Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Using email to book new meetings sounds awesome. Why would anyone, in any role, at any company, choose to waste the time, money, resources and effort to send out prospecting emails when in the worst of circumstances, they could make cold calls and one in fifteen calls will be answered? Using email to book new meetings sounds awesome.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

I want to share with you one of my all-time favorite books on how to develop the right mindset for overcoming and achieving just about anything. This is a book I picked up years ago, and I continue to read it at the end of every year as I set my new goals. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Get Access Today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

As some of you know, today, September 5 th , my new book, The Owner’s Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More has been released! In this book, I’ve collected 100 of my favorite quotes and I write a brief, two-page essay on how to get the most from the wisdom the quotes contain. You can order your copy here.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2019

So order the margarita, stroll down to the beach, and grab a book for a little beach reading. We assume you have an old copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People in your bookcase, and certainly Dale Carnegie’s book is a must-read for anyone in customer-facing roles. What will it be? it’s not beach reading, and b.)

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Do you need customized keynotes or breakout sessions on subjects like: Prospecting – Both B2B & B2C Dealing with gatekeepers Overcoming objections and Stalls Virtual Presentation Skills Setting follow-up appointments Motivation and Attitude Adjustment And much more! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Get Access Today.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 8, 2020

A great and cost-effective way to keep your sales team learning is to have them read the latest sales books. But, which books should they read? F inding great sales books can be overwhelming. When you type “sales books” into Amazon, there are over 100,000 results. . I’m here to help. Empathy first. Advice Second.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

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. I considered writing a book, but every author I knew said it was a grueling experience.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By booking Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales, you will ensure that your inside sales team returns to their offices not only pumped up, but also equipped with proven sales skills they can use to instantly perform better! Mike is also available for: Onsite, customized training for your team. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

me) to actually absorb your outstanding training materials, then put them into action to achieve the desired results? . You share these your people and train them in the implementation of these strats and tacs. I also spent the last 40 years training and developing thousands of salespeople and managers. Charbonneau.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 30, 2021

Wouldn’t it be convenient to have a list of 5 questions you could use to get your prospect talking, to get them to open up about how they’re feeling and what you might need to concentrate on? You could do two: one for prospecting and one for the close. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Ever feel stalled during a close?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

My wife thought I would enjoy a book she found at the airport bookstore and I agreed that it looked compelling. Cold-Case Christianity is a book by J. Similarly, many prospects are also non-believers in your product or service. This begins with training and coaching Sales Leadership to support such an organization.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 28, 2019

Quit blaming salespeople for bad prospecting habits when you as the sales manager are the one with the bad prospecting habits! If you want your team to focus on prospecting, you must make it a priority. Your role as a sales manager/leader is not to be the best prospecting person. Culture starts at the top.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Tony Morris is an International sales speaker, best-selling author of 5 books, and MD of an International sales training company. Tony shares a range of things, including his sales superpower is he conducts LIVE sales calls on stage to his audiences’ dream prospects and most importantly, he gets results.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If virtual sales training was ever needed, this was the time. Without it, your prospects figure you’re not interested, and they tune out. It’s also my only way to make eye contact with many clients and prospects, so I’ve learned to live with it. And her book brilliantly translates that expertise for salespeople.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Be certain about this, however: you can’t solve an ability problem with a motivation solution, and you cannot solve a motivation problem with a training solution. . Here is the test: has there been sufficient training and testing in the past? If you want to assess the can’t-vs-won’t question, begin with training and testing.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I invested in Stan’s training materials, and I committed to learning, practicing, and doing what he suggested. I have to go with the flow because each prospect is different,” he persisted. Over 20 years had passed between that Stan Billue talk, and I realized, Stan’s training was the moment I made the decision to change my life.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 13, 2021

But when you’ve done a presentation and then don’t hear back from a prospect, it can often mean the kiss of death. While it seems counter intuitive, I’d rather know up front if I’m wasting my time or if this is a real prospect. Speaking about prospects hiding behind emails, etc., ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We cannot forget that not all prospects are created equal. Some prospects are actually not prospects at all, they’re just suspects in disguise. Everybody in sales cannot find enough time to prospect. This allows you to keep a cleaner pipeline, so you’ll have more time to spend on your best prospects.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

What’s the number one blow off prospects use these days? Not only is it hard to get prospects back on the phone, when you do, you usually lead off with the ineffective opening line of: “Did you have a chance to review that email I sent you?” And then when a prospect blows you off with, “Can you email that to me?”

