Pipeliner

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to Personalize Your Prospecting. Automation has become a great tool in many regards, and technology has definitely been a huge factor and great resource in the sales world, but it can’t compensate for the human to human connection, especially when it comes to prospecting. What is personalized prospecting? Automation.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Despite all the digital changes in in sales and marketing, if you’re running a business and trying to use outbound to grow it, the money is still in the list. What spectator sports do they like–sports and teams? “The money is in the list” is an old direct marketing adage going way back to the development of the envelope.

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Membrain

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

I grew up playing sports. But no matter how much I’ve encouraged the idea, my daughters have never wanted to play sports. Then out of the blue, my oldest told me she wanted to play a sport in high school. I played softball and volleyball, and I loved being part of a team.

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Marc Wayshak

APRIL 17, 2024

Do you ever feel like there’s something holding you back from reaching the top of your sales game ? It could be as simple as your sales mindset. In this video, I’ll teach you the 9 sales mindsets of the most successful salespeople out there. Prospects need me. If I lose a sale, so what? I am the best.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the competitive world of sales, adopting the right mindset is crucial for success. On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount spends time with Dre Baldwin, a former professional basketball player in the NBA turned business guru to discuss why sales professionals who adopt a pro athlete mindset have greater success.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. It start with how sellers think about time; which is why in sales, time is value not money. By Tibor Shanto. Customer Value Management.

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The Pipeline

MAY 29, 2013

On Monday I wrote about the need to counterbalance for some of the realities of telephone prospecting , and some things sellers can do to compensate. Some of these things may seem mundane and basic, but that doesn’t lessen their importance in consistent results from telephone prospecting. The same works for a prospecting call.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 19, 2019

The average professional sports team wins more than 75% of the games they play on their home court. If you knew you could win 75% of the prospects you pitched, you'd do it, wouldn't you? Sales games are no different than sports games. You win more sales when you sell them at home. There are 10.5 Be prepared.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 16, 2020

Introducing specific people with different skills and expertise from your company into your sales cycle might be the solution for maintaining momentum in the ever growing complexity in today’s sales cycles. In 2020, there are a number of big factors at play for sales reps that make team selling more attractive than ever before.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

One of our trainers asked on a sales course recently how they open their visits with customers. Many offered the idea that they should build rapport with customers by commenting on the weather, some items the prospect has in the office, what their journey was like that day, and so on. Obviously, it’s very little. Happy selling!

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Delivering A Next-Level Customer Experience In this Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount talks to Clare Dorrian, SugarCRM's CMO, about putting people first, building human connections, and prioritizing the customer experience in a saturated market. In a highly competitive market, differentiation is key.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Here’s another case where sales people need to take a concept further than their marketing colleagues (last time as we going on about using Sales 2.0 This post is about knowing about your prospect. Marketing types have actually formalized a methodology around knowing your prospect and call it “persona marketing”.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 27, 2022

When you think about cars, you know there are coupes, sedans, crossovers, SUVs, and sports cars. To further complicate things, in some companies and industries, Sales Managers function as salespeople and Sales VPs function as Sales Managers. You also know there are luxury cars, mid-range cars and economy cars.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2021

I grew up playing sports. But no matter how much I’ve encouraged the idea, my daughters have never wanted to play sports. Then out of the blue, my oldest told me she wanted to play a sport in high school. I’ll explain what all this has to do with sales in a moment. Tennis and Sales? Don’t worry. A Very Long Wait.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Author: Charles Brennan One of the fastest-growing sports in America is pickleball. However, many people are not familiar with the sport. Pickleball is a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis. Fortunately, he did well enough to get offered the job he wanted. Planning Versus Strategy.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Why Relationships Matter in Sales: Think about your current customers, past customers and even solid prospects. Now, go back and look at your list of customers and prospects again. If you’re serious about relationships and their value in sales and business, repeat this exercise with everyone that you work with in your company.

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Sports Exercises Lead Rank Lead Scoring 180

Sales Evangelist

JULY 17, 2015

I’ve played sports all my life and one of the things I’ve seen is that in sports, DEFENSE is important. However, it’s a bit different with sales. One of the biggest mistakes I made as a new seller was that if I was being pushy, prospects were not going to buy from me. appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

No one likes rejection, and I would argue few professions have to put up with as much rejection as sales people do. We face rejection throughout the sale, from the time we try to prospect and engage with a potential buyer, right to the end when they finally agree to deal with us.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re a sales pro, you should. Tension is the seed of thought planted in your prospect’s brain that grows into the idea that their life would be better with your solution. So, let’s dig into how you can create tension and use it to build trust , engage your prospects, and drive action. Nice going, Sport….

