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That’s right – you are probably going about phone prospecting wrong, and blaming your low success on an “ancient” and “out of date” prospecting strategy of cold calling.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 29, 2021

The best cold calling strategies involve doing the work necessary to warm your cold calls up. In this blog, we discuss the top 5 cold calling sales tips that you can implement into your sales process today.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2024

Some might say cold calling is dead. I still talk to teams today, converting at a high rate by leveraging cold calling. Yet, when I work with some teams I notice that they aren't making any calls. Fear of rejection is why people believe cold calling is dead and avoid doing it. Is it completely dead?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Heres what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this quarter. In the meantime, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this quarter: Are You Tracking the Right Referral Success Metrics? Sure, revenue is our goal in sales. Her words are just as true, if not more so, today.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

I scheduled a five-minute pre-screening call with a candidate who was recommended and scored quite high on the OMG sales candidate assessment. Within the Sales Posturing Competency, he had a weakness in the attribute, Maintains Appropriate Amount of Patience. what a complete joke you are and your “Bliblical sales study?”

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now comes the hard part — the cold call. 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. And If you haven’t tried out cold calling scripts yet, now’s the time.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A few weeks back, I was delivering a Fanatical Prospecting Bootcamp to a group of sales reps - all in their twenties. The Cold Calling is Old School Distraction Like many reluctant prospectors, he wanted to engage in a distracting argument over whether or not outbound telephone prospecting (a.k.a cold calling) was old-school.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Nothing wrong with that, but it is a fact, a fact that is central to cold calling success. One key thing to focus on is the purpose of the call, why you picked up the phone to begin with. This is where many of the pundits and sales leaders mix salespeople up. So, we start by asking, what is the purpose of your cold call?

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

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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 and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The post What 5 Million Cold Calls Reveal About Selling in 2025 appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. While technology transforms how we work, human connection drives results. Organizations that build cultures around meaningful conversations supported by smart automation will thrive.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2025

I almost fell out of my chair when I heard a Sales VP say this. Trust is key in referral sales strategiesin any sales strategy, reallybut trust must be earned. Trust is key in referral sales strategiesin any sales strategy, reallybut trust must be earned. Use a trust-based sales strategy like asking for referrals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As consumer privacy regulations get tighter, sales and marketing teams will have to work together more closely to warm up cold calls and build resilient and valuable customer relationships. The post Stop Freezing Out Leads: Tips to Warm Up Your Cold Calls appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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. Hope isnt a strategy.

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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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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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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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Sales 2.0

MAY 20, 2020

If you’re a sales person, business owner, or marketer, your job is to facilitate this transmission. There’s a professor of psychology at Oxford University called Robin Dunbar and his research helped quantify just how connected we are. In this case the transmission can be done without physical contact, telephone, Zoom etc.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 16, 2024

For years, the fashion has been to declare, “Cold calling is dead!” Or any other engagement approach where “cold calling,” is the obvious foil. It seems to strengthen whatever position they want to take, and some are valid, the primary argument is to declare “Cold Calling Is Dead.”

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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. we then annoy them with a sequence of emails and finally a string of cold calls. I’m sharing my summaries here.

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Tenbound

MARCH 21, 2025

The Buckets Methodology: A Smarter Way to Generate Pipeline Through Cold Calling by Ryan Reisert. But for Ryan Reisert, cold calling isnt just aliveits thriving. Heres a breakdown of the system and how you can implement it to turbocharge your sales development efforts. – They understand your offer.

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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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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. Enterprise or high-ticket sales : 3050 calls/day is common for SDRs targeting high-value accounts. Click here.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 4, 2025

Matt from Grand Rapids says, If I dont make my cold calls, our pipeline will go dry. He is juggling everything from operations to customer service escalations, all while trying to generate fresh leads through cold calls. Now he wants to proactively call into that same niche. Sound familiar? How big are they?

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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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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. They have become better than ever at ignoring unwanted messages. Here’s the first tip.

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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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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

If you run a small company, you usually end up being one of your company’s early sales people. It’s about an alternative way to get in front of your target buyer without cold calling. It’s my belief that there are networking style ways to generate appointments that are actually more effective than cold calling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2025

Treat that appointment as you would a sales call and don’t cancel it or reschedule it. For example, keeping the math simple, if you need to close $100,000/month in new business, you have a win rate of 50%, and your average sale is $25,000, then you must close 1 sale per week.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2020

We see deals in our sales pipeline postponed or disappearing. Sales leaders: Lead generation must be your primary focus. What do businesses typically do when clients stop buying and the sales pipeline dries up? If You Freeze Up, So Does the Sales Pipeline. If You Freeze Up, So Does the Sales Pipeline.

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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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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.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. The biggest challenge for sales teams is seller access , according to Gartner’s recent report, The Chief Sales Officer’s Leadership Vision for 2021. A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker.

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