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

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. Rejection in prospecting is a result of two factors.

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Objections Prospecting Cold Calling Account Based Marketing 296

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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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

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

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2022

No Cold Calls , by Latané Conant. In fact, she argues that gating content is part of how “we treat prospects like dirt!” we then annoy them with a sequence of emails and finally a string of cold calls. Often this lack of targeting is because we don’t understand the prospect and their situation well enough.

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Intent Data Marketing Qualified Lead 195

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? How did you find those prospects?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. All of us perform our best when we are held accountable and have the tools to succeed. The job of a sales manager is to provide reps with the tools to succeed. million per sales manager.

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Sales Management Hiring Quota Cold Calling 390

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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Get the latest from No More Cold Calling. Research shows cold calling scripts and tricks don’t work, but referrals do. In fact, new research from the Sandler Center shows that while most companies still focus on cold calling and emailing, referrals are far more effective at generating qualified leads.

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373

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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Prospecting Cold Calling Lead Gen Inbound 262

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. There is no mistaking a rejection on the phone, but with those other softer tools, you can tell yourself they’re just ignoring you, maybe next time. By Tibor Shanto. Best Defence Is a Good Offence.

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Objections Prospecting SME Cold Calling 267

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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B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Prospecting 212

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy 208

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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Referrals Decision Maker Cold Calling Social Media 316

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. Some Lead Generation Tools Never Change. Nothing else really matters.

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Account Referrals Lead Generation Cold Calling 285

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. Your conversation shifts.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company.

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Marc Wayshak

MARCH 27, 2024

In the world of outreach, there’s a prevailing notion that cold calling is obsolete. Cold calling remains a powerful tool for securing high-quality appointments. While prospects are inundated with emails, LinkedIn messages, and social media outreach, their phones often remain relatively quiet.

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Cold Calling Demographics Social Media eBook 116

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. The Evolution of Cold Calling. That’s still true, but cold calling has evolved as sales channels have evolved. Don’t believe me?

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 269

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. These are useful tools, but we’re long past the era where companies can rely solely on them to drive business.

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Quota Channels Decision Maker Cold Calling 296

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2020

This was not a cold call. Read more about the importance of following up (and other important referral sales topics) in this month’s No More Cold Calling blog posts: The Sales Fortune Is in the Follow-Up. What’s the most powerful sales tool at your disposal? No response. This was someone I knew! Think again.

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Follow-up Referrals Up-Sell Cold Calling 344

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. The Hidden Costs of Efficiency: How to Counteract AI’s Impact on Sales Skills AI and automation tools promise efficiency, but they also come with unintended consequences. Examples of skill byproducts: Cold calling: Builds grit, resilience, and quick thinking under pressure.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Cold Calling Hiring 112

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2020

So, pick up the damn phone and have conversations with your clients and prospects—not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. In fact, they didn’t even need to talk to prospects, because they had great tech tools. But the most powerful tool in your sales toolbox is still you!

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Conversion Face-to-face Social Media Referrals 305

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2018

We used to hire account based sales reps, indoctrinate them with product knowledge and a smattering of business culture, and give them a few lead generation tools. They ended up cold calling. So, the default communication for account based sales reps is either social media or cold emails.

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Account Hiring Lead Generation Face-to-face 272

The Pipeline

JUNE 23, 2020

Want to split a room of salespeople, just bring up cold calling. Which immediately tells you who doesn’t cold call routinely. I understand why people do not like cold calling, I don’t like it either, I just make the connection between my next call and my next beach holiday. Right Calling.

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Cold Calling Call-back Face-to-face Top of Funnel 250

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2025

These pain points hurt team morale and your bottom line: Pain Point #1: Your team struggles to get meetings with prime prospects. Cold outreach is a slog. Prospects dont know you, dont trust you, and dont want to take your call. Heres Why You Might Be Wrong appeared first on No More Cold Calling.

Referrals 156

Referrals Scale GoldMine Pipeline 156

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

People are quick to point out the number of new sales tools created by advances in technology; however, all of this is just noise. This is where prospecting has to come in. I want you to be successful, so my last 10 truths are to help you have success in your prospecting. Truths 11-20: Your Prospecting Plan.

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Prospecting Social Media Call-back Media 236

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process. Have you checked out the prospect’s LinkedIn profile? What are your other connections to this prospect?

Account 287

Account Referrals Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile 287

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 8, 2021

Two weeks into the New Year, and are you already stressed about picking up the phone and making prospecting calls? I learned a secret years ago that enabled me to overcome my fear of making calls, and that allowed me to make hundreds of cold calls stress-free. The post Overcome Call Reluctance Today!

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Face-to-face Cold Calling Gatekeeper Decision Maker 313

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

How to Build a Lead List My Tips for Building a Sales Lead List A prospect may have shown interest in a product or service by responding to an online offer, visiting your company’s booth at a conference, or engaging with social media posts. I generated many of my own sales leads through cold-calling and networking.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 118

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? Who do you think knows when your prospect is going to buy? The answer, of course, is your prospect! The problem for many sales reps, is that they prefer to pitch and talk at prospects more than they actually ask questions and listen. Or who they like to buy from?

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Prospecting Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker 212

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In a perfect world, sales professionals would spend most of their time talking with eager prospects who’ve done the homework, seen the marketing campaign, and asked for a meeting. In the real world, cold outreach is still a necessity — even the strongest business relationships have to start somewhere. Let’s see how. Is that fair?

Cold Calling 130

Cold Calling Scale Lead Scoring Lead Rank 130

The Pipeline

APRIL 3, 2018

This makes for a unique challenge: each call is different because any combination of the elements above, will steer each prospect in a different direction, throwing the message off-centre because dynamics is what we face and deal with first, if we don’t get past that, good night. In The Beginning.

Objections 259

Objections Cold Calling Face-to-face Call-back 259

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Let’s set the record straight: Most everyone on your sales team has call reluctance , whether they’re cold calling or asking for referrals. Many account based sales reps find it harder to ask their referral networks for introductions than to cold call strangers. Ironic, yet it makes complete sense.

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Referrals Account Cold Calling Social Media 265

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2017

But, when you can put those moments aside, there are things you can do to help both the prospect and you succeed. A simple example is one used by many in prospecting into companies they have not dealt with before, ya, cold calling. Prospect: yes, Seller: I am hoping you can help me. Hope that helped!

Cold Calling 275

Cold Calling Call-back Guarantee Prospecting 275

The Pipeline

MAY 8, 2018

I do a lot of work with organizations trying to improve their prospecting, and the piece they look to from me is the telephone component of a robust prospecting routine. Most people hate voice-mail, due to a deadly combination: 80% or more calls made will go to voice-mail. A Tool and His Fool. By Tibor Shanto.

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Inbound Call-back Cold Calling Objections 268