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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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[Missed Connections] Referral Selling Insights from June

No More Cold Calling

If your sales reps aren’t on target to make or exceed quota, and aren’t getting meetings at the right level, now is the time to switch tactics … before it’s too late. 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?

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

Sales Hacker

More recently, companies have started to integrate swag into their sales sequences, driving healthy growth for the entire industry. These items end up in the trash, hardly a worthy investment of your firm’s marketing and sales budgets. . Like any marketing or sales tool, promotional products are an investment. The new SaaS.

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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 post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company executives. This week I interview Adam Hollander, CEO of Fantasy Sales Team. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations?

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

Jonathan Farrington

Field sales reps have a reputation for being early adopters of technology that will make them more productive. They know that the more efficient they can be in communicating with prospects, the more productive they will be at advancing the sales cycle. The Psyche of the Great Sales Rep. Ubiquitous Mobile Access.

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The Sales Association: Cold Calling Lives

The Sales Association

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Just because someone downloads a white paper or attends a Webinar doesnt mean they are even remotely interested in doing a sales call. After all, they got into sales because they like working with people. Wednesday, November 9, 2011.