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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

Pointclear

One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These so-called experts proclaim that cold-calling is ineffective and pursuing prospects that aren’t coming to you is a waste of time. An example: “Six steps to a perfect test drive.”).

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PowerViews with Josiane Feigon: Survival of the Fittest Sales Reps

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Because prospects and customers see meaningless cold calls as wasteful interruptions, successful sales professionals must use social media research to find reasons to connect with their leads. Click to start video at this point — “No one wants to answer their phone,” Josiane says. “No No one wants to check their e-mail anymore.”

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What is the Net Effect of the Migration to Inside Sales?

Jonathan Farrington

His conclusions are spot on: Right now, there are huge deficiencies, and as long as sales training companies continue to promote outdated and irrelevant programs, the situation is not going to improve. I discuss this fact in detail with Dan McDade of PointClear – HERE.

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PowerViews with Paul Gillin: Social Media – Pick Your Spots & Focus

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Paul adds, “Outbound marketing through traditional channels such as cold calling, direct mail and email can all be made better by using analytics to understand the people we’re trying tor reach. This supports making a more informed outreach to those companies using traditional outbound modes.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.