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3 Keys to Successfully Dealing with Influencers

Mr. Inside Sales

Influencers are key to both getting through to decision makers, and to eventually making a sale. The question is: How do you properly qualify them and get them to influence the sale in your favor? They are: Key Number One: Understand exactly how much influence the influencer has. Get Access Today.

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5 Questions for Influencers

Mr. Inside Sales

More and more these days, decision makers hid behind their assistants or other influencers. Many sales reps get frustrated by this and often try to get past these very important people, thinking that only the decision maker is worth talking to. Question Five: “How much influence (or input) do you have on the final decision?”.

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10 Sales Influencers You Should Be Following On Social Media

Zoominfo

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

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Harnessing the Power of Social Media Influencers for Local Business Promotion

BuzzBoard

Enter social media influencers: the trusted tastemakers with engaged audiences, waiting to champion your local businesses. For salespeople at digital marketing agencies, understanding the power of influencer marketing opens a door to lucrative opportunities for local businesses. Selling Influencer Marketing to Local Businesses 1.

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Priorities vs. Objectives

The Pipeline

If you read this blog regularly (and why wouldn’t you), you know that I put a lot of emphasis on understanding and selling to a prospect’s Objectives, a much better area of focus than pains or needs. One of the positive elements of Objectives is that they are generally long term, and they continuously evolve. Well maybe.

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Stop Jumping Through Hoops to Get a Sale

Mr. Inside Sales

So many sales reps are anxious when they speak with a prospect. And, if they are an influencer collecting information, then: “What is the timeline of the (decision maker) to put something like this to work for them?” And, to qualify the influencer: “How do you get involved in the decision process?”

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Influence Versus Persuasion in Sales

Janek Performance Group

The best way to handle a prospect who digs in as a sales professional is to prevent a prospect from doing so in the first place. Sneaky Suspicion Sales Think about the last time someone tried to persuade you. As sales professionals, what is our primary responsibility? Caller: “I’m looking for info on XYZ.”