Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? Let’s jump in.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2022

The truth behind improving your cold calling (and cold emailing) is also a larger truth about sales in general — it’s not about volume, it’s about productivity. The hard truth: “sales is a numbers game” is an outdated way of thinking. What’s the impact of bad data? Your ideal customer profile. Absolutely.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With social media, you can prospect at your fingertips — and sidestep the awkwardness of a traditional cold call. Of course, you can't afford to spend hours on social media each day, so which channels are worth your time? What is social prospecting? Let's explore the channels that prove most effective below.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Have you been cold calling your prospects and reaching nowhere? If you received approximately 5-6 cold calls in a day, how many would you actually receive? If you picked up the call, would you be willing to listen to their pitch? Did you know that it takes 8 cold call attempts to reach a prospect?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 21, 2022

I was reading a LinkedIn article on “Cold Calling… ” I’m beginning to think articles or surveys about cold calling happen when you don’t have anything else to talk about. The topic of cold calling will always raise opinions — however well or poorly informed those might be.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2022

Cold calling is the bane of plenty of sales reps' professional existence. It's a grating, uncomfortable, often awkward process — involving a whole lot of rejection from frustrated prospects. Enter cold calling software — the tools that take some strain off of cold calling reps and the managers that guide them.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Someone tried to suck me into a LinkedIn discussion on cold calling today. The article declaring cold calling dead was written by a colleague I deeply respect, and I have no disagreement with the points in her article. I’ll look at a variety of aspect of cold calling. What is cold calling?

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

You made five hundred cold calls in one day. In four hundred calls, no one answered, and in another fifty, the potential clients said a hard no. In twenty-five calls, you received maybes; in the last twenty-five calls, the potential buyers said yes. It’s just the old methods of cold calling are dead.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2020

Do cold calls work? How can you find more success with cold calling? We often discuss how to make a cold call, but rarely the next step after your cold call fails to get picked up. Most other sales development representatives could say something similar. A lot, right? Probably very few.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 11, 2023

Is your sales team struggling to have conversations with the right buyers? Better prospecting is the most direct path to increase sales conversations. Wendy Weiss takes us through the four steps to improve your sales team’s ability to schedule sales calls.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

If you’ve worked in marketing or sales over the past decade then you’ve most likely heard it said: “Cold calling is dead.” And yet, many of the most successful businesses still practice cold calling in 2020, and they won’t be stopping anytime soon. How is cold calling still viable? Warm Calling.

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SalesHandy

MAY 28, 2021

Or getting a call from a company that wants to partner up and work on a collaboration that could benefit you both. Cold calls have gotten a bad reputation — but that’s because they’ve been done the wrong way. Such sales teams don’t necessarily focus on the experience their prospects go through and ruin the process for everyone.

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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. We’ve already introduced you to amazing sales books. Gap Selling.

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Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2024

From making the first contact to nurturing a lead, sales prospecting is a delicate art. The method your sales reps use to contact the leads affects your bottom line and customer relationships significantly. After all, 43% of buyers think impression matters , and you get only one chance to make a memorable first sales impression.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Assessments Compared Data on Sales Excellence Coaching Salespeople MUST READ: Are Assessments as Evil as the Persona Movie Suggests? The Caliper vs OMG Comparison: Which Sales Candidate Assessment is More Predictive? How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?

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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. 2. Sales Hacker.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you know someone that runs a business with a sales team, or they lead the charge themselves, have them take a look at the areas below for ways they can increase their sales. Improving even one of these areas could take their sales to the next level. Sales process efficiency. as this channel has become saturated.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In order to develop an efficient sales process, every company must develop a sales prospecting strategy as a priority. The goal is to move from the status of a potential buyer to that of a customer by using different communication channels. Finding prospects through social networks has become essential for salespeople.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In order to develop an efficient sales process, every company must develop a sales prospecting strategy as a priority. The goal is to move from the status of a potential buyer to that of a customer by using different communication channels. Finding prospects through social networks has become essential for salespeople.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

Register for Back in The Black Sales TV—first episode on January 19. The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. Why am I doing a monthly Sales TV Show? And certainly not when you cold call. Always free. Think again.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Jason Bay , Chief Prospecting Officer at Blissful Prospecting , a company he built to coach B2B reps in outbound sales. Join us for a high-energy, people-focused conversation about doing a complete 180 with your outbound sales framework. powered by Sounder.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

It may seem that cold calling in sales is dead — but the numbers say otherwise. According to research conducted by the RAIN Group , 69% of all buyers surveyed have received and accepted cold calls during the last year, and 82% of them have accepted meetings with sellers. Best cold calling scripts with templates.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There have been considerable questions asked in the SaaS community as to whether or not cold calls are as valuable as they were pre-COVID. For industry leaders like Lars Nilsson of Sales Source , “ The phone is more relevant than ever before.” That’s not to say, however, that the sales landscape itself hasn’t changed.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Considering half of the deals that are forecasted to close don’t, and customer retention has decreased as seller attrition increases, sales teams are facing yet another frustrating year if something doesn’t change. Try this instead.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s a new year and time for a fresh approach to sales. That’s why I’m introducing Back in the Black , my new monthly sales TV show on the Sales Experts Channel! I’ll cover a different sales topic each month to help you get comfortable asking clients for referrals. Think of it like watching the news.

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Anne Miller

OCTOBER 23, 2020

What can you do to get a rapid response from prospects? Warm introductions are always better than cold calls. Check out LinkedIn and your internal company contacts to see who might know your prospect and request to be introduced to that person. Try one or all of these three approaches. Get a Referral. Check it out.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sales trends come and go. In this post, I’ll review some sales trends we could see fizzle out throughout the year based on findings from our 2024 State of Sales Report. 6 Sales Trends That Could Fizzle This Year 1. 6 Sales Trends That Could Fizzle This Year 1. LinkedIn as ruler of the prospect research process.

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Autoklose

MARCH 18, 2024

Having a well-versed and highly-skilled sales team is an essential ingredient when it comes to the success of your entire business. When you’re starting out, and it’s just you and maybe another salesperson, it’s not difficult to make a sales strategy, implement it, and learn from the results. Do you have a sales process in place?

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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. Ask for feedback from the prospect.".

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. The Problem with Virtual Sales Meetings. B2B sales reps have asked me that question repeatedly over the past year.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Cold calling is probably the hardest thing to do in sales, and conditions in the market post-COVID-19 haven’t made it any easier. Cold calling isn’t naturally designed to make you successful, so sales development reps and sales reps need as much help as they can get to overcome obstacles and objections.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

Sales teams struggle to get a consistent stream of qualified leads in the pipe and consistently score meetings with decision-makers. But picture a world where you’ll only talk to people who want to talk to you, get meetings with one call, and collapse your prospecting time. That’s the world of referral sales.

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John Barrows

JUNE 20, 2018

Phone as a channel isn’t going anywhere. The validity of the phrase “cold calling is dead” may be debatable in terms of making 100 dials with no information per day versus calling 20-40 targetted accounts and having a first touch by email or social, but phone as a channel is not dead.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why the sudden interest in referral sales? 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. Sales leaders have an ongoing challenge to get more qualified leads in the pipe, but seller access has evaporated.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. What is Prospecting?

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