Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The email should acknowledge your prospect’s interest and offer them an opportunity to take the next step. This not only allows you to filter your qualified leads ; it also increases the likelihood that your prospect will show up to the call. Besides, it’s now in their calendar too.).

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Sales Call Tips. Start Sales Calls with a Bang. In this post, I’ve gathered my best key takeaways and tactics for running successful sales calls, based on my 10+ years of sales experience. Start all sales calls with a bang. Always start your sales calls in style. That kicks most sales calls off on the right foot.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 28, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Will You Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling? He provides our guest post, ‘Will You Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling?’ Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling Living Our Calling Today, I am living out my calling.

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Close.io

JANUARY 6, 2020

There’s a point in most sales processes where you’ve connected with your prospect, and you need to give them a demo, a call back, or the big closing call. Keeping track of those meetings can be a pain—did the lead reschedule, who attended, and what happened next? What is Meeting Sync? Why we built Meeting Sync.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

And I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot more to this piece of contact information than meets the eye. Well, this story starts when I had a great opportunity at a young age to work for a third-generation entrepreneur who taught me the way to really sell business to business over the phone. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 15, 2024

That means there are few experienced recession-proof salespeople, but there are plenty who didn’t figure out how to succeed at recessionary selling back then. They make trades, call up talent from their minor league team, move people around, and take a “next man up” philosophy. What are the twelve biggest challenges?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

And I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot more to this piece of contact information than meets the eye. Well, this story starts when I had a great opportunity at a young age to work for a third-generation entrepreneur who taught me the way to really sell business to business over the phone. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker. There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. If you don’t get the meeting, Part Two doesn’t matter.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Whether you’re a Spiff blog regular or a first-time visitor, we’re thrilled to have you here for our latest installment of our Meet the Team series. This series gives you the chance to meet the faces behind Spiff—the dedicated individuals who work tirelessly to shape our product and company. Welcome, readers!

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Some things in sales can be called by various names without much consequence, the underlying subject being very much the same, prospect – potential buyer, information gathering – discovery, and many others; it comes down to words not actions or outcomes.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 25, 2021

The email should acknowledge your prospect’s interest and offer them an opportunity to take the next step. This not only allows you to filter your qualified leads; it also increases the likelihood that your prospect will show up to the call. Besides, it’s now in their calendar too.)

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

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. The buyers had no idea why they were meeting, and the salesperson didn’t ask enough discovery questions to offer tailored solutions.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 25, 2021

But meetings booked were low, and the team was drowning in spreadsheets. We increased the average number of qualified opportunities per SDR by 92% that year. We started getting emails like these: Best of all, our reps got out of the spreadsheets and back to what they do best: selling! It was time to call in the experts.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

This eliminates toggling back and forth between your two most valuable platforms for the information you need. That means your sales reps can: Automate sales emails Streamline call lineups Ensure that follow-ups happen on time Create multi-touch outbound campaigns. They can then target those contacts for expansion opportunities.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Momentary panic can spell the end of a call, meeting or opportunity. This is exactly what salespeople go through when a prospect pushes back, objects, displays lack of interest, or attempts to end the call. It could even spell the end of that opportunity.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2022

COLD CALLING. . Cold calling never works. That’s a true statement IF you don’t listen to what the data tells you about cold calling. The Gong Revenue Intelligence platform captures millions of customer data points (anonymized, of course) from phone calls to web conference meetings to emails. Dinosaurs: Dead.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

You and your team have a one to two-day meeting with global executives. Global leadership goes back and forth with country management. You are asked for stretched sales numbers, and fewer programs than you pitched for, and you go back to the drawing board to make revisions. I call it Strategy Execution (SE) planning.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan More and more connections, meetings and potential new business are being scheduled as a result of the use of social media. They are very different from the leads of yesteryear; bingo cards from magazines, call-ins, and brochure requests. That''s why people say that cold calls don''t work.

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 21, 2022

Like the proof behind the data — we call it the primary source — for different research or information that you’re sharing. They won’t use exclamation marks but will include details and specifics, and they will expect that back from you as well. Let’s look at the key descriptors for this buyer Tribe. A need for completeness.

