Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

A recent conversation between Alice Heiman and Scott Gillum on the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast sheds light on this very issue, offering a blend of strategies, insights, and anecdotes that CEOs can’t afford to ignore. The focus should be on quality, relevance, and strategic timing, ensuring that each post adds value to the conversation.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 3, 2017

It can be a conversation. And in the world of selling, our primary tool for communication is our ability to have any number of commercial conversations. In sales we are encouraged to persuade our prospect to move forward to an outcome. This is an area that salespeople revel in.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2022

I didn’t bother, looking at the 1000’s of books in that category, I probably could find something, but I’ll keep ordering the books I want, and if I get to collect the $1.40, that’s fine, if not, Amazon can revel in the fact that I’ve let them drop $1.40 We have scripted every conversation in that process.

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eGrabber

JUNE 28, 2021

What is sales prospecting? Sales prospecting is when sales and business development representatives potential buyers or targeted prospects and reach out to them through cold calls or emails. Why is sales prospecting important? Sales Representatives often find manual prospecting very troublesome and time-consuming.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Which are the Sales books that will help you create more conversations and close more sales in 2019? Any one of the books on my 33 Best Books List should help you create more conversations, update your sales strategy for the new year, close more deals and/or help you become more successful. High Profit Prospecting by Mark Hunter.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sometimes, I look at the stuff that’s inflicted on all of us in the name of prospecting, opportunity development, and so forth, and I tend to be pretty pessimistic. Every week I get into conversations with creative leaders seeking to do something different and new. Every week, we see the result of these experiments.

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Corporate Visions

JUNE 19, 2019

Salespeople engage in disruptive two-way conversations with customers, provoking buyers to move away from their status quo approach and choose your solution. Provoking your prospects and leading with unexpected insights are effective tactics when you’re trying to convince your buyer to change their status quo.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2015

Having trained hundreds of sales people in effective telephone prospecting, I have witnessed a number of recurring patterns which impact success, both negatively and positively. This allows them to be more conversational, more relaxed casual, more themselves, making the whole experience much more engaging for both the buyer and themselves.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 8, 2021

Let’s rewind for a minute and go back to January 2020 when we were reveling in anticipation for the year ahead. The new analytics suite gives you the ability to drill-down into key moments like when engaging questions were asked in a deal, what exactly was said, and how the prospect responded. Reach out to us to start the conversation.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

They open up sales conversations with ease and grace. Thoughtful and provocative sales conversations seem to happen without effort. Asking for the business is easy and, in many cases, the prospect takes the lead in ‘closing the deal’ because of the salesperson’s mastery. This isn’t a new revelation.

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eGrabber

MAY 12, 2021

But, one of the biggest revelations is that decision makers respond instantly on their business emails than personal emails. Once your prospect list is ready, the LeadGrabber Pro Build Scheduler automatically sends an email along with the list to the specified email IDs. They do not check LinkedIn messages at all. What’s more?

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 25, 2019

” By asking the suggested questions upfront, you are paving the way for a friendly conversation. More importantly, when prospective clients see us comfortable with negotiation, they will take our input seriously. We avoid shouting matches, as described above. Do You Focus On Your Prospect?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2018

Although it’s difficult to generalize across sectors and territories, our data found that higher performing sales teams saw a typical conversion rate of 37%, closing deals on average in 36.5 In comparison, the average conversion rate of low performers is 4.95%, taking 56.62 Don’t be afraid to say no to prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2017

1) Improving Sales Conversations. An exceptional salesperson has great conversations. When you think about having an interesting dinner with someone, it’s usually because the conversation flowed well. I needed my sales team to take the same approach to conversations with prospects. Here’s what I learned.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

First, a good friend called ranting and raving about a prospecting call that went wrong. My friend called, very upset about a prospecting call yesterday. It was an important prospect, he’d managed to get agreement from the VP of Sales for a conversation, so he called. Revel in that opportunity.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 25, 2022

Another outstanding example of qualifying and matching our connections brings about revelation beyond what we know. Seek out the support necessary, such as a friendly conversation or technical help. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s strength motivates citizens to remain and fight for their freedom.

