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Is Cold Calling Dead?

Mr. Inside Sales

I received an email last week from a real estate rep asking me if cold calling was dead. Then ask yourself: if your phone were taken away, would it affect your sales? Would you be as successful if you couldn’t reach out to these prospects and introduce yourself and your company? If your answer is Yes, then guess what?

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Qualia, a real estate company, uses software that allows sales managers to listen in and “whisper” feedback. .

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The Importance of Following Up

Mr. Inside Sales

Let me ask you this: If you just met with a really hot prospect, how long would you wait before you followed up? Here’s my experience with a couple of real estate agents a while ago: My wife and I were selling our home and interviewed some real estate agents to represent us. A couple of days?

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The Importance of Following Up

Mr. Inside Sales

Let me ask you this: If you just met with a really hot prospect, how long would you wait before you followed up? Here’s my experience with a couple of real estate agents a while ago: My wife and I were selling our home and interviewed some real estate agents to represent us. A couple of days?

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NEXT – The Most Important Word In Sales

Mr. Inside Sales

I was talking to a real estate agent the other day about the importance of disqualifying leads, and he told me an interesting story about their office’s top producer. He said he was afraid to let go because he didn’t want to chance losing a sale. She said her secret could be summed up with one word. ” I told him. “I

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Best Sales Podcasts: An Ultimate List of 100+ Must-Listens

LeadFuze

2 Predictable Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting brings in some of the top minds in lead gen, social selling, and sales process. You’ll be sure to hear the importance of prospecting as well as dynamite for the rest of your sales process, even if you listen to a few episodes. 3 The Sales Podcasts.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Without further ado, here are some of the female movers-and-shakers who are creating powerful ripple effects and paving the path for the next generation of women sales leaders. Amy Appleyard – SVP Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 2013-2018.