The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your prospects sure don’t! But weren’t you telling me Tuesday that they’ve never been out on a client call? What really counts in the real world (you know where sales are made), is the prospects’ and clients’ perception and definition of value. Prospecting consists of regaling anyone who’ll listen with that value prop.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Margin SME 398

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2018

This should be obvious in the way they conduct themselves, the reputation they have, their attention to detail and their willingness to go the extra distance required to improve their overall management skills. First, ask if they know what it means to be a manager. But the simple desire doesn’t mean they will make it as a manager.

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Sales Management Salary Promotion Cold Calling 192

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 8, 2021

Two weeks into the New Year, and are you already stressed about picking up the phone and making prospecting calls? I learned a secret years ago that enabled me to overcome my fear of making calls, and that allowed me to make hundreds of cold calls stress-free. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Face-to-face Cold Calling Gatekeeper Licensing 313

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

You bet, and it’s critical to increasing B2B sales effectiveness. By sharing information, ideas, solutions, and even referrals with our clients and prospects, we become trusted resources. Digital conversations often take longer and become far more complicated than a simple phone call. How to Get Prospects to Call You Back.

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Social Selling Cold Calling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 296

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

I’m a big fan boy of David Meerman Scott dating back to his (in my opinion) classic book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Now he’s got a new book focused on sales , The New Rules of Sales and Service. Some of these points may seriously imact your sales career. 1. Sales people need to make a choice.

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Lead Rank Cold Calling Lead Scoring eBook 300

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

Why would you need a script for making a cold call? Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Imagine how stressful it would be to go into each of these calls blind. What is a cold call? Consider this.

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Cold Calling Top of Funnel Inbound Call-back 111

Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite good interviewing skills, many sales managers are guilty of making the following hiring mistakes: Hiring people they like. Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Settling for mediocrity to fill the vacancy.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Some years ago, the leader of an outbound SDR team had set very aggressive call goals. I thought, “Why is this person significantly and consistently exceeding the call goals, but the results are mediocre?” ” I started listening to the calls this SDR was making. I’ll come back to it.

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Outbound Call-back Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline 120

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. I asked salespeople and sales leaders I knew if they liked to get referral introductions. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Decrease the cost of sales. Flash Sale.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inbound Webinar Metrics 385

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

We announced the acquisition of Insent last month (now called ZoomInfo Chat ). With Chorus, the entire organization can make better decisions by surfacing insights and analytics that you would only get if you sat in on every sales or customer success call. ZoomInfo); Sales Engagement Platform (e.g.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. How do I stay fired up when I prospect? I listen intently and try to figure out what makes each business model unique and each prospect like a snowflake. Get a standing desk and pound out 50 triples; call me in the morning.

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B2B Banking Conference Decision Maker 319

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

He probably just wants to win the contest at his company for bringing back the most cards. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists. He writes: A few years back I moderated a webinar for a San Francisco B2B media company called Tippit, now Ziff-Davis B2B Focus.

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Referrals Webinar Metrics Social Media Face-to-face 292

Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. Call that… “Just add AI.” I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Data Intent Signal 195

Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . However, there are two fundamental activities that successful sales organizations have been able to continue doing despite COVID. If your sales reps are resistant, then they are not coachable. . Conclusion.

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Coaching Face-to-face Selling Skills Call-back 282

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 9, 2014

They’ve been calling me en masse. I actually listened to his message because he outlined how his company and No More Cold Calling were aligned. Better yet, what if Doug actually had a conversation with all his executives, shared his call list, and discovered how the leadership team knew people on his list? All good so far.

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Cold Calling Call-back Small Business Small Business 280

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Maybe you want to be a sales manager, or if youre a manager, you want to be a director or VP of sales. You might want to go back to school for a degree or an MBA. Its unbelievably fulfilling to look back and see what you accomplishedhow far youve come over the course of a year, five years, or a decade.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Call-back Commission 98

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Before the year is over, he’s back in the field or on the street. This role confusion doesn’t stop at the manager level. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales. However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. This can have catastrophic consequences.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2025

Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. In this blog post, Ill break down what gap selling is, why its the secret sauce for successful sales, and how you can use it to connect with prospects on a deeper level. Know your prospects intrinsic motivation. Lets get into it.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Imagine having to call 50-100 people in a day. You might not think that automatic sales dialers have that much to offer you. Basically, a dialer takes the manual part out of the cold calling process. Here’s where the sales dialer comes in. Or that person you keep meaning to call back, but always forget to?

