The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 25, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Debunking the Myth of “Inside Sales” Jan 26, 2012. When somebody tells me they do inside sales, I want to choke.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

For nearly 20 years, Trish and The Bridge Group have helped over 320+ companies build, expand and optimize their Inside Sales practices including building pipeline, generating revenue and redefining the image of the profession. In fact, her latest book, The Sales Development Playbook , was an Amazon #1 bestseller!

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Regardless of the way you reach out—via email, social media, text, direct mail, or even a knock on the door—prospects are cold as ice unless they know who you are and expect to hear from you. What Is Cold Calling?

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training? Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Prospecting is hard for most salespeople. In fact, getting a response from prospects was identified as the hardest part of the sales process in the 2018 State of Inbound Sales Report. These 45 tips from three remarkably insightful sales experts should make it much easier for you. Plan your prospecting approach.

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Gong.io

APRIL 22, 2022

Cold Email Example #1: It’s not about you (it’s about the prospect). Hi Kevin, Read your recent LinkedIn article The 4:1 Give-Get Sales Formula, and as a pretty green AE, it was great advice to remember as I start, and progress my sales career. Cold emails so good you’ll want to steal them. In this case, you can.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

There are, of course, tiers of customization required, depending on the size and importance of these accounts. For the stretch accounts — the ones you’d love to land because they have the power to change the course of your business — you need to go beyond customization to personalization. Here’s how you can do that.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

You might call a potential buyer ten times over the course of a few months. Start with 25 prospective companies – or 50 or 100 if you can consistently follow up with this number of contacts. Other posts here on trust: Inside Sales Power Tip – Build Trust. Leave a voice mail at least every other time.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

VP of Global Inside Sales at Tray.io. It’s about listening — mostly to customers, prospects, and partners — and managing what you measure. Your prospects may share that they’re pausing on projects or vendor meetings. Q: What should sales orgs expect to see in the coming weeks? If solid, stay the course.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Kick to the Curb in 2018. If you’re still cold calling prospects and think it’s a great way to generate new opportunities, stop selling now. I mean it -- quit sales and get a new job. Of course, you still need to do call prospecting, and in this scenario, warm calling is the way to go.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …).

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are two other ways to organically connect with leads using LinkedIn Sales Navigator. We’ve all seen talk of the “new normal” floating around rapid-fire tweets, deep-dive B2B podcasts, and earnest LinkedIn posts. Remember that before you start exporting the 2,500 leads your LinkedIn search returns all at once.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This includes answering questions, making recommendations, and guiding prospects through the sales funnel. Of course, sales organizations have always solicited and monitored feedback. This includes face-to-face, inside sales, and e-commerce. McKinsey notes today’s buyers utilize up to 10 channels.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Below are 12 of the top time hacks you can put in place to grow sales. I learned these not from being the most productive person, but often from being frustratingly slow or from losing important prospect or buyer information. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 30, 2015

Many of these folks correctly guessed or figured out that I have been involved in sales myself. Indeed, I have carried a briefcase around a territory, lived on draws and commissions and also more recently actually looked after a group of inside sales agents. Engaging Prospects. Source: iStock | ThinkStock.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Jason Bay , Chief Prospecting Officer at Blissful Prospecting , a company he built to coach B2B reps in outbound sales. Join us for a high-energy, people-focused conversation about doing a complete 180 with your outbound sales framework. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And in this day and age of cutthroat competition, the War for Talent, and fast-evolving B2B sales and marketing environments, you need the best B2B sales and marketing professionals serving on your behalf. Hiring for Your B2B Sales Team. Segmenting Your B2B Sales Team. The best place to start looking for new hires?

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Who should read this : For inside sales professionals that do a lot outbound prospecting.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. Sales managers love ClearSlide for the insight it offers into their team’s activities, and sales people love the automatic activity logging. LinkedIn: Sales Solutions. Aventioninc.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Newly added sales leaders you should follow (in alphabetical order by last name): 1. Crunchbase , LinkedIn , Twitter. Why Jordan should be on your radar: It’s probably a good idea to get used to seeing Jordan Arogeti on these sales leaders lists. VP of Sales at Mixpanel. Crunchbase , LinkedIn. LinkedIn , Twitter.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

2 Predictable Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting brings in some of the top minds in lead gen, social selling, and sales process. You’ll be sure to hear the importance of prospecting as well as dynamite for the rest of your sales process, even if you listen to a few episodes. 3 The Sales Podcasts.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 31, 2020

We will be talking about tips, strategies, and ideas about how businesses can prospect better and connect with potential clients. In the previous episode, Donald was joined by his sales coaching client, Scott Romney. SalesGoals SDRs and BDRs A BDR is a business development rep and an SDR is a sales development rep.

