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How to Cultivate and Harvest Your Leads Effectively

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2014-03-03. Author: Steve Hays. Teaser: Converting leads is an ongoing process. On average, it takes 10 touches to convert a prospect into a customer. But most sales reps stop reaching out after fewer than two contacts. That's lead waste, and it's preventable. Converting leads is an ongoing process.

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Do You Know How the Telephone Works … or How to Prospect?

No More Cold Calling

When we showed my 85-year-old aunt how to use a computer, she told us she still hadn’t figured out how the telephone worked, so don’t bother. Referrals and relationships were how to prospect. They know how to prospect, and they understand that people, not technology, are their competitive edge. She walked out of the room.

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How to Keep Institutional Knowledge from Falling Off the Demographic Cliff

Allego

This planning will pay dividends long into the future, as the process can be used not only to harvest the wisdom of retirees but of any top performer at the company. Harvesting the institutional knowledge of contributors and subject matter experts (SMEs) is essential. Replicating “A” Players.

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Software for Consultants: What’s Your Tech Stack?

Nutshell

Harvest : In addition to visual reports of your time spending, Harvest allows you to process automatic invoices and payments through integrations with QuickBooks, Stripe, and PayPal. ClickUp makes time tracking easy so you can focus on your work. It offers enterprise-grade data protection and encrypted transactions.

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2 Easy Steps to Nurture Your Well-Being In Sales

SalesFuel

Nataly Kogan explained this phenomenom for the Harvest Business Review. If you find it difficult to take breaks, look at these tips to learn how to change your mindset. For more insight into seller burnout and how to avoid it, check out this article , including a recognizing burnout checklist.

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TSE 1269: How to build a sales engine that will land massive deals – repeatedly

Sales Evangelist

How to build a sales engine that will land massive deals – repeatedly A sales engine is a great strategy to increase your number of closed deals. He’s got to get to work. In Revenue Harvest , Nigel shows sales leaders how to yield results year-in and year-out that are consistent. Most sales people don’t have a plan.

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Ready – Set – Go Part I

The Pipeline

Tuesday we enter the “final half” of the sales year, the unofficial intermission that is summer comes to a figurative end, and harvest season is upon us. Now if you did a good job of ploughing, seeding and nurturing (even fertilizing), in the spring, you are truly in a position to harvest.

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