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Getting Salespeople to Prospect When They Aren’t Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

I devised an incentive. ” They were doing their version of the book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and were playing “Good Parents, Bad Parents.” Incentives work. When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. Jack’s eyes lit up.

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CROs: Stop Chasing Clicks—Start Building Connections

No More Cold Calling

Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. A new book comes out, an executive reads it, and suddenly, the company declares a new sales strategy based on the books groundbreaking precepts.

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New Data: The Top 5 Unacceptable Sales Performance Findings

Understanding the Sales Force

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. One interesting finding that I read was that “53% of respondents believe collaborative and team-based incentives is another trend.”

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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Sales Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

In his article he shares a systematic approach for prospecting " loosely based upon a conversation with Thomas Ray Crowel." In the fifth step of the prospecting call he says that if the prospect sounds interested you should skip the script and jump right to the close. Isn''t this a prospecting call?

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G.I. Joe and your sales incentive

Sales and Marketing Management

Simply sending an email announcement of your next incentive to make the reps aware of the program will not maximize results. Effective incentives are more than awareness. Effective incentives are more than awareness. Sales managers are wise to use incentives to improve their results. Help reps emotionally engage.?Neuroscientist

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. The trust the prospect has for the referral source is transferred to the salesperson. I always advise clients against offering incentives for referral business.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

There are probably twice as many books on the subject than just 10 years ago. They tend to pay more than smaller and larger businesses and their recruiting efforts, compensation and incentive plans are designed to attract stronger salespeople. There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined.