No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 22, 2015

I’ve heard it takes at least seven to 10 touches for sales teams who cold call and cold email prospects to connect with decision-makers. And why is it so hard for these reps to actually get on their prospects’ calendars? Because decision-makers don’t take cold calls or respond to cold emails.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That’s why the salesmen and saleswomen who cultivate relationships and leverage them for introductions to prime prospects get meetings faster, fill their pipelines with hot sales leads, and convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. The #1 Sales Management Problem You Can Fix. Absolutely!

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve rounded up sales productivity stats from the leading research firms and vendors in the sales enablement space to put together stats bucked into a few different categories: customer experience; rep time management; sales managers; sales enablement; and technology usage.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 2, 2021

Here are the things the top sellers are doing right: They focus on the prospects’ needs. They ask questions that require a lot of information from the prospect, which will help them demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. A take away close is when you give the customer something as an incentive. Take away close.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

What we’re about to say is going to contradict every point we’ve made thus far—but hear us out: Stress can be beneficial for sales people. There’s no way around it, stress drives activity and sales managers know this. Start small, and expand your incentive program as you learn and grow. Look into prospecting tools.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What specific incentives do you offer, such as discounts or special offers? Think of this as part of the sales process. Perhaps they’re a targeted decision maker and a colleague of that client you just helped. These include asking for referrals, sending reminders, offering incentives, and collecting feedback.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ''A'' players on the team.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Meeting a sales quota during the holidays can be very challenging for the sales reps. Here’s how sales managers can help. In this article: The Importance of Sales Goal Setting for the Holidays. What Is a Sales Quota? Sales Quota Definition and Types. You’ve gotten in touch with the decision-maker.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

What is sales operations? The idea of sales operations—founded on the premise that good information combined with sound analysis will drive sales teams to better prospecting and higher closing rates—has been around since at least the 1970s. Sales rep support. Performance and incentive program management.

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Don on Selling

JANUARY 4, 2019

We all experience highs and lows in sales. Your sales manager loves you. You already know from experience that the order process can take a long time because several decision makers are probably involved in placing an order. Now, it can take as much as five people to make a final decision on an order.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When reps are contending with gatekeepers, champions, influencers, blockers, and decision-makers, lost opportunities may require a more nuanced explanation than “getting outsold.” What are the commonalities amongst the opportunities that close without a decision? A more supportive and collaborative sales culture.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 2, 2019

However you wish you could pinpoint why you’re failing to connect with the decision-makers that authorize the purchase. Only if you had more information than relying on tones and verbal cues of your prospects! What is cold canvassing in sales? You can learn more about your prospects. Let’s begin with the basics.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 9, 2019

This systematic evaluation of the opportunities, strengths and vulnerabilities associated with an account provides a complete analysis of a prospect. A Field of Play may be a specific region, division or department that makes decisions independently—and possibly with different key players—than the larger account.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

For each sales call and meeting, know your prospects. Sure, Mikey is the manufacturing manager. These minor details can help sellers align decision makers to promote a solution and advocate their cause. Even though you used it for years, rehearse and tweak it for this prospect. Think like a prospect.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

There’s no way around it, stress drives activity and sales managers know this. The key to sales success is to harness the right kind and amount of stress to motivate your employees rather than discourage them. Start small, and expand your incentive program as you learn and grow. Look into prospecting tools.

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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. Discover the exact content for each prospects’ needs without leaving Salesforce or their mobile device. Act-On ToolSkool.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

The stages of the sales process 5 less-common (but still important) sales process stages 4 formats for organizing your sales process Strategies for creating and improving your sales process Challenges of a sales process What is a sales process? Why is it important to have a structured sales process?

