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B2B Prospecting: The 11 Best Methods You Should Be Leveraging

Hubspot Sales

Maintain a presence in LinkedIn groups. Understand your ideal customer profile — inside and out. Learn how to communicate with gatekeepers. Maintain a presence in LinkedIn groups. LinkedIn groups relevant to your vertical offer you unique opportunities to productively connect with prospects.

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17 Essential Sales Competencies of Top Sales Teams

Hubspot Sales

During this stage, B2B reps may also have to communicate with gatekeepers to reach the individual who can make the final purchasing decision. After you make your initial outreach to the contact or gatekeeper, your goal is to establish a meeting or call to keep the conversation going. Customer Service. Change Management.

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Hiring for Sales Ops? The 5 Job Descriptions You Need

Hubspot Sales

This role serves as an administrator and gatekeeper for your sales team. No previous sales experience may be required, though previous customer service, support, or administrative experience is likely preferred. Image source: Shashi Group, LLC. Sales Operations Analyst Job Description.

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The Consumer Buying Behavior in the Digital Age [Infographic]

Connext Digital

Salespeople were the gatekeepers of information—you needed to ask them about anything you needed to know about the product you wanted to get. Perform data cleansing to weed out those that don’t fit your ideal customer profile. Here are some more interesting facts that are specific to groups of people. Who is your audience?

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SBWA — Selling By Walking Around

Partners in Excellence

The concept is that executives get a much better understanding of what’s happening in their organization through informal visits–random tours of factories, facilities, meetings with groups or people/customers. We may want to sit in their customer service organization, listening to calls from their customers.

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‘Because’ 93% of the Time it Works Every Time

ExecVision

It can be eye-opening to see what information you can get from gatekeepers and admins during a cold call by asking the right questions. Sales or customer service lines. Tell them you need it: BECAUSE you share a LinkedIn group with the executive. So, how are my questions so different from yours? IT help desk.

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8 Sales Role Play Exercises to Prepare Your Team for the Win

LeadFuze

Playing telephone can be done with as few as two people, or in a large group. If the game is played in groups of three to four players each, have them play against one another so that they are not waiting for their turn. Continue circling the group until you have gone all around or for a specified period of time.