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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Sales Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

He makes it sound more like telemarketing than prospecting for appointments or meetings. Until we have heard that they have a compelling reason to buy, they won''t have an incentive to answer any qualifying questions! His steps and examples are not consistent with salespeople who actually build sales pipelines!

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Laurie Page: “Calling Should Ultimately Be Part of Your Touch Cadence”

Cience

It was called telemarketing at the time. Some of them for example were successful field reps, but didn’t want to travel anymore. We always encourage our clients to make performance-based incentives. For example, in case of the introductory meeting model, it’ll be based on the number of appointments. Of course!

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7 Data-Backed Sales Best Practices

InsideSales.com

An example of this is to set an acceptable time period before they reach out to the prospect. You figure you don’t know the person calling, and it’s probably another telemarketer. When an organization wants to increase the performance of its staff, the sales manager often turns to spiffs as an added incentive. Probably not.

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