Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

If your B2B company has been slow to get more involved in what some call the Social Selling movement, you can still do some very simple things right away while your company debates how, when and why to jump in. A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying.

InsideView 249

InsideView Research Prospecting Eloqua 249

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

Prospecting 142

Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 142

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations. What Is B2B Sales Prospecting?

B2B 100

B2B Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Prospecting 100

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

Here, we’ll go micro and explore the key metrics, methodologies, and tools for evaluating your business development strategy. And this often begins with prospecting. However, a Janek survey revealed 18% of sales leaders do not have set prospecting metrics. In addition, 32% don’t know how much time reps prospect.

Webinar Metrics 62

Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy Analysis 62

Vengreso

MARCH 30, 2022

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is arguably one of the most powerful social selling tools available – but most teams are underutilizing it. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is one of the premium services of LinkedIn, the largest networking tool for B2B sellers. Align Sales Navigator with your current sales tools and methodology.

LinkedIn 115

LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 115

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The most recent would be assassins are Socialites, social selling advocates, who seem to spend as much time sniping at and proclaiming the death of cold calling as they do speaking about what they sell, social selling products, seminars, remedies and dreams. Step back you don’t wanna get any on your shoes). .

Cold Calling 292

Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

Vengreso

MARCH 30, 2022

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is arguably one of the most powerful social selling tools available – but most teams are underutilizing it. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is one of the premium services of LinkedIn, the largest networking tool for B2B sellers. Align Sales Navigator with your current sales tools and methodology.

LinkedIn 99

LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 99

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As a sales person, your territory is “your business”, and when you look at successful business people, one of the things executives do well is delegate. Leverage Automation – The hidden cost of social selling is time, and to a lesser degree content. I can be up to date in their real world and social activities.

Outsourcing Services 306

Outsourcing Services Closing Hiring Social Selling 306

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.

Pipeline 216

Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 216

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

Remember, prospecting is all about people. B2B selling is all about relationships. What about social selling? Social selling can help you begin conversations, but turning those connections into relationships means socializing the old-fashioned way—offline. You’ve heard it: Television will kill radio.

Lead Generation 243

Lead Generation System Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 243

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. Prospecting. Sales Tool. Sell Better.

Webinar Metrics 193

Webinar Metrics Pipeline Strategy Prospecting 193

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Here are a few summary points for you to consider as you finalize your plan for next year: Spearhead Social Selling Initiatives : What can you do to support sales in getting to the buyer earlier? Get LinkedIn upgrades.

Buyer Persona 310

Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

1 — Customers & Prospects: The most important thing is your customer/prospect. What You Get — A sales tool that maps the decision making process of your product or service. What This Means to You — Your sales team can get in early and sell the way customers buy. This tool will get you going in under a week. #2

Territories 308

Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

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. Wim @ Sales Sells. Tibor Shanto. May 4th, 2011.

Pipeline 216

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Cold Calling 216

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. Sales Tool. Sell Better.

Pipeline 222

Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

After evaluating your team and their tools, you might ask “Where do I start?” Don’t do a territory redesign project without knowing exactly who you’re targeting. Having a clear understanding of your ideal customers and prospects is essential to success. Social Selling is part of the Process.

Top of Funnel 296

Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Prospecting. Social Selling. Territory Management. Prospecting. Unfortunately, we’ve all experienced poor sales prospecting. To be effective, salespeople need to develop a strategic approach to prospecting and work on it daily to identify new business opportunities better. Social Selling.

Social Media 62

Social Media Territories Face-to-face Negotiation 62

SalesLoft

JANUARY 11, 2016

To develop meaningful sales relationships, you have to build trust by getting to know your prospects, their needs, and the potential solutions that can help them solve their problems. But with the abundant amount of sales development tech tools out there, it’s easy to lose track of what your prospects (and their companies) are up to.

Tools 52

Tools Scale Enterprise Enterprise 52

SBI

MAY 7, 2015

If you’re seeking smart tools to drive sales performance, I’ve got great news for you. We’ve just released our 3rd annual Top Sales Tools of the Year Guide. Use this guide if you want to learn about innovative tools designed for all kinds of sellers. See which tools we chose for: Mobile Sales Enablement.

