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Why Your Sales Team Isn't Performing as Expected (Pt.5) - Selling is WIT!

Anthony Cole Training

Getting past a gatekeeper – This is usually one of the toughest situations in the sales process. The gatekeepers have their job – to keep sales people away from their bosses – and you have your job – get to their bosses (aka. Information about Sales Managed Environment - SME. Often, I then hear “no.” your contacts).

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Why Your Sales Team Isn't Performing As Expected (Pt.5) - WIT

Anthony Cole Training

Getting past a gatekeeper – This is usually one of the toughest situations in the sales process. The gatekeepers have their job – to keep sales people away from their bosses – and you have your job – get to their bosses (aka. Information about Sales Managed Environment - SME. Often, I then hear “no.” your contacts).

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[New Data] RFP Automation a Must for High-Performance Sales Teams in 2020

Hubspot Sales

Another tactic involves continually tapping your company knowledge gatekeepers — your subject matter experts (SMEs) — on the shoulder every time technical questions arise. Depending on the complexity of your organization, this SME shoulder-tapping will happen quite frequently.

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Nightmare on Sales Street: 7 Nightmares That Keep Salespeople Up at Night (and How to Stop Them)

OnePageCRM

Being stalled by a Gatekeeper. But when everything else fails, sometimes the smartest thing you can do is walk away. More often than not nightmare prospects make nightmare clients. So learn your lessons and think about it as dodging a bullet. We’ve all been there. You’re trying to get to an exec prospect but hit their assistant instead.

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Top 25 Incendiary Social Selling Secrets

Tony Hughes

Publish SME B2B content daily. The accelerator is going to be leveraging a suite of technologies to streamline the pipeline, be ultra-responsive and get upstream, past the gatekeeper to be the preferred vendor going into the crucible of the decision. He's constantly bringing in warm introductions for the sales execs. Very cutting edge!