No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

I wrote that 15 years ago in my first book, NO MORE COLD CALLING: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust. The post Hey Sales Manager, Get Your Head Out of That Spreadsheet appeared first on No More Cold Calling. Poor leadership will cost you $3.5 million per sales manager.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. Spend more time with customers and less time prospecting. Convert prospects into clients at least 50 percent of the time (Most clients report a conversion rate of more than 70 percent.). Reduce the time it takes to close deals.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. And certainly not when you cold call. Newsflash: Most CEOs do not respond to cold calls or emails, and neither do their gatekeepers. Always free. Always fabulous!

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

7 Cold Calling Tips for Sales Success in 2019. Many people in business circles believe cold calls have become ineffective. It’s true that the effectiveness of cold calls is lagging behind other forms of marketing. It may be the case that cold calls rely on the person behind the phone too much.

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The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

3 Ways To Reduce Friction In A Cold Call – Sales eXchange – 104. Stored in Attitude , Cold calling , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , execution. 3. Project confidence, it is infectious – One of the reasons sales people get rejected on cold calls is because they ask for it. February 2008.

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

On April 13, 2017, I attended the #OutBound conference in Atlanta, GA. The entire day was spent talking about prospecting. The entire day was spent talking about prospecting. One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 No one defaults to prospecting.”.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. The Evolution of Cold Calling.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Craig Rosenberg of Focus.com has posed an interesting question: “Isn’t sending an unsolicited email to someone the same thing as cold-calling them?” There’s an interesting discussion with thoughtful responses from people I respect. Conference in San Francisco last week. I prospect vigorously.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

In my last post I was talking about how you can greatly increase your prospecting odds by leveraging people you know for an introduction. In this post I am going to talk about greatly increasing your prospecting odds without an introduction. I am also going to give you a template you can copy to make this happen. Birds of a feather.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 20, 2011

hile cold calling or warm calling, setting appointments or selling, every word out of your mouth on the telephone is critical. While you never want to try to fool the prospect into thinking that they know you if they do not, there are ways to introduce yourself with less abrupt “sting.”. Hi Mrs. Prospect!

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I miss in-person meetings, lunches, and conferences. Without it, your prospects figure you’re not interested, and they tune out. It’s also my only way to make eye contact with many clients and prospects, so I’ve learned to live with it. Worse, some applications don’t allow a green screen. A total pain, if you ask me.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. The Evolution of Cold Calling.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2020

So, pick up the damn phone and have conversations with your clients and prospects—not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. In fact, they didn’t even need to talk to prospects, because they had great tech tools. No More Cold Calling is my legacy.”. The phone works.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 26, 2017

A colleague of mine in Europe complained to me that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the decision-makers he needed to meet. But the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. It’s true in prospecting, and it’s true in team-building—especially today as sales teams are increasingly dispersed.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Find out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling in recent months. In the meantime, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this quarter: I Was Neglecting My Customer Relationships. I miss in-person meetings, lunches, and conferences. A total pain, if you ask me.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

As sales leaders, I can assure you that the challenges you are facing today with cold calling reluctance from members of your sales team is only going to get worse as time goes on unless you have a proactive plan. Please note that I believe in having a well-balanced prospecting strategy. It’s career suicide.”. This is critical.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2014

With referral selling, the hard part is over before you ever speak to prospects. asked Jim, my prospect. At this point, my prospect hadn’t met me or read my book, and hadn’t seen anything other than my website. You don’t have to sell yourself to referred prospects; someone else has already done that for you.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2013

In the piece there was a statistic attributed to the Harvard Business Review that stated: “Harvard Business Review: 90% of C-level executives say that they never respond to cold calls or email blasts”. Now I can’t speak for the e-mail blast part, but as for the responding to cold calls part – “Horse manure!

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2016

I accepted a LinkedIn invitation from someone I didn’t know, sent a personal response to greet my new connection, and immediately received a cold calling message from someone looking only for lead generation: I’d love to talk and hear about you, what’s happening in your business and how you think I can contribute to your success.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

And certainly not when you cold call. Newsflash: Most of CEOs do not respond to cold calls or emails, and neither do their gatekeepers. One assistant told me many cold callers lie and tell her the CEO asked them to reach out. Cold calling from a script, or even winging a cold call, doesn’t cut it.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 2, 2019

This phenomenon was reinforced for me when I conducted a roundtable at the Watermark Conference for Women. And another, “I think I’ve told you before that I have a mild-to-moderate case of call reluctance. So, business leaders defer to anything but asking for referrals and spend money on marketing campaigns and cold calling. (Or

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 31, 2019

These days, sales conversations are becoming even more buyer-focused, which means sales reps have to get creative when it comes to prospecting. Everyone is scrambling to develop their own hacks, techniques, and processes for prospecting in order to move prospects through the sales funnel and turn them into customers.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Sales people have to prospect! I''m confused because it appears that today''s sales people either don''t prospect, don''t generate their own leads, or don''t do either one very well. I grew up in a sales world where, if you called yourself a sales person, you prospected for leads. Trouble shooting: Hire hunters.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 3, 2018

Stats like this suggest that buyers don’t really need salespeople anymore—that we should just wait around for prospects to do their research and then call us when they’re ready to buy. They know how to prospect for sales, and it’s not sitting back and waiting for marketing to send them leads. That’s how to prospect for sales.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2023

Sales prospecting can be a daunting task — with so many different methods and tools to use, it’s sometimes overwhelming to know where to start. What is sales prospecting? Sales prospecting is the process of identifying potential customers (known as prospects) and reaching out to them in order to convert them into paying customers.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2023

Sales prospecting can be a daunting task — with so many different methods and tools to use, it’s sometimes overwhelming to know where to start. What is sales prospecting? Sales prospecting is the process of identifying potential customers (known as prospects) and reaching out to them in order to convert them into paying customers.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Said the Cold Call To The Socialite. Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 8, 2019

The prospect trusts them, and that trust is transferred to you. Have amazing intuition and trust it (They’re not afraid to walk away if a prospect is not a fit or if they identify a PITA client.). They host business networking events for women at their annual Rainmaker conference. The same is true when someone refers you.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2018

More than 10 years ago, a marketing agency told me most sellers cave on price before prospects even ask for a discount. Referred prospects already trust and respect you—based on the word of the trusted friend or colleague who made the introduction—so there is no negotiation. appeared first on No More Cold Calling.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 7, 2018

I’ve just returned from three conferences, and the #1 challenge I heard sales pros repeat again and again was how to get leads in the pipe. When they get introductions from people their prospects know and trust, they walk straight into meetings with your ideal clients. Because what you’re already doing isn’t working. That’s a fact.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 28, 2012

conference. Not even the salespeople who make cold calls like receiving them. There’s plenty of research to support the opinion that cold calling is dead. More than 92% of execs ignore cold call and email meeting requests. As Trish Bertuzzi says, it’s the cold that’s dead —not the calling.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Cold calling.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2022

Suddenly, cold calling — one of the most challenging parts of sales — got tougher. In today’s environment, it’s getting harder to connect with prospects on a cold call. Even with lower connection rates, cold calling remains essential: 41% of salespeople say the phone is still their most effective tool.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. Cold calling. On-Line Conference.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Many companies and organizations have entire teams dedicated to finding new business prospects. At events and conferences, some sales professionals collect as much contact information as possible: the more names, titles, and companies they’ve logged, the better. How to prospect at tradeshows with sales intelligence.

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