Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

Q: How can you know it’s time to take measures against recession, such as pivot toward deal efficiency? It’s about listening — mostly to customers, prospects, and partners — and managing what you measure. Your prospects may share that they’re pausing on projects or vendor meetings. Are they measuring the same things?

Cost per Lead 91

Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 91

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Event organizers swiftly pivoted. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to get our message in front of prospects and keep our lead-gen engine humming, we jumped on the opportunity to redirect our live event budget. But we were able to pivot in real time, using the script and agenda to make real-time changes.

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Trade Show Segment Pivotal Conference 136

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From here, most well-meaning sales managers pivot into the helpful, inspiring part of the conversation, discussing the need to increase activity, generate more proposals, ask for the sale, and increase the closing ratio. The salesperson may be excited and inspired by the sales manager’s energy and passion. The reason?

Coaching 257

Coaching Construction Pivotal Positioning 257

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And therefore affords marketers the flexibility to pivot messaging, positioning and value proposition in real time as our world continues to rapidly change. Influencers already have emotional connections because of their invested time and energy in relating with people in a genuine way as they built their online presence.

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Influencer Marketing How To Face-to-face 194

Accent Technologies

JULY 18, 2023

The movie showcases the beginning of the nuclear age and the power of atomic energy. Much like the tiny atom that hides colossal amounts of energy, organizations harbor an extraordinary amount of business value within their information systems. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb."

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Lead Rank Customer Energy Forecasting 52

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And more importantly, what our most important prospects and clients can count on. The financial impact is typically quite painful but so are the costs of time, energy, and people – all scarce resources. And in many cases, they’ll not be returning to whatever the old normal was. It’s a challenging time for selling teams.

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Account Pivotal Up-Sell Energy 98

Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2019

After another 12 hour day of prospecting on October 1, 2015, I laid on the floor of my studio in downtown SF, stared at the ceiling for about an hour, and asked myself 3 questions that would forever change the trajectory of my career in Sales Development: 1. Do I think my prospects are different than me?

Scale 60

Scale How To Pivotal Energy 60

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

From tracking down new prospects to qualifying leads, sales requires ongoing and concerted efforts to see success. Rejection comes with the territory, from prospects choosing another vendor to cold calls hanging up because they have no interest in the conversation. Talking to people drains your energy. You hate rejection.

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Cold Calling How To Hiring Travel 111

Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2023

Having a mentor by your side is one of the key areas that you’d want to invest your energy in in the initial few weeks. But you do need to know enough to help your prospects understand what the tool does — and what it can not do. Pricing is a question that every prospect asks at some point in the sales cycle. This is normal!

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Ideal Customer Profile Study Sales Cycle Top of Funnel 84

Sales Hacker

JULY 9, 2020

Instead of rushing to make a sale at the expense of your organization’s best practices, devote time and energy to treat each account like a relationship. How you pivot when business is difficult shows your true character and resilience. Continuously examine your tactics and ask, “ Am I cutting corners with this account?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Trends 114

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Extroverts are much better at going out on a limb and introducing themselves to a new person or prospect. When you have everything you need to know about a prospect at your fingertips in real time, it gives you the confidence and intel you need during those crucial introductions. It just comes much more naturally.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Pivotal Cold Calling 100

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …). It’s always been tricky for SDRs to balance quantity and quality when prospecting. SDR/BDR Skills for 2018.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 144

Chorus.ai

MAY 15, 2020

We realized we have to keep speaking to clients, keep speaking to prospects. But right now, the challenge is felt more acutely as the energy of the sales floor has been replaced by Zoom links and Slack competitions. Events have pivoted to virtual. It’s probably why we’re seeing consistent productivity numbers.” Bob agreed.

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Face-to-face Travel Pivotal Inside Sales 62

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. Before technology, sales was primarily based on outside field salespeople making face-to-face sales meetings with prospective and current customers. Identify the right customers.

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Industry Data Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 98

Corporate Visions

JULY 16, 2020

What they really need is Situational Enablement —just-in-time messages, training, and sales enablement that’s flexible, responsive, and tailored to the buying situations your prospects and customers are up against. The technology to make just-in-time, Situational Enablement a reality has been ready for a while.

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Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Sales Enablement Pivotal 83

Anne Miller

OCTOBER 9, 2020

energy in her responses which carried through to her facial expressions and into her body language. How do you come across to prospects and clients? Both Harris and Spence ducked key questions and pivoted to answers that they preferred to give on other issues. Watching her, you felt like there was a real person talking to you.

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Pivotal Webinar Metrics Energy Small Business 85

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 1, 2018

Be prepared to pivot. Allotting time to one prospect over another could be the difference between closing a million dollar deal and having the door closed on you. Route planning software can help you figure out the most efficient way to travel to your prospects' offices, meaning you'll never have to manually plan your route again.

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Pivotal Call-back Follow-up Maximizer 111

Corporate Visions

JANUARY 9, 2020

And all these product presentations often come at the expense of more customer-centric activities—including practice and coaching—that actually drive more energy, better performance, and lasting behavior change. Then, pivot to the new storytelling skills required to deliver those distinctive customer conversations. Build the content.

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Pivotal Coaching Energy Face-to-face 64

Anthony Iannarino

MAY 4, 2020

The more you give your time to the first type, the urgent, the less time you’ll have for the more important work, work that requires your attention and your energy. Part of your future includes a pivot from your old product to the new one, and you are behind on your goals and falling further back. Small Things, Small Outcomes.

eBook 84

eBook Lead Rank Energy Face-to-face 84

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

In this article, I’ll share 3 powerful principles you can use to improve outreach and prospecting despite the ongoing pandemic. Pivot with Pressure-Free Follow-Ups. Emotion is energy, so keep your tone light and optimistic. If a prospect needs to postpone, don’t pressure them to reschedule immediately. Sales must go on.

