The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Set a schedule to call all the prospects that went to no decision over the last 12 months.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s This post has 2 comments.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. The question is: What should one’s sales prospecting strategy be?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Presentation. Prospecting.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Prospecting. Presentation Skills. Territory Management. It includes: Writing and presentation abilities, which are needed when interacting over email, social media, video conference, or in-person. Prospecting. Unfortunately, we’ve all experienced poor sales prospecting. Communication. Business Acumen.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 3, 2014

Ken spent the day talking with customers, partners, and prospective customers about the ins and outs of remote, professional selling – also known as “inside sales” Here are some of my favorite takeaways in no particular order – just things that make you think a bit as you grow your sales career. ” Analyze.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

2) Don’t Ignore the Candidate’s Red Flags Perhaps your prospective sales rep has an impressive resume, one which lists a series of excellent sales positions with an exciting range of duties, goals, and accomplishments. What matters is the potential mentor’s approach to sales and prospecting.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Pipeliner

MAY 2, 2018

The true sales hunters will dive 10,000 leagues deep below the ocean and know what their prospects had for breakfast that morning. If you don’t have a provocative business case that will pique your prospective customer’s interest, you’re sunk like the Titanic. Adding prospects on Facebook is risky.

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Prospecting Google Ideal Customer Profile Harvest 68

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 6, 2019

They learn how to use HubSpot’s CRM , Marketing , and Sales tools. The hands-on trainings have them building landing pages, setting up contacts, and presenting “final projects” at the end of their training cycle. Train them on how to use your CRM. When appropriate, have them take a CRM certification exam.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Training Topics: Social prospecting: You need to teach them how to identify prospects on social media. Give historical context to the territories/accounts. Be present when the new rep’s Sales Manager is not available.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

CRM worlds about compliance. While some of the vendors would claim it’s important, the goal of CRM is not system utilization. CRM is supposed to help sales people be more effective and more efficient. It’s supposed to help them better manage their opportunities, territories, and time.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2020

It listed information for all the prospects in my California territory including the company name, revenue figures, address, telephone number and — of course — the decision maker’s name and title. It’s much easier now to find out what you need to know about a prospect or a client. A lot has changed since then — or has it?

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 137

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a sales professional, the rate at which you’re expected to guide prospects through the sales process and drive revenue for your company is likely increasing. In fact, doing so can help salespeople reach more prospects in less time and close more deals at a faster rate. HubSpot CRM. Best for: CRM that grows with your company.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Prospecting Attention Deficit Disorder: How to Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome. And you competently juggle your frenetic schedule, apportioning just the right amount of time for office work, prospecting, sales calls, follow-up, travel, and communication. An interested prospect you just met with. The arrival of an RFP.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The basic issue with such an application—aside from the fact that someone can forget to update it—is that none of them present an instant, visual insight into how all of your leading indicators add up to your lagging indicators, moment to moment, day to day and week to week. But what should a CRM solution really be?

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Territory shift. When a business expands into new territory, assigns different territory to a sales rep, or a new territory management plan is introduced, there are possibilities of a temporary dip in sales. It takes time for sales professionals to adapt to a change and adjust to the new territory. Policy changes.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

CRM systems provide a place for contact, customer and activity reporting. Sales reps that don’t use CRM need to understand that this is not acceptable any more. More companies are adopting a policy that if something isn’t in CRM, it isn’t real. Once again, a requirement to use a CRM system is the best insurance against this.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

Remember, prospecting is all about people. The only way to actually “see” the news was in a movie theater, during the black-and-white newsreels that ran before the feature presentation. This isn’t just dangerous territory for families; it also makes for bad business. You’ve heard it: Television will kill radio.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Your business strategies are the same as the gold-miners, except instead of digging for ore, you’re digging for customers, with your mind focused on this: you want to find the right prospects—the serious buyers.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

You know how the typical prospect goes from an email address in your CRM to a paying customer. You've trained your salespeople on the key actions required to move prospects from stage to stage. An "opportunity" is a contact in your CRM confirmed their interest in your product or service. The problem with this?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. PROACTIVE PROSPECTING! As you may have noticed over to the right, we are presenting the Proactive Prospecting Workshop in Toronto/Markham, scheduled for April 13.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

One that permeates many aspects of sales, starting at planning and territory alignment, right down to day-to-day tactical aspects of sales. While it may present itself in other ways, one of the biggest causes of lost deals is being out of synch with the buyers timing, this misalignment is the silent killer in sales. Presentation.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

MediaFly @mediafly MediaFly gives your sales and marketing teams a simple way to create, deliver, and analyze engaging sales presentations all from one technology solution. Its sales territory optimization solutions enable companies to maximize revenues across the entire sales force – territory by territory.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

A startling fact, presented over and over in b2b studies shows that most sales reps do not follow up enough – despite the few we know of who seem to overcall – or follow up too many times with unqualified opportunities. The same is true for companies in your geographic territory who fit one of your buyer profiles.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. Presentations. Not only can you create and edit PowerPoint presentations, but Soonr allows you to access and share over 40 different types of files, from spreadsheets to mp3’s. Presentation.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As they look ahead to the upcoming year, recent PwC research shows that more than half of UK manufacturers are gearing up to introduce new products, with more than a quarter (27.3%) hoping to explore uncharted territory and expand into new markets. CRM software, for example, is helping companies choose which product investments to make.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Integrate your CRM, webinar management and more, most with one click. Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. Sales reps can use DocuSign right from within Salesforce CRM. CRM Solutions for your Enterprise. Act-On ToolSkool. Aventioninc.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2020

The result: we win more deals because the bulk of our sales efforts are laser focused on prospects who are ready to engage. By tuning into this data in real time, we can systematically identify and target the personas in our territory who are most likely to convert to customers. The freemium model is nothing new to the SaaS industry.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Guest Post , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Video , Voice mail , execution. For me the question of whether you do or do not leave voice mails when prospecting is so Sales -1.0, Presentation. Prospecting.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When a company has clearly defined win rate criteria, calculates its win rate frequently, and takes insight-based action to improve win rate, it is setting itself up to turn a higher percentage of prospects into customers. Price: Your final asking price exceeded what the prospect was willing to pay. Use a Sales Win Rate Calculator.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I was presenting at an Apple expo here in Toronto, there were two tracks, one for the public, the other for Apple resellers, my crowd. in addition to presentations there were a number of vendors. Presentation. Prospecting. Territory Alignment. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success.

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Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

Less time in front of prospects & customers [post-COVID] he COVID-19 pandemic drastically reduced the amount of face-to-face time sales representatives have with prospects and clients. Sales representatives must be trained to ensure they adhere to these requirements in their interactions with prospects and clients.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Unfortunately, your reps get bogged down with additional responsibilities like client management, CRM upkeep, and admin responsibilities in addition to their selling tasks. But modern sales technology automates the responsibilities that pull your reps away from prospect engagement. Let’s dive into an example.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Territory Assignment and Growth Forecasting. Allocation of Accounts and Sales Territories. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platform. Based on his matrix (see below) , companies reeling in below one million dollars in ARR can hire a number of tech-savvy staff, analysts and administrators to: Manage the CRM.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 28, 2011

Most common of these is prospecting, but there are other things including keeping the information in their CRM up-to-date. Fearing that if they “lost” the rep they would somehow be behind, the vacant territory syndrome. There is a remedy, the logical one is fire them, but I know that’s not fashionable these days.

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