Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

In my last post I was talking about how you can greatly increase your prospecting odds by leveraging people you know for an introduction. In this post I am going to talk about greatly increasing your prospecting odds without an introduction. See below for an example of an email approach with and without a trigger event included.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2018

For this post, I’d like to discuss the anatomy of a good sales pitch and share examples of the best sales pitches I’ve ever heard. Sales pitches are also called “elevator pitches” because you should be able to tell the story in the time it takes you to ride an elevator with a prospect -- a maximum of 1-2 minutes. Share benefits.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 7, 2020

When done right, a follow-up email can keep your company top-of-mind with prospects, demonstrate your investment in your customer relationships, and convey the value of your business without being intrusive or obnoxious. 5 Follow-Up Email Examples to Fix Your Follow-Up Process. What strategies to use. Let’s dive right in.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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Bernadette McClelland

MAY 22, 2022

This was my own personal example where attributing the words ‘ hard work ‘ and ‘ earning ‘ were linked to financial abundance. A legitimate bluebird, and I remember saying to my manager, ‘ But I didn’t really earn it ‘ and his words back to me were: ‘ It’s yours!

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

Studying examples of sales plans can help illustrate this, so let’s look at an example sales plan excerpt now. Sales objectives In this example of a sales plan, the sales objectives could be to simultaneously increase sales by 25% and to acquire 10 new customers in the first year of operation.

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Autoklose

MARCH 11, 2024

Prospecting is a high-stakes game, so many sales reps make the mistake of being too pushy in an attempt to quickly convert leads into sales. Organize an Online Conference, Webinar, or an Industry Meetup 2. Invite your prospects to such an event by listing the benefits they can get if they decide to join. That’s right!

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Score More Sales

MAY 29, 2013

I also encourage you to post YOUR thoughts on any of these, and ultimately, what you do to reach prospects – what is your best tip? Don’t be afraid to let them know that you feel they could be a great prospective client / customer. Find triggers that affect your prospects, and tie them into your messaging.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In their journey, prospective buyers want to know they can trust the company as much as they can trust the individuals they’re dealing with. That means the trust-building starts from the outset, when they first encounter you at a conference, visit your website, or read one of your emails. You can even benefit your entire industry.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

That means enhancing and reinforcing their sales skills, budgeting for them to attend conferences and business events, brainstorming before prospect and client meetings, conducting joint calls, and ensuring clarity around accountability. The job of a sales manager is to provide reps with the tools to succeed. million per manager.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2021

Prospecting seems to be getting harder for most sales professionals. Find prospects that match your ICP with Crunchbase Pro – try it free. In those 10 years, we’ve seen the emergence of the pure-play prospecting function with sales development reps and business development reps. Why is cold outbound prospecting so hard?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

To be actionable, your content must make tactical use of calls to action, offers, promotions, demos, and free trials that move prospects along the buyer’s journey. While your industry has likely been affected by this too, building out a strategy for virtual events can be a great way to attract prospects.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2023

Sales prospecting can be a daunting task — with so many different methods and tools to use, it’s sometimes overwhelming to know where to start. What is sales prospecting? Sales prospecting is the process of identifying potential customers (known as prospects) and reaching out to them in order to convert them into paying customers.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2023

Sales prospecting can be a daunting task — with so many different methods and tools to use, it’s sometimes overwhelming to know where to start. What is sales prospecting? Sales prospecting is the process of identifying potential customers (known as prospects) and reaching out to them in order to convert them into paying customers.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As a frequent speaker at sales conferences, she helps sellers crack into new accounts, speed up sales cycles and win big contracts. For more fresh sales strategies that work actually with today's crazy-busy prospects, visit www.jillkonrath.com. Follow these guidelines to increase your email prospecting success.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Many companies and organizations have entire teams dedicated to finding new business prospects. At events and conferences, some sales professionals collect as much contact information as possible: the more names, titles, and companies they’ve logged, the better. How to prospect at tradeshows with sales intelligence.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 31, 2019

These days, sales conversations are becoming even more buyer-focused, which means sales reps have to get creative when it comes to prospecting. Everyone is scrambling to develop their own hacks, techniques, and processes for prospecting in order to move prospects through the sales funnel and turn them into customers.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In their journey, prospective buyers want to know they can trust the company as much as they can trust the individuals they’re dealing with. That means the trust-building starts from the outset, when they first encounter you at a conference, visit your website, or read one of your emails. How to Build Trust with Customers 1.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

And for the foreseeable future, sellers must rely on a range of technology solutions to nurture and close deals—from virtual conference platforms to lighting to webcams. It can be challenging to juggle tech while engaging prospects on the call and doing the best presentation possible. Test and check each tool. Manage the mute button.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. No, this isn't an infomercial.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Whether at a conference listening to speakers wax on about how fantastic their technology and companies were, investor meetings, sales pitches, people played this game. Several years ago, I remember being at a conference, where in the middle of a presentation filled with the most current buzzwords, someone shouted out, “Bingo!”