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Close.io

JULY 23, 2018

Sales reps today are more empowered than ever with technology that allows us to connect with prospects, build relationships, and close sales. On jumping from prospect to prospect. The issue is that at the start of your sales career, it’s hard, if not impossible to see the results of long-term relationship building.

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Scale Sales Qualified Lead Networking Lead Rank 94

Tenfold

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social selling expert, Neal Schaffer , has teamed up with Rutgers Business School Executive Education to create an eight week executive course dedicated to training organizations and professionals how to maximize social selling efforts and calculate ROI of those programs. Keep reading to learn about the course in his own words.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 6, 2018

Building Your Prospecting Engine. This session was standing room only – no really, dozens of extra chairs had to be brought in for attendees who showed up to hear John Barrows share his best advice for building a prospecting engine. Blueprints for Running Inside Sales Organizations. And That’s A Wrap.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Dan is the chief revenue officer and chief strategy officer at Dialpad, which is helping people manage their telephony across big customer support teams and big customer service teams, sales teams, etc. Dan was also an early employee at Google, where he led the inside sales organization at AdWords. Was it totally inbound?

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Gong.io

APRIL 14, 2021

Dan Shapero, Chief Business Officer at LinkedIn. Lekha Doshi, VP Global Operations at LinkedIn. Sales is not just limited to sales teams. Sales is a part of absolutely everything we do, and almost every part of a company. . . Paul Butterfield, VP Global Sales Enablement at Instructure. DYNAMIC. . . .

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Don on Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2018

After several conversations, presenting an online tour or two, submitting a sales proposal or contract, and setting up a free trial, you’re now confident that your prospect is ready to become a buyer. Your prospect lied to you. Yes, we have all heard that you need to vet a prospect to ensure they are indeed a decision maker.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 19, 2019

A trick I used a lot earlier in my career, and still do from time to time, is asking the prospect for feedback at that critical juncture (the part where they hang up on you). Scott Barker, Head of Partnerships, Sales Hacker and Evangelist, Outreach.io. Head of Partnerships, Sales Hacker and Evangelist, Outreach.io. Scott Barker.

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Cold Calling Face-to-face Call-back Lead Rank 67

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

Of course, we’re talking about what’s going on during the pandemic, but also just about his leadership skills and his experience. Our new sponsor’s LinkedIn , a company you’ve undoubtedly heard of. Sales teams have had to quickly adapt to a new normal. Go to sales.linkedin.com to try it out for yourself.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Six Sense account engagement platform uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale, identifying prospects who are in the market for your solution, and providing salespeople like you with the insight to create highly relevant messaging. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. Never before possible.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Pivotal Enterprise 83

Sales Hacker

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, he is running the sales organization at a company called Pangea, which scales up tech companies to expand into the EMEA market. If you missed episode 111, check it out here: Prospecting and Researching in Today’s Brave New World with Peter Wooster. You need the right sales enablement and culture wrapped around them.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 17, 2014

It’s probably not surprising to see yet another webinar about LinkedIn. If you want to boost your sales by tapping into the tremendous power of LinkedIn, then join me on July 22nd at 8:00 a.m. If you want to boost your sales by tapping into the tremendous power of LinkedIn, then join me on July 22nd at 8:00 a.m.

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 8, 2014

Rather than using all these new tools to compliment what we already had, we have forgotten why people actually buy, and we most certainly have forgotten to take into account how our customers and prospects want to buy. I challenge you to make your way around the sales space today.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

We are looking for entry-level Sales Representative professionals to join our growing team. Our Inside Sales Representative role offers an environment to learn, practice, challenge, and establish a strong foundation that’s invaluable to your career. Of course, be careful with copying/pasting info for your job descriptions.

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