No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. They believe the fastest ways into the C-suite are digital: targeted emails, cold calls , social media outreach, and inbound marketing automation. But selling is (and has always been) a person-to-person business. I was wrong.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Back in the day when I was selling technology to banks I used my social selling approaches to get a meeting with a super-senior executive in a super-large bank (you know it, but I can’t tell you which one on a blog post.). Meanwhile many of us “classically trained” sales people think of executive assistants as “gatekeepers”.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Back in the day when I was selling technology to banks I used my social selling approaches to get a meeting with a super-senior executive in a super-large bank (you know it, but I can’t tell you which one on a blog post.). Meanwhile many of us “classically trained” sales people think of executive assistants as “gatekeepers”.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Let’s face it; prospecting isn’t the most fun part of selling. Without prospecting, reps have no one to actually sell to. In the next blog in our “Sales Enablement Defined” series, we’ll talk about sales prospecting and where it fits into the sales enablement ecosystem. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 27, 2015

New business requires a steady stream of qualified prospects to keep your pipeline full. Yet, many people have opted for using only passive approaches to prospecting namely social media. There is simply no getting around the brutal fact that the #1 reason for failure in sales is prospecting. Fanatical Prospecting.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Your competitors have access to the same data, social-selling tools, and marketing applications that you do. With referral introductions from people your buyers know and trust, you walk straight into meetings with your ideal prospects. Thanks to technology and globalization, competition is stiffer than ever. Here’s a hint.

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Let’s face it; prospecting isn’t the most fun part of selling. Without prospecting, reps have no one to actually sell to. In the next blog in our “Sales Enablement Defined” series, we’ll talk about sales prospecting and where it fits into the sales enablement ecosystem. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

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. This is the magic of learning how to effectively leverage digital selling.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Occasionally though, you need to go back to the drawing board and find out the gaps in your selling process. Fanatical Prospecting.

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Autoklose

JANUARY 22, 2024

Research and Understand Your Prospects 3. Address Your Prospects’ Uncertainty 15. Listen to Your Prospects 18. Prioritize Leads Using Lead Scoring Bonus Tip: Leverage Social Media Selling Closing Words 1. Make sure they understand what you’re selling before you dive into the specifics. Table of Contents 1.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

With the shift to remote work, it’s important to include your sales operations teams in things like long-term hiring strategies, training new reps on social selling techniques, and more. Remote selling has made sales prospecting a lot harder. Sales reps should plan to reach out to prospects every 1.5

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2011

For more on why a real introduction—a referral—makes all the difference, read: “ How to Bypass the Gatekeeper ”. You convert sales prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. Referral selling works. My definition of a cold call: You call a person who does not know you and is not expecting your call. (For

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is not cold calling vs. social selling; direct marketing vs. inbound market. But an exploration of how these things can be combined and leveraged in a way that helps the reader learn how to get a meeting with anyone, whether they are selling or for other reasons. The other must-read and must-live chapter is chapter 15.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. It is dangerous to implement basic social selling techniques. I wanted to take a moment to express a word of caution in applying a cure-all or over-simplified approach to strategic selling within social mediums. Let me make my case.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 2, 2015

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. But selling is (and has always been) a person-to-person business. Competition?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2018

Oh yeah, the list of words that sell don’t just apply to your conversations with prospects! Build close plans on all the big deals to show you understand the customer’s internal gatekeepers , procurement processes, compelling events and dates. 9) Being a “Social Selling” Illiterate. 2) Failing to Have a Strategy.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Competition, product features that suck and prospects who dont respond can make life difficult. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Qualified Prospects are Hard to Find. Another approach would be social selling, which can help you find new prospects. Sales is a tough job.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yes, prospects can be frustratingly unresponsive. But these hitches only balance out the selling dynamic: competent sales professionals reap eye-popping rewards, while laggard performers fall behind. Top 10 Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018: We can’t find qualified prospects. We Can’t Find Qualified Prospects.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 27, 2016

Every rep is different, but if you plan around the elements that work best for you ( calling , emailing , social selling, etc.) I want to make sure that I can confirm their email or ask the gatekeeper for an extension or for a cell phone number. and execute daily — you’re going to be successful.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Bad Twitter Prospecting: There are a lot of people “pitching me” on Twitter. You know how that works, @davidabrock, try this to get around gatekeepers [Link]. I wonder, “what do they know about me, do they think that I have problems getting around gatekeepers?” What’s this about?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

When I ask prospects what tools they use for cold outreach , I get the same answer over and over — cold calling and cold emailing. These two channels have been used for decades, but that means prospects have developed strategies to avoid being disturbed by pushy salespeople. Cold outreach and prospecting are marketing activities.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Cold calling is contacting any prospect by phone who currently isn’t “raising their hand” at the moment. This means the prospect won’t be expecting your call. That’s okay, but you’ll have to work even harder to convince prospects to trust you and break through. Prospects typically ask 5-6 questions. Download the Chorus.ai

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

When sales teams know how to ask for referrals, they don’t have to worry about identifying decision-makers, bypassing gatekeepers, or proving themselves trustworthy. My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Prospecting is either HOT or cold … period.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

When sales teams know how to ask for referrals, they don’t have to worry about identifying decision-makers, bypassing gatekeepers, or proving themselves trustworthy. My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Prospecting is either HOT or cold … period.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Whoa did people get carried away with the whole cold calling vs social selling thing this year. 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.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

Can you close million dollar deals with social selling fully inside? Get a good night of sleep and unleash your inner advanced strategic social selling 'beast mode' tomorrow. There is no quick fix in social selling just like there never was in analog enterprise selling and never will be.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

A blog: to create and showcase content that solves your prospect’s pains. The next step is to create how-to content that helps solve your prospect’s challenges. Come up with topics by focusing on the challenges of your prospects. Your job would be to create content that helps prospects solve that problem.

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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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