The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Simply promote the workshop by tweeting it to your friends, followers, neighbors, former lovers, etc. But to qualify and win the tweet has to include three things: The following tags – #ppmark #contest #toronto (all three tags need to appear in each tweet). A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2022

To gain their prospects’ trust, sales teams need to understand the customer and leverage all of the tools at their disposal to deliver value before their competitors. Here are three tools to help you connect with prospects and hit your number. And don’t underestimate the power of following up.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. To help answer this question we have brought together top Focus sales and marketing experts to talk about the specific tactics that work for sales people today. In this Roundtable, we will answer the following questions: How does a salesperson turn a name into a prospect? Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Sales and marketing lead generation tools follow this suit. But the smaller a company is, the more their internal people need to do and the less tools they will have to help them. Ask what their timeline is and schedule action items and follow-ups in conjunction with them.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The following Monday, I took inventory of all the people at the Monday opportunity review meeting, since this was a must attend all the sales people were there. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Process.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Success , execution. November 1st was a beautiful day up here this year, sunny, high 70’s, in fact so nice I had to treat myself to an afternoon latte.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. And so it is with sales, the very reason you want to have a process is to free you up to deal with the unexpected, and there is plenty of that in B2B selling. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Meetings.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. A couple days later, I gave it another go – slightly more aggressively to the point: Tweeted: Why is it I pay for a month’s worth of internet but your services are not up all month? A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Wednesday I posted a piece about the importance of working your sales cycle, not the calendar. I had a call from Bob, a director of sales with software company. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Tool.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 26, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. My sales rep recently sold me the top of the line, lowest price product that would speed up my operations and limit my liability. My division’s expenditures went down and profits were up. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. There are steps to follow that can make prospecting easy and effective. Do Your Research -Organize yourself before you pick up the phone. Your phone call should be anywhere from 1-3 minutes and include the following: Identify yourself and your company. Home About The Pipeline.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Cupid’s behavior may create some internal resentment as follow-through may not be this salesperson’s strong suit. What may happen is this loud voice may shut out others during important sales meetings as well as customers. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. All for minimal cost of 8 out of 10 tweets being about how to make more money using “proven” methods on Twitter and social media, or how to get thousands of followers overnight; FOLLOWERS who couldn’t pick you out of a line up, much less relate or benefit from your tweets.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Lists like this one are usually made up of financial reasons for the failure of a small business. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Talking about the great marketing program you have been developing and following through with it are two very different actions.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. If you are in sales and your mandate is to sell to companies within your geographical territory, you have probably faced a scenario similar to the one that follows. In the process of prospecting a small business, you bring up a recognizable Fortune 50 company as a point of reference.

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The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Not only did they never recover the cost of acquiring the account, but ended up paying a further $6,000 penalty for as long as the client maintained the service. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Leadership.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. then it goes to follow that you have a good chance of engaging with the next shipping manager if you lead the conversation based on the list you created. Mining the Gap involves a series of follow through questions aimed at getting the buyer engaged and thinking more deeply about the issue.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. There are simple steps you can take, such as having salespeople keep their LinkedIn profiles up-to-date (think the buyer doesn’t check it as they are talking to you or before you come if for a call? A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The integration with CRM will help salespeople choose when to interact as well as provide them with fodder for relevant follow-up conversations. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment.

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The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Before signing up with a web host check for negative reviews. This is one way in which discounting can work – sign up before midnight tonight to get 35% off. Websites can be amazing sales tools. But they do need to be set up to sell well — even while you sleep.

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The Pipeline

MAY 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Metrics , Proactive , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , Time Allocation , execution. People often have opinions or views that drive their approach and by extension the sales results. Home About The Pipeline. Free Resources.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. I do love the whole concept of providing a recipe people can follow step by step. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Because of their points of reference, their view of specific attribute are different, after all there is a reason why these two individuals followed different paths. What a sales manager see as desired assertiveness, an HR manager could easily see as aggressive. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. That’s right – you choose the cause of your stress with the choices you make with the following stressors: Breathing, Environment, Attitude, and Nutrition. [B Are you able to follow your breath as it moves through your body? A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 3. Open up with something compelling. Make it one that only takes a few moments for them to follow up on. I do tend to get wordy when I’m caught up in the moment and can’t stop typing. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. It appears the running average today is that somewhere between 75 & 90 percent of calls end up going to voicemail. Seemed like a good time to revisit my own material to freshen up my coaching. If I haven’t received a call-back after a few messages it is time to ramp-up the human-side.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 23, 2023

There’s where the best B2B lead generation tool and services come onto the scene, armed with strategies that can transform your lead game into a lead-winning touchdown. Ready to rev up your engines for this lead-fueled adventure? What Is the Lead Generation Process? Let’s roll! Seen a pattern here?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. My experience has been that about 25% of the team will jump all over it, implement it, and see exceptional improvement in the way they do things, and their results after a sales cycle or two; that lift alone usually will cover the cost of the program. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Old school prospecting like cold calling may still work at times but it’s a numbers game (it takes about 8 calls to get someone to pick up the phone and that’s just one touchpoint). For that reason, we teach sellers in our LinkedIn training to subscribe to omnichannel prospecting for the best sales success while prospecting.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the sales prospecting process. Consider the following statistics ( source ): Companies who exceed lead and revenue goals are 4 times as likely to use personas for demand generation compared to those who missed lead and revenue goals.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While we may call most of our campaign activities “demand generation,” does anyone really believe that marketing alone can create demand for a complex 6- or 7-figure solution? Understand the difference between tools that help me vs. solutions that impact everyone. Focus on behavior; change it for the better.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We won’t go so far as to say you should skip important meetings or spend half of your day reading blog posts—but we definitely recommend that you spend a few minutes every day catching up on industry news and sales blogs. Here are 25 of our favorite sales blogs. 2. Hubspot Sales Blog. Not sure where to start?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. Sales Models and Fundamentals.

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SBI

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The consistent collection of prospect information, fast delivery of relevant content both at the show and in follow-up and a record of conversations and interest level of each prospect are critical. There’s a difference between Active Demand and Demand Generation. Active Demand already exists.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Today’s buyers are more conservative than ever, demanding that any investment they make drive tangible savings and business value – a fundamental change called Frugalnomics. Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. in incremental benefits. •

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In short: empowered buyers are in the proverbial driver’s seat, but sellers need to be prepared for that inevitable pit stop, armed with the right tools – both digital and human – to ensure the fastest roadway leads to their door and not the competition’s. Consider this your H2H selling wake-up call.

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