Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

The truth about salespeople who are reluctant to prospect boils down to two things: First, they are reluctant to prospect because past attempts resulted in failure. Second, they don’t know what to say to prospects. Prospecting reluctance can be the silent killer of sales careers.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. Some of the top include: Lead Generation and Qualification Prospect identification Lead qualification Effective BDRs excel at identifying potential leads within target markets or industries.

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LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 12, 2022

How can you use LinkedIn for sales? Are you still trying to figure out how to do sales on LinkedIn or how you can make LinkedIn work for you as an outreach platform for your organization? Well, here is a blog where our VP of sales has shared interesting insights about how he and his team mates use LinkedIn to sell!

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Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2014

Do you have a strategic prospecting plan or will you just “wing it” again, like you often do? You need to start planning during your prior work day for upcoming prospecting you’ll be doing on the next business day. You think this just comes up naturally in your thought process? When will you follow-up, and how?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Without question, the functionality within CRMs, particularly Salesforce, can create a 360 degree view of the prospects and customers alike. And unlike most these applications, CRMs fail to help selling professionals, you know, sell. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. Think about it.

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Tenbound

APRIL 19, 2024

by Kathleen Robida LinkedIn is always buzzing with tips and tricks for SDRs to book more meetings and for Sales to win more deals. Who is using video successfully in their prospecting? Last but not least, don’t forget to; “LinkedIn connect, and don’t sell!” What’s the best cold call opener?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2018

How to Find Prospects. Prospecting can be tedious and time-consuming, but it’s something that has to be done to keep pipelines healthy. However, while sales reps can’t avoid prospecting, they can certainly make it easier for themselves. Where Do Salespeople Find Prospects? Job Boards. Twitter Searches. Business Journals.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

These could be industry changes, a new funding round announcement, a merger, or a prospect getting a new role. If you contact a prospect right after they buy an expensive competitive product, they're not going to bite. Luckily there are a few places you can set up alerts that will help you discover these events as they arrive.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. LinkedIn: Social-ism Meets Capital-ism – Sales eXchange – 98. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Sales 2.0 , Sales Leadership , Sales eXchange , Social Selling , Social media , execution. Or more to the point, can a publicly traded LinkedIn serve two masters at one time?

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

If your B2B company has been slow to get more involved in what some call the Social Selling movement, you can still do some very simple things right away while your company debates how, when and why to jump in. A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently. Consider new territory rules that reflect changes in the market (and your business). Try This Instead.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 7, 2017

A great point highlighted on the Linkedin Sales Blog. The key point is relationships take more time and energy to establish than setting up a screen share (or worst case jumping on a plane.) The key point is relationships take more time and energy to establish than setting up a screen share (or worst case jumping on a plane.)

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

LinkedIn is filled with surveys about, “What is the highest priority focus for [Fill In Your Favorite Role]?” There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. .” As sellers, we have to manage our territories and accounts. We have to do the whole job.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Free Resources.

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. Some examples are: ‘Friends’ within the customer/prospect.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. January 2012.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. Wim @ Sales Sells.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. Are you territory based or open territories? First, it depends.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year. Leverage Automation – The hidden cost of social selling is time, and to a lesser degree content.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Without question, the functionality within CRMs, particularly Salesforce, can create a 360 degree view of the prospects and customers alike. And unlike most these applications, CRMs fail to help selling professionals, you know, sell. Meanwhile, SDRs need to be able to prospect based on leads that their Account Executives own.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Has your Sales Ops planning kept up with the new realities? Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. If that covers most of your plan’s components, you better catch up.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 31, 2017

But how many emails do you get that are paired up with a voicemail? When used correctly, voicemails are one of the quickest ways for a team to increase response rates and get the attention of their prospects. Your voicemail should point towards an email that you will send to the prospect immediately following your call.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Free Resources.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sell, sell, sell. In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

We have our prescribed lists and territories. Long term opportunities (what am I setting up for next quarter?). If this happens to you, I ask that you don’t give up hope on ever winning their business. We’d let the prospect know that we’ll cease prospecting them. Win your dream customers: Playing the long game.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Conversely, we’ve come across teams that throw their hands up in despair. All your data is rolled-up to a common definition of the customer. IT needs to step up here. Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Messaging is focused, content is relevant, closing rates go up.

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Score More Sales

JULY 22, 2014

When Google launched in 1998 none of us in professional selling had any idea how it might change the way the world of business-to-business selling worked. Learn about the company your prospective buyer works for. Find ways that differentiate you from others in your industry and sell against the dreaded state of “status quo”.

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Pipeliner

MAY 2, 2018

The true sales hunters will dive 10,000 leagues deep below the ocean and know what their prospects had for breakfast that morning. If you don’t have a provocative business case that will pique your prospective customer’s interest, you’re sunk like the Titanic. Yep, not everyone is eschewing social selling.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In the race to finish the year strong, prospecting often gets put on the back burner while sales reps spend time and energy on closing the open business opportunities they’re working. But salespeople need to be able to fill the pipeline with highly qualified prospects in order to be successful going into the New Year. Sense of Urgency.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In fact, at the time of writing this article, there are over 100,000 open SaaS sales roles on LinkedIn. SDRs are responsible for outbound prospecting. They make initial contact with people whom they think are qualified and ready to use the product they're trying to sell. And that's just in the United States. They're right.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 20, 2020

Your territory isn’t as good as your neighbor’s territory. So they meticulously created a geographical territory that contains no clients you could win. You’ve noticed the number one rep from your primary competitor has this same territory, and you are sure this is all by design. This makes no sense.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Selling to local SMBs is very different from selling to Fortune 100 executives, for example.) Prospecting. Social Selling. Territory Management. Salespeople must communicate effectively throughout the sales cycle, from cold outreach and follow-up to moving an opportunity along. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. There are steps to follow that can make prospecting easy and effective. Let’s take a look at 10 fail-proof tasks to help turn prospects into buyers: Before the Call.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2013

Want to get the real scoop about social selling? Here’s Barb’s take on social selling. People pick up on a catchphrase that is garnering attention and before you know it, they are jumping on the bandwagon to proclaim that they are the expert. That’s what is happening with social selling. This is about selling.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. For a perfectly cooked main dish of deals that hit quota, keep things simple to understand and easy for sellers to sell. Keep it Consistent – baking is scientific, and so is selling. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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