No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Two colleagues complained they were so involved in their work, they didn’t have time to prospect. People are so focused on their projects, and they don’t make time to prospect. Yes, you must make time. If you’re heads-down on your projects and don’t prospect, you’ll have no pipeline when you surface.

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Referrals Lead Gen Social Media Cold Calling 233

InsideSales.com

MAY 11, 2021

SILICON SLOPES, Utah, May 11, 2021 / PRNewswire / — XANT, the enterprise leader in Guided Sales Engagement, announces the release of PeopleFinder, a Playbooks feature that identifies buyer behaviors and recommends additional ideal contacts for reps to engage so they can stop guessing and focus on selling.

Groups 105

Groups Buyer Enterprise Enterprise 105

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

95% of our prospecting is just wasted time, so just stop it! It’s too much time to find that 5% who want to talk, and if they really do, they’ll reach out to you anyway, inbound is so much easier. Think about all the time you are wasting. But it still takes time to do that.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Hiring LinkedIn 92

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2018

We know that the assistant wants to protect the senior exec from wasting their time. We know the senior exec has no time to waste. Therefore we deduce the assistant will be our enemy as we are trying to waste the executive’s time. In which case, I would deduce you may be in the wrong job.

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How To Banking Gatekeeper Call-back 150

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2018

We know that the assistant wants to protect the senior exec from wasting their time. We know the senior exec has no time to waste. Therefore we deduce the assistant will be our enemy as we are trying to waste the executive’s time. In which case, I would deduce you may be in the wrong job.

How To 150

How To Banking Gatekeeper Call-back 150

Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

If you take pride in juggling a handful of tasks simultaneously throughout the day, it’s time to reassess your approach. If possible, set a regimented schedule that allows you to focus on one task at a time. of the time. Under constant pressure to meet quota, productivity is at the forefront of every sales rep’s mind.

Cold Calling 236

Cold Calling Top of Funnel Direct Mail Referrals 236

Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 19, 2019

If you knew you could win 75% of the prospects you pitched, you'd do it, wouldn't you? How many of your prospects, who you want to become customers, get an invitation to play the championship game (the sale) at your ball park? Your strategy should be to make the preliminary call at the prospect's place of business.

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Sports Scale Proposal Call-back 250

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s an ineffective prospecting strategy and a nuisance to buyers, most of whom ignore cold calls. For account-based sellers , it’s not only a waste of time. It’s a waste of perfectly good relationships. Current clients at a prospect company are the best source of new business within their organizations.

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Cold Calling Account Decision Maker Referrals 222

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 1, 2020

Sales reps love receiving these leads and tell me all the time that these “warm” leads must be better because they called or emailed requesting more information. By separating out people who are “just looking,” sales reps can identify and spend more time with the real buyers. But we all know this isn’t necessarily true is it?

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Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 178

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

One is the norm, I get inundated with mindless prospecting emails every day. The voice in my head was screaming, “Stop The Insanity!!!!!” This morning, I was greeted with a couple of things. Usually a couple of dozen make it through my spam filters, There are dozens in the spam buckets. And this was no different.

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Lead Gen Data LinkedIn Competition 81

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 16, 2017

Cold calling is bottom-of-the-barrel prospecting. It can take eight to 14 touches to just to reach a prospect who isn’t expecting a call from your sales rep. He’s “dialing for dollars” (read: “wasting time”), and who has time to waste? That poor sales rep wasted his time and mine.

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Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 25, 2021

In today’s difficult business environment, you don’t have the time or the resources to waste time on a prospect that’s not a sure thing. That’s why qualifying your prospects is even more important now than when the economy was roaring. They don’t have time to waste on a deal that won’t work out either.

Sales Qualified Lead 119

Sales Qualified Lead Call-back Fashion Lead Rank 119

No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

I was wrong. Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. This digital dependence actually decreases productivity and extends the time it takes to reach a decision-maker. Account based sales development only works if reps get in the door and meet with their ideal prospects.

