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10 Steps to Increase Cold Calling Confidence in Sales Reps

Allego

How do you transform someone who has no cold calling experience whatsoever into a fully competent and confident prospecting superstar? Whiteboard session call structure, scripts, and objections There’s nothing quite like getting a marker pen in your hand and drawing a process out on a whiteboard.

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Hire Better Sales People, Part 3

Anthony Cole Training

Think of working with the process like you would work on a jigsaw puzzle. An important thing to consider when hiring better sales people is how much time they will need to spend on the phone either prospecting or selling. You don''t care what they select to "sell"; the main objective is to get past your gatekeeper.

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Unsolicited Email, Cold Calling, Prospecting, Nurturing……

Partners in Excellence

I prospect vigorously. I think a large part of the job of a great sales person is to do something that’s unsolicited–not to wait for the customer to approach you, but approaching them with new ideas, opportunities, and ways to help them better achieve their objectives. The Handwritten Prospecting Letter.

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5 Ways to Cut Through the Noise With Buyer Enablement

Sales Hacker

Your prospects know they have a business problem, they know they need to make a purchase to solve it , the money is there to do it, but they just can’t seem to get to a decision. Now think about all of your competitors who also bombard the same prospects with theirs. B2B sales is like a jigsaw puzzle. Chaotic process.

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5 Outbound Calling Best Practices

Green Lead's B2B

He'll say he just swished the phone 20 times, found 4 shiny objects and none were gold. Functional Tools - Fill the toolbox with tools, and know how to use them: Jigsaw, NetProspex, InsideView, LinkedIn, Google Alerts and Google Search, LeadLander, others. This is the most common time of day for prospects to be in a meeting.

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Demand Gen's State of The Union Address - If Obama Were a Marketing/Sales Exec

Green Lead's B2B

Prospects pick up their phones less. Use the numerous online data sources at your disposal (Jigsaw, Netprospex, Google, LinkedIn, Inbound Lists!). We hear fewer objections that "the economy has us on budget hold." "But remember this: I never suggested that change would be easy or that I could do it alone." They use email more.

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From Demo to Conversation

Sales Overdrive

Done well, they can help you move your company away from the worn out pattern of pushing every prospect into a “demo” or a “pitch about features and benefits”; and moving them into a conversation around building value , developing a business relationship and ensuring technical alignment. An alternative to buying a list is building one.