Pointclear

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications, whether by mail, phone or email, to potential prospects, using rented or purchased lists. B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title.

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Harte Hanks Lead Rank B2B Data 232

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That’s why experts like Boston Consulting Group are advising companies to mandate human double-checking of all GenAI outputs and “limiting its use to non-critical tasks.” Good, Better, Best: Writing a GenAI Prospecting Email Modern GTM teams have figured out how to get in touch with the right people, at the right time, at scale.

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Data Scale Lead Rank Hiring 147

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 16, 2014

Prospecting, prospecting, prospecting. I was in my second year of my insurance career with National Life of Vermont. Tony, it''s prospecting.". After 30 years, it''s still prospecting! Even if I''m in this business for 30 years, prospecting is STILL going to be my biggest problem. The Fun Rule.

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Insurance Insurance Groups Prospecting 192

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sending cold emails, leading prospects through sales calls, and following up all take time and articulation. In this post, we’ve compiled step-by-step instructions for how to write a sales pitch with ChatGPT, plus our favorite ChatGPT pitch prompts to get you started engaging prospects in no time.

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How To Insurance Insurance Travel 78

Sales Evangelist

JULY 26, 2020

How to Virtually Forge Deep Connections With Prospects The pandemic has changed the methods of prospecting. For example, if you’re selling insurance in Florida and you know the property is prone to flooding, let the homeowners know about it. This comes from genuinely serving the needs of others.

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Prospecting How To Face-to-face Hotels 98

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2013

At both Objective Management Group and Kurlan & Associates , one of my roles is to identify strategic partners. And everyone needs to make the most of their prospecting time. The referrals and introductions which happy customers make for their sales reps. Not necessarily the biggest. Not necessarily the most well-known.

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Insurance Insurance Trade Show Collateral 201

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Each day he prospects for new customers. My sales clients have included companies moving real estate, funeral services, spine surgery devices, insurance and all kinds of other widgets. My presentations for these groups are almost identical. Author: Scott Greenberg Quick quiz: John gets paid when he makes a sale.

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Real Estate System Insurance Insurance 256

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In 1987, when I entered the life insurance business with David Zimmerman at National Life of Vermont, I learned that selling life insurance was truly "selling" and my experience with Nautilus had been merely "order-taking". Can your clients or prospects say the same thing? I thought that was selling.

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Insurance Insurance Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 212

criteria for success

MARCH 2, 2022

And what about your prospects and customers—are they reporting inconsistencies or issues with your salespeople? Here are a few areas to consider: Prospecting – Is your team prospecting at all? Are they developing and monitoring prospecting plans? Is said prospecting plan working? Do you have a group of mavericks?

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Sales Management Insurance Insurance Pivotal 104

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Performance Solutions International (PSI) , SalesSparx , and Menemsha Group are three such partners. PSI is a leader in industry-focused talent development and performance support that enables sales to understand their clients and prospects so they can better identify new opportunities and position solutions strategically.

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Strategy Telecommunications Customer Top of Funnel 105

Smooth Sale

APRIL 17, 2023

Insurance You must have the right level of protection for your business and your personal assets. There are many types of business insurance, although it is common for all companies to take General Liability Insurance – and then get more specific cover for your business purpose.

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Hiring Licensing Insurance Insurance 78

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2013

And most of all, just like being part of a referral group where you have zero control over whether or not a member makes a valuable introduction to you, ever, similarly you have no control over whether your LinkedIn network will ever produce fruit. How about insurance and investment professionals? Don''t you still get calls from them?

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Opportunity Pipeline Hiring Real Estate 221

Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2011

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales prospecting (34). Tony Cole, Founder and CEO of Anthony Cole Training Group. Click here to listen to Tonys BEW Interview.

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Hiring Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 136

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 9, 2012

I’m always learning—even when I’m writing about How to Attract Sales Prospects in a Tech-Focused World. So, I was surprised when a top salesperson I know told me he did not use LinkedIn for prospecting. So, what industries are best suited to benefit from LinkedIn prospecting? What’s your best prospecting technique?

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Industry LinkedIn 261

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

A Guest Blog By Mark Trinkle, Sales Development Expert, Anthony Cole Training Group. Hello, this is Mark Trinkle with Anthony Cole Training Group and I want to ask you one simple question. Remember, you are really there to disqualify the prospect. Who is your competition? So, let’s translate that to selling.

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Competition Insurance Insurance Call-back 120

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 31, 2015

I got into the life insurance business as an agent with National Life of Vermont. I came into the business as a life insurance agent only to find out that others in that business were calling themselves planners, consultants, advisors, risk managers and a variety of other titles.

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Insurance Insurance Advertising Advertising 120

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2023

Sales hunters are relentless in finding new opportunities, prospects, and accounts. Starting in this role puts you way ahead of most salespeople because you’d have learned how to find prospects and close them. This can help when cold emailing prospects. Examples are insurance, SaaS, consumer packaged goods, and advertising.

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Hiring Salary How To Ideal Customer Profile 100

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 29, 2021

Another study from the Kauffman Group found that finding customers was the most common challenge cited by entrepreneurs — with roughly 72% of respondents reporting having struggled with the process. There's no guarantee prospects will be receptive to your company, but you have to give them a chance to make that call. Finding Customers.

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Face-to-face Data Guarantee Banking 125

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dr. Martin Seligman’s work with insurance company Metropolitan Life is one of the more famous case studies. Salespeople who scored high in optimism sold 33% more insurance than those who scored lower. One of the more famous mastermind groups included Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Warren G. Harding and Harvey Firestone.

