The Sales Heretic

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re a regular reader of this blog (and if you’re not, you can be—just click one of the “Subscribe” links to the right, wink, wink, nudge, nudge), you know that I’m a big fan of asking questions. When I conduct sales training seminars, I typically give audiences 20 to 40 questions to ask their [.].

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2019

The common goal in sales is winning your prospect’s prospect. Again, this makes the people your prospect is trying to win, your responsibility as well. So while we are thinking about how we can sell our product to this prospect, they are asking about how this will help them sell to their customers. Who’s Paying For This?

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 21, 2019

We all wish every lead turned into a great prospect and in less time. Here are 10 things you need to do to prospect faster: 1. Use this list to as a guide as you prospect. Block enough time in your calendar to both lead development phase and qualify the prospect. Make your prospects earn the right to become prospects.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2019

You don’t just think about prospecting. Prospecting is something you do, and you do it daily. Watch this video : 10 Rules of Prospecting, to learn more! The number of deals you have to close directly reflects the amount of time you spend prospecting. Always have a dedicated time to prospect each day and each week.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights? What are prospecting insights? It turns out they’re pretty important.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? They are a component of campaigns where individual readers (who could be possible prospects) are sent crafted messages after they set off a configured trigger. What are the Benefits of Email Automation?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Want prospects to respond with lightning speed? The triple touch is a tactic that salespeople use to engage prospects. The ‘touches’ include contacting the prospect three different ways, each time building trust, getting on their radar, and moving them further into the sales funnel. . What is the Triple Touch in Sales?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

With calculated element placement, quality copy, and a clear action statement, here’s what to include in your landing page: Headline – This should include a concise, keyword-driven message that introduces the rest of the landing page’s benefits. And keep it interesting! A generic headline is a major lead deterrent.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your prospects sure don’t! What really counts in the real world (you know where sales are made), is the prospects’ and clients’ perception and definition of value. What really counts in the real world (you know where sales are made), is the prospects’ and clients’ perception and definition of value. By Tibor Shanto.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Face-to-face meetings offer unique benefits, such as building rapport, establishing trust, and reading the room. Sales leaders should encourage their teams to leave their comfort zones and embrace face-to-face interactions, leveraging their benefits to boost motivation.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Each of these lead capture tools offers distinct features and benefits, designed to help you capture, nurture, and convert new leads more effectively. FlashInfo’s parallel dialing feature allows for simultaneous outreach to up to 10 individual prospects, significantly boosting outbound calling efficiency.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There are two ironic byproducts of the inbound phenomenon: Account executives who benefit from the appointment setting provided by BDRs not only don't prospect; they don't know how! Most BDRs are atrocious at making outbound calls, sending emails and LinkedIn reach outs, and following up on inbound leads.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

By optimizing messaging, collateral and communication through effective sales enablement, sellers can better communicate the differentiating value of your new solution, showcase marketplace positioning and properly advise prospects. For example, a playbook could be based on industries, roles and stages of the prospect.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You had a great sales interaction: Both you and the prospect were calm and comfortable. You developed some rapport and the prospect showed some positive buying signals during the meeting. This question is simple and helps the prospect understand that what you have just proposed is, at worst, reasonable.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

He also explores the practical applications of AI in sales, including prospecting, customer retention, and pre-call planning. “AI is a featured benefit that you can interact with, and it will actually help you develop a topic and evolve.” He also emphasized the time-saving aspect of AI in prospecting.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

The problem that needs to be fixed in their inability to prospect and bring enough viable opportunities to play. Rather than focusing on adding some real prospects, they turn to urgency. They should improve prospecting, not sprint times. Based on their current plans it would take 12 months to implement and 18 months to benefit.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Research from XANT looked at the optimal “cadence” for prospecting based on the masses of data available to them through companies’ usage of their software. After 12 days XANT found that it is optimal to take a break for four to five days then start another sequence of eight attempts to reach your prospect.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

In this article, we will discuss the benefits of direct mail and show you eights ways to write a winning sales letter. Here are a few benefits of direct mail: Highly targeted : Direct mails are highly targeted messages, so you can include content that perfectly resonates with the needs of your receivers. Let’s take a look!

