The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2012

During the past two weeks I posted a couple of posts that if put in to practice, could help sales people overcome one of the most common challenges faced by sales professionals. The two posts were 8 By 8 and 5 After 5 , and Your Most Important Sales Appointment , both emphasizing the need for a disciplined approach to prospecting.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of the more challenging commitments you must gain in sales is the commitment for time. To obtain that commitment, you must prospect. You might ask yourself, “How do I prospect more effectively?” You make prospecting easier when you have a framework and a strategy that produces results. No more pushy sales tactics.

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BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s time businesses must get one thing straight—the days of generic marketing and sales pitches are long gone. Let’s accept—we are living in this age of data deluge where harvesting and analyzing vast amounts of data and making it actionable is in itself a tremendous, superhuman challenge. Take data storytelling for instance.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 9, 2020

Later, when my manager in Los Angeles forced me into outside sales, I dialed the phone from 8:00 AM until Noon, and then from 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM, until I was so busy with clients and meetings that I had to block time for prospecting. The Prospecting Mindset. ” The same is true in prospecting.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2023

Sales is the transfer of conviction and inspiration: The person who is most certain during the interaction will win. Because your prospect is uncertain. Which means your sales conversation will either inspire in them the certainty to say yes — or it will reinforce their uncertainty, and they will say no. A staggering 2%.

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SBI

APRIL 25, 2011

The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential. A resource and functionality gap between marketing and sales.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 22, 2019

WHAT YOU PLANT NOW, YOU WILL HARVEST LATER.". -OG Sales and marketing organizations have infrastructures as well. Websites, sales collateral, CRM, marketing automation, and email are all examples of marketing infrastructure basics. - MOTIVATION -. ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST. OG MANDINO. AROUND THE WEB -. >

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 8, 2023

Photo by Ceccucci via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Will You Use Ten Proven Ways to Increase Your Agricultural Sales? Growing sales in the agricultural sector can be challenging due to many variables – the price of crops, weather conditions, and government subsidies. Offer personalized attention.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most sales and marketing teams are looking for ways to generate more leads. It's likely a daily discussion for most of us, but have you ever considered that your sales reps need fewer leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified leads. The overall result is often wasted marketing dollars and wasted sales time.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What you plant now, you will harvest later.". -Og One day we’ll look back at 2020 as a turning point in the world of sales. But the shift to virtual selling has proven that the fundamentals of a great sale are still real relationships and customer value. - MOTIVATION -. Always do your best. Og Mandino. AROUND THE WEB -. >

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In essence, harvest time! There is no benefit to them or you, if you both go down a road that will dead-end due to deadline and priorities, and leave you without a sale (at least this year). If you cannot identify those prospects, what is your plan to get new prospects in your pipeline, in time? Tibor Shanto.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2023

While it’s undeniable that generative AI is already changing how businesses engage with the world, sales and marketing leaders are quickly realizing that AI alone isn’t the solution to all their problems. Chorus records, transcribes, and analyzes video and phone calls to harvest key GTM insights. Today, it’s sales and marketing.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

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. Tibor Shanto .

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

However, not everyone involved in sales breathlessly counts down the days till the end of November each year. While the final quarter of the year is boom time for consumer sales, it often marks a slower period for business-to-business enterprises. Here are some tips for hacking calendar management that can result in booming sales.

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BuzzBoard

AUGUST 19, 2023

So says Umesh Tibrewal, Founder and CEO of BuzzBoard, as he builds the company vision to make sales more personal, more effective. Unfortunately, all they were getting out of these pre-existing frameworks was generic, stock content that provides little room for true personalization, and ignores a bounty of signal data about the prospect.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

If you have one or more global accounts—large companies with a global footprint—it’s important to approach them globally – but this is a tall order for a busy sales department, especially among newer companies where any account-based approach has a learning curve. What is global account-based sales development? View a video?

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Pipeliner

MAY 2, 2018

Faster than you can say Benedict Cumberbatch three times fast: In sales, you’re only as valuable as the data you’re operating upon. The true sales hunters will dive 10,000 leagues deep below the ocean and know what their prospects had for breakfast that morning. Be the Queen Mary 2 ! I see this all the time.

