The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. It involves assessing the fit and readiness of potential leads based on various criteria. In fact, two statistics cited in Spotio are eye opening: 46% of B2B sales reps list lead quantity and quality as their top challenge.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. How do these individuals generate great results? But that’s not true.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2020

Sales leaders: Lead generation must be your primary focus. They cut advertising, travel, training, marketing, and discretionary expense line items. They take an internal focus, instead of recognizing that lead generation—referral lead generation in particular—is their ticket to the C-Suite. (Or

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. If you don’t get the meeting, Part Two doesn’t matter.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 13, 2022

An inbound lead. If you’ve been fielding inbound leads for a while, then you’ve probably noticed something: Not all inbound leads buy. Didn’t the prospect reach out to me? The way to capture a deal in this situation—if there is one—is to treat an inbound lead like any other: you need to qualify them.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”. Then give your team access to my award winning inside sales training!

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. Plus, what was missing was a value statement of what might be in it for the prospect. Wait and respond accordingly—engage!].

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

There are a lot of blurred lines in business and sales, leading to blurred conversations, and longer sales cycles. One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. One Is Willing.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. Let’s look at best practices for using chatbots to convert your leads. How to Optimize Chatbots for B2B Lead Generation. Respond to Leads with Lightning Speed.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Marketing teams, with their rich industry insights, often take the lead in crafting the messaging platform.

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Autoklose

MARCH 18, 2024

But as your company grows, the number of your team members will increase, too, and in order to keep the same standards and continue hitting your quota, you’ll have to find a way to scale your sales training efforts. Here are a couple of useful sales training ideas to help you build a killer sales team. Table of Content 1.

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Autoklose

MARCH 11, 2024

Prospecting is a high-stakes game, so many sales reps make the mistake of being too pushy in an attempt to quickly convert leads into sales. Such an aggressive approach often backfires, leading to lost opportunities and potential clients who are turned off by the pressure. Table of Content Leverage the Reciprocity Principle 1.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 13, 2018

We had a team lead, whose job was daily cheerleading – but the role of ‘manager’ on the Inbound team didn’t exist.” I’m now responsible for training, daily coaching, revenue – and my team hitting our numbers. We have the following goals for each SDR: 40 dials per day to inbound leads.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Here’s how to generate leads and get call-backs. Social media, marketing automation, AI, predictive analytics, and all kinds of technology have cast doubt on traditional sales techniques and encouraged organizations to rely on digital sales prospecting. The first step is to stop expecting digital lead gen miracles.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The majority of Lead Development Reps are inexperienced, undertrained, and ill-equipped for today’s buyer. So when your prospect finally speaks with your company, who is the first point of contact? If you are a B2B that utilizes webform to register inquiries, it is typically a Lead Development Representative (LDR). Guess what?

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 21, 2019

We all wish every lead turned into a great prospect and in less time. The fact is that too often leads don’t go anywhere and we’re left with a painfully slow journey to try to get the next customer. The fact is that too often leads don’t go anywhere and we’re left with a painfully slow journey to try to get the next customer.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. Successful sales enablement starts with ensuring marketing and sales are aligned , which isn’t always easy, but pays its dividends many times over. Marketing-generated awareness.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 1, 2020

A company I’ve been working with for over a year now gets a portion of their leads via inbound email requests for information on their services. Another company recently reached out to me wondering if there is a best practice approach for handling inbound leads. So, stop pitching your inbound leads and start qualifying instead.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads. Big mistake!

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Because I wanted to focus on a specific question, I glossed over the question I am sure many had as I set out a scenario, specifically when we ask sellers: “Who is your best prospect?”. What I found that unless you get a uniform answer to that question, you can bet that they don’t even know what a prospect is.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 4, 2017

SLAs are important, but so too are definitions and you must get everyone in sales and marketing using a common language quickly. Too many businesses do not have a clear or well understood definition of a lead. I’ve already covered the danger of not defining a lead. Prospect/Visitor. Marketing qualified lead (MQL).

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Measure the following to understand the ROI of your sales enablement platform: MQL to SQL conversion rate : How has sales enablement increased the marketing qualified lead (MQL) to sales qualified lead (SQL) pool and quality of leads? Content metrics. What actions do they perform afterward?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 18, 2024

Despite videoconferencing and virtual selling, the telephone remains essential for connecting with clients and, especially, prospects. This leads to additional insights into the customer’s needs. While sellers should guide the conversation, let customers lead. Since then, teleselling has been a staple of sales.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s more important now than ever that CEOs lead sales. I have a sales leader in place to lead sales.” ” If you are of the mindset that sales is about sellers , your sales leaders should be leading that effort, but even then, you have a role to play in sales. Great #CEOs lead #sales! Are you kidding me?

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. With the help of this guide, you’ll discover exactly what lead generation is. You’ll be better equipped to implement a strong lead generation strategy within your business. Problems with lead generation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

me) to actually absorb your outstanding training materials, then put them into action to achieve the desired results? . You share these your people and train them in the implementation of these strats and tacs. I also spent the last 40 years training and developing thousands of salespeople and managers. Charbonneau.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 10, 2018

He wanted our opinion on how to get more leads without having to cold call. My trainer was very diplomatic and said that, even though cold calling wasn’t the most efficient use of a salesperson’s time, you have to sometimes get hold of prospects some way or other, or your pipeline will be as empty as it possibly could be. Sean McPheat.

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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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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Twitter Lead: Try This 3-Step, No-Fluff Process. Twitter is a great tool for marketing, but how about you find leads on Twitter as a sales application? What is the best way to engage with leads? Yes, Twitter can be a powerful lead prospecting tool. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. However, traditional coaching and training methods tend to fall flat because they take a one-size fits all approach that doesn’t fit the needs of each individual rep.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. Despite the heavy investment in training, some businesses won’t benefit as much as they should. What The B2B Sales Training Program Should Include The average organization spends $1,200 a year on professional development per employee.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Marketing Team The marketing team is responsible for creating awareness, generating demand, and strategically promoting products to the target market. Structure this team correctly and you’ll be able to feed your sales reps qualified leads both before and after the launch.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 7, 2020

At the same time, your sales time is not feeling the effects of their efforts and are spending more time prospecting when they should be closing. In many organizations, a disconnect happens between marketing and sales: The sales team says that leads coming in are unqualified. Marketing says the sales team just can't close.

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