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The Complete Salesperson

The Pipeline

The skinny legs for many sellers are prospecting. Not much new in that, sales people have always preferred almost any other sales activity to prospecting. Specifically, direct prospecting , not indirect, not merely answering an inbound call generated by marketing. This leads to their success standing on twiggy legs.

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SalesTech News: @TechTarget Priority Engine Email Alerts Help Sales Teams Take Immediate Action on the Best Opportunities in Their Territory

SBI

TechTarget Priority Engine Email Alerts Help Sales Teams Take Immediate Action on the Best Opportunities in Their Territory. According to recent research , companies that target active prospects with timely, relevant outreach can generate twice as many opportunities. ndrew Gilman, Head of Marketing, NWN Corporation. Buying Technology.

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Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore?

Your Sales Management Guru

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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Do You Have a Personal Marketing Plan?

Pipeliner

Describe your ideal prospect – Profile them. How do you need to position yourself in the market place – your territory or your accounts? If it is credibility that you need, consider writing a newsletter, articles or tip sheets for local newspapers or magazines on a regular basis or share your expertise through public speaking.

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The Scalable Sales Manager: the Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential

SBI

Tasked with recruiting and hiring, overseeing large teams, providing guidance and training, building culture, setting quotas, creating sales plans, analyzing data, forecasting, assigning territories… the list of responsibilities is as diverse as it is long. An area less explored however is how AI can actually help scale sales managers.

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Adapt to a Changing Marketplace: 6 Steps You Can’t Overlook

The Brooks Group

Using a consultative sales process that builds trust and establishes clear communication with prospects and customers. Increased pushback on price from prospects and customers. Complaints from salespeople that prospects are becoming more resistant and harder to hook. Slower return on marketing dollars. Longer sales cycles.

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The Pipeline ? Get Your Veteran Salespeople to Take Baby Steps

The Pipeline

Ideally in your line of questioning during uncovering these you should try and get the prospect to attach a monetary value to the compelling reasons. This made me think of a prospect of mine where I believed I had two separate compelling reasons but when I looked at them I didn’t have the monetary value associated with the issue.

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