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Inside Sales: Listen Up!

No More Cold Calling

What salespeople—and sales managers— need to understand is that calls are either hot or cold. 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. Guess what decision-makers do with those?

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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. Because decision-makers don’t take cold calls or respond to cold emails. They have better things to do, and so does your sales team. Who has that kind of time?

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Adam Hollander, CEO of @FST_Games

SBI

This week I interview Adam Hollander, CEO of Fantasy Sales Team. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Adam: FantasySalesTeam helps sales managers run more engaging and higher performing sales contests with their reps. Most traditional sales contests have three problems.

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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. There is a new breed of sales tools emerging that leverages massive advances in mobile technologies to convert these expectations and desires into hyper-efficient sales.

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The Sales Association: Cold Calling Lives

The Sales Association

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. I know, I know, management provides you with these snazzy Web leads and purchased lists and calls it "warm calling"—whatever that means. They needed access to the decision-makers at these mid-sized local businesses.

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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

I immediately got into sales management. So I got into sales management pretty quickly with EarthLink Wireless. I think this is an important tip for anybody in sales or anybody in sales management. I knew I always wanted to be generating revenue. That was what I liked about Wall Street.

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