Sales Gravy

AUGUST 28, 2020

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount's (Virtual Selling) and Alex Goldfayn (5 Minute Selling) teach you how to eliminate cold calling by talking with people you already know. Talking with the people you know is an easy way to eliminate cold calling.” They're not in your head.

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The Science and Art of Selling

APRIL 14, 2014

There is no question that cold calling is not at the top of anyone’s favorite activity list. The good news is that with a different way of approaching cold calls, this can change from a feeling of dread to a feeling of enthusiasm and actual anticipation – and this is not as hard to accomplish as it may seem.

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The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 4, 2018

Cold calling techniques should continue to be a valued sales skill and be included in any sales training program. Cold calling has evolved from a standalone blunt prospecting activity into a tactic that when combined with social selling and data is a powerful customer recruitment method.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Cold Calling: Brother, Can You Spare a Sale? Mark’s Insights on PRICING.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 30, 2013

Each contact you make is designed to help you move from thanking the customer for their business to securing more business. Two days after the customer makes their purchase, reach out to them with a phone call thanking them for buying and making sure they received what they wanted with regard to the benefits they were looking to fill.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 23, 2011

To Become A Master Salesperson, Master NON Selling Skills. Tweet Share Everyone talks about “how to sell” Not me. “Easy for you, but I’m cold calling, I’m fighting competition, I’m in a tough market, you don’t understand.” What is selling about? Hire Jeffrey.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 2, 2014

This isn’t just about the impact it has on your customers, prospects and colleagues, […]. Blog Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Customer Service leadership Motivational Sales Speaker Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation influence sales influence sales leadership sales motivation'

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Selling Skills or Selling Process? A person with strong selling skills.

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The Science and Art of Selling

MARCH 25, 2015

Being a salesperson requires ongoing customer and client communication. Cold calling is not easy; in fact, it can be frightening. Same as writing blogs about cold calling. There are some proven cold calling techniques that really work and they can help you to succeed in overcoming your fear.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 22, 2013

Your customer is researching on the internet before they even talk to you. Too many salespeople are afraid to talk to their customer or prospect about what they’ve learned on the web. Check out the below video to hear why this is vital to your sales process: Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Science and Art of Selling

APRIL 28, 2014

Being a salesperson requires ongoing customer and client communication. Cold calling is not easy; in fact, it can be frightening. Same as writing blogs about cold calling. There are some proven cold calling techniques that really work and they can help you to succeed in overcoming your fear.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 14, 2015

A huge problem salespeople struggle with is asking questions — not only asking the customer questions, but making sure the questions are actually relevant to the customer. The best way to correct this situation is by using what I call the STOP questioning approach.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 30, 2015

Why is your customer in business? Who is their customer? How do their customers benefit from what they provide to them? Recently, I was working with a salesperson calling on customers and this issue came to light.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 17, 2013

Sure, you may know quite a bit more than your customer, but if you don’t learn to pause at the right time, you may lose the sale. The typical salesperson thinks they know everything, and many times they do know quite a bit more than the customer. The customer is talking and you didn’t even have to ask a question.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 11, 2013

It’s not surprising that many CEOs, CMOs and other senior members of a company are not comfortable making sales calls. Below is a list of 9 things to help ensure your next sales call with a senior manager in attendance is as effective as possible: 1. Items of concern the customer may bring up.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 27, 2015

Your customers are looking for value. Blog Closing a Sale Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Professional Selling Skills customer service questions sales questions value value added' They’re serious and they deserve some real thinking. If you […].

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The Science and Art of Selling

APRIL 22, 2014

Are you sales driven? Do you have a natural fear of cold calling? Are you looking for tips on what to avoid when cold calling? The first step in fighting the fear of cold calling is teaching yourself to not take the calls personal. What are some tips on what to avoid when cold calling?

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 23, 2014

This time it’s about how we can screw up a sales call by talking about too many things at one time. Not only do we wind up confusing the customer, but many times we also wind up confusing ourselves. Salespeople are quick to blame the customer as being […].