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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Since then I’ve sold millions of dollars of technology and services, run my own sales outsourcing and training company, grown a digital agency and pioneered a new approach to selling now known as “social selling”. Getting in-the-door with a cold calling.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. And you will align all systems in your organization—recruiting, training, and compensation—to support the referral selling process.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 30, 2024

Here is a proven resource—both hardcover book or audible recording—of over 500 proven and effective scripts to help you improve and make more money: Power Phone Scripts! I sincerely hope you respect yourself, your career, and your future as much as other top producers who rely on this book—and others!—to So invest in yourself now!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 6, 2020

What’s the biggest mistake sales reps make with prospecting or cold calling? Your prospecting will go a lot better if you do! Cold calling mistake #2: Don’t pitch your prospect—yet. and allow your prospect to engage with you. Or, you can get 500 word-for-word scripts in my latest book, Power Phone Scripts.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. Or possibly our problems are that too many sales people just don’t want to prospect?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 26, 2014

How would you like to be able to easily (almost effortlessly) track your ten hottest prospect and keep them moving toward a sale? In my world it is simply the ten hottest prospects you are currently working, ranked in order of their ability to be closed. How do you get the prospect in position 4 into position 3?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 31, 2020

As I mentioned yesterday, I am going to point you to two great books coming just at a crucial time. Companies spend billions of dollars each year on sales training and technology, yet sales effectiveness keeps declining. By Tibor Shanto. Today, it’s by George Brontén , CEO of Membrain, and a long time sales friend. The Question.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 1, 2019

So, you think you have a great prospect; however, why do you think they’re even interested in you or what you sell? A key way to measure how the prospect feels about you and your potential to help them is by how much information they’re willing to share with you. First, it indicates that the prospect trusts in you.

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Allego

JANUARY 4, 2022

But there’s another avenue for professional development you can put to use without having to schedule another meeting on your calendar—books! I’ve rounded up eight sales books from experts and influencers in the space that I believe carry key insights instrumental to our growth as sales professionals in the year ahead.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 12, 2024

This is particularly true in prospecting, where prospects offer all types of resistance. However, this resistance typically doesn’t indicate that the prospect is interested in your solution. With these six effective sales prospecting tactics, you can manage common forms of prospecting resistance and book more appointments.

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Smooth Sale

MAY 25, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Improving Your Business Prospects One Step At A Time. Our collaborative blog provides insights for ‘Improving your business’ prospects one step at a time.’. Specifically, looking at how you can hope plus take action for improving your business’ prospects one step at a time. _.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Invest in books/audios/YouTube videos that teach you The Law of Attraction, and begin changing your consciousness. 3) Invest in, study, and use the scripts in this book. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Begin visualizing how earning all that additional income will impact your—and your family’s—lives.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And if you need a deeper dive, try this: The number one best selling book of current and effective phone scripts: Click here. The best (and most affordable) on-demand inside sales training program? Here’s an e-book for you: Click here. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Click here. Want instant access to scripts?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

With ZoomInfo, your go-to-market team can easily identify website visitors , engage prospects with website chat , and optimize web forms to transform anonymous visitors into actionable prospects. The key is to find a solution that aligns with your specific business goals and sales processes.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In my book, Power Phone Scripts , I talk about the secret of sales. And then hit your mute button and let your prospect tell you how to sell them. If you’d like over 500 more word-for-word scripts, then invest a few bucks in yourself and get a copy of my book: Power Phone Scripts. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

Prospects trust us. Soon, people began asking if I had a book. I knew too many people who’d written books and told me it was a horrendous experience. I was introduced to a publishing expert, who could help with my book as well as find an agent. The book was published in 2006, and it’s selling even better today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Before you get on your high horse and tell me you wouldn’t be caught dead using a script, consider: If I were to record your prospecting and demo calls for a week, and then transcribe what you say, what would I get? Your prospects will trust you more, and you’ll appear more professional. And prospects like that! #2: Your script.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

I think it was in Skip Miller’s book that I read that a manager should know how his year will end by the Q1. Debating the whys and how we should respond can be the subject of a few posts (book, movie), so for the moment, let’s focus on how this impacts your plan and execution. By Tibor Shanto.

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