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To Get Past More Gatekeepers, Just Get In The Gate

MTD Sales Training

The Gatekeeper; that secretary, receptionist or otherwise, frontline person whose job, it seems, is to make your life as a professional sales person, miserable. Yes, a good gatekeeper (GK) can indeed cause havoc and prevent you from getting to the decision maker (DM). So to get past more gatekeepers, just get in the gate.

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B2B Prospecting: The 11 Best Methods You Should Be Leveraging

Hubspot Sales

Learn how to communicate with gatekeepers. But referrals rarely come arbitrarily — you need to give a customer some reason to recommend your solution to their friends, colleagues, or industry peers. That generally starts with offering an exceptional product and supporting it with first-rate customer service.

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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. Systems Management.

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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. It also signals to reps that live off an outdated system to change their ways.

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2023’s 19 Best Sales Prospecting Tools

Hubspot Sales

The platform is easy to use and has an incredibly good customer service team to accompany it. Your data is automatically pulled from your customer relationship management system (CRM) or a CSV file. What we love: UpLead uses a pay-as-you-go system, which makes it a more affordable solution for most salespeople.

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20 Executive Assistant Interview Questions

Hubspot Sales

EAs need to be diplomatic with good communication while remaining a firm and decisive gatekeeper for the executive. How to answer : Have you created a new organization system for something, like color-coding or folders in an inbox? Have you improved an ineffective system or implemented a new software?

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Do You View Sales As A Sport?

Smooth Sale

Otherwise, I viewed everyone employed at the company as a candidate for helping me through the system. Included were guards, gatekeepers, receptionists, and people in the basement, in addition to the executives of large corporations. I spoke to everyone as equals.

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