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Fake Prospects, Fake Buyers, Fake News

The Sales Hunter

The prospect agrees to take your meeting, and they even agree to your demo call. Both indicate that they are going to make decision quickly. Find out more about how to sell to multiple decision makers in my video below: You can’t be in sales long before dealing w ith this issue. It’s not hard.

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How Can I Tell If I Have Qualified Prospects?

The Sales Hunter

We cannot forget that not all prospects are created equal. Some prospects are actually not prospects at all, they’re just suspects in disguise. Everybody in sales cannot find enough time to prospect. This allows you to keep a cleaner pipeline, so you’ll have more time to spend on your best prospects.

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Sales Process for the Anti-Sales Process Crowd

Understanding the Sales Force

Similarly, there are stages to the sales process. In its most generic form, stages correspond to opportunities as they move from suspect to prospect to qualified opportunity, to closable and finally, closed. The problem that people have with sales process is with the stages and milestones that make up the sales process.

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Transform your interactions: practice courtesy and kindness

Mr. Inside Sales

Throughout my inside sales career, as both a sales rep and as a sales coach, I have always stressed the importance of those two words, “Thank you” and “Please.” Nothing gets you further with a gatekeeper than using those magic words, and being polite and professional always helps you with both prospects and clients.

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How Conversation Intelligence Puts Sales Coaching Into Overdrive

Mindtickle

Sharing a relevant learning module and AI-based insights: Was the rep able to gather the critical details they needed to pre-qualify the account, e.g., the customer’s challenges and goals, their current solution, their willingness to spend, the influencers and decision-makers in the buying cycle, etc.?

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How Conversation Intelligence Puts Sales Coaching Into Overdrive

Mindtickle

Sharing a relevant learning module and AI-based insights: Was the rep able to gather the critical details they needed to pre-qualify the account, e.g., the customer’s challenges and goals, their current solution, their willingness to spend, the influencers and decision-makers in the buying cycle, etc.?

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Your Guide to Sales Qualification

Gong.io

Many salespeople waste too much time on prospects with little to no chance of converting. Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. Read on to learn more.