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Hey Sales Manager, Get Your Head Out of That Spreadsheet

No More Cold Calling

million per sales manager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”. I wrote that 15 years ago in my first book, NO MORE COLD CALLING: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust.

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The Best Cold Call Script Ever [Template]

Hubspot Sales

Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. What is a cold call?

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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings.

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3 Cold Calling Tips Sales Leaders Must Teach their Sellers to Achieve Quota with David Walter, #153

Vengreso

I started my sales career cold calling, but in my mind, doing cold calls is not modern selling. However, I’ve decided to bring in some experts to share some cold calling tips with the listeners of the Modern Selling Podcast. Here are David’s top cold calling tips.

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Failing to Meet Your Quota?

No More Cold Calling

Even though most salespeople haven’t met quota in years, sales managers have greater expectations than ever. Only 63 percent of sales reps met quota in 2012, according to the 19th annual CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization study , the same number as the previous year. Click here to read more.

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Cold Calling Techniques: 12 Tips to Achieve Better Outcomes

LeadFuze

What is Cold Calling? Cold calling techniques are used to make contact with potential customers by phone. Cold calling is still an effective way to grow your customer base and reach new people that may not have been introduced to your company before. Cold calling myths. People hate cold calls.

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How to Survive a Mid-Year Quota Increase

SBI Growth

You have been on the receiving end of this phone call. ‘I Forecast says we are down 15% and the CEO wants to reissue quotas. The harsh reality of being a VP of Sales is getting a quota increase mid- year. Get out and cold call” (a.k.a. Sales manager or VP attendance helps force decisions quicker.