No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Considering half of the deals that are forecasted to close don’t, and customer retention has decreased as seller attrition increases, sales teams are facing yet another frustrating year if something doesn’t change. That’s a fact. Have We Met?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Small Businesses Face the Biggest Challenges. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face. Assertive businesses have taken the lead and have handled the crisis with resilience. million to 5.1

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2023

Sales teams continue to face more and more pressure to ramp up. Your most neglected sales channel is your existing client base. Isn’t it time you considered a prospecting approach that delivers double-digit results and eliminates your competition? It’s been 27 years since I founded No More Cold Calling. Is it working?

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Referrals Channels Cold Calling Scale 177

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Author: Warren Fowler Sales teams and marketers focus on digital communication so much that they seem to forget the power of offline promotion channels. But what is it that makes this marketing channel so great? For instance, reports reveal that up to 90 percent of direct mails get opened, while emails average 25 percent at best.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2021

They recognized that asking clients for referrals was the way to gain access to prime prospects. Or are you taking a new, fresh, and measurable approach to prospecting? The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. During a pandemic, it basically amounted to “busy work.”.

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Referrals Cold Calling Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 371

Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

CRM systems wear many hats, including channel management, customer insights, communications, engagement, and more. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems function as the heart of customer engagement. And if CRMs aren’t already a core part of the customer lifecycle, now is the time to switch. Future Trends in CRM.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. Are your buyers clamoring to talk to you? My phone rang off the hook the last half of 2020. Why the sudden interest in referral sales? A sudden decline in seller access. Layer the pandemic over that economic downturn—well, it gets worse.

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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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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re asking strangers on social media for referrals, you’re like the guy at a networking event who shoves his card in people’s face and asks for theirs in return. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 20, 2020

An executive team sits in front of their computers watching the concerned and, in some cases, confused faces of one another. They have completed the gut-wrenching discussion about who stays and who goes, either permanently or temporarily, to provide some.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. It is a marketing channel that enables two-way communication between buyers and sellers to provide critical buying information that accelerates their path to purchase. What is conversational marketing?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

During this first meeting is generally when the salesperson and the prospect discover common interests and determine if the business can be moved forward. High-performing salespeople understand the prospect’s business challenges and can articulate a solution. In these three channels is where sales performance can be enhanced.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 20, 2018

If only you’d had that conversation face-to-face! Anyone with face-to-face pitching experience knows it’s true that body language and tone shifts are much easier to lose over the phone or internet. Your questions should be challenging for your prospect — smugness is a selfish setting. Avoiding Engagement Missteps.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Face-to-face Lead Gen 192

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 1, 2023

What Happens When We Take Connections Off-Line In a Hybrid World I walked past her, having dodged the yellow and green tee shirts, the Akubra hats and the boomerang tattoo-ed faces of the kids. ’ The look on her face told the story! A new prospect? Then again, I may be wrong – some may be just plain lazy!

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For ZoomInfo, one of the biggest challenges we are facing at EOY is how to keep motivation high and celebrations on par with the big achievements our sales teams are hitting day in and day out. Not just with prospects, but with management. Not just with prospects, but with management. Covid has changed everything.

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Energy Channels Motivation Face-to-face 246

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

You might start creating ABM campaigns with simple personalization, such as using the contact’s first name across channels or sending new content that specifically speaks to a challenge they’re facing. Here are the key strategic goals to focus on at every step of the process.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

Remember, prospecting is all about people. And technology will eliminate the time-consuming, face-to-face aspect of communication. You’ve heard it: Television will kill radio. Video killed the radio star. Not in your personal life, and certainly not in your lead generation system. B2B selling is all about relationships.

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Lead Generation System Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 243

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation. With so much money – and excitement – on the line, how do you connect with new prospects? Track referrals.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. Actually, it’s more like Talk Radio, but on video.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s the only way to learn about the challenges your customers face, and find out what kind of features they need from you. Meeting people face-to-face was a valuable experience. It just makes prospecting so much easier in every respect,” Castro says. ZoomInfo saves me so much time,” Castro says.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. The goal is to target the right prospects, as well as bring them along the buyer’s journey. What is Demand Generation? Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Sellers need to gather in-depth information about prospects and customers. Hit up social channels, read their 10-Ks, and keep up with industry press to know what’s going on right now: What are prospects’ recent struggles? Author: Barbara Adey It’s not enough to prepare for a sales call with general industry knowledge.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

We’ve all made this prospecting mistake: The customer told us her challenges. We jumped ahead to the easy part of prospecting—offering solutions—and didn’t take time to demonstrate the impact our solutions could make on the client’s business. The Problem with Your Prospecting. How does that affect your distribution channel?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2019

These antiquated marketing tactics had one thing in common: They put the product front and center, with clever presentations intended to entice prospects to become paying customers. But, the Internet led to a drastic shift in B2B marketing. Today, we offer you several tips to humanize your marketing efforts in the digital era.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Popular to contrary belief, sales teams can not only survive in the age of buyer empowerment, but use buying behavior to their advantage — so long as processes and prospecting tools that help engage the right buyer, at the right time, with the right message. And do so at the expense of the competition. Today, we review.

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Bernadette McClelland

MARCH 11, 2018

(Punch it, Hurb Yo, I don’t think we should talk about this. Come on, why not? People might misunderstand what we’re tryin’ to say, you know? No, but that’s a part of life). So ,just like the lyrics from hip-hop group Salt-n-Pepa, what are people misunderstanding? What are we talking about here? and CEX are EGs of acronyms!

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Doesn’t matter how great your product is, how much s**t your manager fills your head with, if this is not the rock-solid foundation of your prospecting reality, you’re beat before you “get in the car.”. Yes, it is all uphill, I am no fool, but I cannot go any lower with this prospect, and let’s assume that they are the one, the DM.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 17, 2018

Online sales can face all sorts of problems, with duplicates being one of its worst enemies. This way, you just got yourself three different leads (Jane 1, Jane 2, Jane 3) for one prospect only. As a company, you are facing the issue of inaccurate new names reporting. However, this process is everything but easy.

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CRM Face-to-face Marketing Webinar Metrics 180

Zoominfo

MAY 2, 2018

It’s not enough to generate an interest in your company, lead generation hinges on getting prospects to take action and indicate their interest. Think of it this way, if you can’t reach your prospects how can you convert them into leads? Think of it this way, if you can’t reach your prospects how can you convert them into leads?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 203

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

An ideal client profile should inform teams about potential clients that would make good prospects, as well as which ones aren’t. grouped them into categories based on similar traits), you can develop different, and more personalized, campaigns across channels. It all comes down to building out client profiles.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 11, 2024

And for sales professionals, a new, robust communication channel has been launched. And for sales professionals, a new, robust communication channel has been launched. More Channels Provide More Personalized Choices for Sales Closing Finding a comfortable way to communicate with key clients is essential.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 29, 2022

I was a little offended by this, but I took his advice and channeled my energy into my next pitch, and guess what? Nothing breeds success like success, and prospects and clients can feel when you’re successful. Nothing breeds success like success, and prospects and clients can feel when you’re successful.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

Cold calling doesn’t address the top two challenges that sales teams face. My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. There are many different estimates about the number of touches that it takes to reach a cold prospect, and none of them are promising.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2018

Today’s customers are faced with hundreds of different buying options. Consider these statistics ( source ): In a study of 650 multi-channel marketing campaigns, personalized campaigns consistently and overwhelmingly beat out static campaigns in generating a high response rate from recipients. Don’t believe us?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 7, 2022

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