Sales Hacker

JANUARY 31, 2018

SDRs aren’t just telemarketers: they’re the front line of your company’s first-impressions. In 2018, more than ever, you have to EARN that sales meeting. Most people new to sales development struggle with passing qualified meetings over to account executives (AEs). If the meeting is unqualified, it’s a lose-lose situation.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Telemarketing How To 68

The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2012

So let’s see how we can take away these objections, bringing to play the new view of Conditioned Response , and get to having some good meetings in the calendar, and prospects in the pipeline. One reason people hate the mid-dinner telemarketing call is the one sided nature of the call: Telemarketer – “if you sign up today….”.

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Objections Telemarketing Top of Funnel Face-to-face 266

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

State your name, explain why you’re calling, and then relay some brilliantly simple benefit statements about why the prospect would want to schedule a meeting with you as soon as possible. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career.

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Gatekeeper Cold Calling Telemarketing Referrals 303

Go for No!

MARCH 1, 2021

That kind of production is not easy although, for someone in telemarketing, they could do probably do that by lunchtime. So, it depends on how much time you are actively prospecting or having conversations with customers.

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Workbooks Telemarketing Referrals Lead Generation 139

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 15, 2014

They needed those salespeople to schedule meetings but they weren''t doing it. After all, a new salesperson might have to speak with 10 or more prospects to schedule one meeting or call. They needed those salespeople to make calls but they wouldn''t make them. And in their perfectionist minds, that would be 9 failures. They will fail.

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Telemarketing Pipeline Course Meeting 259

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 24, 2018

Discover effective openings and sample outbound cold calling phone telemarketing sales pitch scripts including the best tips, techniques and examples ever written for closing calls. After you do this, use an opening that is assumptive and shows that you’re excited to meet with them today. By Mike Brooks, [link].

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Cold Calling Examples Telemarketing Outbound 144

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 30, 2013

He makes it sound more like telemarketing than prospecting for appointments or meetings. After all, if the salespeople are making 250 calls per week, when would they have time to conduct their scheduled sales calls and meetings? Isn''t this a prospecting call? It certainly doesn''t apply to a complex B2B sale!

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Prospecting Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 239

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

These simple details turn your script from annoying telemarketer call to grab-their-attention conversation. It’s critical to evaluate each of the techniques over time — to understand what worked and what needs tweaking (from meeting schedule goals to personalizing call scripts). What to do when you get the dreaded voicemail?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 10, 2017

If you’re going to that event, make sure and email me so we can meet during the conference: Info@MrInsideSales.com. They think they’ll sound too much like a telemarketer or that their sale is too “consultative” for them to follow a script. You can read more about the event here.

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Telemarketing B2C Microsoft Sales Qualified Lead 124

No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2016

” It’s exactly the same as telemarketers and their cold calling blitzes. Yes, sales reps should use social media to research prospects and learn how they’re connected to the prospects they want to meet. The referral source talks to the sales prospect and gets agreement to meet with the rep.

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Social Media Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Media 239

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JANUARY 30, 2023

If a prospect is having a bad day, or is engulfed in a whirlwind of meetings, or is preoccupied with an urgent task, getting them to listen may be just about impossible. Telemarketing call!” May I ask a few questions to learn a little more?” “I’ll be in your area next week; can we meet?”

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Prospecting Telemarketing How To Face-to-face 59

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I recently scored a meeting with the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. When you get referrals, you: Bypass the gatekeeper and score meetings with decision-makers every time. Meet with hot prospects while your competitors are still figuring out how to get in. Pack your pipeline with nothing but hot referral leads.

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting 120

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

To get the appointment, you must pick up the telephone, reach the prospect and get him or her to agree to meet with you. Your unnatural sounding voice acts like a warning beacon to the person on the other end of the telephone by projecting the image of the stereotypical telemarketer. Harmful Effects. A Chain Reaction.

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Face-to-face Social Media 291

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Back in the 70s and 80s, telemarketers figured out that they could reach people on the phone and sell them things. Once the pandemic hit, and salespeople could no longer meet prospects face to face, they realized that they could use social platforms such as LinkedIn to connect with potential customers and started utilizing this option.

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Video Telemarketing Face-to-face How To 52

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Appointment Setting - scheduling first meetings or calls. Telemarketing - scripted sales pitch for a specific product or service. Order Fulfillment - taking orders. Telesales - making transactional sales. Lead Generation - generating leads. Inbound Marketing - following up on internet-driven leads.

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Inside Sales Outside Sales Telemarketing Travel 268

Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

0 Number of questions buyers ask on calls Because many selling orgs maintain call quotas for their sales reps to achieve on a monthly or quarterly basis, sellers need tips on how to make these calls less cringe-worthy and more effective at getting that meeting booked. First things first: Is cold calling legal?

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 98

Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

You can get up to 82% of buyers to accept a meeting by starting a series of communication with sales cold calls. In the old(er) days, companies used cold calling as a part of business-to-customer telemarketing to sell their products to a broader audience. Add cold calling to your sales outreach strategy. Sounds good, right?

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Cold Calling Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 52

Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Assuming for a second, which is always dangerous that you are dealing with the lead situation either by hiring hunters or hiring telemarketers lets move on to the next Must Have strand - Qualifier. In other words someone pays something for something.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank InsideView 185

Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2022

According to the telemarketing experts at Contact Center Compliance , most B2B cold calls are exempt from federal “Do Not Call” regulations, which are typically meant to protect consumers from unwelcome phone solicitations. Not all calls are created equal. Cold calling is a legal business development practice and is not considered spam.

