Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Professional conferences are not only an opportunity to meet industry leaders -- and maybe do a little prospecting -- they’re also a way to break yourself out of your usual routine and pick up new skills. 13) INBOUND. If you’re anything like most salespeople, you aim to crush your number and become more efficient. TOPO Sales Summit.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

If I’m fortunate enough to get some time with a prospect during a sales cycle, I need to be sure I can add real value and that they will remember this interaction. Prospects will value that. We have invested in storytelling workshops for our team in hopes they can share stories the champion will remember when presenting.

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Activities that are focused on getting prospects to notice the brand, its business proposition, and its value offerings are typical strategies to attract potential customers. The goal is to ensure that the prospect is aware of the brand as it lowers the barriers when the actual sales call / sales interaction is made. Strategies: 1.Engagement

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In stark contrast, inbound contacts from non-executives seek product information to supplement whatever they’ve already gathered from your website and other sources. Are unaware if their offering is a good fit and may discuss capabilities that aren’t relevant to the prospect. Will not have established any value.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

I’d like to discuss how sellers initiate opportunities and then revisit inbound inquiries from researchers. 4 Qualifiers for Handling Researchers Inbound inquiries from prospects that have done extensive research more closely resemble bottom-up vs. top-down selling approaches.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Objection handling: Sales reps address any concerns or doubts the prospect might have, showcasing their expertise and the value of their solution.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The three-day event will include interactive workshops, general keynote presentations, and targeted sessions split across four tracks. The theme of Unleash this year is “Building the Future of Sales,” and the conference will include trainings and workshops, dynamic breakout sessions, and a reception to get to know your peers.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. 1. Jeb Blount (Sales Gravy). Featured Video: What is the Real Deal of Sales?

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Salespeople who can quickly build rapport with new prospects have a much greater chance of achieving success in selling. This could be inbound sales, cold calling, objection handling, social selling, negotiation skills, or the soft sales skills that are now highly valued. You could borrow books from a library or buy in a bookstore.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net In previous blog posts , I''ve highlighted shortcomings of assuming inbound visitors are buyers for complex B2B offerings costing >$50K. Making outbound contact isn''t easy, but allows sellers to: Select companies meeting criteria that make them more likely to be viable prospects.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Please note that I believe in having a well-balanced prospecting strategy. Your team should have a mixture of telephone, in-person, email, social selling, text messaging, referrals, networking, inbound leads, trade shows, and referrals. Of course, many of them brought in five names of their most difficult prospects.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In last week's blog I offered suggestions for (reactively) gaining access to Key Players when sellers are contacted by lower level staff within prospect organizations. Inbound contacts usually provide sub-optimal entry points. These “no decision” outcomes waste vendors’ as well as prospects’ time and resources.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Between us, we designed a workshop, sold two clients, and put in place everything we needed for entrepreneurial business. But one day a brochure came into my office advertising a workshop that was then called: The Winging-IT Logic System, to be delivered by Dr. Keith Spicer, a prominent Canadian public figure. An opportunity).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Inbound lead generation or outbound cold calling ? There are sales specialists who help you with that in a non-consulting, first-hand, prospect-facing manner. You’ll find a number of different lead generation services: Inbound lead generation agencies (content marketing, social selling, SEO experts). Inside sales or field sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Whether opportunities begin reactively with inbound inquiries from mid level staff or proactively by targeting prospects, I believe competent sales professionals must have the ability to: Discuss desired business outcomes with Key Player levels. Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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MEDDIC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Budget is even a pillar of the framework for several older sales methodologies and frameworks such as BANT, still used to qualify inbound calls for inexpensive, transactional sales. You have more time available, and your prospects are more sophisticated. Qualifying an opportunity with Budget is not necessary.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

While our SKO is obviously sales-focused, we invite these other departments for at least part of the 2- to 3-day weekend: Sales (inbound, outbound, development, and account executives). The weekend is filled with workshops for intensive learning around a specific agenda. Read it: The Superhero Life of Your Prospecting Email.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Rather than rely upon inbound leads that are non-Key Players, do some proactive business development to targeted accounts and titles. I’d venture to say if sellers tried to contact two prospects a day, they would be on their way to more steady performance. Make 2017 a better year by making these changes NOW.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 22, 2015

Statistics show about half of sales cycles end with prospects making no decision. While enticing, I question whether the torrent of activity from inbound non-Key Player researchers is helping salespeople achieve their numbers. The seller can thank the prospect for their interest and acknowledge that both parties’ time is important.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. His focus is to accelerate peak performance fast. Enter Jeffrey Gitomer.

