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8 of the Most Difficult Types of Prospects (& How to Deal With Them), According to Real Sales Leaders

Hubspot Sales

Have an honest conversation about their intentions and let them know you need to see progress before providing more details. Instead, do your best to shift the conversation toward value. It would also help to offer a little extra reassurance or incentives to nudge them toward a decision.”

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Managing for peak performance in a remote worker world

Sales and Marketing Management

Many businesses are deploying technology such as Donut, a program that helps remote co-workers connect serendipitously using Slack or other communication platforms, to replace the chance meetings and water cooler conversations that occur in the office. Companies are also using Tango cards as incentives to complete training.

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How to Plan a Virtual Event That Generates Leads in 4 Easy Steps

Sales Hacker

The cancellation of industry events from the COVID-19 crisis poses a real problem to salespeople who rely on events-based marketing. Conferences and workshops are obviously being canceled, and the associated costs are significant. In the tech sector alone, the direct losses from the cancellation of just 10 events are more than $1.1

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7 Key Elements of a High-Converting Sales Funnel

Sales Hacker

As you learn more about your ideal client, you can optimize your sales funnel to achieve higher conversion rates. Conversely, the websites displayed on the second and third pages get only 5.5% Use a conversational tone and provide educational content that resonates with your audience. Lead conversion strategies.

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3 Kickass Live Chat Campaigns You Can Create to Drive More Sales

Sales Hacker

It then hands off the conversations to their human counterparts. Starts 174% more conversations than social media. But consumer messaging apps go a step further — live chat interactions can increase your conversation rate by as much as 45%. Here’s how it works…. The chatbot serves as a proxy human live chat agent.

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Do you know your employee’s lifetime value?

OpenSymmetry

HAVE YOU EVER tried to cancel your mobile phone contract but have ended up finishing your call to the contact centre with not just an upgrade to show for it, but some money off your tariff and the promise of further discounts down the line? This means the operator has pricing packages and incentives made available to try to keep you.

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How to Handle Sales Rejection: 15 Great Tips to Recover Fast

LeadFuze

From prospects who cancel all their appointments last minute to secretaries who won’t let us get any time on the phone with the decision-makers. To divert or reframe the conversation, they construct words, phrases, and solutions. Sales professionals eat rejection every day! Does this mean no more making sale over the phone,again?

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