Vendor Neutral

JULY 16, 2021

Cold Calling. In A Digitally Enabled Environment. Cold Calling in A Digitally Enabled Environment. Cold calling is evolving, and performed correctly, it can be a valuable part of the sales process. What’s the worst thing to do in cold calling? Actually going in cold!

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ClozeLoop

OCTOBER 19, 2021

ClozeLoop's B2B Sales blog keeps you up to date with the latest in sales management, sales techniques, and sales enablement. View our amazing post "How to Turn Cold Calling Objections Into Opportunities - builtin.com" by ClozeLoop.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 22, 2018

In sales, time is money, and the more of that time is spent interacting with customers and prospects, the more money comes in. Thus, sales enablement technology only works if it saves times on menial tasks and facilitates human conversations. The post Does Sales Enablement Technology Work? Plain and simple.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We have lot's of interesting topics to discuss from the world of sales this week: sales cadence, battle cards, social selling, and much more. This week's Sales Brief will equip you to accelerate your sales productivity , inspire you to pick up the phone and start cold calling , and prep you to ace that next product demo.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. However, to ensure success, cold-calling needs to be part of a holistic lead generation strategy.

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Veelo

MAY 15, 2018

It doesn’t matter if you have a formal sales training process, or if you simply shadow a more experienced rep. At some point, you’ll learn about the best cold call script to use with prospects. “Cold calling is the […].

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Allego

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Sales Enablement Challenge. Enablement practitioners have a similar challenge reaching their audience as marketers and sellers do. Examples of material that is particularly powerful in an interactive format include demo skills, cold calling scripts, cheat sheets, and even sales process training.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

Odds are, if you’re a sales enablement leader right now, you’re operating your team much differently than you did less than a year ago. According to our 2022-2023 Sales Enablement Outlook Report , almost 40% of sellers achieve below 75% of their quotas. Less (or no) budget. More pressure. Heightened competition.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 31, 2019

Here’s our final article in the cold calling blog series for 2019. At Chorus.ai, we analyzed over 1 million cold calls made through sales engagement tools like Outreach. The average successful cold call lasts about 7.5 Can you believe we’re already getting close to the second half of Q1!?

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Allego

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Are you getting the most out of your sales enablement programs? Understanding the value of sales learning and enablement is not straight-forward. Showing the value of sales enablement activities ensures you continue to get buy-in and support for current initiatives and more resources for future plans.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2023

One marketing platform or sales enablement app? Reps cold call, send cold emails, do cold outreach on social media, and rely on marketing to nurture prospects and send them qualified leads. Register for my Referral Selling Insights and get sales and referral tips twice a month.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Sometimes, that chat is a real, live sales professional, reaching out because they know what you’ve clicked on, when you clicked, how much you’ve read – and that the time is right to reach out. Welcome to the next generation of sales enablement chat. This is now “sales enablement chat,” and it’s powerful.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Not a cold calling stranger or someone pitching them on LinkedIn. According to Hubspot’s 2021 Sales Enablement Report , more than 40 percent of salespeople say prospecting is the most challenging part of the sales process, despite the fact that 77.3 Yet, they become even more critical in a slow economy.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the next blog in our “Sales Enablement Defined” series, we’ll talk about sales prospecting and where it fits into the sales enablement ecosystem. We’ll also discuss sales prospecting techniques and best practices, and how they support sales enablement. Best Practices for Sales Prospecting.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Often, Sales professionals are laden with duties like lead prospecting, presentation deck creation, cold calling, and other day-to-day responsibilities that prevent them from finding more valuable uses for their time, like personalizing client interactions. What is Sales enablement? Examples of Sales enablement.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

Business development representatives (BDRs) BDRs are typically focused on outbound sales. In other words, they make cold calls and send cold emails to connect with qualified prospects. Inside sales reps can guide a deal to the finish line without ever being in the same room as the prospect.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 30, 2017

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. If you lead an account based sales team, you might want to be. It’s the first Top Sales World European Sales Enablement Summit with an unparalleled speaker lineup. What in the heck is sales enablement?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

In a sales context, coaching is a leadership skill that draws out a salesperson’s full potential by getting them to focus on the right activities and to improve the related behaviors that lead to the desired results, based on structured coaching conversations. Connect with No More Cold Calling.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Which is why we’ve put together this guide on sales enablement, focusing on the three primary parts of the job: strategy, execution, and governance. Sales enablement strategy.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 29, 2018

Check out this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: Is Your Lead Generation Data Leading You Astray? Which do you trust more—the lead generation data manufactured by sales technology tools and artificial intelligence, or your intuition, which is generated by years of experience and your emotional intelligence?

