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Are You Telling the Truth About Asking for Referrals? [Q3 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects. The #1 challenge salespeople face is reaching decision-makers quickly, but getting prospects to call you back is deceptively simple with a referral program. Yes, your most predictable and measurable prospecting tool is your very own sales team, asking for referrals.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.). What do you think?

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5 Things Every Salesperson Should Know About Their Prospects, According to Advantexe Learning Solutions' CEO

Hubspot Sales

Over the years, many organizations have invested in a new selling methodology that has evolved the sales approach from strategic selling to "challenging" prospects. Business strategies aren’t one-size-fits-all — not every prospect has the same one. Is your prospect's goal to increase revenue? Increase profit?

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Avoid the Urge to Discount by Using Your Pipeline to Give You Confidence

The Sales Hunter

There are a number of ways to decrease the temptation to cut your price and one very effective way is by having a full pipeline. When the sales funnel or pipeline is full, it’s amazing how much more confident we are when meeting with customers. Suddenly the urge to do something stupid just to close a sale is not nearly as strong.

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Do You Rely on Email as Your Only Prospecting Tool?

The Sales Hunter

There are 10 Reasons Most Prospecting Plans Don’t Work. Today I’m giving further explanation on reason #5: Relying on email as your primary tool to prospect.

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No Selling Skills Required

Braveheart Sales

By following a logical progression, salespeople can perfect the skill of asking the right questions and getting the necessary answers needed to move towards closing business. Using a sales process also helps them avoid wasting time with the wrong prospects – those that won’t close. Process has Most Key Milestones. Relationship-Based.

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Everything You Need to Know about Sales Prospecting

Gong.io

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?