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Focus Your Prospecting Purpose

The Pipeline

One major hurdle many face, is the often lack of clear purpose brought to the call or e-mail by the prospector. Many things have changed in sales, technology, means of evaluating, informed yet frustrated buyers, but some things have not changed in the least. Strategy-Planning-Execution. Some Things Have Not. Call me Tuesday.”.

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Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations

No More Cold Calling

You’re the ultimate sales technology—and this is the ultimate sales conversations book. If there ever was a time for real, authentic sales conversations, it’s now. Do you know how to have that kind of sales conversations? Reps told me they didn’t need to have sales conversations. The phone works.

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How Sales Technology Can Strengthen the Human Touch in Selling

The Center for Sales Strategy

We can no longer drop by to see a client, meet a prospect for lunch, or fly to another city for a face-to-face meeting. We can no longer drop by to see a client, meet a prospect for lunch, or fly to another city for a face-to-face meeting. And this isn’t a short-term trend.

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You Are the Ultimate Sales Technology!

The Sales Hunter

But one thing never changes: People do business with people, not with technology.” It certainly is timely as well, seeing how we have a growing appetite for technology, sometimes to our detriment. Even so, this is not a book that bashes technology. ” Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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How Mike Cabot Maintains A High Octane Sales Force

Sales Gravy

Moving From A Culture of Efficiency to A Culture of Effectiveness Acting and improv skills are similar to soft skills in sales— leading with empathy and understanding your audience and your customer is paramount. Sales technology should focus on making people better, not just faster. Efficiency does not equal effectiveness.

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Stop Counting Dials, Start Counting Connections

No More Cold Calling

Technology doesn’t close deals. Rachel, a sales VP at a large technology company, was frustrated with her sales team. She knew they relied almost exclusively on technology for generating sales leads. Yet, far too many sales teams depend on email, texts, and social media for generating sales leads.

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Stop Buying Digital Snake Oil for Your Account Based Sales Team

No More Cold Calling

He complained to me that his prospect in Paris had arranged a meeting with all the key decision-makers, but the prospect had only given him four days’ notice. My colleague thought it was rather presumptuous of the prospect to ask him to drop everything and hop on a plane. Email vs. Face Time? I had heard enough.

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