The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Set a schedule to call all the prospects that went to no decision over the last 12 months.

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Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 216

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. The question is: What should one’s sales prospecting strategy be?

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Webinar Metrics Pipeline Strategy Prospecting 193

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Prospecting. December 2007. Add a Comment.

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Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Cold Calling 216

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. PROACTIVE PROSPECTING! As you may have noticed over to the right, we are presenting the Proactive Prospecting Workshop in Toronto/Markham, scheduled for April 13.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Compensation 220

MEDDIC

MARCH 28, 2024

More prospect feedback : Gather feedback from lost clients. Research and identify the key stakeholders within your target accounts. If you have been to MEDDIC Academy workshops, you know a lot more of these “asks.” Revisit your workshop notes if you have attended one of our live workshops, virtually or in person.

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Enterprise Enterprise Account B2B 52

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. Now, you don’t have to call cold prospects to bug them.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

Autoklose

MAY 6, 2024

The main idea behind this approach is that with the help of scientific research, salespeople can better understand what is going on in their prospects’ minds, how they make purchasing decisions, and how to influence their decision-making process. You Need a Hero! Storytelling is a powerful vehicle for both marketing and sales.

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Quota Social Media Follow-up GoldMine 52

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter B2B 286

Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sales Prospecting: Is Cold Calling Dead? Many prospects that have answered cold calls probably hope the rumor is true and are actively trying to spread it. After analyzing 15,000,000 dials and 770,000 conversations last year, a Miller Heiman Research Institute study concluded 8.5% What to do?

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Cold Calling Prospecting Collateral Study 91

Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

To succeed in the current marketplace, sellers have to use every tool at their disposal to understand their prospects and what drives them. By mining this library, teams can collect more detailed and actionable research in less time than previously possible. The results are unmistakable.

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Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Networking 98

Allego

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Bizzabo research Folks who thought in-person events would disappear were wrong. Sessions include The Amazing Message Mapping Race – Getting Your Clients and Prospects to the Buying Zone, The Power of Your Tech Stack: Elevating the Advisor and Client Experience, and Recruiting and Retaining Advisors in Competitive Markets.

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Conference Sales Enablement Biotechnology Insurance 77

The Pipeline

JUNE 26, 2017

I had a couple of interesting conversations with two reps recently during a break in a workshop. When I chose to follow up with a prospect, the time I spend researching a prospect, the actual people I contact, are all choices I make that impact my sales. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. This sounds pretty basic but in many sales kickoffs, aside from large general sessions, teams for training workshops are broken out by segment (geography, size, industry, function, etc.)

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InsideView Scale Exercises Call-back 223

Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 23, 2018

After all, they are hired, and compensated, to go out there and hunt prospective clients. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. When you take ownership of not only acquiring, but retaining customers, you develop your own customer retention scorecard. Close deals. Contact me.

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Retention Customer Revelation Loyalty 154

The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Your business strategies are the same as the gold-miners, except instead of digging for ore, you’re digging for customers, with your mind focused on this: you want to find the right prospects—the serious buyers.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Ideal Customer Profile 243

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. Now, you don’t have to call cold prospects to bug them.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209

The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In the race to finish the year strong, prospecting often gets put on the back burner while sales reps spend time and energy on closing the open business opportunities they’re working. But salespeople need to be able to fill the pipeline with highly qualified prospects in order to be successful going into the New Year. Sense of Urgency.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Referrals 63

Sales Evangelist

MAY 21, 2020

Learn To Prospect Like An Expert With Steve Kloyda Prospecting isn’t to be taken lightly and there are skills needed before you can prospect well. His aim is to help salespeople attract more prospects, retain more clients, and drive more sales. Steve also remembers unforgettable customer service.

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Prospecting Social Media Twitter Call-back 52

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2019

Don’t miss this opportunity for your own training in the Virtual Referral Selling Workshop Series beginning Tuesday, July 16. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. If you want to be great at what you do—no matter what you do—you need to train, practice, and train some more.

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Referrals Social Media Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 222

The Pipeline

JUNE 19, 2014

To be specific, appointments where the prospect had accepted the appointment both verbally on the phone, and then again accepted the electronic invite (Outlook or Google) you e-mailed. The more you can “disqualify” , the more “qualified prospects you will end up with. Thank you to everyone who responded. Tibor Shanto Time Allocation'

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Cold Calling Face-to-face Travel Account 325

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. Prospects trust us. I designed a one-day workshop, which I offered in live public sessions for many years. It’s changed how we prospect, but it hasn’t changed how deals get done. I asked specific questions about referrals.

