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Inside Sales: Listen Up!

No More Cold Calling

No One Wants to Get a Cold Call I don’t answer cold calls, and I don’t respond to cold emails—and neither do the decision-makers you want to reach. We’re onto your tricks of calling from your cell phone so “wireless caller” appears. Guess what decision-makers do with those?

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PODCAST 133: How to Go From Startup to Pre-IPO: Unexpected Lessons From a 20-Year Sales Veteran with Jim Donovan

Sales Hacker

So I got into sales management pretty quickly with EarthLink Wireless. The one thing I will say has really sweetened and juiced our own performance has been the ability to get to the decision maker’s mobile device, and absolutely add SMS into the equation. I just really loved people and working with people.

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