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Don’t Miss This Event: The Gatekeeper Died

No More Cold Calling

So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Always free. Always fabulous! Think again.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

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Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

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Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Even with the growing number of digital routes, outbound phone calling, or teleprospecting, remains a powerful method to engage personally with your prospects. In fairness, our industry has created the image.

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4 Ways to Get Past the Gatekeeper (No Tricks Required)

No More Cold Calling

Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, they (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Think again. Why would they?

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.'

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Marketing tries to qualify a greater number of prospects. Listen to presentations at trade shows. Now marketing and sales know what a qualified lead is versus an uqualified prospect. Telemarketing scripts. Prospects who admit to a short time frame to buy go directly to reps; others may need to be further qualified.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

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Increased budgets of this nature are including outbound telemarketing and lead generation companies. While everyone wants less expensive leads in the form of prospects who identify themselves via company websites, traditional direct marketing is still needed to educate prospects and drive them to websites. Use BANT qualifiers.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

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The same reason you primed the pump for existing territories with qualified prospects that close faster applies to new territories. By increasing the marketing spend to increase leads, especially qualified leads, I turned the dollars loose on: Telemarketing to previous leads who did not buy. Create qualified leads for new territories.