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Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side

No More Cold Calling

Getting past the gatekeeper shouldn’t be so daunting. Why is getting past the gatekeeper and finding qualified leads so challenging for salespeople? It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. The dreaded gatekeeper.

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5 Questions to Ask Every Inbound Lead

Mr. Inside Sales

A company I’ve been working with for over a year now gets a portion of their leads via inbound email requests for information on their services. Another company recently reached out to me wondering if there is a best practice approach for handling inbound leads. So, stop pitching your inbound leads and start qualifying instead.

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Handling the Gatekeeper and Engaging Executives

Sales and Marketing Management

Alternatively, if sellers wait for “qualified” inbound Internet leads, it amounts to “in-basket” selling. Executives are more likely to have admins (often referred to as gatekeepers) that invariably will ask a question that sends shivers down many sellers’ spines: “Who is this and what is it regarding?”. Handling Gatekeepers.

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Is Sales Really Just a Numbers Game?

Mr. Inside Sales

Skill level of the sales rep is the most important thing; however, there are other variables like the type of lead—inbound versus outbound; the territory; existing client or new prospect; the marketing and/or branding of the company, etc., First the no part: Sales is much, much more than just “rolling the numbers,” as they used to say.

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B2B Prospecting: The 11 Best Methods You Should Be Leveraging

Hubspot Sales

Capitalize on your inbound marketing. Learn how to communicate with gatekeepers. It's the archetype of a company with the needs, interests, budget, market position, and scale — among other factors — required to be interested in a solution like yours. Capitalize on your inbound marketing efforts.

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Forget About Your Sales Comfort Zone [January Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

Also, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side. Why is getting past the gatekeeper and finding qualified leads so challenging for salespeople? The dreaded gatekeeper. Read “ Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side.”).

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How Digital Dependence Derails Account Based Selling Teams

No More Cold Calling

They believe the fastest ways into the C-suite are digital: targeted emails, cold calls , social media outreach, and inbound marketing automation. There are hundreds of great applications for account based sales development—CRM, marketing automation, social-selling tools, advocate platforms.

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