No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. And that’s referral leads.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

Sure, I can learn it, but it’s not in my sales comfort zone, and it’s not exciting for me. What excites me is working with prospects and clients on referral selling and experiencing together the dramatic results they achieve. I’ll have a new platform for my referral course, and I might even have a new CRM. Sound familiar?

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Referrals Gatekeeper Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 156

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2016

You may not have heard, but 2017 will be the year of referral selling. Because as quotas continue to rise and competition gets stiffer, sales managers will have to accept that technology shouldn’t be the main artery to reach prospects. Referral selling is your biggest competitive differentiation.

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Automation Account 136

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2013

It’s up to you to lead the referral-selling charge. Whether you are CEO, vice president, or a sales manager , you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition to referral selling—the only business-development strategy proven to convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Penetration 253

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Pack your pipeline with nothing but hot referral leads. I received a referral introduction from his trusted friend and advisor. That’s the beauty of referral selling. When you get referrals, you: Bypass the gatekeeper and score meetings with decision-makers every time. The business case for referrals is loud and clear.

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting 120

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

End the year with a bang using the only prospecting strategy that converts prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. Referral selling is by far the most effective sales strategy out there. Join me and Barb Giamanco for a Top Sales World webinar you won’t want to miss. Learn more.) Read more.)

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Referrals Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Networking 285

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Because referral selling is, hands down, the most effective and least expensive way to attract and retain new clients. Relationships still power our lives—and our sales. It’s the only strategy that is guaranteed to shorten your sales process, and to eliminate sales and marketing costs. It’s called referral selling.

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Referrals Decision Maker Social Media Small Business 159

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? Otherwise you probably wouldn’t be in sales. You’re not fooling anybody.

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Referrals Gatekeeper Cold Calling Networking 260

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re asking strangers on social media for referrals, you’re like the guy at a networking event who shoves his card in people’s face and asks for theirs in return. Referrals Are Personal, You’re Not. And he thinks I’ll give him a referral? Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists.

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Referrals Webinar Metrics Social Media Face-to-face 292

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For as long as there have been sales, there have been referrals. However, in B2B selling, referrals are more than positive reviews. With that, seeking and gaining referrals is not as easy as it sounds. Therefore, referrals cannot be left to chance. With referrals, the benefits are clear.

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Referrals Networking Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 62

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Never” is a bold statement, but savvy sales leaders will nod their heads in agreement. Closing is the easy part of account based sales development. It’s prospecting that’s hard. Then why do so many account based sales reps overlook critical sales activities that occur earlier in the sales process?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 30, 2017

Twenty years ago, I would have told you referrals couldn’t possibly be more important for account based sales development. Too many sales teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. The goal of account based sales development is to land and expand within named accounts. Test Your Referral Savvy.

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Referrals Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120

criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As a sales leader, it can be a challenge to make sure your team is prospecting efficiently (or at all). That's why we put together something called the Prospecting Action Plan. This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. Sales conversations. Networking.

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Prospecting How To Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 97

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 28, 2014

Recently I filled out a form on a website for one of my prospects and requested a demo. It’s not a sales secret; when you prospect through referrals, you’ll always connect. Getting prospects to call you back is deceptively simple. All you need is a referral introduction. Put in a Little Effort.

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Call-back Prospecting Cold Calling Referrals 282

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They also win by getting referrals. That’s why the salesmen and saleswomen who cultivate relationships and leverage them for introductions to prime prospects get meetings faster, fill their pipelines with hot sales leads, and convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. Never has and never will.

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Referrals Incentives Incentive Cold Calling 120

No More Cold Calling

JULY 30, 2015

Too Busy to Get Referrals? If salespeople don’t stay in touch with prospects and referral sources, they won’t be able to keep hot new leads coming in. No matter how much you have on your plate, unless you make time to prospect, your sales pipeline will dry up. Are Referral Leads Waiting in Your Inbox?

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Referrals Hiring Cold Calling Call-back 120

SBI Growth

JANUARY 23, 2014

You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps. Your VP of Sales is sick of the excuses. Your team needs to take more responsibility setting appointments with prospects. The number one way teams are doing this today is through Social Prospecting. Reps that can execute Social Prospecting win for 3 reasons.

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Forecasting Prospecting Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 303

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 27, 2015

Dreamforce—Salesforce’s biggest event of the year—is always an amazing place to learn, meet prospects and clients, and get energized for Q4. For the first time ever, Dreamforce will feature two sessions for women in sales. All September posts will focus on women in sales. If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it.

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Referrals Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120

criteria for success

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’ve been a sales manager for a while, it's inevitable that one or more people – or even your entire sales team – will get into a prospecting or selling slump. 7 Sales & Prospecting Slump-Busters. Have everyone set an individual weekly goal for how many prospecting activities they will perform.

