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PODCAST 11: How to Use Empathy in Sales [Backed by Science]

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Using modern psychology to more effectively engage your prospects. The acquiring companies being Infor, IBM, and Salesforce. Since leaving his most recent post at Influitive, he started a platform and a training organization called Cerebral Selling. We cold call people and we ask, “Hey, do you have a few minutes to chat?

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The Complete Guide to Effective Sales Voicemail (Plus Scripts and Example Recordings)

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My friend Tom at Bottomline Technologies was running a sales team making thousands of phone calls a week. Despite all their best efforts, his sales reps were only connecting with prospects 3% of the time. In a typical week those voicemails could generate a grand total of one returned call each day. Because It’s Your Job.