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SBI

MAY 15, 2012

You stand before your prospects fully armored, battle-ready, and poised for a stunning and mind-numbing display of the vast and all-embracing array of your knowledge. My point here, if I still have at least your valued attention, is that your prospects won’t know what to remember most, unless you tell them.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. While building a sales process can seem complicated, we found it comes down to three things: Identifying the types of sales conversations that happen. Understanding what success looks like in each of those conversations. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 18, 2013

This morning I was having a conversation with a sales person in a healthcare related company. I think the challenge too many sales people face is they are calling on happy customers and prospects. So crass as it seems, revel in your customers’ misery and pain. It has to eliminate or reduce their misery or pain.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2017

We revel in cold calling because it produces results. I have to make a certain number of cold calls a week–that is actually reach and have conversations with people. I had originally planned a 15 minute conversation. Unsolicited Email, Cold Calling, Prospecting,… The Tragedy Of Either/Or Leveraging Interruption!

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

” He went on to describe someone who could turn around the most difficult situations, walk into a prospect and in one or two meetings inspire the customer to whip out a PO. It’s about creating and finding new opportunities in the account and territory, through high impact prospecting. What Is High Performance?

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 25, 2013

The conversations salespeople have with prospective customers involve these visual, auditory, and kinesthetic channels. You should never assume prospective customers have received the message correctly. The tone, tempo and demeanor of what you say can have more impact on a prospective customer than the actual words you speak.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 16, 2020

For a very long time, salespeople have been taught to start sales presentations with their company’s story as a way to gain credibility with their prospective clients. Your relevance early in the process is determined by the conversation you choose while you have your dream client’s time and attention. Low Relevance.

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SalesProInsider

JULY 6, 2017

There are sales tools to help us through the entire process–from lead generation, to conversion, and to closed business. Ho hum, you might be thinking…this is not a big revelation. Your personal skills for sales success: Productive conversations. The right tools make selling easier and more efficient.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The one notable exception to this has been conversational AI. The Salesforce State of Sales report notes that only 46% of sellers have access to client and prospect data insights (something that 85% of salespeople say helps them produce). One of the best things you can do is put AI to work helping you find new prospects.

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HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 22, 2012

Therefore, it is much more comfortable for the prospect to say something they think you want to hear than the actual truth.  It’s in casual hallway conversations or internal e-mails that selection team members share opinions that influence vendor’s futures. In addition, our society has implicit guidelines of behavior.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

RELATED: Digital Sales Data: The (Real) Secret to Moving Deals from Prospect to Closed. The revelations that emerge from uniting these two sets of data will not just align marketing and sales but all revenue-generating and customer-facing departments. Are there recurring assets or conversations offering premium value to their success?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

9 Elements of Highly Effective Sales Conversations. Most of the core insights we learned from our research can be found in 9 Elements of Highly Effective Sales Conversations. It’s chock full of data and insights on the most effective ways to hold effective sales conversations. Conversations That Win the Complex Sale.

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Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Even more welcome is the news that today, sales people have more resources than ever available to them for creating and displaying visually compelling information that their customers and prospects are looking for. PowerPoint is everywhere in business and other software that makes video conversations easy include Skype and Google Hangouts.

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 2, 2013

  The conversations salespeople have with prospective customers are quite complex. My recent Harvard Business Review article titled “ Research: How Sensory Information Influences Price Decisions” was based upon a fascinating sales linguistics experiment. First, determine your   average comfort level score.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While scanning the subject line, our prospects develop their initial impression of us. We may prevent such scenarios if we follow the following rules: Examine your prospect’s perspective – consider the value that your subject line provides the prospect. Make the conversation about customers, not about yourself.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. While building a sales process can seem complicated, we found it comes down to three things: Identifying the types of sales conversations that happen. Understanding what success looks like in each of those conversations. Equipping your reps to execute.

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OnePageCRM

APRIL 13, 2017

“Patching together actionable information about your customers with gut feelings, good intentions and some duct tape is not a recipe for conversion success… The problem with many personas is that they are either based on irrelevant data, poorly sourced data, or no data at all.”. What emerged was a revelation.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

That was extraordinary — a revelation for him and a confirmation for us. We learned that our new approach to selling was not only effective, but it felt natural, kept us at ease, and generated a compelling trust with our prospective client. When you complete these first two steps, the tone of the conversation changes.

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Allego

MARCH 9, 2023

This revelation caused the definition of sales enablement to change, led to a revolutionary new way of learning, and pushed the sales enablement market in a new direction. Then orchestrate that conversation between the buyer and the seller to make it efficient so that things don’t get lost. .”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Instead, there’s one continuous streamlined customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, Outreach allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. Sam’s Corner [33:50].

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 27, 2020

I’ve seen some great teardowns from Josh Braun that back up his prospecting theories, like this one. Even the advice I just gave can be proven out with the data — open rates, reply rates, conversion rates into meetings, all the way down the funnel to close. The Prospect Pyramid. This is the revelation that Steve W.

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