Sales Evangelist

JUNE 7, 2019

We're talking about key metrics this month, and today Shawn Finder talks about the key metrics to track in your outbound strategy that will help you be successful. Cold calling Shawn divides outbound into three different categories: cold-calling, emailing, and database because your database is the engine that keeps that car moving.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As a salesperson, it’s vital to recognize when your usual tactics aren’t getting results and then pivot. I realized I needed to start identifying high-quality prospects so my calls were likelier to lead to sales. For example, my sales process looks like this: Identify inbound or outbound prospect. Meet with prospect.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor. Let me explain and then I’ll pivot to selling. Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 7, 2023

For the first movers, these strategies worked especially in combination with an SDR and AE funnel, where gated content is used to capture prospect contact data. The SDR in turn calls the prospect and sets up a sales call for the AE to pitch. Outbound Referrals This means proactively asking for an introduction.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2021

SDRs work on the front lines of all sales engagement and hone their craft in outbound sales strategies. B2B businesses need to pivot their approach with a new metric to measure the success of outbound email sequences. It’s reaching out with the right content at the right time and leads to more success in outbound efforts.

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The Bridge Group

MARCH 25, 2020

A global health crisis, an unscripted pivot to work from home, and an accompanying economic fallout--times are certainly interesting. If you’re like me, you're keenly interested in what this all means for outbound prospecting today and tomorrow.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Before we made the aforementioned pivot toward refining our ICP, we had issues,” Cooper explained. Re-creating our ICP not only helped us find a path to high-value prospects,” Cooper said. “We Inbound Marketing: 59% of marketers agree that inbound prospects result in the highest quality leads for sales teams.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. You’ll also know why you need a strong sales prospecting process and exactly how that will benefit your business. It’s not so much knowing about sales prospecting vs lead generation, as knowing how and when to prioritize one or the other.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As the modern buyer’s become more sophisticated and educated, sales teams have pivoted away from spray-and-pray outbound strategies to more consultative outreach. Start by really thinking about your prospecting cycle. Then, think about which channels (email, phone, social media, etc) your sales reps prefer to engage prospects.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with prospects who aren’t quite ready to purchase your product or service.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 6, 2017

Much like my mom’s BMW, I use personalized emails to catch the attention of my most important prospects. Either I get responses from someone who forwarded my email, or the prospect who received the email responds themselves. So what situations are appropriate for this type of prospecting? When your prospect is a decision maker.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Foster Alignment with Stakeholders “Before we made the aforementioned pivot toward refining our ICP, we had issues,” Cooper explained. Re-creating our ICP not only helped us find a path to high-value prospects,” Cooper said. “We We were able to open up roads that otherwise didn’t exist. Yet inbound leads don’t just magically appear.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

But calling might not be the issue–it’s what you say to the prospect next. Cold calling is an outbound sales tactic companies use to contact a potential customer who hasn’t shown explicit interest in the company’s services. Once all the data is gathered, they create cold calling scripts customized to each prospect segment on the list.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 12, 2020

Ian offered three right off of the bat: Pricing Compensation Outbound Messaging. Empathy transitions to business building in outbound messaging Everyone has a new outbound messaging strategy. A new tactic or pivoting tone that speaks to the current climate. Your prospects want to engage and talk to people.”

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2023

There’s one major moment in my career graph I cherish: the transition from being an outbound SDR to an inbound AE. But you do need to know enough to help your prospects understand what the tool does — and what it can not do. Pricing is a question that every prospect asks at some point in the sales cycle. This is normal!

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Instead of trying to reach buyers cold, like outbound, or get them to come to you by seeing your content through inbound, nearbound taps into the people who are already influencing your buyers. HubSpot shares how it can help you connect better with your customers: Prospect smarter. No more guessing the next best step.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 12, 2020

Save valuable time with Crunchbase Pro’s prospecting features. If so, consider having a team member or two focus their outbound on that niche. Tools like this allow you to identify your key buyer personas and look through the titles of your customers to find keywords to source for prospective contacts. .

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Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2020

to entice the prospect, but the prospect makes the first move. Although an inbound lead generation strategy isn’t new news (Hubspot’s co-founder and CEO, Brian Halligan, coined the term over a decade ago in 2006), this prospect-initiated approach has blurred the lines between sales and marketing. Always be testing.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 20, 2020

At Leadfeeder, for example, our customers are on the frontlines of B2B sales and are often engaged in outbound sales and social selling. To help them adapt, we’re delivering free webinars and virtual outbound sales training to sales teams during the COVID-19 lockdown. Ground-level interviews with customers and prospects.

