Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2021

That’s right – you are probably going about phone prospecting wrong, and blaming your low success on an “ancient” and “out of date” prospecting strategy of cold calling.

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Cold Calling Strategy Prospecting Sales 324

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. When there aren’t many new opportunities in the pipeline, very little new business will get closed n months from now where n is the length of the sales cycle. The answer depends on a salesperson’s Sales DNA.

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Prospecting Incentives Incentive Cold Calling 173

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2025

I almost fell out of my chair when I heard a Sales VP say this. It can seem harder when we cant meet in person, but prospects dont trust you simply because you meet face-to-face, shake hands, or share a meal. Trust is key in referral sales strategiesin any sales strategy, reallybut trust must be earned.

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Referrals Face-to-face Call-back Decision Maker 318

The Pipeline

APRIL 30, 2019

The expression ‘Cold Call’ brings an immediate visceral reaction from people, when it shouldn’t. on the other hand, a cold call by another name is just direct contact. When I say cold calling, I specifically refer to calling someone when that call is not previously scheduled.

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Cold Calling Call-back Commission Networking 290

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. Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems

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Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Digital isnt a sales strategy. A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. 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.

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Referrals Face-to-face Sales Leadership Quota 310

Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2020

Sales professionals are always on the lookout for ways to step up their game. One of the best ways to improve sales numbers involves something everyone dreads — cold calling. Why do Sales Cold Calling Scripts Matter? Challenges of B2B Cold Calling. Cold calls?

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Cold Calling Data Hiring Intent Data 240

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Even the people who provide the services promising inbound leads, meetings, and sales increases are struggling to generate inbound leads! Today, there is only one effective, manageable and controllable way to quickly build a quality sales pipeline. Or, if those conditions do not apply, prospecting continues into perpetuity.

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Pipeline How To Cold Calling Inbound 188

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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Prospecting Referrals Scale Sales Qualified Lead 428

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The main reason salespeople hate telephone prospecting is rejection , anything else can immediately be drawn back to rejection. And while there is no avoiding rejection in prospecting, there are things you can do to turn things your way. Nothing wrong with that, but it is a fact, a fact that is central to cold calling success.

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Cold Calling Call-back Webinar Metrics Objections 241

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. Was B2B cold calling still legal? How GDPR Affects B2B Cold Calling With that out of the way, let’s settle the most important thing first.

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Cold Calling How To Guidelines Hubspot 80

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. Why Sales Feels Harder Than Ever Lets face it: sales is tough, and its not getting any easier.

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Cold Calling Hiring Face-to-face How To 96

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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Cold Calling Hiring Guidelines GoldMine 82

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If your focus is on winning as much business as possible before year-end, you’ll be starting 2025 in a losing position—with a lackluster pipeline and few new sales opportunities for the New Year. Referrals = New Sales Opportunities It’s tough to focus on prospecting when you’re working on a massive project or closing a big deal.

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Opportunity Referrals How To Pipeline 177

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2025

A similar scenario where salespeople spend time getting ready before conducting an act happens with prospecting for new business. While not all salespeople are required to prospect, those who do often follow the gift giving ritual where they spend quite a bit of time getting ready before making their calls.

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Quota Top of Funnel How To Cancellation 331

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2025

Im not sure theres any activity more closely associated with sales than cold calling. It can be the trial by fire that preps SDRs for a career in the field, the day-to-day responsibility that keeps reps diligent and engaged, and the basis for a ton of sales org's prospecting infrastructures.

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Cold Calling Hubspot Report Data 59

The Pipeline

AUGUST 3, 2021

Given that sales is a science executed artfully, the best approach sales in a similar way. Given that prospecting is different than sales, they also master the Yin Yang dynamics of prospecting. Successful prospecting is about truly engaging the prospect’s thinking, not their heart. White Noise.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Video Account 341

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

Cold calling. Seemed like the perfect time to share some proven cold calling tips that are working right now. Tips for sales leaders Set clear expectations. Establish minimum viable activity metrics, such as 150-200 cold calls per week, to ensure consistent engagement without overwhelming your reps.