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Hiring Insurance Insurance Lead Rank 105

Smooth Sale

MAY 14, 2019

A reverse mortgage contributes to the wealth only of the insurance company. #2. The ‘one-day’ mentality was hers for acquiring medical insurance. After the fact, Jeannie realized the importance of having insurance. Opposing Perspectives: Medical insurance is too expensive, and I’m healthy. Nothing will happen.

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Insurance Insurance Face-to-face Hiring 100

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, having a 360-degree view of customers and prospects is key. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) represents the standard for categorizing business operations by grouping them according to the processes used to produce goods or services. 52 Finance & Insurance.

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Transportation Automotive Chemicals Marketing 204

Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Salespeople can connect with prospects, research customers, and get notified of job changes and company updates. In many instances a prospect will update their LinkedIn profile before the company updates the staff page on their website. Nothing worse than calling a prospect from your CRM and hearing, “They do not work here any longer.”

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Social Selling LinkedIn Guidelines Ideal Customer Profile 117

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Barbara Nowak - Rowe as a member of the Harvard Business Revue group in Linkedin asked the question: Do you agree that "one that never fails is not trying hard enough"? Doug: Doug had been working on an insurance account in eastern Pennsylvania. Give me a chance to work on some aspect of your insurance needs. dollars in revenue.

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Insurance Insurance Hiring Decision Maker 181

Artesian Solutions

MAY 16, 2019

LONDON, England, May 16, 2019 – The Artesian Solutions Risk and Compliance Hub (ARCH), a SaaS solution enabling commercial teams and underwriters to carry out automated risk screening on prospective clients has been accepted onto PwC’s Scale | InsurTech Programme.

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Scale Insurance Insurance Decision Maker 40

Pipeliner

MARCH 18, 2020

Recently, one group of migraine sufferers was given an actual drug while another suffering group received a sugar tablet. Neither group was aware of which they received while both hoped for relief. The use post-mortems to gain lessons learned from losses to insure increased effectiveness on future deals.

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ACT Pharmaceuticals Territories Consumer 87

Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Performance Solutions International (PSI) , SalesSparx , and Menemsha Group are three such partners. PSI is a leader in industry-focused talent development and performance support that enables sales to understand their clients and prospects so they can better identify new opportunities and position solutions strategically.

Strategy 52

Strategy Telecommunications Customer Top of Funnel 52

Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Whether your prospect is a potential buyer, seller, or tenant, use these scripts to grab their attention. Some might also use lead distribution software and gain access to third-party prospect lists. Notice how these three sentences put zero-to-no pressure on the prospect. So, how should you cold call in real estate?

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Real Estate Cold Calling Commission Face-to-face 88

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The canvassing technique is also used to gather information (usually through survey responses), for campaigning, and by different charitable groups. He also recommends being enthusiastic, courteous, and confident enough to demand attention from prospects. By that logic, you’ll also want to encourage your prospect to talk.

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 98

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I’m a marketing strategist at Blue Frog, which means I help drive the overall strategic leadership for my team’s group of clients. Primary industries in Des Moines would be insurance, financial services, agriculture, and surprisingly to some, technology. Tell us about your job and your company. What’s your day-to-day work?

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Pipeline Hubspot 100

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Objective Management Group (OMG), having assessed 700,000 salespeople, tells us that one key piece of data remains unchanged. An owner I spoke with yesterday was totally freaking out over the 40% increase in his costs to provide health insurance. Ineffective Salespeople - The latest reports indicate that there are now 15.8 No interest.

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Travel Decision Maker Insurance Insurance 251

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Yesterday I received two assessments for the same candidate; one from Objective Management Group (OMG) and one from Caliper. Qualifying Skills (Caliper looks at a willingness to ask questions in general while OMG looks at the specific information a salesperson must identify in order to qualify a prospect. Prospecting Skills.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 238

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2023

Being a part of a group may also assist in bringing in new clients. Directing a group. Enhancing group performance. Offered through the National Association for Insurance Education and Research, a CRM certificate validates a consultant's knowledge when creating effective risk management plans. Forming a productive team.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Education Networking 71

The Brooks Group

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Brooks Group is proud to announce the launch of the Sales Performance Research Center. The goal of our most recent survey was to gauge the current state of sales performance and sales challenges among the group of participants we polled. And for now, check out the results from our most recent survey below.

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Research Lead Rank Lead Scoring Industry 76

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 11, 2013

Insurance is different than banking which is different than wholesaling which is different than manufacturing. You get a chance to design how you acquire names for prospects, how you meet these prospects, how you qualify these prospects, how you present to these prospects, and how you get prospects to make a decision to buy.

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Buying Cycle Education Objections Insurance 191

criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Let’s say you have one group of clients where your main point of contact is the Director of Operations. You might also have another group of clients where you typically engage with a manager within a specific department such as supply chain management. Here’s a simple example…. Consider demographic and even psychographic information.

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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Trade Show 98

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 18, 2012

For years we - Anthony Cole Training Group - have taught and instructed our clients about sales and selling. What makes it so hard to qualify or disqualify a new prospect? How and why most sales people fail to get decisions from prospects. The 50% deposit and 50% check required before the equipment came off of the truck.

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Hiring Exercises Proposal Decision Maker 198

Increase Sales

APRIL 4, 2014

Time strapped business to business (B2B) small business owners and sales professionals continually look for less time draining solutions as they prospect for new sales leads. What groups does she or he belong to? For me, LinkedIn has been an incredible prospecting and influencing building tool. Is this person activity?

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Small Business Small Business 131