Face-to-face 88

Face-to-face Discount Webinar Metrics Decision Maker 88

Pipeliner

JULY 3, 2023

For example, seek a sales specialist well-versed in bundle pricing, someone capable of effectively marketing these bundles to prospective clients by elucidating their advantages and highlighting potential cost reductions. This will make prospective hires see the significant societal impact your business makes.

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Sales Talent Hiring Compensation Salary 52

criteria for success

JULY 22, 2021

Do they seem like they'd be capable of handling pivots? Do they have the energy to lead team meetings or chat easily with clients? If possible, you should be able to show competency in prospecting, building relationships, sending proposals, closing and any other parts of your sales cycle.

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Hiring How To eBook Webinar Metrics 52

SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In response, many organizations are turning to their CRM systems to create more sustainable ways to interact with prospects and customers. Sales teams should use their CRM to gain an in-depth understanding of their customers and prospects—the more data you can compile about them, the better.

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CRM Software Software Forecasting 26

SBI

MAY 21, 2019

Through Story Mapper, sellers can instantly pivot to relevant content in their presentation to better address buyers’ needs and questions. Through Story Mapper, sellers can instantly pivot to relevant content in their presentation to better address buyers’ needs and questions.

Sales Enablement 75

Sales Enablement SAP Pivotal Industry 75

Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Jim then double-clicked to show the data behind it: In 78% of deals, prospects see some form of the product in the first meeting In 12% of deals, prospects first see the product in the 2nd meeting In Enterprise deals, it’s only 62% in the first meeting and 22% in the 2nd meeting. When Do You First Demo?

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Outbound Call-back Inbound Oracle 62

Crunchbase

MAY 6, 2020

We must qualify who from among that pool is a viable prospective client to connect with one of our brokers right away, and who is seeking other industry-specific information. Our outbound team has similar conversations with prospective clients. Sometimes, world news factors into a necessary pivot to our messaging and management.

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Hiring Real Estate How To Outbound 103

LeadFuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You’re about to discover how an effective script can transform icy reception into warm leads; how asking open-ended questions keeps prospects engaged longer; and why something as simple as tone could change the game entirely. But successful cold calling requires more than just dialing random phone numbers hoping for good fit prospects.

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Cold Calling Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

John Barrows

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Prospecting into new accounts, following up, doing his best to exceed his number and get his team to do the same. And so I made a pivot kind of late in my career. But he saw me and he saw my energy. James Bawden is one of the hot talents in the sales development world right now. I didn’t want to continue to move up.

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Wireless Inside Sales Retail Social Media 105

Mereo

JUNE 4, 2020

These top-performing salespeople are invaluable repositories of which value proposition messaging will land with different buyers, and which will pivot their decision-making at essential times. These tell your prospect that you have a solution and should be considered as a contender.

Sales Enablement 45

Sales Enablement Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy 45

Emissary

APRIL 24, 2020

Allen: Cheryl, as businesses start to roll out new initiatives and business models start to pivot now, what guidance would you give to vendors so that they align with these inevitable changes? It’s to ask and then listen to your customers and prospects. Find highlights from the first part of the discussion here. Listen Now! .

Sales Enablement 52

Sales Enablement Strategy Pivotal Microsoft 52

Gong.io

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Whether that’s handling objections from cold prospects, or selling more licenses to an existing customer , there are a predictable set of conversations all your sellers experience. Your sales team —pearly whites and all—is also pivotal. Provide your team with assets that align with the conversations they encounter regularly.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Coaching Lead Rank 81

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Six Sense account engagement platform uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale, identifying prospects who are in the market for your solution, and providing salespeople like you with the insight to create highly relevant messaging. Then, once it came out, it needed a focus and a place of attention and energy.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Pivotal Enterprise 80

Apptivo

MAY 18, 2022

So, a lot of time and energy needs to be spent just to build synergetic communication and a good working relationship. All that is made readily available for the sales team to connect immediately with prospective customers with personalized offers and achieve conversion. CRM for small business links marketing outcomes with sales teams.

Small Business 52

Small Business Small Business CRM Scale 52

Chorus.ai

MARCH 19, 2019

A trick I used a lot earlier in my career, and still do from time to time, is asking the prospect for feedback at that critical juncture (the part where they hang up on you). Ask for feedback from the prospect.". The prospect just went into “ugh. Prospects want to know what you can do for them, not who you are.

Cold Calling 67

Cold Calling Face-to-face Call-back Lead Rank 67

Sales Hacker

MAY 11, 2021

Most businesses measure and optimize every part of the sales process except the most critical one — right before a prospect agrees to buy and hands over their money. The ability to be patient and process things quickly and pivot based on needs is important. You need the energy. Head on over to Outreach.io/OnOutreach

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Direct Mail Hiring Account Based Marketing Proposal 57

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Prospecting (4539). Energy (615). So many prospects and clients to kill, so little time. But don’t worry; salespeople all over the world are doing their damnedest to kill as many prospects and clients as possible every day. Topics Major Topics. Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Training (4995). Tools (2872). Media (2930).

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Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2019

Before the internet, it was nearly impossible for prospects to get information about a product without the help of a friendly salesperson. But reps didn't hold all the power -- they needed prospects too. With less reach and fewer resources, prospects were uncovered through hard work. Source: HubSpot Research.

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Prospecting Hubspot CRM Decision Maker 97