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3 Things Some Pundits Won’t Tell you about Cold Calling – Part 2

The Pipeline

On Monday, in the first post of this series , we defined “cold calling”, and looked at overlooked real opportunities for sales and revenues one misses when not including cold calling in their biz dev routine. The rule being that cold calling is a key and necessary (evil) part of successful B2B selling.

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Cold calling: How to nail – or blow – that first impression

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

The trouble with Larry is that he’s sending signals of a personality disorder called grandiose narcissism. You wouldn’t call it that. Well, consider a cold caller we’ll call Joe. He phones a prospect out of the blue and says, “Hi, I’m Joe from XYZ Co. Why are you calling? So what should you do?

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Pitch Your Product in Two Sentences

Mr. Inside Sales

Instead of opening your calls like: “Oh hi, this is _ _ with __ and my company, XYZ, is a leader in national and international shipping and freight services with offices in the top metropolitan cities across the world. We offer one of the lowest overall freight charges on transportation, and also on packaging and supplies.

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Even in B2B, Customer Experience Defines You (April Referral Selling Insights)

No More Cold Calling

Would you be surprised to learn that prospects want the same buying experience in their business lives as in their personal lives? Two phone calls later, with people promising to notify their transportation people and promising to call me, no one called. If we’re a prospect, we go dark. It’s an epidemic.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. Logistics/Transportation.

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What Do You Sell?

The Pipeline

Proactive Prospecting Summer – Part 4. In this part of the Proactive Prospecting Summer series, we look at improving how we communicate early in the call. Clear concise communication is key to sales, especially in the pressure packed first few seconds of an unscheduled prospecting call, yes, a cold call.

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How to Develop an Effective Elevator Pitch

Mr. Inside Sales

struggle when trying to describe their company, products and services, in a succinct and compelling way that engages a prospect and makes them want to hear more. We offer one of the lowest overall freight charges on transportation, and also on packaging and supplies. Many inside sales reps (outside reps, too!)