No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

How do I sell effectively on social media? How to Reach Decision Makers Every Time. Salespeople continually struggle with reaching B2B decision makers. They rely on what they’ve done before, which is cold calling and sending cold emails, and decision makers don’t want either. The answer is you.

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John Barrows

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Decision makers and champions are parts of a salesperson’s everyday life. We’re constantly reaching out to talk to decision makers or champions that can help us land that next deal and solve that problem or pain for a customer or client. But how do you spot genuine decision makers and champions?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 16, 2019

Everyone wants a piece of the "big cheese"… the "head-honcho," the "main man" or "main woman," or otherwise known as the decision maker. Often, the lone source of the YES to the solutions you sell, connecting with the elusive decision maker can be mission impossible and derail a sale before it gets started.

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SalesHandy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Especially when you’re looking for decision makers, who’re usually inaccessible, and often indistinguishable from other prospects within the organization. Hence it is important to learn and figure out how to find decision makers in a company as part of your sales process. Who are Decision makers in a company.

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

How to Reach Decision-Makers When Selling to Enterprises When selling, we want to talk to the decision makers but how do you reach them in order to qualify them as a prospect? It’s become even harder to get a hold of decision-makers. The solution is to go back to personalization. Email them.

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Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Technical decision makers are skeptical by nature. Technical decision makers are just as skeptical with each other as they are with the sales, marketing and non-technical types reading this article. As a result, these decision makers continuously validate the technical and scientific truth underpinning What They Know.

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Pointclear

MARCH 27, 2014

Co-hosts Paul and Allan tee up the show by discussing several hot news items relevant to the B2B market - Here’s what they noshed on, on Episode #5: According to the latest CMO Survey, 85% of CMOs either have not shown any impact from social media spending or have only a qualitative sense of its effectiveness.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Reaching an important decision maker directly is always a challenge. If you have approach the decision maker directly, and you’ve been sidelined by the gatekeeper — that avenue of contact won’t work. The gatekeeper’s job isn’t to stop everyone getting to the decision maker. These are the Gatekeepers.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I’m tired of hearing sales leaders complain about not having enough leads, struggling to get access to decision-makers, and not making quota. Instead of using social media to make connections and strengthen relationships with potential prospects and referral sources, they pitch, spam, and annoy their contacts.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 11, 2016

With social media, much of the marketing focus has shifted away from what makes basic and good marketing. Yet having read this social media marketing post on LinkedIn Pulse , much of what the writer states is just as true for basic education based marketing. They do not want sales pitches!

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. He complained that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. Their outreach took too long.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It’s email blasts, video calls, text messages, and cold outreach on social media. Whether you’re sending direct mail, knocking on doors to make an in-person sales call, sending unsolicited email, or prospecting on social media —your leads are cold, and your outreach is uninvited. STOP Cold Calling.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Once upon a time, there was a notion that social media was unnecessary for selling; it was a novelty and not a staple. At the time, some believed that enterprise-level decision makers couldn’t be reached on social platforms.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

That includes working with your sales team to identify the target buyer’s demographics, firmographics, preferred social media platforms, and where they are in the buyer’s journey. That’s where your inbound email and social media marketing come in. Lead Generation Through Social Media Marketing.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. Yet, far too many sales teams depend on email, texts, and social media for generating sales leads. She knew they relied almost exclusively on technology for generating sales leads.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Take this opportunity to test consistent messaging and branding across channels, such as email campaigns, sales talk tracks, search ads, and social media content. Since the average opportunity has multiple stakeholders, you’ll want to create a multi-threading campaign to target the key decision-makers at each top account.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. • Highlight the specific digital channels or platforms you will leverage, such as social media, search engine marketing, content marketing, etc. • Proposed Services: • Detail the specific digital media services you are offering, such as social media management, website development, online advertising, SEO, etc.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 23, 2018

It’s not, because that’s not what social media is for. What Is Social Selling? . Social selling is a misleading term. Done right, it doesn’t actually involve selling, which is good, because no one wants to be sold to on social media. Why Is Social Selling Important? 5 Social Selling Don’ts.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

