Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In a perfect world, sales professionals would spend most of their time talking with eager prospects who’ve done the homework, seen the marketing campaign, and asked for a meeting. In the real world, cold outreach is still a necessity — even the strongest business relationships have to start somewhere. Let’s see how. Is that fair?

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 3, 2024

The modern sales trends indicate, small business owners dismiss most sales calls as tone-deaf to their unique local challenges. Such cold calls not only fail at balancing customer demand with market competition but also promise a daily dose of instant annoyance. Probe public mentions to learn timely hot buttons.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

Have you ever met a salesperson who enjoyed cold calling? How about a buyer who enjoyed receiving cold calls? Not only is cold calling tortuous for everyone involved, it’s one of the reasons that only 54.3 Cold calling doesn’t address the top two challenges that sales teams face.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. We offer solutions to discover, organize, and implement priceless insights for your cold calling process. How to Improve Cold Calls Using Sales Intelligence.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. But before I give you the keys to the castle, let's learn more about cold calling and look at a typical cold call. (If What is a cold call? What is the purpose of cold calling?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

So you’ve got yourself a list of new leads to turn into possible customers. Now comes the hard part — the cold call. Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

I don’t understand why it is acceptable for a process like cold calling (now often started via email) to work one in a hundred times–or in email efforts one in a thousand times. This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Do you know how you help?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Yet, cold calling is still a key component of B2B sales. In fact, 78% of decision-makers polled have taken an appointment or attended an event that came from a cold call ( source ). The Problem with B2B Cold Calling. 63% of salespeople say cold calling is what they dislike most about their jobs ( source ).

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2019

Here’s what you might have missed this month from No More Cold Calling. I dreaded buying another car because of the pushy, in-your-face car salespeople, who are just like B2B sales reps cold calling you. A week later, we got the same call about missing an appointment we never had. What about “warm calls”?

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Add cold calling to your sales outreach strategy. Reports show that cold calling is still among the top five outreach methods in terms of effectiveness. You can get up to 82% of buyers to accept a meeting by starting a series of communication with sales cold calls. What is Cold Calling?

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 16, 2020

Which side are you on in the email prospecting vs cold calling argument? Why a Phone Call Can Sometimes be More Effective. When to Use Email Prospecting. When to Use Cold Calling. When to Use Cold Calling. Email Prospecting vs Cold Calling: The Final Verdict.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes, even the words ‘cold call’ can send shivers down salespeople’s’ spines. But, if it’s done in the correct way with the correct prospects, making a call to a prospect can be one of the best ways to build you sales confidence, increase your pipeline and open up sales opportunities. That brings us onto….

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Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s not beat around the bush: nobody likes getting cold calls. Research from our 2023 State of Sales Productivity Report found that during a call, buyers asked an average of 18 questions, a significant increase from 13 questions in the 2022 report. First things first: Is cold calling legal?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2017

Here’s how to cure your prospecting problem. Let’s set the record straight: Most everyone on your sales team has call reluctance—whether they’re cold calling or asking for referrals. What’s to fear about prospecting? That may seem absurd today, but it was a creative prospecting strategy in 1995. Surprised?

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Curiosity Is Your Key To Effective Cold Calling On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Ulysses Price, filling in for Jeb Blount, interviews Chris Beall, CEO of ConnectAndSell. ConnectAndSell is a software service that helps salespeople initiate conversations with prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Cold calling is the bread and butter of sales reps in real estate. It’s one of the most effective ways to find customers, but only if you’re ready for various conversation scenarios. So, how should you cold call in real estate? In this post, we'll share 11 cold-calling scripts for real estate agents.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

Todd suggests we can actually read our customers’ minds. When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. However, during a period of uncertainty and the resulting downturn, every customer, buyer, and human being is essentially thinking about the same three things.”.

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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. Here’s how you can work smarter by working with the right data to improve your cold calling. Your ideal customer profile. Absolutely.

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The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not that people don’t like cold calling, mostly they don’t like the outcome, which often is very little, leading to disappointed, and anemic pipelines. Frustrated, they seek expert advice on how to get more buyer engagement while avoiding the dreaded cold call. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The modern sales trends indicate, small business owners dismiss most sales calls as tone-deaf to their unique local challenges. Such cold calls not only fail at balancing customer demand with market competition but also promise a daily dose of instant annoyance. Probe public mentions to learn timely hot buttons.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A prospect is ready to buy and reaches out to your sales reps, who close the deal with little effort. But it’s not a reliable lead generation strategy, because your sales reps didn’t initiate prospecting. Too many sales organizations now rely on incoming requests and outgoing emails to grab prospects’ attention. How about you?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 8, 2014

Small business expert, Megan Totka, explains why cold calling really doesn’t work for SMBs. And since there are so many of us, we get hundreds of solicitations every week— mostly phone calls and emails promising that if we just buy a magic list, we’ll be home free. Hint: It’s not cold calling.

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Do you remember that moment, right before making a cold call , when your heart raced like a sprinter at the starting line? Cold calling can be daunting. Get ready for some transformative cold calling tips and techniques. What are the 3 C’s of cold calling?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 23, 2014

You’ll close more deals with prospects who actually want to hear from you. No one wants your spam emails or cold calls. If you actually get someone on the phone or leave a message (which most cold callers don’t), you sound like you’re reading off a script, which you probably are. Your outreach is ice cold.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 3, 2018

Yet, if you research cold calling on the internet, you’ll find blog posts, articles and essays all preaching the death of the cold call. It found that high-growth teams view cold-calling as “very much alive” and see “great results from it” two times more often than low-growth teams. Modernizing a Cold Call.

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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? How did you find those prospects?

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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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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

As more and more sales people are recognising cold calling is less fruitful than they would like, attention is being focused on what you can do to improve your overall sales success rate. 4) Find relevant content from blogs and articles you have researched and share them with current and future customers. Happy Selling!

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s an oddity of the psychology in our profession that many people would rather go through the mental grinder of cold calling than risk asking their existing customers for referrals. 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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The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not that people don’t like cold calling, mostly they don’t like the outcome, which often is very little, leading to disappointed, and anemic pipelines. Frustrated, they seek expert advice on how to get more buyer engagement while avoiding the dreaded cold call. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2020

“How do I ask for a referral from customers I haven’t spoken with in two years?” How can smart, experienced sales reps let their customer relationships wither? When we invest in customer relationships, we get more business from existing clients and earn the right to ask for referrals.

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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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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

You don’t see me running around saying that dancing is an outdated tribal custom, outdated and beneath dignity in today’s socially advanced society. But it seems that that’s exactly what some of the “ never cold call again ” crowds are suggesting, no insisting. Some prefer calls, others e-mail, magazine ads, etc.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 16, 2018

Definition of Cold Calling: Cold calling is a form of telemarketing in which a salesperson attempts to solicit business from potential customers who have not previously expressed interest in the seller’s product or solution. Cold Calling 2.0: Why Your Cold Calling Strategy Needs to Evolve.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 11, 2024

You need a disciplined, dependable approach to build both bottom-line and top-line results—a sales prospecting system that allows your team to fill their pipelines with qualified leads, and then to land and expand methodically and consistently. Call (415) 461-8763 or email joanne@nomorecoldcalling.com. So, let’s get started.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2020

One of the best ways to improve sales numbers involves something everyone dreads — cold calling. To avoid monotony and disconnect, making your cold outreach data-driven puts more focus on customization and personalization. Why do Sales Cold Calling Scripts Matter? Think: Intent data.

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