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Sales Pipeline Dried Up? The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now

No More Cold Calling

They cut advertising, travel, training, marketing, and discretionary expense line items. Granted, it will be more difficult to find new prospects or even to get clients to take (virtual) meetings. It’s not 2002 and 2003, or 2008 and 2009. Think of it as prospecting for gold. Your sales prospecting budget collapses.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. By 2002-2003, people were continually asking if I had a book. We ask for an introduction to our ideal prospect. The year was 1996.

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Artificial Intelligence for Sales: Discover How Sales is Changing

Zoominfo

CCS® specializes in world-class sales training that helps organizations predictably improve revenue growth and sales performance. CustomerCentric Selling® is annually named to Training Industry’s list of Top Sales Training Companies. John Holland is Chief Content Officer for CustomerCentric Selling® (CCS®).

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The Best Sales Book, That Isn’t a Sales Book

A Sales Guy

It doesn’t address topics like closing or overcoming objections or prospecting or email writing. S**t, when it was written in 2002, LinkedIn wasn’t a thing, there was no “social” selling, and your sales stack was the yellow-pages. Remember, he published the book in 2002, 6 years before the Great Recession.

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Assets Under Management – A Sales Leaders Job!

Anthony Cole Training

In 2002, Marie Guion-Johnson ’s 41-year-old husband, Rob, died after going into cardiac arrest while swimming. Just like in selling, if you get the prospect to recognize and verbalize the issues, challenges, problems, then they own them. Not love problems of the heart, but functional problems of the heart. The answer will be “no.”

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Kevin Bacon and a Unique Way to Crush Lead Generation

No More Cold Calling

Or perhaps seen the Kevin Bacon Visa Check Card ad from 2002? Smart sales execs would send the Brit, because he would more likely be perceived by these prospects as “one of them.” Commuters who ride the same train to work with you every morning? Your referral network is larger than you realize.

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Assets Under Management – A Sales Leader's Job!

Anthony Cole Training

In 2002, Marie Guion-Johnson ’s 41-year-old husband, Rob, died after going into cardiac arrest while swimming. Just like in selling, if you get the prospect to recognize and verbalize the issues, challenges, problems, then they own them. Not love problems of the heart, but functional problems of the heart. The answer will be “no.”

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