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Account Referrals Lead Generation Cold Calling 285

No More Cold Calling

JULY 1, 2014

I was wrong. These are your clients, and hopefully you’re going to be working with them for a long time. Don’t get me wrong. They bring prospects to our websites, nurture relationships, conduct research, create demographics, write case studies, and build social-media strategies. I was wrong. I admit it.

Sales Qualified Lead 261

Sales Qualified Lead Referrals Marketing Qualified Lead Cold Calling 261

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Want to get slowed down as a sales prospector and waste a lot of time? Call on the wrong prospects. You can waste literally days out of every month looking for the wrong buyers. I would go so far as to say that some sellers waste 2 months out of every year going after the wrong prospective customers.

Inside Sales 232

Inside Sales Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Sometimes it may make sense to tell the customer they’re wrong. But for the most part, a rep doesn’t want to rock the boat with a prospect. So we file it away mentally, with the best of intentions to raise the issue later on when we have more time (which is never). What does that mean? How do I know? Everyone raises their hand.

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Forecasting Proposal 260

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

of the time ( source ). cold call attempts to reach a prospect. If your team’s performance is lagging and your sales database is a mess, it’s time to conduct an audit of your data. Without it, your cold calls will fall flat and your prospects will remain unreachable. Inaccurate B2B contact data wastes 27.3%

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Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 198

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 17, 2018

Unfortunately, Jane is not using the same email address for LinkedIn and now you have a full-time duplicate in your CRM register. This way, you just got yourself three different leads (Jane 1, Jane 2, Jane 3) for one prospect only. However, this process is everything but easy. We will use our imaginary friend Jane as an example.

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CRM Face-to-face Marketing Webinar Metrics 180

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Poor data quality leads to targeting the wrong accounts at the wrong times and in the wrong way. The World’s Best Dynamic Real-Time Account Data Strong data is the foundation of any successful ABM program — and our data is the best in the world. The reason? At ZoomInfo, we’re changing that.

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Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Account Data 100

SalesProInsider

APRIL 28, 2023

Unfortunately, passive prospects who stall, stop answering messages, reschedule…and then reschedule again, are the output of prematurely “sending something” after what appeared to be good conversations. Prospect: “Okay, sounds good. Prospect: “Sounds good.” While the title is a tongue twister…it’s also so true!

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Proposal Promotion Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 62

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2023

We have to fill our pipelines, we have to move prospects through our process, we have to move them to a fast decision. What should we stop doing? At the same time, we see continued high levels of regret expressed by those buyers is very high. You waste our time! Afterall, we have our quotas.

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Customer Trends Buyer Study 80

SalesFolk

MARCH 11, 2021

Do you include bullet points or numbered lists in your sales prospecting emails ? . It’s also fine to have a list in a sales email, once you’ve had a conversation with that sales prospect or opportunity. . ( We’ve A/B tested this like crazy hundreds of times! ?? ?? ). Correlation vs causation :” ??

Outbound 102

Outbound Buyer Persona Social Media Video 102

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 21, 2014

Social selling is a powerful tool for salespeople who prospect through referrals, but only if you do it right. The right and wrong ways to use LinkedIn for sales. There is a time and place for everything. So when and where is the best time to make a sales pitch? Message to Management]: Your Team Is Wasting Your Time.

Social Selling 243

Social Selling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Referrals 243

Partners in Excellence

MAY 19, 2022

” It’s always about how they can’t find the time to do all that they think they are doing. They are in more calls, more meetings, for a longer period of time, than they have ever been. How do we stop anything where everything is critical? We live in a world where we seem to be driven by “Doing More.”

Consumer 69

Consumer Face-to-face Meeting Exact 69

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The key to increasing revenue and achieving quota isn’t cramming the top of the funnel with as many prospects as possible—qualified or not. It’s an exercise in futility and wasted time. Describe your ideal client. Does everyone know your ideal client profile? That’s the question I asked more than 500 sales pros.

