The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 12, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Why “Social Media” Sucks for Prospecting. It’s time we kill social media, especially if you’re using social media as a sales tool or prospecting technique. What do I expect to accomplish with a business marketing strategy?

Social Media 157

Social Media Media Motivation Prospecting 157

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 31, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. 4 Things to Do Right Now to Get Better Sales Prospects. We all need better sales prospects. Rarely do I run into a salesperson who is not looking for more sales prospects. Expand your prospecting funnel. Client List. Testimonials.

Ideal Customer Profile 180

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Hiring Negotiation 180

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 31, 2017

This is what happens with most prospecting campaigns. It’s marketing versus sales competency. When I founded DiscoverOrg in 2007, delivering quality sales and marketing data was the backbone of what we wanted to build. One of their ‘Marketing’ titles was ‘Cinematographer/Lighting Director.’. It’s the campaign.

Data 181

Data Marketing Vendor Sales Qualified Lead 181

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

December 2007. 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. Prospecting. When Sales Met Marketing. April 2008. March 2008.

Pipeline 216

Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 216

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

December 2007. 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. When Sales Met Marketing.

Webinar Metrics 193

Webinar Metrics Pipeline Prospecting Strategy 193

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

December 2007. 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.

Pipeline 222

Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

December 2007. 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. January 2008. What’s in Your Pipeline?

Pipeline 216

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Cold Calling 216

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In 2007 it took an average of 3.68 cold call attempts to reach a prospect. Low-quality data can impact every aspect of a business—particularly sales and marketing. Without it, your cold calls will fall flat and your prospects will remain unreachable. Stop calling prospects that don’t care about your products and services.

Cold Calling 198

Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 198

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

December 2007. 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. October 2008.

Pipeline 286

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter B2B 286

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. A group of SDRs are hacking away at the market, searching for those few people that will actually talk to them. As an engineer, I could not understand how we had applied virtually no science to how we sold. Great stuff!

Hiring 150

Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Engineering Industry 150

Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

Outsourcing Services 173

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. A group of SDRs are hacking away at the market, searching for those few people that will actually talk to them. technologies. As an engineer, I could not understand how we had applied virtually no science to how we sold.

Hiring 223

Hiring Social Selling Engineering Up-Sell 223

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

December 2007. Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. Prospecting. April 2008. March 2008.

Pipeline 215

Pipeline Webinar Metrics Marketing Hiring 215

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Generating sales leads is not the sole responsibility of the marketing department. For many salespeople, if they had to wait for marketing to generate leads, they would wind up suffering a slow death. Prospecting for Clients: Getting Referrals.

Motivation 200

Motivation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 200

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 2, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Regardless of the market you sell to, take a moment and reflect on the number of people with whom you come in contact — sometimes just once, other times on a regular basis. prospecting. December 2007. November 2007. leadership.

Motivation 247

Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation 247

Jeff Davis

MAY 15, 2018

Let’s face it, there often can be a disconnect between a business’s marketing and sales departments. According to at least one LeanData survey , more than 50 percent of sales and marketing professionals aren’t happy with communication and support from the other department. to find out what prospects want to know. Here’s a look.

Leads 54

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face 54

The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

December 2007. 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. There are steps to follow that can make prospecting easy and effective. Let’s take a look at 10 fail-proof tasks to help turn prospects into buyers: Before the Call. January 2008.

Pipeline 243

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Ideal Customer Profile 243

The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2014

The only thing I can’t remember if it was 1987, 1993 or 2007 when I actually first bought it. Accountability Action Attitude Cold calling execution Intentions Leadership Objection Handling Objective Based Selling Objectives Proactive Prospecting Prospecting Sales 2.0 Well it seems that cold calling is coming back into fashion.

Cold Calling 312

Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Fashion Social Selling 312

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We’ve seen lists with a 40% bounce rate ( yes, really ), and many others around 15% … but few people in sales and marketing rely on lists alone. You see, Tellwise offers a sales acceleration tool with a robust set of capabilities for interacting with prospects, and tracking those interactions. We’ve bought lead lists and tested them.

