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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. We’re onto their tricks of calling from cell phones so “wireless caller” appears.

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

Sales Hacker

Our VP of Sales, Eric Hamlin, loves to cite Marcel Mauss in our sales meetings and training. . Consider the decision-maker or buyer within a company — they get sales email… after sales email… after sales email. a Qi wireless charger. This concept isn’t new. They want something new in their everyday process.

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

Jonathan Farrington

This desire to be connected, and the availability of powerful Smartphones connected over fast wireless networks has laid the groundwork for a rapidly emerging trend in sales management; a fundamental shift to in the moment management of agile field forces powered by real-time, location based activity streams. Communication Channels.

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The Sales Association: Cold Calling Lives

The Sales Association

There is so much training and support for people who conduct sales face to face, but what about the phone? 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.

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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.*. It’s getting your entire go-to-market team trained and prepared with the right knowledge and skills. Part of the reason is that buyers have also changed.

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What Tech Spending Trends in 2017 Predict for 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

Along with Data Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Centers, Wireless and Automation initiatives, Collaboration, and Unified Communications are the areas expected to be invested in most in the upcoming months. This comes as no shock considering the onslaught of data breaches, hacking, and ransomware seen in 2017.

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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

He’s hired, trained, and promoted over 1500 professionals, and he is trustworthy, ethical, detail-oriented, team worker, confident, and poised in his interactions at all levels. So I got into sales management pretty quickly with EarthLink Wireless. I think that inbound SDRs are a great place to have a training ground.

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