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring eBook 105

Braveheart Sales

APRIL 27, 2021

Gaining referrals can seem harder than cold calling. There are many salespeople who would rather talk with relative strangers in the form of prospects than to ask current clients for referrals. This makes it hard to ask for referrals. We have all been exposed to bad referral asking. Why Is It So Hard?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 25, 2015

“Turn 70 percent of your prospects into customers.” Sure, referral leads are top-notch, but they don’t just appear. If You Don’t Ask, You Won’t Get The misconception is that customers who score us highly will automatically send us referral leads. Don’t let customer service reps ask for referrals.

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 120

No More Cold Calling

JULY 16, 2015

We’re in the right place at the right time and meet the perfect prospect. Other times prospects read content we’ve posted, and our phones ring off the hook. To keep your pipeline full of hot prospects and referral leads , make your own luck. Failure to do so is an affront to your Referral Sources.

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 120

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 18, 2015

Are out-of-date prospecting systems holding you back? Now imagine a sales world where you only meet with clients who want to meet with you —a world where you never have to cold call, send prospecting letters, pester strangers on social media, or entice clients with special offers. Enter the world of referral selling.

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Referrals Cold Calling How To Call-back 120

No More Cold Calling

MAY 28, 2015

We talked on Skype the next morning, and he introduced me to an entrepreneur who wanted to learn about referrals. Then I’m headed to Slovenia, where I’ll get to meet Tanja, a sales manager I met on LinkedIn who lives in a small town called Ljublana. Can’t travel across the world to meet with your international prospects?

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Referrals Social Media Lead Rank Skype 120

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 26, 2015

Do you know what it takes to build a business based on referrals? Do you know how to ask for referrals in a way that gets results? Or how to nurture your network so referrals keep pouring in? I’m doing some referral research and need your help. Please take my 14-question Referral I.Q. Take the Referral I.Q.

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Referrals Cold Calling Commission Call-back 120

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sales process efficiency. Sales processes have room for improvement in nearly all companies. Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. Sales management.

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 6, 2015

Many salespeople—even sales veterans—still experience call reluctance, especially when asking for referrals. Here’s why and what to do about it: Silence Feels Like Rejection Perhaps you’ve emailed a prospect and haven’t heard back. Write an email with “ Referrals no longer a priority?” in the subject line.

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Referrals Cold Calling Call-back Follow-up 120

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system , your sales reps will continue to struggle. That’s just the symptom. Save your money.

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Closing Sales Management Referrals Ideal Customer Profile 120

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Don’t alienate your social networks by asking for referrals the wrong way. Or worse yet, to ask for referrals? Worse yet, perhaps they plan to spam me with sales pitches that are just as impersonal as their attempts to connect. And neither are your prospects, customers, or referral sources. Where’s the “hello?”

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Referrals LinkedIn Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 120

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 2, 2015

When we work with our Ideal Clients, our sales time collapses, productivity soars, deals are larger, and they help us get referrals to others like themselves. PITAs hang out with other PITAs, so their referrals will be to other demanding, stingy people. Likewise, in most sales organizations, reps don’t get to say no to business.

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Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Engineering Energy 120

Pipeliner

APRIL 15, 2020

Prospecting often makes businesspeople break out in a cold sweat. It has been harder than ever in recent years to get referrals and prospects to potential customers. James Muir discusses how to prospect and get referrals in this expert sales interview, hosted by John Golden. Categories of Prospecting.

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Prospecting Referrals Consumer Social Selling 72

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

They say women have strong intuition, ask good questions, don’t rush the sale, connect with people, and are terrific at building long-term relationships with prospects, clients, and referral sources. Test Your Referral Savvy I’m conducting a study on referrals, and I need your help. Take the Referral I.Q.

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Referrals Cost per Acquisition Negotiation Cold Calling 120

No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2015

Guest blogger Ken Thoreson tells how to grow your referral networks. After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. For the First Time Sales Manager.

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Referrals Networking Cold Calling Marketing 120

No More Cold Calling

JULY 14, 2015

No one had time to prospect, because they couldn’t keep up with the business coming in every day. The problem was that sales management had their heads in the sand. Leadership and Management—You Can’t Have One without the Other There’s an important distinction between sales management and sales leadership.

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Sales Management Hiring Referrals Conference 120

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. This One-on-One Coaching Tool was customized by sales managers facilitating the training.

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Training Sales Management Hiring Social Selling 300

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Perhaps they: Depended on marketing to send them qualified sales leads. Relied on social media and email to communicate with prospects. Weren’t coached by their sales managers. If they’re not getting support from their sales managers, they must demand it. How to Lose Your Best Referral Sources.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Social Media 75