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

Still, like the example above, sometimes I’d get shot down when reaching out to my moonshots. I use this as an example with newer BDRs who wanted to know how much follow-up they should be doing: Continue following up for as long as you can be helpful and provide value! We’d let the prospect know that we’ll cease prospecting them.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

Sponsor love: The ELG Conference. Stuck trying to engage a prospect? Partner data (or second-party data) provides additional intel on customers and prospects, and can also inform your product and feature roadmap. Partner data can tell you about your prospects’ tech stacks, so your team can identify opportunities for integration.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. You’ll also know why you need a strong sales prospecting process and exactly how that will benefit your business. It’s not so much knowing about sales prospecting vs lead generation, as knowing how and when to prioritize one or the other.

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Allego

APRIL 16, 2024

Even then, though, you should not use the responses as is, especially when communicating with prospects and customers, warned Richter. A great salesperson knows how to ask the question that their customer or prospect doesn’t even know ought to be asked. What’s important to the prospect? No, absolutely.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. Conversation Intelligence delivers insights from sales calls, virtual meetings, and video conferences by recording, transcribing, and analyzing sales meetings to deliver deep AI insights.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 30, 2022

One example of our powerful email integration features is email tracking. When sending emails to prospects, customers or partners, you want to know if they’ve opened and read your email. An example of a template could be a thank-you note you would send to a prospect or customer following a meeting. Email Tracking.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Whether at a conference listening to speakers wax on about how fantastic their technology and companies were, investor meetings, sales pitches, people played this game. Several years ago, I remember being at a conference, where in the middle of a presentation filled with the most current buzzwords, someone shouted out, “Bingo!”

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

Prospects do not want to be sold to. Instead of reading like a resume (which does nothing to earn the trust of prospects because it appears as though sellers are seeking new opportunities), a branded LinkedIn profile should include buyer-centric messaging that reveals who they help, how they help, and who they’ve helped in the past.

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Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, you may want to create a task (action) whenever a new person record is created (trigger). An example of a time-based automation would be: to update a custom field (action) one day after a deal’s Actual Close Date is set (trigger). If your sales reps aren’t prospecting, they should be closing deals.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 10, 2018

How to Get a Prospect to Respond. Sometimes a salesperson gets lucky with an ultra-responsive prospect. When they call, the prospect picks up and makes time to chat. When they call, the prospect picks up and makes time to chat. No matter when or how the rep reaches out, the prospect is sure to return a prompt reply.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 2, 2018

Prospecting strategies can be difficult for many individuals in a sales organization. This article will help you learn actionable insights into how to improve your prospecting. Defining Prospecting: Prospecting, put simply, is the opportunity to identify and qualify potential buyers for your product.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Each new example proves tantalizing hints of how much of a productivity game-changer generative AI can be. At this year’s INBOUND conference , HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan said the smartest go-to-market professionals will use GenAI with one goal in mind: “To drive customer connection.” “We

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

To improve quality of marketing leads, here are three key pieces of information sales must share with the marketing team: Raw feedback from customers and prospects. Sales professionals have access – in between your cold calls and rejections – to priceless data that other teams do not: raw feedback from real life prospects.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2022

Conversation intelligence software records, transcribes, and analyzes the content of sales calls, virtual meetings, and video conferences. A prime example is Chorus , the best-in-class conversation intelligence software tool offered by ZoomInfo. 4 Ways Conversation Intelligence Software Helps Close Deals 1.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 15, 2023

Example: Ask them to respond to a common buyer objection, such as, “I need more time to decide so I’ll be putting this decision on the back burner for another 6 months.” Sales managers should respond to the role play by: Looking for a rep’s ability to transition from the objection and discover why the prospect is choosing the status quo.

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