The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. Get it right, and each of your campaigns can deliver you fresh sales opportunities within days, and sometimes even minutes. To respond to your email, the prospect has to read it first.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 23, 2012

Tim is also co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale: Using Power Messaging to Create More Opportunities, Differentiate your Solution, and Close More Deals and Customer Message Management: Increasing Marketing's Impact on Selling. So we’re getting more opportunities to have conversations, but we’re not necessarily closing anymore.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Earlier this year I had the great opportunity to be on the air with Todd Schnick , of Intrepid Radio ([link] We talked sales, some new nuggets, some familiar favourites, but always with an eye to execution. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Book Notice.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Layer intent data on top of this view to find prospects in your ICP that are actively searching for your product or a similar solution.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Planning , Prospecting , Sales Leadership , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Video , execution , qualifying. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Your business strategies are the same as the gold-miners, except instead of digging for ore, you’re digging for customers, with your mind focused on this: you want to find the right prospects—the serious buyers.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Success , Value , execution. Even more than before the words Status Quo have become synonymous with a complete lack of opportunity for sales people.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Some only want to look at their successes and ignore those things that did not go their way, fooling themselves by only looking at those things are familiar and ignoring the real opportunities to learn what went wrong, and what they could do differently next time out. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Demand Generation , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Next Steps , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution , qualifying. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 19, 2011

” One of the things we discover are opportunities that have been there for some time, long term tenants. Eventually this build up does clog the flow of deals and opportunities through the pipeline and results in a massive attack on your income and success. This comes down to having active opportunities in the pipe vs. inactive.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

However, when you step back, not having an answer on the tip of your tongue, is not the worst prospect for a sales rep. It is an opportunity for them to explore issues further. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This concern applies to coverage for existing accounts, or harvesting the new business opportunities. If you focus is new accounts, the shrinking territory will create a focus on accounts that would be over looked in the perceived plenty in larger territories, take away the clutter and the opportunities become more clear. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If the buyer has objections or concerns about where you want to go, and how you plan to get there, they can voice those before the meeting, giving you the opportunity to adjust in advance rather than at the fatal end. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2012

It is an opportunity to sit down for a brief period of time, not rushed by the day or week, and ensure that everything is as it should be if you are going to move things forward in the right direction. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Stored in Appointments , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , execution. While most reviews focused closing, he was able to get you to focus on the real important question, what new opportunities are we creating. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The nearsighted perspective presents quantitative information including the number of sales opportunities, the stages they are in, and the expected revenue from each sale. Measuring soft intangibles will deliver better opportunity management by salespeople. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The fact that they may be seeking a solution, suggests that they are facing some challenges, obstacles and gaps in their ability to attain those objectives, or what I call opportunity. The bonus to the no decision camp is the opportunity to rekindle the opportunity with elements learned, and create a win in shorter time frames.

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

Ideally in your line of questioning during uncovering these you should try and get the prospect to attach a monetary value to the compelling reasons. This made me think of a prospect of mine where I believed I had two separate compelling reasons but when I looked at them I didn’t have the monetary value associated with the issue.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

With so many opportunities to ensure customer satisfaction, it is a wonder how some companies keep blowing it. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. B2B Lead Generation Blog. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Book Notice. Book Review.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2012

At this point, you usually have the following options: Try something different, not captured in the process, this where you can improvise, and get “creative” Often the most obvious choice of letting the opportunity go for now and work on one that conforms to the success pattern. Demand Generation. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The former allows an opportunity for your team to learn best practices from others in context, and the latter allows the team to help each other break through roadblocks and move deals forward. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2011

Now you have an opportunity to get direct input from 35 of the world’s best know sales experts, all part of the 2011 Sales & Marketing Success Conference , presented by Top Sales World. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

Last Friday I had the opportunity to be part of a high power panel as part of a Focus RoundTable, looking at best practices in nurturing leads. As you would expect the topics covered many aspects of lead nurturing, lead conversion, and interaction between sales and marketing not only in nurturing leads, but nurturing prospect/opportunities.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

The reason you have the end of quarter derby, is that most sales people don’t prospect or close enough along the way, and as the finish line nears they go into closing mode. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 7, 2011

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. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Book Notice. Book Review.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2012

But without the ability to reason things out, it will facilitate an opportunity for you to review the facts and issue you covered during Discovery. In the end you still have the choice of re-establishing the value or moving on to the next prospect. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 30, 2011

Tohoku earthquake and a tsunami which delivered 46ft waves, we learn that the death toll is likely to top 25.000, and recovery is going to take not years, but possibly decades, maybe even a generation, at a cost of at least $250 billion. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

These new channels have made it easier than ever for marketers to reach out to prospects, and marketers are certainly taking advantage of the available efficiency. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3 Reaching out has never been easier, but making meaningful connections has never been harder.

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The Pipeline

JULY 19, 2011

While we are all impressed with Watson’s success, that is a long way from creating demand, generating leads, dealing with all the variables that human interactions involve when it come to risk, money and emotion. Demand Generation. Prospecting. White Paper. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is why the “let’s wait” school fails; they see a prospect “at rest” and respond leaving it “at rest”; sure doesn’t take long for nothing to happen, that’s not selling. Having done the above work, I know that many sales leaders are looking for more prospects, more new revenue opportunities.

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The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Cold calling , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , execution. Speak specifically to that, nothing else; if they see you as fitting in to their current flow, you have the opportunity to engage, if it is outside of that flow, you’re toast, white bread and burnt! What’s in Your Pipeline?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 28, 2011

Most common of these is prospecting, but there are other things including keeping the information in their CRM up-to-date. Demand Generation. Prospecting. We see it every day, reps who feel they have “earned the right” not to do certain must do things in sales. Go ahead, do it , click here now! Richard Ruff.

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The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

Stored in Business Acumen , Buying Process , Guest Post , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , execution. For anything important you’ll have looked up what you think your problem or opportunity is and the different ways of solving it. LinkedIn is a two way street, now your prospects know your background.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 11, 2011

Say the speed with which an athlete run 100 metres, the batting average of a ball player, the length of time from hand shake to close, or the rate of conversion of prospects to proposals, etc. Hi Monica, Thanks for the feedback, I agree that the more you learn the opportunity there is to hit goal. Demand Generation.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

It seems like it’s harder than ever to get your prospects interested, and turn them into real opportunities. The issue is that your prospects have clearly changed, today more: 1. Skeptical – your prospect has heard it all before, so the same old product / solution pitches won’t work. This would mean close to 200% ROI.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Cold calling , Communication , Guest Post , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Technique , Voice mail , execution. I’ve been working with several sales teams making a whole lot of phone calls, and am getting an earful about reaching a prospect’s voicemail. Demand Generation.

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