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Closing Call-back How To Outbound 264

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Winter is right around the bend, and while the colder temperatures might be a welcome change of pace for some, cold calls are still the bane of every salesperson’s existence. Referral selling is by far the most effective sales strategy out there.

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Referrals Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Networking 285

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 2, 2014

When it comes to communicating with clients and prospects—building the kind of relationships that increase sales and revenue—there’s simply no gadget, gizmo, or automated process that can replace the power of a real human connection. When it comes to communicating with clients and prospects, there’s simply no gadget, gizmo, or.

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Cold Calling Small Business Small Business Enterprise 286

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2014

Here’s why your social media strategy is falling flat—and how to bring it back to life. So when and where is the best time to make a sales pitch? Save it for when your prospects genuinely like and trust you, because strangers on social media couldn’t care less. Sales is still about people buying from people. Comment Here.

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Social Selling Social Media Webinar Metrics Media 272

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

DON’T Cold Call on Social Media. Social media is a great tool for researching prospects and Referral Sources, and for positioning yourself as a thought leader. But it is not the place for a sales pitch. But it is not the place for a sales pitch. Well, sales is not a party. Connect with No More Cold Calling.

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Cold Calling Social Media Referrals Face-to-face 281

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

The use of Zoom and other face-to-face applications to carry out sales calls instead of doing them in person is the new normal. To me, the most important role of management is to motivate and remove obstacles for their sales teams. When prospects convert, we feel motivated, and we are on a high.

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Face-to-face Hiring Lead Scoring Lead Rank 302

SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

He is clawing his way back. You will learn if you possess the relevant skills of an “A” player sales leader. Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. He did it as a District Sales Manager. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system , your sales reps will continue to struggle. It’s like back pain.

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Closing Sales Management Referrals Ideal Customer Profile 120

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

Have you ever interviewed for a job you really want, thought your interview went well, and then didn’t get called back for it? I’ve helped sales managers and business owners interview hundreds of potential sales reps over the years, and I’ve identified 3 top mistakes that virtually eliminate sales candidates on the spot!

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Hiring Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker 241

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

You spend time with one of your ‘A’ player managers and say “if only everybody executed like that?” There are a few reasons why sales teams don’t execute: No Process—If you don’t give them a process, you can expect sustained execution. No Coaching—If you don’t have sales management coaching and reinforcing the process, execution fails.

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Hiring Call-back Face-to-face Buyer 308

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 23, 2019

We all know that sales are based mostly on emotion and the decision is backed up with logic. Unique Selling Proposition – well, these are the benefits that your prospects and clients can look forward to receiving when they purchase your wares. They could be called “THE LOGICAL BENEFITS” of doing business with you.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 13, 2016

People talk about prospecting as though it is open to interpretation, it should not be. Prospecting is the act of engaging with someone with the purpose of initiating a sales cycle. There is a singular purpose to prospecting, that is to engage. The only ones who say things like that are people who do not prospect.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Lead Scoring Lead Rank 120

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017, HubSpot discovered that only 3% of consumers thought of salespeople as "trustworthy.". Luckily, some major companies, like LinkedIn, have discovered a way to improve sales relationships, customer trust, and — ultimately — sales numbers. It's called " buyer-first selling. ". Know and understand your buyer.

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Buyer LinkedIn Sales Management Sales Qualified Lead 140

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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Sales Management Hiring Buyer Persona Exercises 137

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

Conversational intelligence tools — programs that use artificial intelligence to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze hours of sales calls — are becoming a staple of a growing number of sales organizations' tech stacks. Most of these programs offer call recordings and accurate transcripts.

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Conversion Sales Management Scale Call-back 119

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Prospecting, seeking new opportunities and clients, is an integral part of sales. However, when it comes to prospecting, many salespeople experience fear. A driver of performance anxiety, it can lead to sales slumps, missed quota, and restricted pipelines. Always think of prospecting from the prospect’s point of view.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Call-back Lead Scoring 118

criteria for success

MARCH 2, 2022

There are many aspects to sales development. And all great sales managers know that when it comes to sales development, opportunities for growth are endless. When we talk to sales managers about sales development, we tend to get some similar questions: Where is the best place to start? Where to Start.

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Sales Management Insurance Insurance Policies 104

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Earlier this week, the forecast called for a big nor’easter to drop 8-13 inches of heavy, wet snow in our area. It harkened me back to the good old days before the incredible weather technology we have now. Before long, nobody will listen and worse, sales management won’t be inclined to provide feedback.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Decision Maker Call-back 211

Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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