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Nutshell

MAY 11, 2023

While researching tools, watch out for companies using the term AI when automation is really the more fitting term. Check out Nutshell’s sales automation features or watch our sales automation workshop for Nutshell users! Explore Features Watch the Workshop How can sales teams use AI?

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Sales Process Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Automation 118

Anthony Iannarino

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Mindshare also means consulting and providing advice around the decisions where your business and industry intersect with your prospective client’s industry. A lot of what you need to know is about what is—or soon will be—challenging your prospective clients and why. Leadership Workshop: Creating a Culture of Accountability.

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Opportunity How To Trends Data 126

Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

From prospecting to nurturing, to closing a deal, Koka believes social can help reps to achieve their most vital sales goals. Through a unique combination of operational and research experience, Tiffani has successfully positioned herself as a leading sales thought leader and one of the most powerful women in the industry.

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Influencer B2B Social Media Twitter 188

Product Management University

JANUARY 8, 2024

Sure, the product is what prospects are buying in the literal sense, but with few exceptions, the biggest thing that’ll differentiate your products and your organization in the sales process is…YOU! Convince your prospects you think about their business just like they do and watch your win rate go up. It happens almost immediately.

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Real Estate Engineering Industry Exact 59

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 16, 2017

Here’s how to start a conversation (and book a meeting) with almost any prospect in your database or CRM using the “Foot-in-the-Door” email. Example: A researcher called people in Indiana and asked them if, hypothetically, they would volunteer to spend 3 hours collecting for the American Cancer Society. Marketing VPs.

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Conversion How To Skype Film 186

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Opening A Cold Email Template Ready to start a conversation with any sales prospect in your database or CRM? With the “foot in the door” method, you can reach any prospect — whether it’s a CEO, marketing VP, industry influencer, or your favorite podcast host. Books, courses, seminars, workshops, etc.?)

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Scale Intent Face-to-face B2B 113

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 6, 2024

However, Gartner research shows there’s room for improvement. This drives everything from prospecting emails to content creation and discovery questions. Offer ongoing diversity education and workshops to foster awareness, empathy, and alignment within the sales team. For ethnic diversity, this number jumps to 36 percent.

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Hiring Demographics Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

I became obsessed with reading, researching and learning 50,000-foot industry dynamics across our key verticals, their impact on parts of the customer organization we were targeting, and how to connect the dots into a meaningful conversation. It clicked with our salespeople and just as well with their prospects. Winning is fun!

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Positioning Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Banking 59

Groove.co

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS Your prospects only want to see you on Zoom It’s not you, it’s them. According to new research from McKinsey Research, 70% to 80% of B2B customers prefer to interact remotely with sales reps. 18 workshop for revenue leaders on just this topic. We did some quick math, and 20% a week is ONE FULL DAY.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2012

One great thing about this time of year is the research done by others to help you kick-start your year. The advantage is that you have experts in the field researching specific areas of interest, and delivering valuable resources you can use, thereby saving you time and effort, and allow to utilize and benefit from those resources.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

The buyer is a lot more skilled in doing their own research. If I’m fortunate enough to get some time with a prospect during a sales cycle, I need to be sure I can add real value and that they will remember this interaction. Prospects will value that. That means sales cycles are shrinking. Focusing on the champion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Lead Rank Scale 105

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

This includes teaching them how to best engage with prospects, build relationships with customers, close deals, upsell and cross-sell, and much more. These programs cover basic topics like the sales process, popular sales software, frequently asked questions, and strategies for communicating with prospects. The Brooks Group.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

You can also support this step with role play sessions or having them shadow more experienced reps' workflows — including activities like research, prospecting, and moving calls forward. Several sales managers essentially run "dry runs" for interactions with prospects by role-playing. Finally you end by having reps 'do.'

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Training Sales Outsourcing Sales Hubspot 103

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2020

As a sales leader, you've probably wondered what impacts your prospects and potential customers. According to Demand Gen’s 2020 Content Preferences Study , 67% of B2B companies said they’re leaning more on content to research and inform decisions. Well, content has become more important than ever for B2B buyers and decision-makers.

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Collateral Case Study Retention Hubspot 107

ROI4Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Do you really know what your prospects are looking for? Were you told by your development group or marketing why your prospects buy? Research from Sirius Decisions indicates that most buyers are 70% through their buying cycle by the time they talk with a vendor. Conduct a Value Inventory Workshop. (Or Dismiss it!

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Decision Maker Buying Cycle Influencer Exercises 54