Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

I watched a sales rep making cold calls the other day. He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. What was missing was the common currency of human interaction to set up the call.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 29, 2024

I hope you’re not making this common mistake when following up on an email you sent: “I’m just calling to see if you got the email I sent you?” While this may sound like a reasonable way to follow up after sending an email, do you see how you’re providing your prospect with the perfect stall? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 19, 2024

Like this: “I’m sure you do, and that’s why I’m calling you today. I know it makes sense to have several vendors you can check pricing and availability with, and having another supplier in your back pocket is only going to help you, right?” [Get Now ask questions, try to engage, and take your prospect as far as they’ll let you!

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I’ve been selling with PandaDoc since 2017, and in my journey from SMB to enterprise AE , I’ve learned solution selling like the back of my hand. A whopping 50% of your prospects may not be a good fit for the product/service you sell. Think of the times a prospect has needs which extend beyond the scope of your off-the-shelf products.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 7, 2024

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

What’s the number one blow off prospects use these days? Not only is it hard to get prospects back on the phone, when you do, you usually lead off with the ineffective opening line of: “Did you have a chance to review that email I sent you?” And then when a prospect blows you off with, “Can you email that to me?”

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 12, 2022

Congrats to those companies & individuals who sent in their prospecting scripts for review. Usually, they asked it this way: Gatekeeper: “Thank you for calling the Johnson company.”. Here is a better way: Gatekeeper: “Thank you for calling the Johnson company.”. Rep: “Hi, I need a little bit of help please…”.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2019

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. Living it is exactly what prospects are doing when our call interrupts. Let’s Start Right. Find Yours.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 7, 2020

I listen to a lot of calls each week that my clients send me. This week, I listened to a closing call from one of their reps, and here is how the prospect opened the call: Prospect: “Let me just tell you upfront that we’re looking at a lot of different options right now of which yours is just one…”.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now comes the hard part — the cold call. Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. And If you haven’t tried out cold calling scripts yet, now’s the time. Reason for Calling.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2023

To follow up on the blog post from two weeks ago (about the one quick fix to get your VMs returned ), here is the second quick fix: Stop trying to trick your prospect! Call me back as soon as you can…” just reeks of a tricky salesperson calling. So do your prospects. Search my blog if you missed them.) Believe me.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Because of this, it fools many sales reps who think that perhaps after a week or two the prospect might actually buy. Questioning this objection is much better than saying, “Okay, when should I call you back,” which is what most sales reps say. But they rarely do. That’s the only way to win a sale. appeared first on Mr.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The reason this is such a common objection is because your prospects have figured out it’s the best way to get sales reps to drop their price! Then remain completely quiet and let your prospect tell you what the REAL objection is!] In this case, “Your Price is Too High.” And most do! Top performing reps, however, know better.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 6, 2020

What’s the biggest mistake sales reps make with prospecting or cold calling? They call with what a client of mine once called, “commission breath.”. Read them, compare them to how you make calls, and then refrain from making these mistakes in the future. Your prospecting will go a lot better if you do!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

Have you ever interviewed for a job you really want, thought your interview went well, and then didn’t get called back for it? What this tells the hiring manager is that you’re likely to “talk past the close” when on the phone with a prospect! Mistake Number Two: Talking past the close. Too many sales reps like to talk.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2023

Tired of leaving tons of voicemails and not hearing back from anyone? Incorporate these proven techniques and give yourself the best chance of hearing back from prospects: #1: Use the “I need a little help, please…” technique. 2: Next, make sure and let them know you’ll be brief when they call you back. . #2:

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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. The saying I heard that I loved was this: “Learn to talk to yourself, rather than listen to yourself.” ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

What’s your mindset around follow-up efforts for reconnecting with prospects who have stopped responding? Shift Your Mindset to Give THEM What They Need Neither of those mindsets serve you or your prospective clients well. Since not all follow-ups are actual calls , let’s dub this a “courtesy connection” instead.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Can you call me back at (phone number)? This is one of the oldest poor sales techniques in the world, and it just SCREAMS: I’m cold calling and trying to trick you into calling me back! Here’s what’s better: First, you have to let the caller know what company you’re calling from and the reason for the call.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 18, 2023

Establishing rapport with a prospect in the very beginning is perhaps the most important first step to earning the right to have a conversation that might eventually lead to a sale. Get it wrong, and that could mean the end of your call—and your chance to make a sale. if you haven’t even introduced yourself! Then… BE BRIEF!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Sales Call Tips. Start Sales Calls with a Bang. But because selling is a two-way interaction, the science behind sales also covers the other party in the engagement: prospects, leads, or customers, depending on the stage in the sales process at which they are being engaged. Start all sales calls with a bang.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 11, 2023

“The leads are trash, and I actually agree with some of my prospect’s objections!” “I Should I go back to school?” While managers want you to jump on the next call, go from a negative experience and be positive again and “smile and dial,” you know how hard that is. Just accept it and get back to neutral. And on and on.

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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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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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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 6, 2021

Rookie mistake: You’ve got several products or services you can offer a prospect, and you start by offering the first, or main one, then hear an opening for another one so pivot to that one, and describe another—and then another. Let me think about these and get back with you.”. Stalled sale. Sound familiar? At that time, load them up!

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How good are you at requalify existing accounts, or prospects you haven’t spoken with in a while? And that means that just because a prospect or client was in charge of a certain function last month or 6 months ago, it doesn’t mean they are in charge of it today. And why would you even want to do this? And so on…. Who Should Attend?

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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

APRIL 23, 2021

First, remember: Most objections are smokescreens hiding the real reason a prospect isn’t moving forward. Here’s one way I have successfully dealt with this and gotten the prospect to reveal what was really holding them back. And then hit MUTE and listen to what your prospect reveals. They like a different solution.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 4, 2023

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2023

The other was a vague message from someone named, “Ty” who just said, “Hey Mike this is Ty; call me back when you can. “ Now here’s the problem: They both left their phone numbers so quickly that I had to listen back to the message four times—all the way to the end, by the way—before I was able to write down their whole number.

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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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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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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2023

.” –William Durant “All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say ‘No’ and said ‘Yes’ ” — Moss Hart “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day?

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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. Adopt the word “Oh?”

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 22, 2019

Whether it’s nervousness, fear, inexperience, or just the conviction that if they stop talking the prospect will say “Not interested” and hang up, it doesn’t matter. If you listen to calls from your sales reps, you’ll find that they simply talk past the close. They talk over their prospects. And then they talk some more….

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 24, 2023

A few years back, my wife and I were on vacation in Venice, Italy, and we were having trouble navigating our way back to St. I still think back to that interaction, and it reminds me of how important it is to greet and treat others the way I’d like to be treated. Mark’s Square. Abruptly, I asked, “Where is St.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 9, 2023

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