Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For as long as there have been sales, there have been referrals. However, in B2B selling, referrals are more than positive reviews. With that, seeking and gaining referrals is not as easy as it sounds. Therefore, referrals cannot be left to chance. With referrals, the benefits are clear.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2015

Guest blogger Ken Thoreson tells how to grow your referral networks. After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. Which fit your vertical focus?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Rather, it’s a step, an action, a conversation missed earlier in the sales process. If you believe that video is the end-all, be-all for sales training and content marketing, you’re mistaken. By asking for referrals from friends, colleagues, and (best of all) current customers. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 30, 2017

So, what can sales leaders learn from America’s favorite pastime? Twenty years ago, I would have told you referrals couldn’t possibly be more important for account based sales development. Too many sales teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. Revenue can be measured but not managed. I was wrong.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, their gatekeepers will happily patch you through. Phillip Twyford, director of sales and marketing for Tico Mail Works, elaborates in this guest post. Message to Management]: 74 Percent of Salespeople Are Failing Did you learn to sell in school?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 27, 2015

In the meantime, learn more about referral selling in this month’s posts: Don’t Confuse “Target Market” with “Ideal Client” It’s not marketing’s job to identify and nurture your ideal clients, or to convert them into qualified prospects. Your marketing colleagues can certainly help. That’s the job of sales people.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 25, 2015

Sure, referral leads are top-notch, but they don’t just appear. If You Don’t Ask, You Won’t Get The misconception is that customers who score us highly will automatically send us referral leads. Sure, sometimes we’ll hear from a prospect who was recommended, but referrals don’t just happen , at least not at scale.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 28, 2015

We talked on Skype the next morning, and he introduced me to an entrepreneur who wanted to learn about referrals. Then I’m headed to Slovenia, where I’ll get to meet Tanja, a sales manager I met on LinkedIn who lives in a small town called Ljublana. In this way, sales is a lot like baseball. Take the Referral I.Q.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JULY 7, 2011

Why Can’t You Get More Referrals? Tweet Share The definition of “referral” will surprise you, and at the same time make you understand why you don’t get as many as you expect or ask for. The definition of “referral” is: Risk. Do you ask for referrals? Giving a referral is a risk.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 6, 2015

.” I was a little surprised to receive this email from Sam, a sales and marketing pro with years of experience. Many salespeople—even sales veterans—still experience call reluctance, especially when asking for referrals. Write an email with “ Referrals no longer a priority?” But Sam isn’t alone.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 2, 2015

When we work with our Ideal Clients, our sales time collapses, productivity soars, deals are larger, and they help us get referrals to others like themselves. PITAs hang out with other PITAs, so their referrals will be to other demanding, stingy people. Ask your current Ideal Clients for referrals. No questions asked.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 3, 2012

Referrals – Best Way To Get Is To Give. Tweet Share You don’t ask for referrals, you earn referrals: Looking for more tips like this? Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Gitomer | January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment. Click here. Categories.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. I asked my client how the sales reps prepared. ” Was their sales manager clueless, or what? What is the marketing plan for following up?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. This One-on-One Coaching Tool was customized by sales managers facilitating the training.

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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. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads? Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 31, 2017

There are many possible reasons that account based sales reps miss quota. Perhaps they: Depended on marketing to send them qualified sales leads. Weren’t coached by their sales managers. If they’re not getting support from their sales managers, they must demand it. These are all excuses.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Relationships and Referrals | Top Sales Trainer | Best Sales Trainer | Top Leadership Trainer. Get Sales Blog Updates. Generating Referrals. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Gitomer | February 18, 2011 | 1 Comment. Categories.

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Alice Heiman

JANUARY 30, 2024

Alice Heiman’s latest guest, Gretchen Gordon, author of “Happy Sales Manager” and President of Braveheart Sales Performance, shares her profound insights on empowering sales teams to excel in any economic climate. With over 14 years of experience, she helps salespeople and leaders excel in any economy.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In recent times sales reps have switched to email prospecting logically reasoning that the increased volume of messaging from email will generate more leads, unfortunately, email conversion rates have dropped below 0.1% Automate : There are more and more tools on the market that remove the need for sales people to do non-selling tasks.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 11, 2012

We were recently talking with some sales managers about helping their teams build their book of business. While the managers noted that some prospects come from corporate marketing campaigns, several remarked their sales people were not personally doing a good job developing referrals and they needed to.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

She is also the author of two books on inside sales, Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results , and her most recent, and a complement to the first book: Smart Sales Manager: The Ultimate Playbook for Building and Running a High-Performance Inside Sales Team.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

Define your target market. Before you start prospecting, it's essential to define your target market. Identify the type of prospects you want to attract and tailor your marketing strategy accordingly. This can help you engage with viewers and provide them with helpful information related to the real estate market.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

DECEMBER 6, 2022

While still important, traditional marketing methods in distribution such as printed flyers, branded calendars and directory ads are no longer as effective as they used to be. As a result, distributors must change their approach to marketing if they want to stay relevant and attract new customers.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2013

And yet, management seems oblivious to this simple sales strategy for business growth especially within the market of small business. Before I bluntly share that sales management strategy, let me provide a real world example with names removed to protect the guilty. Sales Coaching Tip: 97.7%

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SalesFuel

MARCH 21, 2024

The premise is that happy customers spend more and yield quality referrals. The minute you step foot into a market with your activated cell phone you are fair game. The minute you step foot into a market with your activated cell phone you are fair game. In fact, the data broker market is expected to pass $545 billion by 2028.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2012

Marketing, do you have a sales quota tied to Lead Generation ? Over the last 12 months we: Surveyed over 10,000 sales representatives. Surveyed over 4,500 sales managers. Surveyed over 4,500 sales managers. Reviewed over 5,000 documents from with some the world’s best B2B sales organizations.

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criteria for success

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Finding more leads for growing sales can be one of the most frustrating parts of a job for sales managers and salespeople. Get ahead of this year's holiday slump by employing the following sales growth tips. 5 Tips for Growing Sales. Referrals are the best source of new sales leads.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2017

So, why are account-based sellers wasting time with cold calling and marketing-generated leads when referral introductions could get them the one-call meeting ? Sales reps often tell me they’re not cold calling. Their KPIs are transactional , so their teams’ sales activities are also transactional.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2015

For ideas to fill that funnel and make 2015 your best sales year ever, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: How to Avoid the Trash Folder If you’re sending emails to prospects you don’t know, don’t be surprised when you get deleted. It’s not only stupid; it’s a waste of sales time.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 24, 2013

You already know that referrals are the most effective and powerful way to attract new customers. But referral selling doesn’t just happen. It’s an intentional, proactive sales strategy. A disciplined, measurable referral system delivers every time. Asking for referrals is proactive. Sales Process.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2021

Why is growth marketing essential knowledge for the sales team? How can marketing help your team be more successful? Gaetano Nino DiNardi leads this talk on the alignment convergence of sales and marketing by looking at what truly works in growth. 6 truth bombs for Marketing and Sales [14:28].

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Zendesk Sell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Below, learn how to use each of the five most important sales reports to be a successful sales manager. Strengthen lead generation and increase closed deals with the sales funnel analysis report. Ensure marketing efforts are effective with the incoming deals volume report. Should we still be using Twitter?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 3, 2014

Guest blogger, Todd McCormick, shares three reasons listening matters in sales management. It was your typical sales conference—except the speaker wasn’t typical. I was particularly intrigued that he was a sales leader for a marketing firm, which gave him a unique understanding of both customer-centric professions.

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