No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marketing isnt a strategy. Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Systematize Your Referral Process: Make referral selling a core part of your sales prospecting strategy, not just something that happens occasionally.

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 10, 2024

GDPR compliance is a messy process to begin with, but trying to stay ahead of the regulation while B2B cold calling presents a whole other set of problems. But one area that escaped me was how businesses marketing by phone could continue to do so. Was B2B cold calling still legal?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2017

Here’s how to cure your prospecting problem. Let’s set the record straight: Most everyone on your sales team has call reluctance—whether they’re cold calling or asking for referrals. What’s to fear about prospecting? That may seem absurd today, but it was a creative prospecting strategy in 1995. Surprised?

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ron wants to know how to get CEOs to actually answer his cold calls (or at least respond). He runs a recruiting firm and finds that his cold calls to top executives often go unanswered, and its driving him nuts. We call this phenomenon the great ignore. Keep It Short: No more than 30 seconds.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

I don’t understand why it is acceptable for a process like cold calling (now often started via email) to work one in a hundred times–or in email efforts one in a thousand times. This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Do you know how you help?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In the past I, have highlighted how many sellers are limiting if not sabotaging their opportunities while telephone prospecting. This would work great if a large segment of the market had needs they were willing to act on, but the reality is that most potential prospects do not. So now we are down to message.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. The question is, how soon can they start generating leads and setting up sales conversations?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMfund hosted an inaugural event called The GTM Workshop x Founders this week (some photos here ). One theme was clear: AI is touching every part of go-to-market. Cold calling. Tips for sales reps 1.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. No Cold Calls , by Latané Conant. Latané’s book covers an area of marketing that I have long wondered about: Should you “gate” or should you not “gate” your content?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. Five, that’s all, how hard can that be ? Changing Focus. Sell Different !

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2021

In an effort to simplify things, sellers and marketers want to put people in neat categories and boxes. They understand that they need to meet your prospects on the right plane, theirs. Successful sellers understand that to sell in today’s economy, we need to function and meet your prospects on the right plane, theirs.

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Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Your potential clients are inundated by emails, unsolicited messages on social media and cold calls. These metrics show how cold approaches have become less effective even over the last four years (and this decline has been going on for a couple of decades.) They have become better than ever at ignoring unwanted messages.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They rely on what they’ve done before, which is cold calling and sending cold emails, and decision makers don’t want either. Some salespeople fool themselves into believing what I call the “warm call fantasy.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2019

Author: Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ I was recently working with a new client. He told me that he was reaching and having brief conversations with some prospects but those conversations went nowhere. He said he was trying to be consultative, to elicit details and to drill down on prospect objections.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2025

You know that high-performing sales teams dont rely on chance; they build referral-driven pipelines that produce prospect introductions, shorten sales cycles, and eliminate the noise of traditional prospecting. Marketing isnt a strategy. Its a proven, measurable system that transforms trust into your most powerful sales engine.

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Tenbound

JANUARY 22, 2025

The ideal number of cold calls an SDR (Sales Development Representative) should make daily depends on various factors, such as industry, target market, tools, and the expected quality of engagement. SDRs may spend less time researching prospects, focusing on volume over personalization. Click here.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The challenge with prospecting is that it takes place between two human beings, and as with anything human, subjectivity instantly and permanently plagues it. I recently read a piece presenting the case as to why prospecting should be automated. The author gave some valid arguments as to why elements of prospecting should be automated.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. None of us stands out during prospecting. That’s a fact.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. Look at it as an opportunity to educate the prospect or correct a misunderstanding they have, or highlight a blind spot they hadn’t considered. By Tibor Shanto. Best Defence Is a Good Offence.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? I bet they are, and in doing so, they’re clogging up your pipeline with cold leads and ignoring your best source of new business—current customers. They’ll drive new revenue the fastest.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 16, 2020

At least, that’s what many prospects have come to believe. How Your Prospects Choose Whom to Trust. Whatever I have to say about Coronavirus, the plunging stock market or the long-term economic implications is just that, my opinion. And just as importantly, who do your clients and prospects trust?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights? What are prospecting insights? It turns out they’re pretty important.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What I will offer up here, and in a webinar, this afternoon, are specific steps you can choose to implement and see an immediate difference in your prospecting calls. The number one barrier to prospecting success is our willingness to put a well-thought-out plan into practice or action. Real World Cold Calling Success.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting? Let’s start at the beginning.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Put people before technology in your prospecting. Digital isn’t a sales strategy, hope is not a strategy, referrals are not a strategy, marketing is not a strategy. And for a contrarian point of view about cold calling, register for my FREE 28-minute webinar: Score Meetings with Prospects in One Call.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Plus, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this summer. Obviously, I’ve never been a fan of cold calling, but now the uninvited sales pitches are multichannel. On that note, take a look at what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling about relationship building and referral selling ….

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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. Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Not a cold calling stranger or someone pitching them on LinkedIn. Unless … Breaking News. There is an answer to seller access.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Shawn Finder Ask sales and marketing leaders what digital channels they leverage to generate leads and help their teams hit quota and you’ll likely get the same answer over and over: cold calls and emails. Prospective customers want answers to their product-related questions instantly. Conversational Bots: ?Prospective

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2022

Even in today’s data-driven sales landscape, cold calling remains a fact of life for many sales professionals. But cold calling isn’t just a major investment of time and energy, it’s precious time that could be better spent connecting with warm leads — prospects who want to hear from you and are ready to spend.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 27, 2020

What do the following have in common: Referrals, Meetings, Minimal Marketing, and Maximum Impact? You’ve heard me say that many times, but it’s now come to life—with a provocative addition from my colleague Sonia Dumas, who says “ Marketing is Minimal, Impact is Maximum.” They’re based on trust, not cold calling.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 16, 2022

These cold call script templates will help you craft an outbound sales conversation that feels natural, engages prospects, and wins more sales. The post Cold Calling Scripts to Maximize B2B Sales appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 17, 2019

Asking for referrals feels riskier than cold calling. In fact, 83 percent of satisfied customers are willing to refer products and services, according to a marketing survey conducted by Texas Tech. Referred prospects trust salespeople, because they trust the referrer, and that trust gets transferred. I wasn’t surprised.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 2, 2020

The big difference between a cold call and a referral call is social capital. If you’ve been in sales doing it the old school cold calling way long enough you may start to believe social capital does not mean anything. Perception in our prospect’s mind is what sales and marketing is all about.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. They believe the fastest ways into the C-suite are digital: targeted emails, cold calls , social media outreach, and inbound marketing automation. Prospects expect to hear from your team when they’re referred.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. The Evolution of Cold Calling.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 30, 2018

There’s no such thing as a warm anything in sales—an email, phone call, social media outreach, or even a knock on the door. Unless your prospect knows who you are and expects to hear from you, you might as well step into a freezer. Your outreach is cold as ice. Reps say they’re challenged finding the right prospects.

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