Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. What is your sales process? First, it depends.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re managing inside or field sales, gut instinct needs to take a back seat to data-driven insights. In today’s crowded and highly competitive sales environment, your reps need all the insight they can get if they’re going to close sales, meet quota and grow the business. They need data. Lots of data.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Making Monday Morning Sales Meetings Easy for Remote Teams . For this Making Monday’s better post I wanted to talk about what is often the most common and mundane part of the Monday routine and that is the sales team conference call. Let me know how you make life better for your sales teams and more efficient as well.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. About Rochelle Togo-Figa.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Layered on top of these activities are a myriad of sales enablement and social selling tools—all of which are intended to help salespeople with effective prospecting and, in turn, generating qualified sales leads. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess? The dreaded gatekeeper. percent answered no.

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SalesFolk

OCTOBER 25, 2017

I’d spend most of the day navigating automated phone systems, waiting for the ringing to stop so I could leave a voicemail that usually wasn’t returned. That was where I found myself at TechValidate, when I knew I needed a better way to book meetings. Cold calling became a wildly inefficient way to do business.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 21, 2013

Sales Leadership: Bringing a Sharp Focus to Your. Sales Meetings. more on that later), in both environments I have begun to revert to a similar sales management technique to achieve the desired results. operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2018

AI-powered bots, for instance, can be programmed to answer prospect questions, respond to emails, book sales meetings and provide price quotes. Bots can also help with routine manual tasks, like creating sales reports, completing paperwork and inputting data to CRM systems. Prospecting and lead qualification.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

High–Profit Prospecting. It seems like new sales books are coming out every week but I can promise you this; this is one that must be in your sales library. It has made the Acumen Sales Book Club list. Time Management for Prospecting. It is a sales training session all by itself! book review-.

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Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

If you’ve read my stuff before, you’ll know I have one basic prospecting framework I’ve been harking on about for the last 4-5 years. It’s a framework aimed at getting you access, setting up those oh-so-important initial sales meetings. Prospecting Sales 2.0

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 7, 2021

LinkedIn is a huge platform that’s great for prospecting. The question is, once you’ve connected with a prospect, what should you do next? Join Donald Kelly and Ahmad Munawar as they talk about what you should do next once you’ve connected with the prospects. What works in any business and in sales is relationship building.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 7, 2021

LinkedIn is a huge platform that’s great for prospecting. The question is, once you’ve connected with a prospect, what should you do next? Join Donald Kelly and Ahmad Munawar as they talk about what you should do next once you’ve connected with the prospects. What works in any business and in sales is relationship building.

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Pointclear

JULY 12, 2017

I read and reread Andy Paul’s book Zero-Time Selling , and gave it to my sales reps. We discussed the 20 chapters in sales meetings each week, with a different representative taking 2-3 chapters and highlighting what he or she had learned. We expected everyone in the sales team to chip in. I couldn’t stand it. “I

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 7, 2021

LinkedIn is a huge platform that’s great for prospecting. The question is, once you’ve connected with a prospect, what should you do next? Join Donald Kelly and Ahmad Munawar as they talk about what you should do next once you’ve connected with the prospects. What works in any business and in sales is relationship building.

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MTD Sales Training

MARCH 23, 2016

You’re on the way to the sales meeting with a prospect or client and you’re stuck in a jam. For sales questions at all stages of the sales meeting process – click here to download ‘450 Sales Questions’ You finally arrive, hot, bothered and flustered. You’ve nailed it all by 10am.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Whether it’s a cold call on a prospect or a follow-up email after a client visit, have the clarity to know exactly what you are trying to achieve. If you get a sale, learn what went right so you can repeat it and improve it. 9) Prospect at the right level within the business. 10) Discover the prospect’s buying cycles.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

. ” Incorporating these sales habits into your daily routine is guaranteed to enhance productivity, mental clarity, and overall well-being , all of which are good things in sales. Time Blocks and Deadlines In the chaos of a sales day, it can feel like we are juggling chainsaws. For many of us, this is prospecting.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Have you ever felt frustrated working through tedious processes that require you to go back and forth between multiple systems? Now that you have implemented a CRM, are you ready to expand its functionality, and have it work directly with the other tools and systems you use? As a sales rep, you spend a lot of time in your inbox.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2014

We kept a tally at each meeting, and even nicknamed him “Frank” He lost his audience – and our respect – by distracting us with his crutch phrase, and diluted anything he could have said to us. Could you see sales reps with a tally sheet at a sales meeting? Are the right systems in place?