Tools 50

Tools Territories Compensation Inside Sales 50

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

Pipeline 212

Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Looking for a few easy, virtually-free ways to immediately connect with more prospects? Below, I’ve compiled 18 of my favorite methods for reaching prospects. How to Prospect. Understand your prospects' interests before speaking with them. Connect with more prospects over email. Let’s do this.

Prospecting 101

Prospecting Top of Funnel Social Media Hubspot 101

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.

Pipeline 286

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter B2B 286

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. You then focus on refining (nurturing) the good finds and attempt to make a hefty profit by selling value to the best buyers. Brian Tracy.

B2B 87

B2B Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 87

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.

Pipeline 243

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Ideal Customer Profile 243

Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

We have our prescribed lists and territories. We’d let the prospect know that we’ll cease prospecting them. If we gained permission, we’d follow up months down the line with a relevant case study, when that prospect made any announcements or role changes, or if their company experienced any big news.

Account 98

Account Hiring Intent Signal Conference 98

Pipeliner

MAY 2, 2018

The true sales hunters will dive 10,000 leagues deep below the ocean and know what their prospects had for breakfast that morning. If you don’t have a provocative business case that will pique your prospective customer’s interest, you’re sunk like the Titanic. Yep, not everyone is eschewing social selling.

Prospecting 68

Prospecting Google Ideal Customer Profile Harvest 68

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Your reps utilizing social and mobile tools consistently was not in your ’13 plan. You sell to a more informed buyer. You must match selling capacity with market demand. Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Why are reps not being taught how to generate demand in the new prospects?

Compensation 325

Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 3 hours, the go-to-market teams at ZoomInfo made 24,000 calls, ended up on the phone with our customers and prospects for 250 hours, scheduled 400 follow up meetings, etc. We’ve written at length about the state of cold calling, and we’ve explained why the phone remains an essential tool in the modern sales rep’s arsenal.

Cold Calling 200

Cold Calling Call-back Competition Scale 200

Vengreso

DECEMBER 2, 2020

the resources, tools, and activities required to carry out the strategies. They cover everything from go-to-market strategies, sales prospecting , and even having the right team for the job. For instance, which industries do you sell to or want to sell to? Have you reviewed their sales plan for prospecting?

Ideal Customer Profile 120

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Hiring Segment 120

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Provide the right processes, tools, structure and guidance to best deliver revenue. Buyers don’t care about how your organization wants to sell. Consider everything from strategy to territory design and all your work in-between. Does it require social selling skills? Your goal is to best enable sales.

Buyer 288

Buyer Telemarketing Cold Calling Buyer Persona 288

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

. “But we’re not IBM” Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Communication Strategy , Guest Post , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Social Selling. Copiers as an example, you may refer to document management at one end, and sell copiers to the other end.

Pipeline 226

Pipeline Social Media Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 226

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, I see LinkedIn data that says, “Sales professionals who use social selling are 51% more likely to exceed their quotas.” For example, based on the LinkedIn data, one might think, “All I have to do is use social selling, and I’m more likely to exceed my quota.” No related posts.

Hiring 91

Hiring Social Selling Quota Social Media 91

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Guest Post , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Video , Voice mail , execution. For me the question of whether you do or do not leave voice mails when prospecting is so Sales -1.0, Prospecting. Sales Tool.

Pipeline 245

Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Hiring 245

The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2012

Socially Kosher? Stored in Attitude , Communication , Dependability , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , Sales 2.0 , Social Selling , Social media , execution. Sales 2.0 , Social Buying , Social Selling , Tibor Shanto. Prospecting. Sales Tool. Sell Better. Selling to Executives.

Pipeline 215

Pipeline Social Media Cold Calling Hiring 215

The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

One that permeates many aspects of sales, starting at planning and territory alignment, right down to day-to-day tactical aspects of sales. Prospecting. Sales Tool. Sell Better. Selling to Executives. Social Buying. Social media. Social Selling. Territory Alignment. Tibor Shanto.

ACT 244

ACT Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring 244

Closer's Coffee

OCTOBER 2, 2019

They never get to be face-to-face with their prospects. With outside sales roles, there is plenty of interaction face to face with customers, hours spent out in the field working the territory to achieve the same end as an inside sales rep. The biggest handicap is they are never seen by their prospect or customer.

Inside Sales 61

Inside Sales Face-to-face Hiring Skype 61

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. Prospecting.

Pipeline 220

Pipeline Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Hiring 220