Data 254

Data Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 254

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Complain about marketing, insisting they are the reason you have not been able to close more sales. You think it’s effective to spend your time spouting off to anyone who will listen, including customers, about how inept marketing is.

Motivation 213

Motivation Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Negotiation 213

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2019

I get up, look at my news feed reading blog posts on sales, sales management, marketing, business management. I’ve been actively writing this blog since 2007. You will find that I talked/ranted about the same issues in 2007 that I am currently ranting about. Go back to those older posts.

Ideal Customer Profile 85

Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Twitter Maximizer 85

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. You can’t do your job without knowing something about your prospect or a scouting report. Related posts: 4 Common Sales and Marketing Practices that Fail in the New Economy. prospecting. December 2007. November 2007.

Ideal Customer Profile 190

Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Negotiation Hiring 190

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 20, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. I don’t believe it’s a lack of closing, prospecting or any other skill that most salespeople would say is the #1 way they are hurting themselves and their company. Leave that to your marketing or advertising department. prospecting.

Motivation 183

Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Discount 183

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Guest post Monday brings us Jeff Beals , an award-winning author who helps professionals do more business and have a greater impact on the world through effective sales, marketing and personal branding techniques. Client List. Testimonials. Negotiation.

Motivation 155

Motivation Real Estate Hiring Construction 155

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. A group of SDRs are hacking away at the market, searching for those few people that will actually talk to them. technologies. As an engineer, I could not understand how we had applied virtually no science to how we sold.

Hiring 150

Hiring Social Selling Engineering Up-Sell 150

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. It’s time we kill social media, especially if you’re using social media as a sales tool or prospecting technique. It’s time we kill the term “social media” and replace it with “business marketing.”

Social Media 152

Social Media Media Motivation Hiring 152

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

December 2007. 23 Marketing Tips For Avoiding Small Business Failure. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Compete , Guest Post , Marketing , execution. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Implementing the program is the key to marketing success. April 2008.

Small Business 253

Small Business Small Business Pipeline Marketing 253

The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

December 2007. How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. April 2008.

Manticore 217

Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Revenue responsibility. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

Inside Sales 118

Inside Sales Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Qualification 118

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

of the time ( source ) Less than 2% of cold calls actually result in a meeting ( source ) Less than 1% of cold calls lead to a sale ( source ) In 2007 it took an average of 3.68 cold call attempts to reach a prospect. The Problem with your Data Low-quality data can impact every aspect of a business—particularly sales and marketing.

Cold Calling 100

Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 100

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. A far more effective response is to create a sales and marketing system that provides an interconnected, measurable set of processes and tools that ultimately result in increased sales. Sales and marketing can be treated in exactly the same way.

Small Business 166

Small Business Small Business Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 166

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. We have worked inside organizations that have successfully transitioned from selling into mid-market to selling into Enterprises. Don’t worry; we even included several examples you can use.

Enterprise 63

Enterprise Enterprise Hiring Marketing 63

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. 4 Ways to Drastically Improve Your Marketing Right Now. prospecting. prospecting. And positivity carries over into how you talk about other people, be that colleagues, other customers, or other people at your prospects company.

Ideal Customer Profile 204

Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Hiring Facebook 204

The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

December 2007. Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing are merging for small businesses and require strong collaboration for larger companies. April 2008.

Sales Qualified Lead 266

Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. ” In their mind, customers and prospects will always reach out to them when they want to buy, so there’s no reason at all to reach out to them. prospecting. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. leadership.

Motivation 190

Motivation Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Hiring 190

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

December 2007. 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.

Pipeline 245

Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Hiring 245

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sit in on a strategy session with your marketing team or a weekly budget update with a project manager. prospecting. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. Client List. Testimonials. FREE Resources.

Motivation 168

Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation 168