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 8, 2013

“Informed-calling” is the prospecting method where in place of making cold-calls, you instead call potential customers with a specific reason based off of something you’re learned about them. An example of how it works is you might be selling B2B in the software industry.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 18, 2013

Ignoring the customer. Trying to prove the customer is wrong. Failing to ask for the sale. We in sales are a finicky group. We may not think of ourselves as being self-centered, but in reality, there are too many situations where we become exactly that when we are with a customer. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Science and Art of Selling

MARCH 11, 2016

Being a salesperson requires ongoing customer and client communication. Cold calling is not easy; in fact, it can be frightening. Same as writing blogs about cold calling. There are some proven cold calling techniques that really work and they can help you to succeed in overcoming your fear.

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Gong.io

MAY 3, 2018

Try googling cold calling tips and see what happens. So, why can we credibly claim that the cold calling tips in this article are the best ones you’ll ever read? At Gong.io, we have the largest database of recorded sales calls in the world. Cold Calling Tip 1: Buy Time. Let us explain.

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Gong.io

MAY 3, 2018

Try googling cold calling tips and see what happens. So, why can we credibly claim that the cold calling tips in this article are the best ones you’ll ever read? At Gong.io, we have the largest database of recorded sales calls in the world. Cold Calling Tip 1: Buy Time. Let us explain.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Every sales call you’ve made has always been perfect, so this is not for you, but I will ask you to read it anyway. I will admit I have blown more than my fair share of sales calls and I have learned a few lessons along the way. Disastrous sales calls are never as disastrous as we think.

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Closer's Coffee

MAY 20, 2019

For Parts 1-3 of the Essential Selling Skills Bootcamp, click here. Best Sales Prospecting Tools. You will have everyone tell you that telephone prospecting doesn’t work or cold calling is dead. Your reason message is the second critical millstone to the sales process. Telephone Prospecting.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 27, 2013

The best way to engage your prospect or customer is by asking short questions. Problem is that questions of that type do little to help the sales process. Problem is that questions of that type do little to help the sales process. In fact, I’ll contend many times that they wind up harming the sales process.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2013

I always feel if my competition wants to slack off during the summer, I am more than happy to pick up their customers. While some salespeople do cut back during the summer, it also can be the customers who start canceling appointments. Here are a four ways to prevent sales call cancellations in the summer: 1.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: Number 5 in this 9 part series. Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. Too much reliance on selling tools. “Welcome to the team,” said my new sales manager, as he dropped a giant yellow pages phonebook on my desk. That was selling in 1996.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

One of the easiest things sales managers and senior management can do is to call every person they know at a client company. Sooner you make the calls, the better. Objective of the calls is three-fold. We never know who or when the person the senior person knows may encounter the buyer to whom you sell.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Blog Closing a Sale Cold-Calling Consultative Selling leadership pricing Professional Selling Skills Prospecting competitor price prospect prospecting' This business owner heard me speak a couple of years ago and has been an avid follower of my blog ever since. He […].

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

SPS — Sales Prevention Syndrome — is the great killer of salespeople. Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. You think all customers are stupid.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 25, 2013

While sitting in a Starbucks, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation going on next to me between a salesperson and customer. She truly believed in what it was she was selling, but the problem was her passion overtook any sense of intelligence with how to sell. How much time is the customer talking? Who cares?!

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2013

Sure, we’ll be able to remember the big stuff, but many times the ability to close a sale rests on our ability to take a small key piece of information and leverage it. This means either at the end of each sales call or at the end of each day. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Communication Skills. Retail Sales Trends. STOP Letting Customers Control Sales Negotiations.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Closing the sales year with a bang is nice, but if you’re not already getting a jump-start on business development for 2017, you’re running behind. Building professional skills takes practice—deliberate practice. Are you fully booked for Q1?

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Salespeople always want a higher price and don’t want to offer a discount to close the sale. In fact I’ll say it is as powerful of an attribute in the selling process as anything else. The price is built around the level of confidence the customer has in being able to achieve the level of expectations they are looking for.

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Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

Cold Calling is dead and as a Sales Trainer who teaches  or used to teach Cold Calling – I dont make that statement lightly. Times change, people change and because of that I firmly believe that Cold Calling no longer has a part to play in modern business. attempts to reach a prospect.

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