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Crunchbase

MAY 6, 2020

A: I manage SquareFoot’s business development team, both inbound and outbound. We must qualify who from among that pool is a viable prospective client to connect with one of our brokers right away, and who is seeking other industry-specific information. Our outbound team has similar conversations with prospective clients.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

In this article, I’ll share 3 powerful principles you can use to improve outreach and prospecting despite the ongoing pandemic. Pivot with Pressure-Free Follow-Ups. If a prospect needs to postpone, don’t pressure them to reschedule immediately. Right now, sales teams need to embed empathy into every outbound sales interaction.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Using both inbound and outbound lead generation might be the optimal solution, depending on your customer persona and marketing position. Where lead generation often works with inbound marketing techniques and starts with a wider target audience, ABM is all about targeting individual companies and prospects.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Pick Your Premise As Becc has explained in other episodes of “Flip the Script,” she’s a firm believer in the power of psychographic premises — key indicators of what prospects actually believe — over more traditional premises ( demographic, technographic, firmagraphic ) for enhancing personalization. In contrast, try “How have you been?”

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Jim then double-clicked to show the data behind it: In 78% of deals, prospects see some form of the product in the first meeting In 12% of deals, prospects first see the product in the 2nd meeting In Enterprise deals, it’s only 62% in the first meeting and 22% in the 2nd meeting. Shaunt shared: “ Going outbound was to sustain growth.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Outbound KPIs for SDRs. These SDRs only hunt for outbound leads. For outbound SDRs, I use a points system that defines what ‘good’ and ‘great’ look like for the company,” she says. They make up the quota from outbound meetings only because I want to reward them for taking the time to make that transactional meeting happen.”.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 3, 2018

Inbound and Outbound. As with many companies, our company deals with both inbound and outbound leads. There is science to be applied to both inbound and outbound leads—and by any stretch, it’s not easy either way. There is science to be applied to both inbound and outbound leads—and by any stretch, it’s not easy either way.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Historically, sales professionals and marketers spent a lot of time chasing down prospects with a scant probability of getting an appointment, let alone winning business. You can then have a deliberate, thoughtful approach to prospecting into those accounts and contacts. When and where your prospect wants to buy.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2021

Savvy salespeople know that a large chunk of their prospects won’t ever become paid customers. But by the time a prospect says “I have no budget,” top salespeople know what to do. lack of trust, lack of perceived value, or simply that the prospect isn’t the right decision-maker. Raise the objection before the prospect does.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Inbound lead generation or outbound cold calling ? There are sales specialists who help you with that in a non-consulting, first-hand, prospect-facing manner. Outbound lead generation agencies (cold calling and email prospecting). There’s not a lot you can do here except pivot to a completely new direction.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Let’s see how this pivotal ingredient solves some of the biggest challenges of cold emailing and how to start segmenting your cold email lists. This is somewhat justified because sloppy outbound will rarely have positive results. Segmentation is key when trying to achieve the right formula for outreach campaigns.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 8, 2017

Want your prospecting emails to have super powers? Read our “Super Hero Life of Your Prospecting Email” comic book style eBook to take on the greatest of inbox foes. Bargain contact lists do costly damage to your email campaigns, make pivoting when contacts leave near impossible, and force you to do plenty of extra work.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 20, 2020

They discussed the creative ways that sales teams are pivoting their teams’ messaging and pipeline generation. So, when you’re connecting with prospects over the phone, it’s okay to be human about these challenges. Watch the Video. On today’s Daily Briefing, Jim Benton was joined by Dan Swift , the CEO of Empire Selling.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 15, 2020

Get a better understanding of competitors and what the marketplace looks like to boost connections with prospects. When contacting customers and making outbound messages, words, whether written or verbal, are very important. And as a leader, you need to pivot your team to make meaningful messages. Hunter Hodges. Key Takeaways.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 5, 2020

Outbound teams really lost momentum in early March. Personalizing your outreach is always preferable, which can only happen if you have researched your prospect. If not, pivot. If a prospect mentions a problem, “The best reps will dig deeper. Companies, leaders, reps, and AEs are all adapting as quickly as they can.

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DocSend

MAY 6, 2019

This is a people person who goes the extra mile to know who they are prospecting and what their needs are, and in return is top notch at building personalized cadences. Create tactics for your outbound and inbound marketing strategies. Which outbounding emails are driving opens, clicks, and other indications of prospect interest?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In this follow-up to our Organic B2B Inbound Marketing Playbook , I teamed up with Outbound View owner Blake Johnston to break down the best practices for coordinating marketing and sales to convert your sales qualified leads to warm opportunities (and eventually deals). Moreover, multiple team members will engage the prospect.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 12, 2016

“As you well know, arousing curiosity, generating interest, and getting prospects to open up about their priorities is about as easy as potty-training a coyote.” If, like Bertuzzi, you’ve ever struggled to get the attention of your prospective clients, then you’ll enjoy her insight on sales development. 4) Salesbuzz.com.

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