Referrals 220

Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 220

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Regardless of the way you reach out—via email, social media, text, direct mail, or even a knock on the door—prospects are cold as ice unless they know who you are and expect to hear from you.

Cold Calling 269

Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Marc Wayshak

OCTOBER 16, 2021

This sales basic will ultimately help you move from beginner to advanced in a very short period of time. This sales basic will ultimately help you move from beginner to advanced in a very short period of time. Prospects cannot physically hurt you. The archaic part of our brains tells us: “It’s time for flight. Run away!”.

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Follow-up Up-Sell System Prospecting 100

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They are measured by the touches, probably because research says we have to reach out at least 14 times. Often, these comments are about the very first prospecting outreach. Too often, our prospecting cadences are driven by presenting our products, company, and capabilities. It’s easy to see how they feel that way.

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Face-to-face Prospecting Conversion Customer 83

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The uncoachable person has made the decision to stop learning and growing. Their attitudes clearly showed how much the resented spending the time with their CRO, their manager, and me. ” “Do you realize how much you are distracting from my ‘selling time…?'” Let me explain myself.

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Coaching Cold Calling Follow-up Pipeline 117

InsideSales.com

MAY 11, 2021

SILICON SLOPES, Utah, May 11, 2021 / PRNewswire / — XANT, the enterprise leader in Guided Sales Engagement, announces the release of PeopleFinder, a Playbooks feature that identifies buyer behaviors and recommends additional ideal contacts for reps to engage so they can stop guessing and focus on selling.

Groups 52

Groups InsideSales Buyer Enterprise 52

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2020

There are endless articles about what we should stop doing, as sales and marketing professionals, as a result of COVID-19. But the problem I have is that we shouldn’t stop these things just because of the current crisis. We should stop these because they represent bad practice. There is plenty that we should stop doing.

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Ideal Customer Profile Vendor ACT Relationals 77

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2023

How many times have you had this exchange with prospects? There’s nothing wrong with kicking off a conversation by asking how someone is doing, but it definitely won’t lead to any memorable dialogue. When you’ve only got a couple minutes to build rapport with someone, you don’t want to waste time on conversational fluff.

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Follow-up Nonprofit Social Media Travel 108

The Sales Developers

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sales teams have everything needed for outbound prospecting activities. These steps will eliminate roadblocks (gatekeepers, wrong titles, bad phone numbers, bounced emails, etc.) and allow more time for non-selling activities, like hitting quotas. Access to all the data needed (e.g. The Current Data Problem. Bad phone numbers.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Outsourcing Services Outbound 81

Autoklose

JANUARY 15, 2024

Building your ideal customer profile and buyer persona should be your first step before you launch your first marketing campaign and reach out to your prospects and customers. Saving a lot of time and money Reducing customer churn Improving customer experience What’s an Ideal Customer Profile and How to Structure It?

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Buyer Lead Rank 52

Autoklose

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s important to understand that it’s not the end of the world, let alone your conversation with the prospect. It’s important to understand that it’s not the end of the world, let alone your conversation with the prospect. Respect the time your prospect dedicated to your offer, demo, and presentation, and thank them for that.

How To 52

How To Follow-up Motivation Objections 52

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Prospects and buyers are so busy. Prospects and buyers hear and read so many things throughout the course of their week that it really takes something special to jar them. Don’t get me wrong, though – CALLING does work. Calling is more effective than many other forms of prospecting still.

Inside Sales 222

Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 222

Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 21, 2011

You’d be thinking wrong. It never ceases to amaze me, that with all the options salespeople have, they choose to alienate, anger or cause doubt in the mind of the prospect by setting the wrong tone with their questions. And maybe the prospect feels that’s none of your business. Good start.

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Hiring Social Media Loyalty Commission 335