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Are You Telling the Truth About Asking for Referrals? [Q3 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof). Read “ Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof) ”). It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects. Yes, your most predictable and measurable prospecting tool is your very own sales team, asking for referrals.

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

No More Cold Calling

Sure, I can learn it, but it’s not in my sales comfort zone, and it’s not exciting for me. What excites me is working with prospects and clients on referral selling and experiencing together the dramatic results they achieve. Why is getting past the gatekeeper and finding qualified leads so challenging for salespeople?

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Sales Management: The One Metric That Matters Most

Mr. Inside Sales

And if you’re in the city, then stop by and join the breakout session I’m giving tomorrow, Wednesday, at 4:15 pm in the Mayfair room, entitled: The Sales Manager: Seven Crucial Skills Every Inside Sales Leaders Needs Now. ”. Give a quick value statement and give the prospect a chance to interact? Fill out a qualifying checklist?

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Want Qualified Sales Leads? Stop Your Team from Cold Calling

No More Cold Calling

Cold calling is bottom-of-the-barrel prospecting. It can take eight to 14 touches to just to reach a prospect who isn’t expecting a call from your sales rep. There has to be an easier way to score qualified sales leads! Cold calling is a demeaning sales tactic and an inefficient way to generate qualified sales leads.

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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO ACCESS DECISION MAKERS?

Mereo

According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers. We at Mereo have experience enabling selling teams with the right knowledge, tools and approach.

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[Missed Connections]: Referral Selling Insights from February

No More Cold Calling

And it certainly won’t solve our sales challenges. Technology is a great tool, but selling is still a person-to-person business. But that almost never happens, because CEOs and other senior decision-makers have a powerful weapon at their disposal—their trusty gatekeepers. Read “ The #1 Sales Management Problem You Can Fix.”).

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But Sales Is Hard… How to Use Modern Selling Techniques to Make it Easier

Vengreso

The most successful sales organizations have blurred the lines on purpose because they understand modern selling techniques require an omni-channel presence and the formula for success is a multi-channel strategy where digital selling has a starring role. And may require learning new tools. Sales Has Always Been Hard.