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OnePageCRM

JANUARY 29, 2018

Do you know how many prospects or customers you actually talked to face-to-face last year? Conferences are a great opportunity for salespeople to connect with potential prospects, network with like-minded people and learn about new technologies all of which can help them grow their business. Check out speakers and agenda here.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 13, 2022

When the marketing team attracts prospects, they pass the baton to the sales team to engage them. To avoid a frictional handoff between these two teams, take a day or two to workshop an SLA with the service team and revisit it often to make sure it's serving its purpose. Commit to prospecting a percentage of your leads.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2013

By that I mean their entry points within prospect organizations are low, but willing to talk with them. Reactively when prospects contact a vendor or a seller. Proactively when sellers (lead gen or general territory) reach out to prospects. If prospect companies aren''t looking, there''s no budget.

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The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Cold calling , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales eXchange , execution. 1. The above are a start, and need to be practiced, and constantly improved, but as you master them, you will see opportunities to tackle other barriers to prospecting success. B2B #Sales #prospecting. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Organizations without frameworks to view customers and prospects from a common lens will face uphill battles in devising coherent enterprise strategies to address today’s challenges: Visitors earning high web activity scores can’t fund unbudgeted initiatives. Nurturing tactics for inbound visitors fail to go beyond product training.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 25, 2015

The deluge of inbound website activity has left vendors little choice but to make some changes. The biggest confusion that I see is that inbound visitors have been viewed and therefore treated as though they are buyers. Grab one of the last seats available at our next open workshop in Boston, Aug 3-6 !

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 21, 2014

Often-inbound inquiries aren’t yet buying cycles when you apply the first core concept of CCS®: No goal means no prospect. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance. In either case the seller can ask to schedule a call with the buyer and a higher-level person.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

If you don’t have your inbound web strategy in place, outbound sales will have to work harder to find prospects and nurture them. A solid inbound web strategy also includes nurturing, but if you don’t have marketing tools then outbound sales will have to manually nurture as well. Prospecting. Negotiations. Next Steps.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2016

The first question above is based upon the first core concept of CCS®: No goal means no prospect. This simple wisdom applied to inbound/nurtured leads could allow B & C Players to better decide which opportunities they should pursue. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 7, 2016

Statistics show about half of sales cycles end with prospects making no decision. While enticing, I question whether the torrent of inbound activity from non-Key Player researchers is helping salespeople achieve their numbers. The seller can thank the prospect for their interest and acknowledge that both parties’ time is important.

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CloserIQ

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Holding a CISP credential shows prospective employers that you make a point of staying on top of emerging trends in the inside sales industry. . That means you must work harder than ever to both attract and retain prospective leads throughout the sales process. It is a two-day workshop for sellers and managers. 3) SPIN Selling.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 27, 2016

That said, opportunities begin in one of two (2) ways: Inbound - Which for many complex B2B offerings means that mid to low level staff are evaluating products with or without sponsorship (budget?) Some of the major challenges with inbound are that: Visitors evaluate several vendors in parallel (there usually is no “Column A vendor”).

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The first was: No goal means no prospect. That said, many inbound web inquiries have become the equivalent of those bingo cards. Without goals/problems that can be addressed by an offering, buying cycles haven’t begun and prospects shouldn’t be in a seller’s pipeline. Having the researcher state a goal the organization has.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 19, 2014

Try a public sales training workshop to learn the proven best practices that will produce better sales results. They seemed to believe any prospects willing to talk with them were likely to buy. One of my primary responsibilities was helping sellers be more selective about accounts they focused on.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A concern I have is that terminology used in sales offices by sellers and their management team may be used when sellers are talking with prospects and customers. It also has sellers realize that for most inbound opportunities buyers/researchers are dictating how they want to buy. Need some help to increase sales?

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Oddly enough many of the behaviors listed above are exhibited by prospects doing their own research via the Internet and social networking (feel free to go back and have another look at the list). Inbound and outbound efforts share a common goal of generating top line revenue. I believe the pendulum has swung too far.

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LeadBoxer

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Here are eight sales strategies to use: Research Your Prospects Knowing who your prospects are can make or break your sales. Research has shown that at least 50% of prospects are not a good fit for your business. Your research can include: The Prospect’s Background What is your prospects mission and values?

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