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How I Learned I Was a Sales Consulting Imposter

Understanding the Sales Force

Back to Phil. I scheduled a five-minute pre-screening call with a candidate who was recommended and scored quite high on the OMG sales candidate assessment. Back to the five minute call. I ended the call after about a minute and a half because I knew he wasn’t going to advance in the sales recruiting process.

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Don’t Be Afraid to Call Back Sooner!

Mr. Inside Sales

If you want more “treats” than “tricks” when dealing with prospects, then be bold and call back sooner than you are now. I don’t know why sales reps always default to: “I’ll call you again in a month…” Or 60 days or 90 days, etc, but why would you want to miss all the sales this prospect will place in the meantime?

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Sales Reps Not Closing Sales? Try This

No More Cold Calling

It’s like back pain. You can stretch and put heat or ice on an aching back, but unless you treat the source of the pain—a pulled muscle or degenerating disc—your back will continue to hurt. The salesperson left without getting agreement on next steps or scheduling the next call. Would you buy from them? Save your money.

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5 Ways You Can Leverage Sales Leadership to Close the Sales Gap

Steven Rosen

Now that all sales calls are being done remotely, it appears that sales coaching has gone into lockdown as well. I am sure you have taken some time to train your salespeople on selling via “Zoom” and have adjusted the messaging if required. Research shows that training is 4X more effective if followed up with coaching.

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How to Transform Training with Conversation Intelligence Technology

Speaker: Jonathan Carlson, Senior Director of Marketing, Allego & Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Imagine if you could go back and review every phone or video conversation at your company: training sessions, conferences, sales calls - anything and everything - and have a teachable analysis ready almost instantly. You could identify topic trends, coachable moments, and examples of what good (or bad) looks like.

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3 Ways to Handle: “I Don’t Have Time for the Presentation”

Mr. Inside Sales

We’ve all been there – you call your prospect back at the appointed time for your presentation and they tell you any of the following: This isn’t a good time, OR. If you sent out the hottest lead ever, a “10” on a scale of 1 – 10, when you call them back, have you ever noticed that now they’re about a “7”? What to do?

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“I Need to Think About It.”

Mr. Inside Sales

Here’s one way I have successfully dealt with this and gotten the prospect to reveal what was really holding them back. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.