospect research. LinkedIn had this title last year.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

What is channel sales? In a channel sales model, a company sells through third partners -- affiliate partners (who get commission on each purchase), resellers, value-added providers (who typically bundle your product with their own), or another entity that doesn't work for it directly. The Definition of Channel Sales.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2021

Their sales tools are integrated effectively, coaching is readily available, and sales reps are happily using their CRM. The mandate for sales enablement is to increase the effectiveness of their go-to-market (GTM) strategy by providing coaching, training, and introducing sales enablement platforms and tools. Content management tools.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2024

I’ve seen the benefit of async video messages to close deals and build prospect relationships as both a quota-carrying seller and a sales team leader. After the initial qualification meeting, video is a great tool for keeping the conversation moving forward. My first week at Loom, I started a tradition called “Monday Musings.”

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of B2B sales interactions will occur via digital channels. By 2025 0 % of B2B sales interactions will happen via digital channels When it comes to inside sales, you may have questions like: What is inside sales? What skills and tools do reps need for success? What do these teams do?

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Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

B2B sales prospecting isn’t always as exciting and glamorous as other parts of the sales routine, as you can imagine; it’s far more behind the scenes and challenging. In fact, sales leaders agree that prospecting is the hardest part of the sales process. Find more prospects with Crunchbase Pro – try it free.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 29, 2022

I was a little offended by this, but I took his advice and channeled my energy into my next pitch, and guess what? Nothing breeds success like success, and prospects and clients can feel when you’re successful. I closed that deal, too! And that’s when I got it. Strike while the iron’s hot,” the expression is.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 22, 2020

Employing the concept of empathy by taking a step back and putting yourself in someone else’s shoes is the key to succeeding in this climate, also ensuring you and your company come across as sensitive and understanding. This will help keep you from email bounce backs and coming across as insensitive to the person you’re trying to contact.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Whether you and your team need some bite-sized instruction, a full course correction or just a bit of motivation, there’s a wide variety of YouTube sales training channels that can help you. You'll find a short description of each channel as well as a few examples of especially informative or entertaining videos from each.

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Emissary

AUGUST 16, 2022

Depending on your objectives, there are some excellent tools and services to help you get there. In celebration of the coming year, we’ve selected the 23 best sales enablement tools for revving up revenue this year and next. . . The Best Sales Enablement Tools for Accessing the Right Content at the Right Time.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s how they engage with prospects and it can make a big difference in their results. Plus, he announced a new tool Vengreso created to help sellers, business owners and sales team deploy a consistent message throughout the sales organization. The PVC Sales Methodology focuses on how to prospect , from the “pre-hello” to the “hello.”

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Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s how they engage with prospects and it can make a big difference in their results. Plus, he announced a new tool Vengreso created to help sellers, business owners and sales team deploy a consistent message throughout the sales organization. The PVC Sales Methodology focuses on how to prospect , from the “pre-hello” to the “hello.”

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Autoklose

MARCH 11, 2024

Prospecting is a high-stakes game, so many sales reps make the mistake of being too pushy in an attempt to quickly convert leads into sales. Don’t request anything from them, including an invitation to show up to your demo or a phone call. This is called the Reciprocity Principle, and it’s a powerful psychological mechanism.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition to the sales team’s efforts, certain tools are also required to achieve the main goal. In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible. Every month, there are new B2B sales automation and lead generation tools on the market. We will talk about the latter in more detail below.

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