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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) ”). Yes, your most predictable and measurable prospecting tool is your very own sales team, asking for referrals. 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice.

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

No More Cold Calling

What sales comfort zone is holding you back? 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. That’s why we need sales managers.

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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. ”. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Make a connection with the decision maker and build instant rapport?

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Want Qualified Sales Leads? Stop Your Team from Cold Calling

No More Cold Calling

More and more, sales professionals use social media as an indispensable sales and prospecting tool. It provides valuable insight into prospects and decision-makers, which has prompted some sales pros to wonder if cold calling is dead, replaced by so-called “smart” or “warm” calling. Shorten their sales process.

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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. Never has and never will.

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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.