Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. Now, we’ll go further and explore strategies and best practices for improving prospect qualification. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2024

I like to call this “ghosting” — when a sales process is chugging along smoothly with a client, you feel positive that the deal will close, and then your prospect disappears without a trace. Even though you might use tools like Spiro to remind yourself to follow up with prospects, sometimes they just stop getting back to you.

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

Then, we‘ll discuss how you‘d actually go about using it in practice, and share a few helpful examples to illustrate. A B2B sales funnel is a stage-by-stage model that depicts how B2B prospects move through the buying process. Let‘s say, for example, you use a B2B sales funnel model with the following stages: Awareness.

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Gong.io

APRIL 22, 2022

Examples that got replies, were shared on social media, and (many of them) ultimately helped book that ever-elusive booked meeting. Here are 6 of our favorite cold email examples. Cold Email Example #1: It’s not about you (it’s about the prospect). Cold Email Example #2: Take time to personalize. “A It worked.”.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Prospecting is one of the most fundamental sales skills. However, as the sales environment shifts, sellers must update how they prospect. Last July, we hosted the webinar, Mastering the Art of Prospecting: Key Strategies for Success. Here, we examined the fundamental principles of modern prospecting.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2019

These days, there's a lot of talk about influencing sales through social media or "social selling." This post looks at how a podcast I developed has helped our company significantly influence the sales pipeline. But that work has paid off in terms of developing valuable content we can share with prospects and customers.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

The truth about salespeople who are reluctant to prospect boils down to two things: First, they are reluctant to prospect because past attempts resulted in failure. Second, they don’t know what to say to prospects. Prospecting reluctance can be the silent killer of sales careers.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Operations leaders often have a disproportionate amount of influence over Sales functions. Data is the most effective way to influence strategy, especially against political headwinds. Ops managers insisted on “helping” interview prospective sales reps. For example, think about the compensation battle I mention above.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2020

Did you connect with a prospect and follow a prescriptive sales process that culminated in you asking directly for the sale? Direct, competitive selling is a widely adopted approach and is what most folks think of when they approach working with prospects. Missionary Selling Examples. Has each deal followed the same steps?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2021

Behavior data includes the actions your prospect takes online (e.g. For example, if your sales rep is saying “Half of my recent sales had watched our last two webinars,” then your lead scoring model may weigh webinar sign-ups much more highly than expected. Demographic lead scoring examples and criteria.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Yet, it can actually give us a better understanding of our prospects, making that human connection stronger. Here, I spoke with top sales leaders to learn how to AI to better understand your prospects, lead more effective conversations, and drive more results. How AI Can Help You Better Understand Your Prospects 1.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 19, 2019

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: You can use speaking to influence your audience. How we prepare for a job interview, a meeting with prospective clients, or being in front of a large crowd, will determine our outcome. . As others recognize, we do want to be of service, influence grows and draws our audience closer. .

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 30, 2021

Meaning, the new frictionless experience of buying online, B2C, influences our expectations for all B2C and B2B transactions. As an example: a few weeks ago I traveled to my studio in Vegas. What Your Prospects Aren't Telling You. What Your Prospects Aren't Telling You. But, it’s not business as usual.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 16, 2019

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Within the first two months of my sales career, I had to learn how to influence others to see value in my offerings. How we communicate in person and on stage influences others to listen first. The best book on the topic is “How to Win Friends And Influence People,” Dale Carnegie.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. And we’ve got examples. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. Effective cold email outreach means finding something your prospect values—and something you have in common.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Imagine a salesperson who is demo-ing a product to the COO and CFO at a prospect company. The ‘Yes Trap’ What we see here is a stark example of the “Yes Trap.” The COO asks if Salesperson #2 can promise the product will integrate perfectly with the prospect company’s existing system.

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is especially important if you are going to have a call or a virtual meeting while sales prospecting — you’d want to get their names right. You and your sales team can use the 10-second audio recording to provide a custom sales prospecting message to the people who visit your profiles. Now, let me show you three use cases.

