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Advice to Steve, a Down-and-Almost-Out Sales Manager: Telemarket Old Leads First!

Pointclear

We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. With a pleading voice and a frown his mother would not be proud of, this was one concerned sales manager. How many sales inquiries did Marketing give you, on average, per month for the last year?” What am I gonna do?”

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4 Ways to Get Past the Gatekeeper (No Tricks Required)

No More Cold Calling

Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, they (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

Pointclear

Based on SLMA Radio interviews with 120 marketing and sales leaders and other conversations, a big change is the way companies are spending more dollars on marketing and lead generation. Increased budgets of this nature are including outbound telemarketing and lead generation companies.

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Sales Processes Research 2020 – Something Old, Something New

Sales Hacker

Here we look at some of the more surprising aspects of the research and what this might mean for sales in the future. Prospecting for new leads in 2020 – the old and the new. The survey first looked at how salespeople prospected for new leads. It seems that sales prospects will invariably check them once they are contacted.

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Cold Calling Techniques: 12 Tips to Achieve Better Outcomes

LeadFuze

If you want to be successful at cold calling, you need to create a good contact list, as well as research each prospect before making a call. By preparing for each call and creating a personalized pitch for every prospect, you’ll have the best chance of making a sale. That’s simply not true. Cold calling legality.

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Why Telemarketing Remains the Unsung Hero of Lead Generation

The Sales Association

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Why Telemarketing Remains the Unsung Hero of Lead Generation. By Kathy Tito Denise Clancey is a true luminary in the field of telesales and telemarketing. How does a sales organization reconcile all of the options?