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Prospecting Face-to-face Sports ACT 125

No More Cold Calling

MAY 19, 2015

Your birthday, favorite sports team, or hometown could help you seal the deal. I’ve often called these types of connections “ affinity networks ”—meaning our natural, cultural, geographic, or special-interest connections that can lead to new and increased sales. Personal connections couldn’t be more important in sales.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I hate the Dog Days of Summer excuse – it always felt like a cheap way for an underperforming sales rep to make an excuse for a slow month. Sales Rep : Yeah, just not a lot of movement in my pipeline – it’s the dog days of summer. But, by that logic, why is December always so good for sales? You get it.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2015

How much of a premium would you pay to bet on a sporting event where the odds favoured your team over the other by 6000 to 100? But I see sales people do this very thing on a regular basis, but instead of a five dollar bet, what is on the line is their income. Yet one of the hardest things is to get sales to practice and prepare.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Despite booming times, there seems to be a cloud over B2B sales. What’s in their core, amore importantly, what’s at the core for the prospect. Succeeding in sales take more effort than many are willing to give. Prospects are no better, playing games, intentionally or not. By Tibor Shanto. What’s At The Core?

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Recently, I worked with a very capable salesperson who had a great sales plan and great leads; yet, she failed miserably in at hitting her number. How do I Overcome my Lack of Confidence When Prospecting: It’s sad to say, but this situation is a major issue and one of the biggest reasons why there’s such a high turnover in sales.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

You might not think that automatic sales dialers have that much to offer you. What Is A Sales Dialer? A sales dialer is pretty much what it sounds like: technology that automatically dials numbers for salespeople. You’re a sales representative. Here’s where the sales dialer comes in. Streamlined Prospecting.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 10, 2012

The discussion was lively and very engaging, but what struck me was how none of them were truly focused on their sales leads. The fact so many salespeople are struggling with their sales prospecting should be both comforting and discouraging to every other salesperson. Compare this to sports.

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KLA Group

JULY 21, 2021

By Kendra Lee Sales as sport – the comparisons abound. Sales TEAMS look to WIN business. However, there is one connection to sports that often gets overlooked – COACHING. More specifically, coaching sales reps how to better convert inbound leads into sales-qualified opportunities. Sales […].

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2019

If you’ve listened to my show at all, you’ll know my opinion on cold sales prospecting. You should always reach out to warm prospects. We discuss the best tactics for cold sales prospecting through email. Ways To Make Connections Before Cold Sales Prospecting. Subscribe to Selling With Social.

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The Pipeline

JULY 7, 2021

Want to split a room of salespeople, just ask if “sales is a numbers game or not?” Full disclosure, I came from the sales is a numbers game camp. While it is safe to say I have evolved, I have not abandoned my “sales is a numbers game” friends. But as is the case when we evolve, one can emerge with a third, better alternative.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

There’s a good reason why athletes in contact sports wear protective pads. If product management is a contact sport, what’s your organization’s risk of injury? Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. Sales credibility is the #1 reason you’re customers buy.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2018

Yes, you read the title right -- I guarantee that these templates will get responses from prospects. But, compared to the overly salesy prospecting email templates most salespeople are sending, I am confident that these will work better -- or your money back. Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. Any takers?

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 23, 2019

Not many people dream of having a career in sales. Let’s be real here: sales was probably not your first choice. For many of you, although afraid to admit, sales wasn’t even your second, third or fourth choice. You see, sales was not my first or second choice. Sales is what I fell into.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 10, 2020

From sales processes to how we celebrate holidays, there has been no area left untouched by this pandemic. For ZoomInfo, one of the biggest challenges we are facing at EOY is how to keep motivation high and celebrations on par with the big achievements our sales teams are hitting day in and day out. Covid has changed everything.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 30, 2012

If you are in sales, you’ll have your opinions about that. Before you think you’re sure, pick up a copy of Mike Weinberg’s new book, New Sales Simplified. People hear that proactive selling is dead, thanks to the Sales 2.0 Mike actually offers 16 reasons why salespeople fail at prospecting.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 26, 2019

Many of you reading this blog post are aware of one of the largest sales event that I have the honor to co-host each year called OutBound. Leadership and sales have a lot in common, and it begins with compounding impact. This is another reason why I see sales and leadership as very similar: both cannot survive merely on assumptions.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 12, 2020

Are you using online sales meetings throughout your sales process? Do it wrong and it can completely ruin the sale! See if you can bunk off work early and say you’ve got a sales meeting somewhere”. When I work from home I work out of my home office and there’s lots of movie and sport memorabilia on the wall.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 75% of organizations believe they haven’t achieved the goal of aligning marketing and sales. Marketing needs to figure out how it can scale account-based programs, and do so in a coordinated way with Sales. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? ABM maturity model.

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