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The better your sales process, the more qualified opportunities in your team's pipeline. For effectively managing a pipeline, we creating this 4-step opportunity qualification template. Each opportunity logged by your sales team will enter into any one of the four stages before becoming an active client and a closed deal.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2012

Your Monday morning sales meeting needs to set the tone for the week, the successes, challenges and activity required to move prospects forward between now and Friday, thus making the week contribute to a successful quarter. The meeting should last no longer than the equivalent of 5 minutes for each rep on your team, really 5 minutes.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

This eliminates toggling back and forth between your two most valuable platforms for the information you need. Monitor your engagement score, opportunity health score, and activity velocity graph. They can then target those contacts for expansion opportunities. For instance, a sales rep is looking at an account in Salesforce.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2021

Vacations over, back to work, finishing the year and setting the table for next year. While this year is no different, there is greater anticipation in light of vaccine and people’s back to work attitude. What follows are five things you can do any time in any year, but given the opportunities, they are crucial this year.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One day you might have to explain to your children that companies once had sales meetings in person, in a room with the lights dimmed and something called a PowerPoint presentation. (If Now we all use Zoom for our meetings. And this is why your sales meetings suck. And the numbers back it up. Not so fast.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They've fallen on hard times professionally and bounced back. If you‘re stagnant for too long, you’re going to let opportunities pass you by. I want to see a candidate who isn‘t going to wait a day to call back a client who says they’re interested in partnering. There‘s a consistent ebb and flow to sales.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Welcome back to our Meet the Team series! So, without further ado, let’s meet the team! So, without further ado, let’s meet the team! He appreciates the opportunity to use his skills and knowledge to help a company grow, and to truly make a difference. Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Welcome, or in some cases, welcome back to our meet the team series. Without further ado let’s jump into the latest edition and meet some of our favorite Spiffers: Rachel Cravit, Marketing Content Writer. He loves the outdoor opportunities the state affords him. Another installment of Meet the Team in the books.

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SalesLoft

JULY 10, 2017

Unfortunately, when it comes to scheduling your first meeting with a prospect, no shows can and will happen. Your time is probably dominated by meetings and appointments. Interestingly enough, time of day and day of the week factor directly into successful discovery call connections. Fridays are the Worst (for Scheduled Calls).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One of these facets is being ultra prepared for customer meetings. . The Importance of the Meeting. In a deal cycle, each meeting with a prospective buyer is a milestone activity, and a successful one propels the opportunity forward. . The meeting is your chance for a live “at bat” with the customer.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 15, 2022

When it didn’t come back on, my thoughts shifted to the inconvenience and time it would take to fix it. When I got back to my office, I reached the I.T. Later that night, after I had calmed down, I processed the experience—from my initial frustration and stress, my anxiousness at Best Buy, my harried calls to the I.T.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 3, 2020

Now that all sales calls are being done remotely, it appears that sales coaching has gone into lockdown as well. Assuming your salespeople are selling virtually, nothing is stopping you from joining them on a sales call or multiple sales calls. Management cadence is a fancy word for regularly scheduled review meetings.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 8, 2019

Two main reasons exist as to why you may be losing opportunities in your sales funnel: The lack of timely follow-up. Not remembering you are to check back in with your prospective client. We were instructed to knock on, at a minimum, fifty doors per day to meet the averages. Why is ‘meet the averages’ a goal?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

How many meetings do you have today? spend five or more hours in meetings per week. Whether you're meeting with prospects, clients, or colleagues finding a time to meet can be a challenge, especially when everyone's calendars are equally as busy. Meeting Tips. Make sure the value of the meeting is clear.

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 9, 2020

Depending on the group you observe, you will find reps that start a cold call with the question, “Did I catch you at a bad time?”. There is an old bit of wisdom that if you are with a person that speaks poorly about someone behind their back, that person will likely do the same. Sales Call Planner Guide. Better Approaches.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Organizing meetings, making phone calls, sending emails, and attending conferences — a lot goes into relationship-building, no matter your industry. So, with that data collected in mind, we've compiled some popular follow-up email subject lines to use after your next networking event, meeting, or conference.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 11, 2024

Getting comfortable and confident recording async videos is one of the most impactful soft skills I recommend a new seller develop — and recording practice videos (then replaying them back and looking at the transcripts to see if you’re relying on filler words or meandering too much) is a great way to improve your pitch.

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Openview

MARCH 7, 2019

After a sales meeting, do you ever experience a prospect ‘going dark’ on you? Everything felt like it should have gone great – the prospect seemed interested in the meeting, they asked the right questions, your sales pitch was stellar. The Pre-Call. During this pre-call, ask: Who will be part of the sales meeting?

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