DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. Effective cold email outreach means find something your prospect values – and something you have in common. It’s time to get personal.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Account 220

SBI

JULY 23, 2019

People want to talk about AI and Predictive and machine learning, but the truth of the matter is that most organizations haven’t gotten the fundamental layer of accurate company and prospect information down right in their core systems. Wanna bet access to accurate prospecting and customer data is at the top of that?

Data 111

Data Strategy Decision Maker Inbound 111

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 30, 2017

Sales reps aiming to displace the current provider were stuck dialing into dead-end corporate switchboard phone numbers, getting stonewalled by gatekeepers, never to reach their buyer’s voicemail box—let alone pitch their product to a decision-maker. Direct Prospecting at Interested Buyers. Timing is everything in sales.

Data 120

Data Lead Rank Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 120

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

LevelEleven

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every sales rep has been there – you are having very successful conversations with a prospect only to find out they’re not the one you should be talking to… they’re not the decision maker. It’s hard to find something when you don’t know what you’re looking for, especially when it comes to prospecting. For example….

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Decision Maker LinkedIn Gatekeeper Discount 71

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In both inbound and outbound prospecting, it is the first conversation that often sets an opportunity on the road to success (or failure). Imagine, you have been prospecting an opportunity for a few weeks. You have touched base via email, left a few voicemails, and even managed to get a gatekeeper on the phone. A Common Problem.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 52

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

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Examples Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Top of Funnel 113

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Here is the process I follow for each prospect: 1. I open the prospect and company Linkedin profiles. Then, as I’m talking to the prospect, their LinkedIn profile and company profile are open, so I can refer back at any point during the conversation. Then at about 9:30 AM, I begin calling for the day.

SalesForce 52

SalesForce Gatekeeper Call-back Follow-up 52

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 2, 2015

LinkedIn, Twitter, Salesforce, Google+ … I could go on and on. Despite what you’ll often hear from technology gurus, your success isn’t determined by the number of devices that connect you to the outside world; it’s determined by the number of relationships that connect you to your prospects. Referred prospects expect to hear from you.

Referrals 120

Referrals Cold Calling Guarantee Networking 120

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 15, 2011

Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales prospecting (34). Salesforce (2). I came back to the office and began calling on my list of prospects for the week and I bombed the first three. Motivational (8). Motivational Speaker (6). Negotiating (2). recruiting (6).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 174

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Remote selling has made sales prospecting a lot harder. CRM systems allow salespeople to automate the tedious, repetitive tasks that come with prospecting. If you’re finding yourself spinning your wheels with old sales outreach tactics, try your hand at sliding into a prospect’s DMs on LinkedIn. What this means for you.

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Revenue Lead Rank Hiring Account Based Marketing 125

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2023, 72 percent of sales pros expected to miss quota, according to the Salesforce State of Sales Report. Source: Salesforce State of Sales Report, 5th Edition) What sales teams really need is greater selling acumen—a sales program that helps them learn, practice, and perfect new skills to excel in this ever-changing world of sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Guarantee Lead Rank Lead Scoring 177

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That’s what you plan to say throughout the entire call (including objection responses , messages with a gatekeeper, etc.). Also, make sure there’s a place in your script for at least one specific detail about your prospect or their company. The prospect is rejecting your talk-track, not you. Repetition is Key.

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Account Analysis Gatekeeper Decision Maker 70

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Cold calling the CEO is difficult, but not impossible — if you know how to structure your pitch and how to get past gatekeepers. I’ve seen it in almost every new rep: fear of the owner, fear of the gatekeeper, fear of the 2nd gatekeeper (the dreaded executive assistant), and reluctance to even approach the challenge.

