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5 Reasons Sales Managers Are Reluctant to Coach Prospecting

Steven Rosen

In the highly competitive SaaS world, prospecting is often seen as the most challenging task—a test dreaded by many and mastered by few. However, the significance of prospecting is often overshadowed by the allure of the deal’s close, leading many sales managers to neglect to coach the top of the funnel.

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Sales prospecting made easier

Sales 2.0

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems Consider the following questions to help you get into your prospects’ shoes and see how you can serve them. Your prospect decides to do?

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Telephone Prospecting By The Numbers

The Pipeline

Anything worth doing is worth doing right, and in sales, telephone prospecting is something worth doing and doing right. And like with other hits, everyone piles on, including the pundits, all sharing how they feel about the phone and prospecting. Let’s look at telephone prospecting by the numbers. By Tibor Shanto.

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Build a prospecting team

Sales 2.0

The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients. Cold prospecting techniques get harder-and-harder every day. Maybe you are system administration firm but your prospect currently needs a new lawyer. Cold prospecting gets harder every day.

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Guide to Using Buyer Need Data

This guide explains how to use Buyer Need Data to identify prospects who could use your solution *before* they demonstrate intent.

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Prospecting Fundamentals To Practice During Summer

The Pipeline

While we should always be developing our skills, here are three prospecting fundamentals to practice during summer. Prospecting Fundamentals. Summer is a great time to update or develop a prospecting process, different from your sales process. Game Ready. Why lose momentum going into the fall? This leads to process and metrics.

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Dear Vice President of Prospecting

The Pipeline

It’s gotta be the Vice President of Prospecting. But how many companies have a VP Prospecting. So this is for you, dear Vice President Of Prospecting, where ever you may exist. But each assumes the other will do the thing a prospecting professional does best. So who is leading prospecting at your shop?

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. What's covered: Targeted prospecting. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control.

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Buyer’s Checklist: How to Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

Leveraging a data provider to help identify and connect with qualified prospects supports company revenue goals by alleviating common headaches associated with prospecting research and empowers sales productivity. So what’s the problem? Many organizations fail to properly evaluate vendors during the selection process.

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal. Take the following stats into consideration: It takes 5 minutes to connect with a prospect via direct dials, but takes 22 minutes using company switchboard numbers.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement. This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Dig into this eBook to find out how to make cold calling a thing of the past with: Powerful sales engagement and automation Insights, signals, and deep prospect research Alternative touchpoints that keep the conversation alive

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Catch Them If You Can: The Passive Candidates Edition

To get started on your search, we’ve gathered clues you’ll need to get in the mind of your passive prospects. Yet, with the right tools and mindset, it’s possible to track down this candidate - and many others like them! Simple: By thinking like one. It’s time to get out and catch them… if you can!

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Replace Your COLD Emailing with Data-Driven WARM Outreach

The fact is, the effectiveness of cold emails varies greatly and is often dependent on the quality of your prospect data. Many B2B professionals have a misguided perception that cold emailing has poor returns. Download the eBook today!