No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2021

Here’s what you might have missed this year from No More Cold Calling. Their clients weren’t returning calls, and budgets were constricted or put on hold. Even so, emails and cold calls aren’t going to help your business recover. Or are you taking a new, fresh, and measurable approach to prospecting?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 1. Jeb Blount (Sales Gravy).

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. Not a cold calling stranger or someone pitching them on LinkedIn. Are your buyers clamoring to talk to you? My phone rang off the hook the last half of 2020. Why the sudden interest in referral sales? What’s old is new again.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. This article covers fifteen top cold calling books, divided into four categories.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. Inside sales teams leverage technology to connect and engage with prospects.

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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. Why the change? LinkedIn had this title last year.

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SBI Growth

JULY 11, 2013

Face-to-face sales interactions are typically viewed as the most valuable activity by Sales Leaders. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. Today, getting in the door is more difficult than executing face-to-face sales calls. Both are difficult.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 19, 2019

Cold calling is still a key strategy for successful sales teams. Here’s the proof: one survey by DiscoverOrg found that 55% of high growth companies (those with at least 40% growth over the last three years) identified cold calling as one of their key strategies. Can I have 20 seconds to tell you why I’m calling?”

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Increase Sales

JUNE 17, 2017

One of my most favorite people, Michael Sleppin (who is now retired) saw strangers as a sales prospecting opportunity. Last night when dining out, an older woman thought I had said something. ” Sales prospecting requires salespeople to continually meet new people. Today sales prospecting has many channels.

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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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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Establishing a continuous flow of quality leads is a common challenge faced by small- and large-scale logistics companies. Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. Lead evaluation: not every lead is worth pursuing.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This week's Sales Brief will equip you to accelerate your sales productivity , inspire you to pick up the phone and start cold calling , and prep you to ace that next product demo. Acquisition costs have skyrocketed due to limited channels, increased competition, and disappearing data tailwinds. Cold calling is dead.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

We’ve all made this prospecting mistake: The customer told us her challenges. We jumped ahead to the easy part of prospecting—offering solutions—and didn’t take time to demonstrate the impact our solutions could make on the client’s business. The Problem with Your Prospecting. How does that affect your distribution channel?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. So, if you’re in need of some new sales motivation , keep reading.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 22, 2020

Economic uncertainty makes it even more challenging for salespeople to hit their quotas, and requires customer-facing teams to promptly and effectively respond to the needs of their customer base. Before reaching out to a prospect or customer, be sure you have an understanding of how COVID-19 may be impacting their business. .

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Sales success begins with effective prospecting. Through successful prospecting, you can fill your pipeline with lucrative sales opportunities. What is prospecting in sales? What is prospecting in sales? Prospecting is the process of initiating and finding new opportunities. Do not just randomly start prospecting.

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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. ” “Is outbound dead?” Is it trade shows (so old school but effective)?

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones. Top challenges for remote sales teams Remote sales teams have to face several unique challenges compared to in-person teams. That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving.

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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. The less competition for you, the better, right?

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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. Nothing breeds success like success, and prospects and clients can feel when you’re successful.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 28, 2012

Face to Face in a Sales 2.0 I invited Todd to contribute his perspective in this guest blog: “When’s the last time you were sitting around, just wishing a sales rep you didn’t know would call, email, or drop by? Not even the salespeople who make cold calls like receiving them. conference. Can’t remember?

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 20, 2018

Author: Ryan Myers We’ve all been caught in a tricky text thread, the kind where you absentmindedly respond to a friend’s question with a simple “OK” and then suddenly find yourself getting the cold shoulder. If only you’d had that conversation face-to-face! Avoiding Engagement Missteps. Don’t be a passenger; be the driver.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2013

If you are a regular at this blog, you know that I am big proponent and supporter of cold calling. I think clod calling is a necessary part of a multipronged approach for engaging with potential buyers you have not have not spoken to before, or have a means of generating a referral to. I don’t fall into a camp.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 1, 2020

Cold Calling Is Dead : Why not start with the biggest lie in sales, told only by those with a “social selling” offering to sell? The idea that cold calling doesn’t work began its spread across the internet during the birth of the social channels. Here are eight sales myths that destroy growth.

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Close.io

JANUARY 15, 2020

Let's face it: email can sometimes result in a slow response. Yet, it’s key to building strong relationships with prospects and eventually turning those relationships into signed deals. The best sales professionals reject the idea of being a one trick pony and relying JUST on email or just on cold calling. Specifically….

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

Remember, prospecting is all about people. And technology will eliminate the time-consuming, face-to-face aspect of communication. This was the generation of so-called “latch-key” kids. You’ve heard it: Television will kill radio. Video killed the radio star. B2B selling is all about relationships.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There are various stakeholders, priorities, markets, and channels to align, and the right mix for your business may not always be clear. There’s no shortage of valuable information about prospects and customers — as long as you know how to access and apply it. What is a Sales Strategy? What makes a sales strategy effective?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. And to make it worse, everyone and their start-up cousin is calling them, which makes it tremendously difficult to stand out. And to make it worse, everyone and their start-up cousin is calling them, which makes it tremendously difficult to stand out.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2022

You pick up the phone and no one is answering your calls. After countless attempts to connect with prospects and land a meeting to no avail, you’ve hit a wall. When a sales slump hits and your quota is on the line, the first thing you want to do is jump on the phones and contact every prospect and lead you know.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re asking strangers on social media for referrals, you’re like the guy at a networking event who shoves his card in people’s face and asks for theirs in return. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The return to normal continues along its hybrid evolution — meaning revenue leaders face challenges managing scattered teams and establishing processes in this new landscape. Consider these three statistics from Zippia : 74% of US companies currently use or will implement a hybrid work model. Some people don’t at all.

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Salesmate

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Sales hack 1 – Hit the iron when it’s hot- Reach out to the prospects at the right time. When disturbing a prospect with wrongly time communication, you decrease the chances of moving the deal ahead in the sales pipeline. So, be very careful while choosing a time for making a cold call or sending a follow-up email.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders. Let’s face it: Salespeople need all of the pep talks they can get. Kyle Porter. The death of email templates is accelerating.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If you’re on a sales team, chances are you’re all too familiar with call blitzes. That’s when a sales team dedicates a specific amount of time to call as many prospects and/or customers as possible with the goal of booking as many meetings as possible. and you’ll probably find prospects in that channel.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Prospects do not want to be sold to. Others are caught in the constant grind of achieving quota and cannot fathom trying to implement a new sales plan. And while there are others who understand the benefits of a modern sales approach, they are unable to secure executive buy-in, and therefore struggle to enforce the techniques with their team.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even JK Rowling faced rejections, but she didn’t give up. Did you know that even IBM faced a significant downfall in the late 90s? Just because you’ve faced failure in the path that doesn’t mean you can’t succeed in the future. Sales tactics to prospect, nurture, and close deals effectively. “ Do not make this mistake.

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