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Allego

JUNE 29, 2021

2020 was a transformational year for sales organizations. The challenges caused by COVID-19 launched a boom in virtual selling and an estimated 90% of B2B sales are now virtual. > > Watch Now: How to Use Rep-Centric Sales Enablement to Future-Proof Your Revenue Engine. This data reveals the impact of the pandemic.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. But the vast majority of salespeople I meet admit that they need to sell to other prospects as well.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 23, 2023

Sales is the transfer of conviction and inspiration: The person who is most certain during the interaction will win. Because your prospect is uncertain. Which means your sales conversation will either inspire in them the certainty to say yes — or it will reinforce their uncertainty, and they will say no. A staggering 2%.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 26, 2020

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. Nigel Green works with executive investors and sales leaders of companies to help them scale up faster and smarter. Sales leaders in this kind of environment need to act fast.

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Pipeliner

JULY 3, 2023

Hunting the top talent for your sales team requires putting in some elbow grease to scout, choose, and onboard a perfect match. A typical hiring process would involve a job description, must-have experience, and also knowledge of various sales techniques. But what would motivate a sales professional to join your company?

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Allego

MAY 27, 2021

Virtual teams are here to stay—and that means finding the right balance between live and asynchronous sales communication. There are many new barriers to productivity including canceled meetings and travel restrictions, a lack of face time with reps and prospects, difficulty collaborating with colleagues, and more.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

On Monday, in the first post of this series , we defined “cold calling”, and looked at overlooked real opportunities for sales and revenues one misses when not including cold calling in their biz dev routine. Some can sustain their career from harvesting their base, even as their companies are starving for new customers. Tibor Shanto.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The research tells us we need to be persistent in our outreaches to prospects and clients. Phone, email, social, texts, and other channels must be leveraged simultaneously to provoke a prospect–even a customer to respond. Data shows we often need to reach out over 15 times to catch the attention of prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2018

Inspirational Sales Quotes: "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. What you plant now, you will harvest later." -Og For every deal they close, they face countless unanswered calls and emails, not to mention uninterested or even hostile prospects. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino. Thomas Edison.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2013

Are sales reps being squeezed out of the equation? Gleaning was a practice where farmers left some of their crops in the field post-harvest. Leave gleaning to the farmers (agrarian type - not the sales type). As a sales rep, you can’t rely solely on Marketing to develop your presence. With that change came concern.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In sales, most lessons are learned the hard way. We all know the sales profession can be high-pressure at times. From landing a meeting with a key prospect, to losing the big account. This article explores how sales professionals can regulate their emotions, removing the highs and lows to maximize their sales success.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

” Don’t panic, that would just be a waste of your time, and time is something you don’t have in abundance; instead, get prospecting. Prospecting in two ways, first reworking all your current assets, the second is going beyond to prospects and buyers that you will need to identify, engage and move through the process.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guiding Prospects. These days the sales process has changed. Access to online content has put most of the buying process firmly in the hands of prospects and clients. Information asymmetry, where sellers had more access than their prospects to insight and information, is a thing of the past. But you do. Provide Insights.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Harvest your customer projects and extract the relevant data on specific business problems, investments, and actual customer value that has been delivered using the metrics that matter to them. Trend 2: Addressing selling challenges through the lens of the customer path becomes mandatory for effective sales enablement.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All focus was on maximizing growth, and frontline sales managers were most worried about what to do if their reps were regularly exceeding quota. It’s altered so much of the context surrounding sales, from the kinds of companies able to buy to the language that wins deals. The recent pandemic has changed sales best practices, too.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We’ve all been on a sales call that goes from bad to worse in under five seconds. Is your prospect moments away from throwing a mouse at the screen share? Learn from these tips, and save the sale next time a call goes off the rails. Start by confirming the qualification criteria you or your BDR have harvested.

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SBI Growth

MAY 10, 2013

The Cry for More Content from the Sales Field. CMO’s are constantly reminded by the sales field’s cry for new content. Prospective customers research solutions and wait until late in the buying process to engage sales reps. Sales leaders are pushing their teams to engage earlier in the process.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Occasionally I like to take note of what I see in the world of sales. The following obstacles to better sales results seem to be prevalent in companies – or pockets within those companies. Outdated Approach : If your approach to sales is from 1988 (or even earlier), it is obsolete and of limited effectiveness.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 20, 2018

What do you think of sales ethics of personalization? You get info on just how effective personalization can be — McKinsey’s safe estimate is that personalization can lift sales by 10 percent or more — and you get info on how to do it. Sales personalization can help you do that. Have you used personalization in your business?

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Just like listening to a conversation in a language you don’t know, without context, information is simply various data points – which means the silos of Big Data you’ve purchased or harvested, waiting to be leveraged by some brave salesperson or marketer, are just silos full of noise. This is a two-way analogy. This is a two-way analogy.

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