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Why Reps Hate Asking for Referrals Just as Much as Cold Calling

No More Cold Calling

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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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees Through Purpose-Driven Incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives among this demographic like travel, sales leaders can improve their incentives programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. . Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees through Purpose-Driven Incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives like travel among this demographic, sales leaders can improve their incentive programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. Boost Sales Enablement with a Meaningful Prospecting Gift.

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No One Wants Your Cold Calls

No More Cold Calling

When you get referrals, you get meetings with one call. I’ve heard it takes at least seven to 10 touches for sales teams who cold call and cold email prospects to connect with decision-makers. And why is it so hard for these reps to actually get on their prospects’ calendars? Who has that kind of time?

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Call vs. Email Sales Prospecting: How to Be Effective With Both

Pipeline

From making the first contact to nurturing a lead, sales prospecting is a delicate art. You must determine which outreach channels your leads will respond to and approach your sales prospecting tactics accordingly. But for that, familiarizing your sales team with the differences between cold emailing and cold calling is essential.

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. Until something changes, salespeople will continue to cold call , harass strangers on social media, and (in the process) erode trust in our profession.

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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Sales Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

In his article he shares a systematic approach for prospecting " loosely based upon a conversation with Thomas Ray Crowel." In the fifth step of the prospecting call he says that if the prospect sounds interested you should skip the script and jump right to the close. Isn''t this a prospecting call?