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MarketJoy

APRIL 17, 2018

It is also about understanding the difference between decision makers, gate-keepers, and influencers. How to Identify Sales Prospects. Getting intel on who genuinely makes the purchasing decisions in a company is the holy grail of prospecting, and sometimes means working with – or through – the other categories. Influencers.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 28, 2023

Before you ever pick up the phone for prospecting , you have to determine whether the person you’re calling fits your ideal prospect profile. Selling a product you don’t truly believe in is a challenge — and if you don't understand your own company, your prospects will pick up on that. How senior is your prospect?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

With so much information at their fingertips, prospects are more empowered. But your job as a sales rep is to influence the prospect's buying decision. Today’s post offers a way to influence the buying decision without saying a word. What do prospect consume before you interact with them? The Battleground.

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LeadFuze

JULY 19, 2021

Measure What Influences Sales Velocity in Your New Product Launch Marketing Plan. I prefer to look at sales velocity in a few different ways to get a sense of what levers influence your pipeline’s speed. Here are a few examples: Does engaging a new prospect with the CXO create a faster sale than through a Director-level contact?

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 21, 2012

Once you have raised your visibility as a top influencer – hopefully through talking online about subjects and issues on the minds of your clients and potential customers, you need to find ways to further those conversations so that if there is a need on the part of someone viewing your content, you’d know it. So reach out.

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Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

B2B sales prospecting isn’t always as exciting and glamorous as other parts of the sales routine, as you can imagine; it’s far more behind the scenes and challenging. In fact, sales leaders agree that prospecting is the hardest part of the sales process. Find more prospects with Crunchbase Pro – try it free.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 17, 2018

What most vendors overlook is widening their perspective of who can influence decisions to their favor. Below are four brief snippets of corporate influence experiences. All of the above experiences are examples for similar outcomes to occur in our personal life. Your Story About Influencing Decisions to Your Favor.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 26, 2019

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: The natural born salesperson realizes that influence stems from communication style. This communication style will build the bond and influence a loyal clientele. Going behind a Manager’s back to deliver a thoughtful notecard to prospective clients instead of a mandated boring letter.

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The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This is our list of sales skills with examples to give a glimpse of what it takes to be successful in selling today. In a nutshell, selling is successfully influencing the buying decision of the client. “Selling success is contingent upon the sales skills of the salesperson, not the attitude of the customer.”. Communication Skills.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As a long time Twitter user and fan, I have directly seen how more than 100 companies – mostly B2B find prospects and even close business through their Twitter account. Doing this alone can give you enough good reasons to contact prospects and existing customers to add value. 2. Become an Influencer in Your Industry Niche.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

There are many things that influence a sales cycle, some within our control, others not. One example of this maybe momentum, we can’t directly initiate or ensure momentum, there are things we can do to leverage momentum to help us sell. So here is a simple example. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Hyper-Connected Selling

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

” In other words, the final decision someone makes is influenced by our first impressions of the subject. So our initial information – for example, the price we think a software package should cost – influences our final decision – what we are willing to pay for that software package.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

It’s called the Prospective Memory Model. Using the Prospective Memory Model. Your buyers’ decision to purchase will happen in the future, but you can influence those decisions in your favor now. Building Cues to Influence Decisions. It goes like this: What continent is Kenya in? related concepts are linked.

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Score More Sales

MAY 29, 2013

With this being the end of the month and 2/3 through Q2, I thought it might be helpful to post a lot of ideas to help you or those on your sales team reach B2B decision makers, influencers, and strategic partners. Don’t be afraid to let them know that you feel they could be a great prospective client / customer.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

That graphic is an example of bad sales content — one of the easiest ways to lose a prospect's trust and interest. You use sales content to show prospects if and why your company suits their business or personal interests. Prospects need to want to know more about you. Product Comparisons. A Good Product Comparison.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

A sales plan contains everything your sales team needs to know about their roles and how they can influence meeting your organization’s sales targets in addition to contributing to the company as a whole. Studying examples of sales plans can help illustrate this, so let’s look at an example sales plan excerpt now.

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LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Your success is ultimately influenced by how you organize your sales staff and manage your leads. using networking to find new sales prospects and converting them into long-term partnerships. Good SDRs are able to modify their strategy to sell product and services depending on the prospect. How Can SDR Find Prospect on LinkedIn?

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