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Inside Sales: Listen Up!

No More Cold Calling

If only you weren’t graded on the number of dials you made or restricted from spending too much time on the phone with a prospect. Regardless of how you reach out to prospects, your attempt is either: Cold : Your prospect doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Guess what decision-makers do with those?

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[Missed Connections] Referral Selling Insights from June

No More Cold Calling

Are your sales reps still wasting time with cold prospecting—sending emails and social media requests to strangers who aren’t expecting to hear from them? They must take responsibility for qualified lead generation and scoring meetings with decision-makers. We haven’t rewired ourselves just because the world has gone wireless.

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No One Wants Your Cold Calls

No More Cold Calling

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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Does Swag Work as a Sales Tool? (Here’s What the Data Says)

Sales Hacker

Whether you’re trying to attract new talent at a college career fair with a free notebook or get your foot in the door of an enticing prospect with a memorable gift, the best-case scenario is a give-and-take relationship that is established with a physical item. How much variety exists in your sequences between one prospect and another?

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Guest Post: Agile Sales – converting managers from bureaucrats to coaches

Jonathan Farrington

They know that the more efficient they can be in communicating with prospects, the more productive they will be at advancing the sales cycle. Great Sales Reps are, by definition self-directed, independent decision makers with strong personalities. The Psyche of the Great Sales Rep. Communication Channels.

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The Sales Association: Cold Calling Lives

The Sales Association

But these prospects raised their hands," they tell you. Case Study We do phone sales training with a Fortune 50 wireless telecom client that has a large SMB field sales team in the Midwest. They needed access to the decision-makers at these mid-sized local businesses. Lets call them Anycom. They had a problem.

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Frictionless Selling: Where Modern Selling Meets Modern Buying

Showpad

70% of B2B decision-makers say they are open to making new purchases over $50,000 in a fully self-serve or remote fashion, and 27% would spend more than $500,000.*. Today, they need to be properly coached to guide and engage with prospects via high impact experiences. Part of the reason is that buyers have also changed.

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