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7 Sales Prospecting Tips to Ignite Even the Coldest Pipes

Zoominfo

The key to a great sale is to identify your decision makers – learn how data can help. Can we unpack that?’ “ Read more about building better ICPs: How Can You Use Data to Build Better Personas? These simple details turn your script from annoying telemarketer call to grab-their-attention conversation.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Not surprisingly, several respondents emphasized the importance of advancing tech skills, including understanding tech stacks and embracing the wave of customer data. Demonstrating emotional intelligence and empathy goes a long way in marketing communications; no one wants to be treated as if they’re a data point.

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Sales Processes Research 2020 – Something Old, Something New

Sales Hacker

Next was good old-fashioned referrals and networking, and then the newcomer LinkedIn, both through personal accounts and using Sales Navigator. Perhaps surprising was the fact that many people were still cold calling and using telemarketing. Data protection legislations, such as GDPR, on cold calling and emailing are being ignored.

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The Seven Rules Of Cold Calling [INFOGRAPHIC]

InsideSales.com

Cold Calling Motivation for Sales Teams: What Sales Managers Can Do to Motivate Reps. That way, you will be able to lead them further along the sales funnel faster. Another one of the cold calling techniques sales managers and salespeople should follow is this strategy: don’t give up! Persistency.

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What is Inside Sales? The Definition of Modern-Day Selling

OutboundView

The genesis of inside sales has its roots in telemarketing. Telemarketers would cold-call all day long, often rudely interrupting a prospect’s day or dinner to ask them if they wanted to buy a random product. Sales teams are often comprised of both inside and outside sales reps. Short History. Conclusion.

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Inside/Outside, Is It Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

I’d visit some of the call centers, and see people with head sets, boards at the front with call tallies, queues, and all sorts of minute by minute data. Comedians would joke about annoying telemarketers–that’s what a lot of inside sales people were called, even though they were doing no marketing, just pure selling.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

For Millennials and others looking to leverage LinkedIn or Sales Navigator at the core of your strategy, I would highly recommend dropping everything and reading Neil Rackham 's books like SPIN Selling. Wouldn't it be nice to manage the KPIs that can actually be managed and leverage the sales activities that actually lead to revenue outcomes?