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[Missed Connections]: December Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )? Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. Gatekeepers can smell phoniness a mile away. And certainly not when you cold call. Learn more.) [Top

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[Missed Connections]: Referral Selling Insights from February

No More Cold Calling

Think sales has changed a lot? But while technology may power sales research, people still power the close. . And it certainly won’t solve our sales challenges. But that almost never happens, because CEOs and other senior decision-makers have a powerful weapon at their disposal—their trusty gatekeepers. Absolutely!

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How to Identify Prospects: Decision Makers, Gate-keepers and Influencers

MarketJoy

Savvy sales professionals know that the most fruitful lead generation activities come from in-depth knowledge of exactly who you are talking to. Knowing the nature of each can make the whole sales process slicker and more effective. How to Identify Sales Prospects. Gatekeeper. Get a Free Quote. contact-form-7].

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Outbound Prospecting: Thinking Above The Sales Funnel

The Sales Developers

Sales teams have everything needed for outbound prospecting activities. big databases, low cost researchers, in-house manual scraping) and tools that make sales activities more efficient than ever. There are more vendors in sales acceleration every day and ever expanding budgets fueled by venture capital and other forces.

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Is Your Compensation Plan Evolving with the Company?

SBI Growth

This post is for Small Company CSOs and VPs of Sales. Despite this luxury, the small company sales compensation plan is usually left on the backburner. To drive the right behavior and hit your targets, your sales compensation must evolve at the same pace as your company. Are you clinging to a legacy Sales Compensation model?

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How Sales Configurators Are Ushering In a New Age of Selling

Cincom Smart Selling

Sales is a changing game. Driven by CPQ technology, especially the sales configurator, and business customization, the selling process is rapidly changing. In others, Sales is brought into the discussion much later in the selling cycle. CPQ is the vital link between the sales rep and the experts at corporate.

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How to Handle Sales Rejection: 15 Great Tips to Recover Fast

LeadFuze

Worrying about how to handle sales rejection? For now, let’s first talk about what sales rejection is. . What is a Sales Rejection? No matter how thick your skin is, if you’re not prepared for the inevitability of sales rejection, then it will be hard to overcome. Sales professionals eat rejection every day!

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