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

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

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As technology continues to accelerate the pace of advances, other elements of prospecting are not keeping up. One clear example is the role of the telephone in prospecting success. They need to adopt a new view of the role of the telephone in the age of asynchronous prospecting. So we are down to incoming calls.

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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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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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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

This uptick in the need for AEs to self-source deals has likely been driven by economics, the need to “do more with less”, but is I trend that may continue as AI tools free up AEs from admin tasks. Given this reality they jump straight into cold calling people that don’t know them at all. It’s time for the dreaded cold call!

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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

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

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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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2024

It was all going according to plan — we had a great initial call, flew to Los Angeles to demo the product, and nailed it. I like to call this “ghosting” — when a sales process is chugging along smoothly with a client, you feel positive that the deal will close, and then your prospect disappears without a trace. Boom — ghosted.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling.

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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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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Because I wanted to focus on a specific question, I glossed over the question I am sure many had as I set out a scenario, specifically when we ask sellers: “Who is your best prospect?”. What I found that unless you get a uniform answer to that question, you can bet that they don’t even know what a prospect is.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What I will offer up here, and in a webinar, this afternoon, are specific steps you can choose to implement and see an immediate difference in your prospecting calls. The number one barrier to prospecting success is our willingness to put a well-thought-out plan into practice or action. Real World Cold Calling Success.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

People are quick to point out the number of new sales tools created by advances in technology; however, all of this is just noise. This is where prospecting has to come in. I want you to be successful, so my last 10 truths are to help you have success in your prospecting. Truths 11-20: Your Prospecting Plan.

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Crunchbase

MAY 22, 2023

Sales prospecting is an integral part of the sales process. When done manually, it can be time-consuming and demand substantial effort — but automated sales prospecting can help. Automated sales prospecting tools, also known as sales automation software , streamline your workflow and allow you to spend more time selling.

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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

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

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

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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Partners in Excellence

MAY 21, 2022

The phone rang, I absently picked it up, thinking it was another call that was scheduled about 10 minutes later. It ended up being the wrong call, it was a prospecting call, “Dave, this is Chris from…… We missed you at Dreamforce and wanted to talk about how you can leverage our tool at your company.”

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. There is no mistaking a rejection on the phone, but with those other softer tools, you can tell yourself they’re just ignoring you, maybe next time. By Tibor Shanto. A Rose By Any Other Name.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 26, 2018

is telling you to go easy on the tools you use for selling but that’s the case. The common problem is that the common tools we’ve developed to make us more productive at work often end up making us less productive. The four most used tools in social selling can also be some of the biggest time wasters. But it’s addictive.

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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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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

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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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In the past I, have highlighted how many sellers are limiting if not sabotaging their opportunities while telephone prospecting. This would work great if a large segment of the market had needs they were willing to act on, but the reality is that most potential prospects do not. Rejection in prospecting is a result of two factors.

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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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The Pipeline

JANUARY 5, 2017

No one says telephone prospecting is easy, which is why I am always puzzled as to why many sales people make it even more difficult than it already is. Over 90% of sales conversations are started or initiated by the seller, this goes to 100% of telephone prospecting calls, especially cold calls.

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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

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

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

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

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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The Pipeline

JULY 6, 2017

So rather than following the 80% of your peers who go into summer mode, I instead invite you to use the summer to improve your prospecting skills so can remain in that 20% that drives the economy, the 80% is piggybacking on. Every Thursday in July and August, the posts in the Pipeline will focus on a specific element in Proactive Prospecting.

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