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Multimedia prospecting

Sales 2.0

Your prospects picked up the phone when it rang, as it might be their customer or family on the other end. If you’re prospecting and you don’t know someone yet, try a multimedia approach. When we only had a desk telephone, you could reach more people on it, as that was the primary channel for communication. Then we got cell phones.

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How Good is Your Team at Prospecting for New Leads?

Anthony Cole Training

It is good to remind your people that the prospects they are harvesting today are the ones that were planted some time ago. The goal is to find suspects and build them into prospects by fully uncovering and understanding their needs and goals. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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3 Barriers to Connecting with Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

In today’s world of banking and insurance, it is increasingly more difficult to get the attention of a prospective buyer after only a few outreach attempts. So, how do you stay consistent (and persistent) in your outreach with a prospect while remaining sensitive to their daily lives and the distractions they face?

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Your Prospect Has All The Answers

Mr. Inside Sales

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? Who do you think knows when your prospect is going to buy? The answer, of course, is your prospect! The problem for many sales reps, is that they prefer to pitch and talk at prospects more than they actually ask questions and listen. Or who they like to buy from?

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100 Fastest-Growing eCommerce Companies to Boost Your Competitive Edge

Maximize your sales efforts by focusing on prospects most likely to buy your products. That's why we've compiled a list of the 100 Fastest-Growing eCommerce Companies in North America & Europe, showcasing those with impressive year-over-year traffic growth.

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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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Building B2B Prospecting Sequences that Drive Results

SBI Growth

Today, a multi-channel approach is essential to engaging prospects effectively. This blog will explore how prospecting has changed and provide best practices for creating successful B2B prospecting sequences. As technology evolves, so do the strategies used by sales professionals to reach potential clients.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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