The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 6, 2019

You have the perfect prospect. You have that initial phone call, and everything feels good. The call ends and you’ve both agreed on a clear next step: another call next week. You feel good about the time blocked for the call next week. First, ask yourself: are you giving the prospect a reason to respond to you?

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Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

B2B sales prospecting isn’t always as exciting and glamorous as other parts of the sales routine, as you can imagine; it’s far more behind the scenes and challenging. In fact, sales leaders agree that prospecting is the hardest part of the sales process. Find more prospects with Crunchbase Pro – try it free.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 25, 2018

For years, there’s been a debate raging in the sales community: When reaching out to a prospect for the first time, should you call or email? After all, first interactions with prospects are key -- you’re aiming to establish trust, provide value , gather key information, and perhaps even secure a follow-up meeting.

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CloserIQ

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Prospecting is a vital aspect of sales success. Interestingly, there’s a bold shift away from a fundamental aspect of B2B pipeline generation: Cold calling. It’s turned into a full-on, anti-cold calling trend, which is not the right move in our books. That’s because cold calling is NOT a simple numbers game.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 21, 2020

It’s not a surprise that most salespeople don’t get past the first 30 seconds of an initial prospecting conversation before the prospect cuts you off and says, “Not interested,” or you hear “Click.” Your prospect isn’t interested in your actual product or service, but what it will ultimately do for them.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Traditional cold calling is killing your company’s bottom line. If your business approaches cold calling like most companies, you likely have your sales reps dialing unverified, unvetted numbers off a list you got from a data vendor or database. Rather, it’s their approach to figuring out who to call.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most difficult aspects of a salesperson’s job is prospecting. As a sales manager, you can alleviate some of this prospecting pain by engaging your team in targeting and lead scoring. When a salesperson struggles with prospecting, it often doesn’t have anything to do with the nuts and bolts of cold-calling or list building.

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Sales Training Advice

APRIL 16, 2013

One of the hottest sales trends these days is to use some form of social media as the cold call generator. The reasoning is why spend time and money making cold calls when the plethora of social media outlets – upwards of 100 just in North America these days – can attract customers for you for free?

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. ” Salespeople love to spend time with major accounts, because I believe they would rather do that with their time instead of sales prospecting.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 30, 2016

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Are your sales reps still wasting time with cold prospecting—sending emails and social media requests to strangers who aren’t expecting to hear from them? These are the “pain in the ass” (PITA) prospects in your sales pipeline.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. No, this isn't an infomercial.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2019

For this reason, modern sales reps require a different set of guidelines to deliver a successful sales presentation. Social media has completely transformed the way people interact with each other—including the way sales professionals interact with customers and prospects. 21 Important B2B Cold Calling Statistics.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Basic firmographic and demographic data points simply aren’t enough to hone and engage prospective buyers in a good economy, never mind the current climate. Get a tool that helps your team manage their prospects by time zones to ensure they are calling at appropriate times.

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SBI Growth

JULY 23, 2013

The top of the funnel is filling with highly qualified prospects. Angry customers and prospects identify themselves as in the market. Reps can use event to get an appointment with prospects. They are cold calling daily. They are engaging with a customer and prospect base that can be volatile.

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Chorus.ai

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As a sales manager, establishing a set of guidelines for sales calls should be a cornerstone of your sales process. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. And yet, our research has shown that pricing is mentioned one to two times on cold calls that lead to closed-won deals.

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Autoklose

MARCH 4, 2024

Cold calling vs cold emailing? The synergy of cold calling and cold emailing can be used for breaking the ice and getting on your prospects’ radar. Table of Contents Is It Better to Call or Email a Prospect? Email Cold calling When to Call? So, what’s the catch?

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Close.io

JUNE 13, 2018

If your sales process relies heavily on cold emailing or calling prospects, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) isn’t great news for you. At its most basic, the GDPR changes the way outbound sales teams can collect and use personal data like email addresses, names, and other info about prospects.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Best article to read: Learn why one sales leader thinks cold calling is the best way to get business , why it’s actually very fun, and the best tips on how to launch a conversation on the phone. Topics: Prospecting. He’s been in the sales game for a while and has helped thousands of sales reps improve their prospecting.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. A lead is defined as any prospect who indicates interest in a company’s product or service. What is a Lead?