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Decision Maker Cold Calling How To Gatekeeper 63

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts! You know a lot of target prospects don’t really have those job titles. We like DAMA UK’s six parameters for data quality : Completeness : Is the company, contact, or prospect record as complete as possible? JUST KIDDING. Burned by Churn.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2019

Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts! You know a lot of target prospects don’t really have those job titles. We like DAMA UK’s six parameters for data quality : Completeness : Is the company, contact, or prospect record as complete as possible? JUST KIDDING. Burned by churn.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 150

Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

These stats certainly grab our attention, especially as Millennials grow into the decision makers and gatekeepers over the next two decades. Trade shows offer a unique opportunity for organizations to form real, human relationships with their prospects that other marketing tactics just can’t provide. age demographic at 75.4

Webinar Metrics 113

Webinar Metrics Trade Show Marketing Strategy 113

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Whether you use tools like Outreach, Salesforce, or anything else, don’t rely on other people to get your metrics and dashboards right — learn how to build and personalize them yourself! Authenticity is so much more inviting than a canned sales pitch, and your prospects with thank you for it. Stay hungry! Tiffani Bova.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Up-Sell Hubspot 79

The Bridge Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

What’s Salesforce? What’s a gatekeeper? Study time management and how to time block (Jeb Blount’s Fanatical Prospecting has some great tips here). Natasha Miller Sekkat: There are four quarters in a year and the focus for each one is slightly different. 1st Quarter - new SDRs don't know anything (What is a lead? And so on.).

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Promotion Hiring Gatekeeper Decision Maker 36

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 28, 2019

Becky: I’m really having trouble prospecting and getting ahold of people. Manager: Ok, it sounds like you know what you need to work on to build your pipeline, prospect more effectively, and schedule those demos. She’s really efficient with her prospecting and her demo to call ratio is one of the highest. It’s very frustrating.

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Coaching Guidelines Call-back Sales Coaching 68

Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Gatekeeper. In B2B outbound marketing, cold calling is a prospecting technique used to start business conversations with decision-makers over the phone. Velocify found that the average number of cold calls to a single prospect to close a deal is six. It is made via phone and aims to set an appointment with a prospect.

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Decision Maker 79

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic framework that engages qualified individual prospects or customer accounts as unique markets in themselves, worthy of focused, hyper-personalized treatment by sales, marketing and other teams. . Deal Closing. Decision Maker. Demand Generation. Direct Mail. Direct Sales. Mr.Brown has gone dark.).

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 99

Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After rigorous prospecting to determine the companies (and decision-makers/gatekeepers) to approach, your sales reps will pick up the phone. Effective prospecting is key to successfully scheduling meetings through cold calling. Cold calling with poor prospecting will make the process a repetitive slog.

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Cold Calling Meeting Gatekeeper Decision Maker 62

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

When tasks mount, precious hours get used up, leaving sellers with far less time to make meaningful, value-yielding conversations with prospects and leads. In fact, salespeople get so bogged down by multiple tasks that nearly 60% will miss quota this year, according to Salesforce.

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Scale SalesForce Consumer Gatekeeper 80

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 3, 2018

When a full 50% of a sales professional’s day is spent doing prospect research, anything that decreases research time can move the revenue needle. Flag employee departures so sales reps don’t waste time prospecting to outdated records. Sales research – fast. The problem: Gaps, redundancy, and a disjointed sales tech stack.

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SalesForce Data System Sales Operations 33

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Like all other forms of prospecting, bad cold callers are easy to spot, so you will stand out in stark contrast. Rejection is a necessary part of all sales activity, from prospecting through close, inbound and outbound. No one closes 100% of their prospects. If you are using Salesforce CRM, you’re in luck.

Cold Calling 100

Cold Calling Top of Funnel Objections Inbound 100

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. Fanatical Prospecting. Combo Prospecting. High-Profit Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting. Prospects never control anyone who has mastered David Sandler’s 7-step program for top sales. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Seller’s Challenge. Top of Mind.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring Handbook 141

Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s a three-month virtual course that teaches you how to win every stage of the selling process: from B2B sales prospecting to renewals. Dealing with gatekeepers. Some of John’s clients include global brands such as Salesforce, GE, Tableau, LinkedIn, Box, and Forbes. Account-based Prospecting. Presentation.

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Training Scale Lead Qualification Lead Rank 103

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

A referral introduction guarantees you score almost every meeting in one call, and you convert prospects to clients well more than 50 percent of the time. Prospects and clients aren’t happenstance. Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side. The dreaded gatekeeper. Read “ Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side.”).

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Referrals Gatekeeper Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 153

Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Interview one hundred clients and prospects about the challenges they face in the sector where your solutions [be they product or services] are most relevant. Less rules are better but curate based on relevance so that clients, prospects and colleagues get a bunch out of it. The sky's the limit in the Salesforce AppExchange.

Social Selling 63

Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63