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Cold Calling B2B Commission Exact 130

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Appointment Setting - scheduling first meetings or calls. Telemarketing - scripted sales pitch for a specific product or service. Order Fulfillment - taking orders. Telesales - making transactional sales. Lead Generation - generating leads. Inbound Marketing - following up on internet-driven leads.

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Outside Sales Telemarketing Inside Sales Travel 178

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

And the best sales organizations will rise to meet the challenge by spending “more of their time nurturing existing relationships.” They’ll also trust you to recommend new products or services that meet their needs. You can influence feelings of trust in the first meeting. But trust is something best fostered over time.

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 101

OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

The genesis of inside sales has its roots in telemarketing. Telemarketers would cold-call all day long, often rudely interrupting a prospect’s day or dinner to ask them if they wanted to buy a random product. Most potential clients would rather make a purchase on the phone or online, without ever meeting with a sales rep.

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Telemarketing Salary 31

MTD Sales Training

JULY 20, 2011

Stranger, telemarketer here!” or, “The meeting will last about 30 minutes…”. However, here are a few phrases you should avoid at all costs. #1: 1: My Name is…. While this simple introduction sounds innocent and essential, it is detrimental and unnecessary. That pure introduction screams, “Hello! Hi Mrs. Prospect!

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Conference Video 120

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Go to Every Closing - This was interesting because this event gives Rich a unique opportunity to do a couple of things: 1) secure his relationship with a new or current client, 2) secure the on-going relationship with a current realtor and/or 3) meet and secure a relationship with a new realtor.

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Insurance Insurance Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 211

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 12, 2011

To get the appointment, you must pick up the telephone, reach the prospect and get him or her to agree to meet with you. Your unatural sounding voice acts like a warning beacon to the person on the other end of the telephone, screaming, “Telemarketer! Before you can have the sales interaction, you have to have an appointment.

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Gatekeeper Decision Maker 120

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Perhaps surprising was the fact that many people were still cold calling and using telemarketing. Video conferencing takes off for prospect meetings. Next was good old-fashioned referrals and networking, and then the newcomer LinkedIn, both through personal accounts and using Sales Navigator.

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Research Sales Process Lead Rank Lead Scoring 89

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

That’s why telemarketers always sound robotic,” Pollard states. “A As Richards explains, if a company grants you attention, either through a meeting, a read email or a viewed video message, you owe it to that prospect to make it worth their time. Preparation and practice are vital. A story is script that doesn’t feel like a script.

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Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Over 57% of real estate agents claim that telemarketing is the best lead-generation technique. The goal for this script isn’t to have the prospect commit to a meeting. Instead, you can build an initial connection by meeting them face-to-face. When You Know Your Prospect As a real estate agent, you meet a lot of people.

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Real Estate Cold Calling Commission Face-to-face 92

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

These are the five essential channels you can rely on for generating a steady stream of inquiries that you can then convert to qualified leads, and have a prayer of closing enough sales to meet your revenue quota.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Prospecting is a type of marketing that basically entails telemarketing and what I consider email spam and LinkedIn spam because it is 99% of the time, a sales pitch. If you don’t meet our expectations, it’s like any other role. Hey, here’s who we are, what we do. Do you want to speak to sales?” We value you.

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Commission Quota Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank 88

Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 14, 2020

Add to that the fact that many prospects are cancelling face-to-face sales meetings as companies mandate social distancing. Working from home and using video conferencing for events and meetings , such as Zoom, are becoming commonplace. Companies obviously have to prepare. The typical client was a B2B tech company.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Cancellation Sales Qualified Lead 33

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

There’s a common misconception that’s finally starting to fade that inside sales is essentially just telemarketing. The difference lies in the fact that telemarketing is scripted. Instead, they meet with prospects outside the office. Requires demos, meetings, and other high-touch interactions. Sales Cycle.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Top of Funnel 81

Costello

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

When she told him she builds inside sales teams, he replied, “Oh, like telemarketers?”. There’s a culture that says if you do anything via phone, you’re a telemarketer,” Dionne said, countering with Ken Krogue’s quote that “inside sales is professional sales done remotely.”. Not even close.

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Outbound Inbound Conversion Telemarketing 40

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Comedians would joke about annoying telemarketers–that’s what a lot of inside sales people were called, even though they were doing no marketing, just pure selling. I didn’t want them jumping into cars or onto planes, without a lot of meetings set up. We field sales guys were, honestly, relieved.

Telemarketing 48

Telemarketing Inside Sales Face-to-face Field Sales 48

HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Forty percent of inside salespeople schedule meetings for the outside salesperson. Seventy percent of inside salespeople perform lead generation and telemarketing activities.    12.   CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL SALES ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY REPORT.      '

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Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

MarketJoy

JULY 10, 2018

They are required to behave more than just telemarketers and focus on more than just getting leads. People are now informed enough to hang up on unimportant interactions and in order to crack the first meeting, creative communication is becoming the key to progress. For the effect, only right people can get the team to meet the goals.

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Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead Telemarketing Lead Rank 45

Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 20, 2014

We arrange an initial exploratory meeting, face-face, because face-face selling is still a dominant feature of selling at that level. You do not need a degree in higher math to calculate the total cost of all this effort: I read somewhere the other day that it now costs $1500 to put one salesperson in front of one customer for one meeting.

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Face-to-face Telemarketing Margin Buying Cycle 49