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Keith Rosen

MAY 26, 2013

Are you spending a lot of time following up with prospects to see if they have received the information you sent them? Learn why the hasty and untimely use of brochures and other marketing material can easily spoil even the best prospecting efforts. Marty was well into his conversation with a prospect that he cold called minutes ago.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. This is sales infrastructure, or systems and processes.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2015

Thanks for helping out another team member, thanks for asking insightful questions, thanks for scoring a meeting with a prime prospect, thanks for representing our company well, and thanks for bringing in a new deal. Learn how your new hires do their best work, and set guidelines for how and when the two of you will communicate.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you call them SDRs, account executives (AEs), or business development representatives (BDRs), their ability to engage prospects through persistent, multi-channel communication outreach, and swift follow-up strategies is critical in transforming leads into viable opportunities and improving retention.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 11, 2013

Do you know exactly what to say to a prospect or customer that captures their attention so succinctly and effectively that they want to talk with you and are actually asking for more? If that is the case, then how can you expect to uncover more prospects let alone convert these prospects into customers?

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 13, 2021

Are you making cold calls right now, as you read this? Do you ever get the feeling that cold calling is just the equivalent of taking a giant brick and banging it against your head… day after day after day? This is the experience most cold callers go through. Cold calling can be very difficult.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Basic firmographic and demographic data points simply aren’t enough to hone and engage prospective buyers in a good economy, never mind the current climate. Get a tool that helps your team manage their prospects by time zones to ensure they are calling at appropriate times.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 16, 2018

For example, the conversion rate for cold calls hangs right around 2%. Which means that if you call 100 leads, you will likely snag two sales. The more calls you make, the more emails you send, the more meetings you schedule, the greater the likelihood that you make the quarterly number.

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Costello

APRIL 16, 2019

Here’s what they said: Cold Calling Playbooks Are a Must. A cold calling playbook was the most common playbook our experts recommended. Thoralf Lindström from Avidly shares some of the contents of his cold-calling playbook. Playbooks and Templates for Email Prospecting.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Qualify your prospects. Moreover, if you’re cold-calling prospects, don’t expect all your contacts to tell you what their problems are immediately. Avoid getting into the habit of constraining your marketing agents with strict, senseless guidelines. Identify how you can elevate the quality of your product.

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Crunchbase

MAY 26, 2022

In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know to overcome sales objections, share tips on how you can respond to prospects, build a solid sales objection strategy, and close more deals. Listen to your prospects. Prospects who receive pitches and cold calls frequently will appreciate being heard in the sales process.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. A lead is defined as any prospect who indicates interest in a company’s product or service. What is a Lead?

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SendBuzz

MAY 3, 2023

SendBuzz lists some essential guidelines for avoiding CAN-SPAM violations. Do not claim they have won a vacation in order to entice them to open an email if you are cold emailing them to push a product. Cold email outreach has been credited with several successes. This is the key distinction between the two.

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Chili Piper

OCTOBER 29, 2020

After all, most salespeople don’t want to deal with a rigid set of rules and guidelines that dictate the way they do their job. A sales process is a series of steps salespeople follow to take a prospect from being an early stage lead to a paying customer. Prospect and Begin Outreach. But pump the brakes.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 10, 2018

In essence, social selling is training salespeople to leverage the benefits of social media for one-to-one personalized communication with customers, influencers and prospects. So, it has to have rules, guidelines, etiquette, purpose and measures of success in how it has impacted leads or revenue. In the sales 3.0

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. It is important to provide a framework that salespeople can follow systematically to move prospects through the pipeline. Provide a framework that salespeople can follow systematically to move prospects through the pipeline. cold calling.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We believe the key is the right data and the tools that can drive insights at each stage of the prospect’s journey. This goes for everything from tactical approaches to business development research to the underlying characteristics that make said prospects qualified enough to engage in the first place.

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SendBuzz

MAY 17, 2023

SendBuzz lists some essential guidelines for avoiding CAN-SPAM violations. Do not claim they have won a vacation in order to entice them to open an email if you are cold emailing them to push a product. Cold email outreach has been credited with several successes. This is the key distinction between the two.

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