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Salespeople typically detest meetings because they take time away from what they’d rather be doing: calling prospects, scheduling appointments, and closing deals. The biggest hurdle when scheduling team sales meetings is finding a time that works for everyone. Pro tip: If you want to maximize attendance, offer incentives.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. You get limited time with decision-makers, influencers, and the people who sign off on this.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

Linking Into Sales Podcast. The Sales Evangelist. Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The Sales Babble Podcast. Sales Pipeline Radio. Make It Happen Mondays -- B2B Sales with John Barrows. The Sales Podcast. In the Arena.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2020

As a result, coaching and the steady production of fresh, new sales training ideas can be major stressors for sales managers, particularly on SaaS sales teams. Everything, from conversational approach to presentation design to follow-up method to prospecting strategy, can come under the banner of sales training.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. Features: Revenue growth Full customer view Reporting and analytics Price : Month to month plans start at $25 10) VanillaSoft VanillaSoft’s mission is to remove all barriers to sales productivity.

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Highspot

MARCH 9, 2022

Why is sales leadership important? Sales leadership vs. sales management. How to become a sales leader. 5 popular sales leadership styles. 8 top skills that effective sales leaders have. What Is a Sales Leader? Sales leaders are just that — the leaders in the sales department.

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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 16, 2018

By role, who was involved in the buying decision and who was the primary decision maker? What was the monthly dollar value of your average sales pipeline and how many prospects were included in it in each of the past three years? required to close a sale in each of the past three years? the past three years?

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Xvoyant

MAY 1, 2019

This presents a challenge for sales managers. Good sales habits mainly arise from focused onboarding and training programs. Sales Professionals Do a Ton of Research. Sales professionals like to talk about the pitch, but while a cohesive presentation is important, this is really just the icing on top of the cake.

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Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s great if you can fill the top of the funnel, but you won’t get far if your sales pipeline is a leaky bucket. This article is designed to help you identify ways to improve the way you engage with prospects in your sales pipeline stages. The importance of defining sales pipeline stages. Rethink incentives.

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Xactly

JULY 11, 2018

As a sales professional, one of the most common things you hear from prospects is an objection. In sales, objections come every day. What sets a strong sales rep apart from someone with less-experienced reps is how the rep handles objections when they are meeting face-to-face or cold calling. Take Time to Listen.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Good persona building will make prospecting and turning those prospects into qualified leads much easier. Setting clear goals for your sales strategy is just as important, helping establish company-wide performance expectations and giving your salespeople the incentives they need to excel. Step 1: Find your data.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

An SQL is a lead that has passed both the marketing vetting process and the sales vetting process (e.g., extensive research of the company, decision makers, budget, etc.). Unfortunately, MQLs are often sent too soon — they don’t meet the criteria set by sales. What score means a prospect can be considered an MQL?

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Xvoyant

MAY 1, 2019

This presents a challenge for sales managers. Good sales habits mainly arise from focused onboarding and training programs. Sales Professionals Do a Ton of Research. Sales professionals like to talk about the pitch, but while a cohesive presentation is important, this is really just the icing on top of the cake.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 31, 2021

With this knowledge in hand, Crawford could tailor incentives to match, rewarding the whole team with bonuses and social events for good performance. Sales Rep C is different still. C’s sales leader motivates them by offering prizes for exceeding targets — a vacation (when those become a thing again)? A set of steak knives?

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

Get creative with loyalty incentives. Often, this number can improve with better time-management. This includes more effective prospecting. It can also be boosted with regular sales coaching and training. More than products and services, it extends to your leadership and sales team. Seek new ways to help.

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Xactly

AUGUST 15, 2018

We’ve broken down the best ways for you to increase sales in the second half of the year to finish out your fiscal year strong. Build up Your Sales Pipeline. The more opportunities you have in your sales pipeline, the greater your chances are for increasing sales revenue. Get More Sales From Existing Customers.

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PandaDoc

MAY 26, 2022

While your sales strategy can (and should) provide revenue targets and year-over-year metric goals for reps and sales managers, you might also include guidance on building customer relationships and helping customers solve tier pain points. Ask yourself: What incentive are your competitors offering?

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

Yet we see time and again that sales professionals are having a difficult time abandoning their old product or solution focused sales methods, and adopting new strategies and tools remains difficult even when there is significant and compelling evidence that change is needed.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The first thing we do is define what it means to outsource sales, how to go about outsourcing your company’s sales efforts, and when you should or shouldn’t. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? In the past, most outsource sales team were done in-house. Systematically generating leads.

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