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B2B Prospecting: The 11 Best Methods You Should Be Leveraging

Hubspot Sales

Learn how to communicate with gatekeepers. Study up on how to tailor your messaging to accommodate cold leads. But referrals rarely come arbitrarily — you need to give a customer some reason to recommend your solution to their friends, colleagues, or industry peers. Learn how to communicate with gatekeepers.

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Is Your Compensation Plan Evolving with the Company?

SBI Growth

You expect them to hunt new logos AND upsell existing customers. They are also your ad-hoc customer service team. Same Old Quota: Back in the day, just getting past the gatekeeper and into the corporate office required a lot of legwork. Most of your reps seem to lack the urgency and hustle of the competition.

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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. If you want to boost your sales efforts and reach your audience effectively, you should familiarize yourself with the way they shop, instead of blindly relying on your email blast service.

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

ExecVision

The Copy Machine Study. 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. It’s simple, people like to have a reason behind the things they do. So, how are my questions so different from yours?

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[Part 3] Execute on Account-based Marketing: Value Selling to Stakeholders at Key Accounts

LeveragePoint

In the hands of good sales teams, strong Value Propositions evolve from Flexible Case Studies early in the sales cycle to Customer Value Analyses during a customer evaluation to a Shared Business Case to Buy that helps sales teams speed the time to closing. Here is the clinical study. Too good to be true? Organizers.

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Selling – The New Normal By Drew Stevens

Sales Training Advice

In the age of caller ID, the number of gatekeepers and simply busyness- people are too busy. Customer Response – I wish I had a dollar for every selling professional that kept promises to contact me on specific dates and times. Treat your customers correctly by becoming engaged. Cold calling is a disruption. It wastes time.

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

LeadFuze

Examples are CEO, Director X, or gatekeeper. Companies that can benefit from this sales role play exercise are those with a culture of excellence and high performance.Here is one of the customer service role play scenarios. This exercise is to make a list of personas that you typically come across in your day-to-day work.