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Cold Calling Scale Microsoft Ideal Customer Profile 72

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Even that can be open to interpretation, I know a number of B2B sellers who have success prospecting on Saturday. I understand people trying to be as efficient as possible by pinpoint the best time to make prospecting calls. Few sellers, including myself, aren’t fans of cold calling, but frankly no one really cares.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Video Exact 345

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Cold calling is nobody’s favorite part of sales. The same research indicates just 2% of cold calls result in a booked meeting, and other literature suggests that dismal figure might actually be on the optimistic side. Let’s be honest up front.

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Cold Calling Training Lead Scoring Lead Rank 59

The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2019

With regularity, most active sales trainers and I get the following question: “When is the best time to prospect?”. First, wanting to stay real and all, what they are really looking for is either a reason not to prospect or absolution from having not prospected for a while for all the wrong and usual reasons.

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Prospecting Proposal Cold Calling Quota 306

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2025

Top sales teams win with referrals. Without a referral-first mindset, pipeline uncertainty loomsleading to missed targets, longer sales cycles, missed quotas, and end-of-year panic. Without a referral-first mindset, pipeline uncertainty loomsleading to missed targets, longer sales cycles, missed quotas, and end-of-year panic.

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Referrals Pipeline Face-to-face GoldMine 177

The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2020

Anything worth doing is worth doing right, and in sales, telephone prospecting is something worth doing and doing right. And like with other hits, everyone piles on, including the pundits, all sharing how they feel about the phone and prospecting. Let’s look at telephone prospecting by the numbers. By Tibor Shanto.

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Prospecting ACT Quota Lead Rank 430

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inbound Webinar Metrics 385

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

This broken link is to blame for sales teams’ biggest closing mistakes. “My This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. It’s just a symptom.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

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. In fact, she argues that gating content is part of how “we treat prospects like dirt!” I’m sharing my summaries here.

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Intent Data Marketing Qualified Lead 195

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. The biggest challenge for sales teams is seller access , according to Gartner’s recent report, The Chief Sales Officer’s Leadership Vision for 2021.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

million per sales manager. I wrote that 15 years ago in my first book, NO MORE COLD CALLING: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust. But I don’t think any sales manager listened, because more than half of reps are still missing quota. Poor leadership will cost you $3.5 million per manager.

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Sales Management Hiring Cold Calling Quota 390

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Your potential clients are inundated by emails, unsolicited messages on social media and cold calls. Here are some recent real numbers from the front lines of selling that sales expert KD Dorsey just shared. You could do 4 x the prospecting work to stand still, or take a more intelligent approach. Here’s the first tip.

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Conference Cold Calling Referrals Social Media 195

The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2021

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. My friend Wendy Weiss, known as The Queen of Cold Calling®, is demonstrating her unique Salesology Prospecting Method.

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Meeting Prospecting Cold Calling Buyer 314

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? Of course, your sales strategy’s success, including reaching your revenue goals, depends on the sales team hitting their numbers. It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. What are prospecting insights?

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Data Prospecting Strategy Cold Calling 246

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Get the latest from No More Cold Calling. I used to think it was just sales newbies who struggled with referral reluctance. I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Then make time for practice.

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373

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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Cold Calling Intent Data Sales Qualified Lead Intent 64

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Discover how a broken approach to social selling can damage your sales reputation, costing you business referrals and lost revenue. Social sellers do their homework, using their LinkedIn networks to gain insights, build sales trust , and make connections. The second you respond, you get a generic sales pitch.

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Referrals Social Selling Networking LinkedIn 177

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. Sales strategy isn’t yours or mine. What does this mean for sales leaders? Your sales strategy is your legacy. Not much has changed over the years.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Cold Calling Customer 339

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Plus, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this summer. I’m embarrassed by the bad sales behavior that blasts us every day. Obviously, I’ve never been a fan of cold calling, but now the uninvited sales pitches are multichannel. Rude, rude, rude sales behavior. Try This. “My

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Referrals Decision Maker Cold Calling Social Media 316