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 29, 2019

This gives us an opportunity to use our own and other clients’ experiences to help your current prospect. ” One way you can bring this to mutual benefit in sales is to use it to break down the communication walls that exist between buyers and sellers. Salespeople have always understood the power of “mirroring.”

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2020

With a focus on getting ahead of competitors, reps are assigned target prospects without overlapping each other. The Benefits of Sales Territory Mapping. Greater adaptability: One of the main reasons territory maps are built is to maximize company visibility to sales prospects. What is Sales Territory Mapping?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the key promises of generative AI for business is the ability to eliminate time-consuming, manual research and prospecting tasks for frontline go-to-market professionals. With the average salesperson spending just 28% of their time selling , there simply aren’t enough hours in the day, despite the benefits.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Additionally, teams that harness the buying cues benefit from more precise and efficient sales cycles.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2023

To follow up on the blog post from two weeks ago (about the one quick fix to get your VMs returned ), here is the second quick fix: Stop trying to trick your prospect! So do your prospects. Your prospects can see through you and your message will be deleted quickly. I ALWAYS delete these messages the moment I hear them.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

There are many reasons people do not like to prospect. That is the words you use with yourself before during and after you make a prospecting call. Nothing wrong with that, we have all benefited from people interrupting us and sharing insight with us. Stop talking about solutions on prospecting calls. Get In Their Head.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Managers tell reps to stress the quality, the warranty, the features and benefits, but your prospects have heard all that before, haven’t they? Often times, services and products are roughly the same, and prospects will buy from the people they like, know or trust. Want a better way? Get Access Today.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Make Sales That Benefit You and the Customer Retail and corporate sales have many similarities; they all begin with serving clientele well. The underlying goal of prospective clients is to realize the value of working with you in all respects.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

We all know the importance of listening to our prospects and clients, so why are we doing so little of it? Simple—salespeople love to pitch, to tell prospects of all the features and benefits, and to find the one selling point that might make the difference. 2) Write down key words or phrases your prospect uses.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In fact, when my team and I talk to sales teams, one of the challenges we hear most about is prospecting. Finding qualified prospects is hard enough — but your work isn’t done once you find qualified prospects who match your buyer persona. 5 Phrases Top Salespeople Say on Prospecting Calls 1. The second-level questions.

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SalesProInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Two words that no prospective client is going to say. Depersonalized” sales conversation and explanations of what you do, and how you do it, stop the prospect from connecting with you and the solution. The Benefits of Personalizing Your Language in Sales Conversations Technically the example above is not a bad statement.

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Without benefiting from it through sales. That’d be something.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

But when you get that connection right, you reap a whole lot of benefits. Sales reps spend a lot of time looking for content to share with prospects, or sorting through leads that don’t necessarily meet the mark. Sales can help marketing create content that their prospects are looking for. Increased Productivity.

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The Pipeline

MAY 14, 2019

Let’s look at prospecting. When someone has a lull in their pipeline, managers will tell them to prospect more. certainly more than repeating the “prospect more” mantra. As they get to $33,000, it reduced the number of prospects they need to get to quota. Less prospecting. What Do You Really Mean?

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

It’s not just go-to-market teams that benefit from Conversation Intelligence. Nearly every business function can benefit from the insights surfaced during front line conversations with prospects and customers. We believe it is going to be a critical solution for the sales tech stack. Opening the Doors to New Buyers.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 6, 2021

Most salespeople are way over reliant on their product while prospecting or selling, continuing to lead with and hype features/benefits. But as Mike Tyson said, the best made plans are laid out by the first punch or prospect objection. But I would argue that they were not supporting the values and goals of their prospects.

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