No More Cold Calling

MAY 19, 2015

Your birthday, favorite sports team, or hometown could help you seal the deal. The same goes for people with similar political agendas, passions, or hobbies, or who like the same sports teams? Unfortunately, social selling is usually misunderstood as navigating the sales process using only tools like Twitter, Linkedin, or Facebook.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

To meet these expectations, modern selling leverages new tools and techniques, such as social selling and virtual selling , to achieve the same goal as traditional selling: create more sales conversations and increase win rates. Also, make sure you check out our tips for creating the perfect cold calling scripts! #2

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 14, 2012

tools in general). Marketing types have actually formalized a methodology around knowing your prospect and call it “persona marketing”. We increasingly have the tools to know more about our prospects right at our fingertips. This post is about knowing about your prospect.

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Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2020

Whether it is sports, politics, or business, there is a podcast for everything. They covered almost everything from cold calling to sales forecasting and even provided helpful tips to handle prospects and close more deals. 16 million people in the US are “avid podcast fans”. Are you one of them too? Host: Jeb Blount.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Basically, a dialer takes the manual part out of the cold calling process. Your reps will be enabled to prioritize leads and initiate calls based on their priority level. Everyone knows that sales is a contact sport, and ZoomInfo Engage makes contact easier. What’s the point?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

At 6sense , we broke through the benchmark and generated $787k per BDR every month… all without cold calls and emails. Many people forget that selling is a team sport, especially where BDRs are concerned. if you aren’t using AI tools, there is no better time to start than now! But it didn’t happen overnight.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 5, 2022

If we agree that selling is about establishing trust, developing a relationship, and forming a connection, then a little levity can be a powerful tool. Humor on Cold Call. During cold calls be friendly, be funny, and be a breath of fresh air. When I think of cold calling, I think of rejection.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 6, 2017

The debate within sales right now is whether cold-calling works. Evidence shows that it does: Cold-calling distinguishes high-growth companies (see our report). Leveraging DiscoverOrg’s direct-dial phone numbers for cold calling is kind of like putting premium gas in the tank. WYSIM, – Josh.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2020

They’ve never been trained, taught, coached , or enlightened as to why most salespeople don’t want to make calls. It’s a contact sport!”. No amount of yelling, threatening, or fear-mongering will magically get salespeople to start calling more. 3 Steps to Overcome Call Reluctance. I actually love cold calling.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

sales tools (25). When I played sports, having sales success was the furthest thing from my mind. I loved sports, I was good at sports, I went to college to play football, but found one thing that kept me from being pro (and I am convinced it was just one thing)- You cant coach BIG. Calling on executives.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A sales leaderboard is a tool that sales organizations use to track their teams’ or reps’ performance in a ranking-based system, much like a scorecard in golf or any other individual sport. After implementing sales gamification tools, companies have experienced as much as a 45% increase in bottom-line sales margin ( source ).

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 26, 2020

Consider this: Sports teams are contributing funds to help support workers at their sports centers—without whom games wouldn’t go on. These steps are important in any economy—in fact, if we’d been using these sales tools all along, we might be in a better position now. Email joanne@nomorecoldcalling.com or call 415.461.8763.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Best article to read: Learn why one sales leader thinks cold calling is the best way to get business , why it’s actually very fun, and the best tips on how to launch a conversation on the phone. Cold calling. Best article to read: Sales really is a team sport, and every team needs a coach. Sales plans.

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SalesHandy

MARCH 30, 2020

This will also contain the difference between Inbound vs Outbound sales, key strategies to outperform it and essential tools required to scale it up. Inbound and outbound sales tools to scale your business Endnotes. Outbound sales can be fully automated by using sales engagement tools. What is Inbound Sale?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Just like sports, the use of science to develop elite performers also applies in sales. In sports, much of the science focuses on the athlete: genetics, biomechanics (movement techniques, training regimen), nutrition, and psychology (for mental toughness, behavioral modifications, and positive visualizations). Make it About You Too.

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Sales Training Advice

MARCH 15, 2014

Sales calls – be it follow up or cold calling – are essentially all a process of winning the customer over. Many of your cold calls will end up being left to ring out, rather than considering this customer to be a no-go think of the opportunity to leave a voice mail message. 1 – Do You Believe?

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Hyper-Connected Selling

JULY 25, 2017

Back when LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook first came out, there was a segment of the sales world that jumped on board and saw these as powerful communication tools. That means that those of us who sell have to engage with these news tools and find ways to leverage them. Big Thought. ” (26). ” (99).

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Back in the days when we ran our sales consultancy and sales outsourcing company, we did a lot of cold calling for Silicon Valley technology companies. It is the most powerful tool I've ever used as a salesperson." - Justin Gold, Chief Revenue Officer at TrueVault. One of our clients was selling software directly to doctors.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Convenience, and with over 2,000,000 podcasts there is a treasure trove of choices, giving listeners easy access to engaging shows that cover every topic imaginable – from sports and crime thrillers to business and comedy. The Sales Influence Podcast ( Key Episode: Cold Calling Metrics ). Why all the podcast love?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

Swapping out competitor names per email, or mentioning a sports team in the area, was also a favorite “personalization” strategy for a while. For example: A Social Media Manager requests a demo of your social listening tool. Hi [First Name], Thank you for reaching out about our social listening tool.