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

Closers shouldn’t be doing cold prospecting because A) they’re typically not very good at it, and B) they really don’t want to do it. This all starts by having an organizational sales process in place. Organized system. They may even just have a bunch of Google Docs or Excel spreadsheets instead of a CRM system.

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Lessonly

JUNE 2, 2020

Is your sales team operating at its optimum level? How viable are your company’s prospecting methods? Good leads and effective conversion strategies are critical to the sales process. Vetting and converting prospects into warm leads is also the most challenging aspect of sales. Maximize Your CRM Efforts.

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Vengreso

JULY 20, 2023

The sales process can often be characterized as a ‘marathon’ that requires many touch points with a customer before selling something – as opposed to a ‘sprint’ where fast sales and cold calling dominate. This sales mindset requires belief and trust in the journey that leads to sales mastery.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 9, 2013

Sales Managers: Does Your Team Know How to Prospect? It seems that every client I have worked with over the past 14 years has had a challenge in creating enough leads driven through their sales teams. Last week I was fortunate to read: The Sales Winner’s Handbook by Wendy Weiss, “The Queen of Cold Calling”.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 18, 2020

Simplify Referrals: It’s common knowledge that referrals are a great way to generate more business, but the majority of organizations don’t have a system in place to influence referrals in any way. When implementing a system for generating referrals, keep it simple.

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criteria for success

APRIL 1, 2020

Prospecting Through Uncertainty. Many salespeople are finding it difficult to prospect for new business. They may be concerned about what message to send, or worried about whether it’s appropriate to be prospecting right now. For most salespeople, you can and should continue to prospect throughout this situation.

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SBI

MAY 5, 2020

Before Covid, sales meetings were moving more online anyway, but now there may be quite a long time before face-to-face meetings start up again. VIPs Regular Customers Priority Prospects Media Internal customers Analysts /press ls your CRM data available and up-to-date? Confirmation? Process Management is key.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Even the internal systems were set up to ensure mistakes were repeated. When a deal was lost and the sales rep would change the stage in their CRM system to “Closed Lost,” a notification was triggered to each member of the organization’s senior leadership team. Merely doing a post-mortem during a sales meeting isn’t enough.

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Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2022

Invest heavily in researching the prospect company and finding out their growth story, their financial picture, and the C-suite’s stated priorities. Knowing who your prospect is and what they value as a professional and as a person will pay off when you land time on their busy calendar. What Does a CFO Want to Hear?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Please tell us about a campaign before you launch it so I don’t have that ‘deer in the headlights’ look when a prospect says, “So tell me about the free iPad mini if I buy from you by the end of November.”. “I I keep hearing that I have to increase sales activity to increase sales. We need sales meetings not sales beatings.”.

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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With Zoom, salespeople can save time by not needing to meet with prospects directly, and they can jump easily from one meeting to the next within minutes. Inviting external users to video conferences requires having their email address or copying the meeting link to a newly created meeting. .

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The Pipeline

MARCH 20, 2018

Many sales people’s inability to go beyond the fences of their products capabilities turns buyers off, they know they are being manipulated to say yes, but there is no conviction (or decision) behind it. Questions that allow the prospect to let go of the here and now, and focus on their desired future state.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 19, 2021

While MQLs are one indicator of success, it’s not the sales-ready lead that many marketers believe it to be. For example: In a 4-year study, our client Dynamis found that MQLs turn into sales meetings at 3x the rate that a cold lead does, and marketing-driven sales close at twice the rate. Does this sound familiar?

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SBI

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I asked thought leaders from various sales technology firms, how they think SalesTech will change the way salespeople sell in 2019. Historically, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems have tended to create work for sales people, rather than simplify their job. Here’s what they had to say.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Frank Somma is a keynote speaker for sales and communication, an author, and a sales coach. He went to a number of conventions and sales meetings. He provides one-on-one and group sales and communication coaching. Acknowledge People As People, Not As Data in a System.

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Growbots

JULY 30, 2021

Outbound sales prospecting is essential to business growth, but vastly different from traditional marketing. Outbound sales is highly proactive — it’s all about finding just the right customers and convincing them to work with you. How to Make First Contact in Outbound Sales. Cold Calling B2B Sales Prospects.

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