Sales 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s uninspiring (and ineffective) for a sales person to email or call a prospect to “just touch base”. On the other hand, I’m all for sales people staying in touch. When I was only selling and had been prospecting hard for a long time I started to feel that buyers had no problems. So what’s the solution?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. Salespeople score meetings with qualified prospects in one call. Overall, they make fewer calls, talk to the right people, ensure qualified leads, decrease time to close, and drive revenue. Featured image attribution: Julia M.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In the old days of selling, closing was about what happens at the end of a client or prospect meeting did we get them to sign something, give us the green light, or seal the deal? The activity was about applying pressure on the buyer to make a decision NOW.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 22, 2024

Want the best way to open your closing presentations? So here is how I currently start my closing calls ( yes , I’m still closing sales!): Once I get my prospect on the phone for our chosen closing time, I open with: “Before I get started, I’m sure you’ve looked over things, so, what questions do you have for me?”

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. But while prospecting part/start of the sales cycle. By Tibor Shanto.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 6, 2021

This may sound elemental, but I rarely hear sales reps use it when speaking with gatekeepers. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! The post Two Simple Words to Open More Doors—and Close More Sales appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. The first word is “please.”. Get Access Today.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 29, 2024

In case you have been vacationing in a cave, there has been a controversial trial taking place in Manhattan and earlier this week the Jury heard closing arguments. In a jury trial, closing arguments can take several hours or even days! The Closing Argument is a summary of facts supportive of whichever side the attorney represents.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Let’s break that down. Let’s break that down.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Prospecting can feel pretty similar. What is a prospecting workflow? Prospecting workflows are established so that sales reps don’t spend their whole day looking for prospects. Typical prospecting workflows involve researching and then connecting to prospects via cold calls, cold emails, and beyond.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 5, 2021

At Objective Management Group (OMG), one of the 21 Sales Core Competencies we measure and report on also tends to confuse salespeople, is the cause of frequent pushback, but has thirty-five years of cumulative science to support the finding and our conclusions. For example:

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

You might not think that automatic sales dialers have that much to offer you. What Is A Sales Dialer? A sales dialer is pretty much what it sounds like: technology that automatically dials numbers for salespeople. You’re a sales representative. Here’s where the sales dialer comes in. Streamlined Prospecting.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2022

The same can be extended to the airlines where the virus won't spread if you are unmasked with your mouth open to eat or drink, but will most certainly spread if you are sitting with your mouth closed without a mask. Have you or your salespeople ever been told by a prospect that they can't:

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Prospecting is always a core activity for successful sales professionals, but never more so than in Q4. There is not only the opportunity to close the year strong but to set yourself up for a great start to the new year. The post 5 B2B Prospecting Best Practices appeared first on TiborShanto.com. By Tibor Shanto.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2024

That exact same thing happens to salespeople on their sales calls. They’re having a great conversation, the prospect needs what you have, there is money available, you’re with the decision maker, and you start making some assumptions about how good this opportunity looks. What did you miss?

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 25, 2024

As sales manager, business line leader, or CEO, is your team finding, qualifying and closing as much business as you think they should? Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you know someone that runs a business with a sales team, or they lead the charge themselves, have them take a look at the areas below for ways they can increase their sales. Improving even one of these areas could take their sales to the next level. Sales process efficiency. Sales time sucks.

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Zoominfo

MAY 7, 2021

“The summary of it is that we prospected like heck, we did probably 50 to 100 demos, we struck out a lot, and every time we struck out we just kept going and going and going. Fast forward seven years later, and Lyon has just closed the biggest deal in ZoomInfo history: an eight figure deal. Challenges to Closing Big Business Deals.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I spent some extra time with them and realized they were both swinging with their eyes closed. If I could get them to swing with their eyes at least partly open, they might get their hands and bat close enough to the ball so that maybe the ball might hit their bats. The answer depends on a salesperson’s Sales DNA.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Imagine your sales team is extremely close to signing an important deal with a prospect. At that moment, with revenue in the balance, the team has to convince the prospect that your product is indeed the right fit and that this soon-to-be customer is a priority. It’s time to bring in your CEO to close the deal.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I heard from Bob last week and whenever I hear from him it usually means he got himself into a jam with another sales opportunity. Regular readers are familiar with Bob, one of the worst salespeople on the planet. New readers might want to catch up on the six prior articles about Bob. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 12, 2023

Isn't that a great analogy for what happens when you miss, or skip a crucial step in the sales process?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. Along with actionable intelligence, guidelines for cold calls allow both sales managers and SDRs to tailor their sales processes. Reason for Calling.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

In the sales realm I believe we may be about to see a big shift. This includes your prospects. It’s time for business owners and sales leaders to take action to make sure you can sell effectively if we enter a downtown. Do not be surprised if deals in your pipeline don’t close. Your prospecting numbers may drop too.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 12, 2022

In inside sales, too, you can become a better sales producer if you concentrate on the simple things and doing them better. I kept a notebook with all my prospects in it and every time they didn’t buy, I’d put in red ink the reason why not. 2: Ask for bigger orders on every close. But how often do you actually do it?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales people like to talk; if you don’t believe me, just listen to a recording of one of your reps (or of yourself!). And that’s because when your mouth is open, your ears are closed. Ask questions frequently of your prospect. Why do sales reps talk so much? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

In the sales domain, this big change has accelerated the trend to digital selling. As sales forces have been sent home and told their clients won’t meet them with them in-person, they have had to use new digital tools just to keep doing their job. Prospecting. Many sales people put all their eggs in one basket.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I began debunking sales articles when the first ones predicting the death of selling appeared circa 2008. Later, articles predicting the end of selling became both more prolific and more specific including the certain death of: Solution Selling Cold Calling Consultative Selling Sales Process SPIN Selling and more.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 31, 2024

He tried to close us and when we said we were traveling he said he could ship it. The ironic thing is that these salespeople, who are trained to be aggressive, are always attempting to close prospects who aren’t closable! ” If it’s must have, then close baby close.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

How important is it that you or your sales team close more business, more quickly at higher margins?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list. Wondering how to achieve this lofty goal? AI can help.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. I’m sure by now you’re thinking, but Dave, what the heck does that have to do with sales process? Similarly, many prospects are also non-believers in your product or service.

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