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SalesFuel

APRIL 15, 2024

Weave personalization into the traditional cold call. This shows you aren’t just making a generic cold call. Photo by MART PRODUCTION SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement And, you’ve done your research.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

For more on why language matters, check out this article from Tamara Schenk at CSO Insights : Getting More Women in Sales: Do We Have a Language Barrier? The only concern I had was the language: Sales professionals were generally addressed with “salesmen” and the masculine preposition “he” throughout the speech.

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LeadFuze

APRIL 2, 2019

This can be because salespeople lack the technical ability and are still following ineffective sales methodologies. This is where sales enablement enters the scene! Sales enablement is a powerful tool for increasing sales performance. What exactly is Sales Enablement? 5 Alignment.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2019

We welcome all sales, marketing, and operations professionals to join us. Sales Enablement. Sales enablement refers to the process of providing a sales team with the resources they need to succeed. Cold Calling. So, even though B2B cold calling can be effective, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The tension is entirely different in a cold call, most visualize dread and darkness, stepping into prospect’s world uninvited, the fear of interrupting, and your best and most welcome hope for relief is hitting voicemail or even a hang-up. Real World Cold Calling Success. World Series Of Prospecting.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the next blog in our “Sales Enablement Defined” series, we’ll talk about sales prospecting and where it fits into the sales enablement ecosystem. We’ll also discuss sales prospecting techniques and best practices, and how they support sales enablement. Best Practices for Sales Prospecting.

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Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

You make too many cold calls. You don’t need to work in sales to know the phrase, “cold calling.” In fact, it’s a phrase sure to elicit a negative response—whether you’re a sales rep or just an average consumer on the receiving end of the line. Less than 1% of cold calls result in a sale.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve rounded up sales productivity stats from the leading research firms and vendors in the sales enablement space to put together stats bucked into a few different categories: customer experience; rep time management; sales managers; sales enablement; and technology usage.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 23, 2019

Here’s a familiar scene from a fast-growing company near you: The sales managers tell Bob, the Sales Enablement Manager, that they feel their reps aren’t really handling pricing discussions well. So Bob organizes a rep training session along with product managers, product marketing, and sales leaders. That’s that.

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Bigtincan

MAY 1, 2019

A day in the life of an SDR consists of many things but mostly cold calls, emails, prospecting, and learning. I have a certain amount of activities I want to complete each day, and it is not always easy. Bigtincan has helped me do more on a daily basis by automating many of the tasks I would […].

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Sales Result

OCTOBER 3, 2018

One of my early experiences was with a company called Lanier. They demanded that each of us trainees, could do an effective cold call, effective 1st meeting, effective discovery meeting, demo, solution presentation and close. At the time we were selling a new concept for the B2B marketplace. The training was rigorous, why.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Layered on top of these activities are a myriad of sales enablement and social selling tools—all of which are intended to help salespeople with effective prospecting and, in turn, generating qualified sales leads. Help your team understand how referrals guarantee a one-call meeting.

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Allego

JANUARY 4, 2022

Iannarino demonstrates how to make closing look like child’s play by setting it up at each step of the sales process. From cold calling strangers to waiting for email responses that never come, prospecting is intimidating. The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement by Mike Kunkle. Problem Prospecting?!:

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2020

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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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

What sales comfort zone is holding you back? Also, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side. Read “ Hey Sales Manager, Get Your Head Out of That Spreadsheet.”). I’m just not looking forward to it. Let me know.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2020

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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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 1, 2022

Once you are convinced a sales sequence is the way to go, many sales enablement platforms provide premade templates for a plug-and-play experience. If your current CRM doesn’t include sales enablement, here is one of many examples to get you started. Day One: Call Prospect. Day Two: Send Email.

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