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Tenfold

JULY 15, 2017

Business guru and well-known provocateur Tom Peters once addressed a crowd of over 400 sales and marketing executives saying : “I hate sports analogies. This tangible sort of tension — or, often, blatant disregard for one another — leads to the many sports analogies assigned to the industry. Engaging in face time.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

I like to think of this in terms of sports. When building your sports team, you’ve got to start with people who are at least athletic. But you can mitigate a lot of uncertainty around the hiring process by making sure it’s systematic, it’s intentional, and it uses all the tools available to ensure someone is a superior fit.

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LeadIQ

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Feelings can be such a powerful tool with archetypes. For many years, Bray grew out his hair to shoulder length, sporting the Wayne Campbell from Wayne’s World look. Today I thought I’d show you how to brand yourself as rebel to build up your social brand. Remember we all are these 12 archetypes. We need to take advantage.

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 23, 2016

In casual surveys I have conducted throughout the years, I have found that a very high percentage of top performers played organized sports in high school. They are action-oriented and unafraid to call high in their accounts or courageously cold call new prospects. Selling Style Impact: Competitiveness.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2011

In casual surveys I have conducted throughout the years, I have found that 90 percent of top performers played organized sports in high school. They are action oriented and unafraid to call high in their accounts or courageously cold call new prospects. Selling Style Impact: Competitiveness. Conscientiousness.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2019

My guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial is Shawn Finder, a former semi-pro tennis player and the founder and CEO of Autoklose, an email automation tool. We discuss the best tactics for cold sales prospecting through email. This information becomes valuable personalization data for future email campaigns.

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Salesmate

JULY 16, 2021

From Cold Calling Results , Sales Coach. As The Queen of Cold Calling®, I have been training rockstar salespeople for over 25 years. Sales is just like a professional sport. You’re trying to shift into high gear while you still have the parking brake on. Wendy Weiss. Having natural talent obviously helps.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 21, 2012

It’s probably the only sport where you can be 30 percent successful and still be considered a star with a multimillion-dollar contract. Baseball season is in full swing here in the United States. It’s time to get your sales prospects on base. Baseball is a long season with 162 games per team over approximately 30 weeks.

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SalesLoft

JULY 2, 2015

I listen into each team members’ cold calls for 30 minutes a week to provide real-time feedback and coaching in the moment. We also do weekly spiffs that allow each RDR to gun after a specific target, and the prizes range from cash, dinners, sports games, sales training, working from the opposite coast and so forth.

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KO Advantage Group

JANUARY 3, 2022

In traditional sales teams, this often led to management telling the team just to go “knock on doors” or “make more cold calls”. In virtual selling , we leverage our main tool of LinkedIn by creating discussions and rapport before the first prospect meeting. But as this post covered, both of those methods are already dead.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2019

I once met a decision maker who told me HE LOVED my marketing and my cold call approach — but he would never buy from me. After our initial meeting, this individual had me out to all his big events, invited me to private dinners, even took me to sporting events with his friends and introduced me to some of my LARGEST sales ever.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

The reader is provided with the tools and strategy on how to successfully secure a meeting with an elusive prospect. Included is a free workbook with guides as well as on-hand tools for quick solutions. Black shares her proven 5-step Referral Selling Methodology, so no businessperson ever has to make a cold call again.

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Salesmate

JULY 16, 2021

From Cold Calling Results , Sales Coach. As The Queen of Cold Calling®, I have been training rockstar salespeople for over 25 years. Sales is just like a professional sport. You’re trying to shift into high gear while you still have the parking brake on. Wendy Weiss. Having natural talent obviously helps.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

He actively writes blogs about cold calling, sales, inside sales & everything related to sales. He is also a co-founder of B2B camp & sports bar digital, a gaming and digital advertising business. He is the founder of Close.io Steli is the perfect influencer for a salesperson to follow if he wants to be the best.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

You get to be home on weekends to watch your kids’ sporting/acting/drama events. Others have said they “email” a prospect first as a way to warm the prospect up before they call, but this too is a misuse of the term “warm calling.”. Just call it what it is. Tools and Technology for Inside Sales.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

My personal sport is swimming. I believe this should be a realistic figure based on 5 days per week—not, as some write, that salespeople should be prospecting constantly, all the time, cold calling, networking, knocking on doors, taking little to no time off. Sure, there are the champions. That’s the way to burn out.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Old school prospecting like cold calling may still work at times but it’s a numbers game (it takes about 8 calls to get someone to pick up the phone and that’s just one touchpoint). It means using every sales strategy, every tool and every channel to engage and connect with prospects. Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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