Regardless of the way you reach out—via email, social media, text, direct mail, or even a knock on the door—prospects are cold as ice unless they know who you are and expect to hear from you. Social media has further complicated the cold calling discussion by introducing the idea of “warm” calls. What Buyers Want.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

They may even extend to your social media and email strategy. According to a study by Edelman, 88% B2B of decision-makers believe that thought leadership is effective in enhancing their perceptions of an organization—yet only 17% of them rate the quality of most of the thought leadership they read as very good or excellent.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 11, 2014

Today’s buyer is more empowered than ever before, leveraging content from the Internet, discussion groups and social media to take charge of the purchase decision-making process. The question was posed as a key portion of IDC’s annual 2013 IT Buyer Experience Study , surveying over 200 executive decision makers worldwide.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 14, 2017

They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. He complained to me that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. Their outreach took too long.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

There’s no way around it: Social media has drastically changed the way modern companies do business. But, what do you really know about social selling? The State of Social Selling. 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ). B2B Social Selling with Twitter.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 2, 2017

that social media is here to stay. The majority of people can’t go a day without feeding into the social media frenzy. In Salesforce’s Second Annual State of Sales report , 44% of sales professionals said it is very important, and often critical, to use social media when connecting with customers.

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eGrabber

JULY 31, 2023

In today’s business world, it is more important than ever to have accurate and verified email addresses of CXOs and decision makers in B2B companies. With the right email addresses, you can reach these decision-makers directly and build relationships that can lead to new business opportunities.

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eGrabber

JULY 31, 2023

In today’s business world, it is more important than ever to have accurate and verified email addresses of CXOs and decision makers in B2B companies. With the right email addresses, you can reach these decision-makers directly and build relationships that can lead to new business opportunities.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It can show the values important to decision makers. People Prep Preparation includes the people you need to know, such as decision makers, gatekeepers , and influencers. Proper people prep includes: Directories Social media LinkedIn Referrals Directories, such as ZoomInfo, are great to determine who you must know.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Imagine this: You're in a live sales meeting in a conference room with three decision-makers, and one of them, while you're talking, pulls out their phone and starts responding to text and email messages. They continue to check the news and start fiddling on social media. You even hear a light snicker.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In order to reach, pitch and ultimately close a deal, sales professionals need to be engaging with prospective decision-makers (6.8 per B2B buying decision) across social media platforms. Some love the phone while others avoid calls and won’t engage unless you reach out through email, socially, even text.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Has the internet and social media killed off the more traditional ways of selling? Just look at these statistics and you will see why cold calling is fast becoming a dying art form: 73% of decision makers won’t accept an inbound cold call – Market Transformations. The Social Media Revolution.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

Read More: Using Intent Data to Improve ABM Campaigns Trend #3: Mainstream adoption of multi-channel B2B ads Historically, social media ads have been dominated by B2C companies (with the exception of LinkedIn). For example, maybe a sales rep has a meeting with a decision-maker at a prospective account.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2019

Sales leaders acknowledge that referrals are their fastest revenue driver and solve their two biggest issues: getting qualified leads in the pipe and scoring meetings with decision-makers. Salespeople often forget that social media is the place to begin a conversation and begin a relationship.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Because of the advent of email and then text, and certainly social media, we’ve all become conditioned to respond whenever we think about it, feel like it, or remember it. Consider the impact this will have on your client or prospect compared to them not hearing from you for a few days, or even a week or longer. Get Access Today.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In its recent “Predictions 2020: B2B Marketing and Sales” report, Forrester says 62% of global B2B marketing decision makers are planning to increase their data management investments. The health of companies’ data will become imperative.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yet, it’s also a challenging task for many salespeople — from hunting down contact information to getting a decision-maker on the phone. The key to a great sale is to identify your decision makers – learn how data can help. Get Social with Your Prospects. link] — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) January 20, 2021.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Whether you want to start a conversation over the phone, via social media or email, you need to start your message with something that pertains only to that individual. It’s not necessary, and perhaps not even wise, to start by talking with the individual who you believe is the ultimate decision maker.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Remember, this personal touch doesn’t begin and end with decision makers. As with decision makers, engage your gatekeeper as a fellow human being and worker. As with decision makers, body language creates an impression. More than just the who, they know how decisions are made.

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