Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Learn the best effective phone sales techniques including successful cold calling business prospecting, outbound telemarketing, professional telephone calls process, and other opening selling skills, tools, methods, tips and ideas. In sales, I like to say: “Take what the prospect is giving you.”.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 28, 2013

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Selling Skills or Selling Process? A person with strong selling skills.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 22, 2013

Check out the below video to hear why this is vital to your sales process: Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. .

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 28, 2014

If you are defaulting to social media as your primary strategy to boost sales, then I want to challenge you! You need to use your optimal selling time to get out and sell. Sure, social media can be part of your selling strategy, […].

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 2, 2014

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 26, 2016

Sure, sales reps know they must practice new skills, practice presentations, practice writing, practice speaking—practice, practice, practice. We get paid to sell. Sales reps in the top 10 percent operate differently. Sales reps in the top 10 percent operate differently. Practice time is on our own dime.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Recently I was having a conversation with a VP of Sales and the top two salespeople for their company. The objective of the call was to discuss the attributes of what they do and how we could take those items and get the rest of the organization to implement them too. What became very […].

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 22, 2014

Blog Closing a Sale Cold-Calling pricing Professional Selling Skills Prospecting Sales Motivation profit sales motivation sales motivation video video sales' I say go get the profit now. Check out the video to see what I mean: Copyright 2014, […].

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 17, 2013

Sure, you may know quite a bit more than your customer, but if you don’t learn to pause at the right time, you may lose the sale. Just because this might be true doesn’t give the saleseperson the right to assume the sales call is their time to play “conquer the enemy.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

If you are waiting for a huge jump in your sales career, you might be waiting quite awhile. Check out this video to see what I mean: Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales […]. A better approach is little successes every day that then add up to better opportunities. Climb your way up step by step.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Every sales call you’ve made has always been perfect, so this is not for you, but I will ask you to read it anyway. I will admit I have blown more than my fair share of sales calls and I have learned a few lessons along the way. Disastrous sales calls are never as disastrous as we think.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 19, 2014

Most likely you’re writing your sales prospecting emails while working on a desktop or laptop computer and that alone is going to hurt you. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 30, 2013

You can secure repeat sales from existing customers if you follow the 2/2/2 rule. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Two, it relies on the telephone.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 18, 2013

Failing to ask for the sale. We in sales are a finicky group. We need to be continually assessing our sales process and challenging ourselves on these six items and ask ourselves how close we are coming to doing them. ” Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 27, 2013

Problem is that questions of that type do little to help the sales process. In fact, I’ll contend many times that they wind up harming the sales process. As I have the opportunity to work with salespeople on sales calls across a wide number of industries, I see this happening time and time again.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. 7 Sales Prospecting Ideas That Work. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2018

Even for experienced salespeople and sales leaders, it is not unusual to occasionally hit a wall — even fear — when it comes to making cold calls. Here are a few tips to put you at ease: Today will soon be done. Essentially, my encouragement to you is to stay positive and remember that one […].

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Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2022

COLD CALLING. . Cold calling never works. That’s a true statement IF you don’t listen to what the data tells you about cold calling. The goal: Moving a deal through the sales funnel — cold call to booked meeting and meeting to negotiation and proposal & pricing conversation to a new logo.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sales ops executives are charged with improving sales effectiveness and efficiency. Your goal is to best enable sales. Look across the spectrum of Sales Operations. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Review your Sales Process.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The 5 type of “customer personalities” you may face on your next sales call: 1. Many people will call themselves the decision maker, but ultimately they really submit to someone else. Decision Maker The decision maker (DM) is the person who must sign off for the deal to go through. Be careful. Influencer […].

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2013

Here are a four ways to prevent sales call cancellations in the summer: 1. Always have a back-up plan for Friday sales calls. Instead, be proactive in using the above tips to make sure you meet or exceed your summer sales numbers. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 23, 2014

This time it’s about how we can screw up a sales call by talking about too many things at one time. Not only do we wind up confusing the customer, but many times we also wind up confusing ourselves. Salespeople are quick to blame the customer as being […].

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2013

Sure, we’ll be able to remember the big stuff, but many times the ability to close a sale rests on our ability to take a small key piece of information and leverage it. This means either at the end of each sales call or at the end of each day. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Percentage of sales success. Tweet Share Jeffrey, I have to make 50 cold calls a week.” ” “Because we’re trying to make new contacts and more new sales.” ” “Is there a better way to do that than cold calls? .” Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 22, 2018

Check out my NEW online sales training course on LinkedIn Learning. Time to make my introductory referral program accessible to as many sales organizations as possible. Then a colleague suggested LinkedIn Learning, a new platform for online sales training. My outreach would have been just like cold calling.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ensure your sales team makes time to practice these critical prospecting strategies. Building professional skills takes practice— deliberate practice. B2B sales reps don’t get good overnight either. Want your sales team to build permanent, repeatable, effective referral selling skills?

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

SPS — Sales Prevention Syndrome — is the great killer of salespeople. Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. .” ” A desire to spend too much time preparing to make sales calls as an excuse to not actually have to call.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cold call objections are par for the course for outbound sales reps. But what separates the top salespeople from the average ones is how these cold call objections are handled, deflected, and turned into something that keeps the buyer on the phone and, ideally, helps book that first meeting. Objections. Objections.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

One of the easiest things sales managers and senior management can do is to call every person they know at a client company. Sooner you make the calls, the better. Objective of the calls is three-fold. Start making calls this week! Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Blog Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Networking Phone Sales Tips Professional Selling Skills phone sales tips voicemail'

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It remains an enigma to me that more salespeople don’t use it to replace the cold call (which ain’t no fun). If you network smart, it’s the easiest way to make sales contacts. Hot sales contacts. Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management. Sales Videos. The Little Red Book of Selling.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 17, 2013

When asked this question, most salespeople respond by saying they use a “push” sales strategy. They say this based on how they view a typical sales call being one where the salesperson is convincing or showing the customer all of the features and benefits of what they offer. Take a look at your sales process.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 16, 2021

Our data team analyzed thousands of cold calls to get these cold call stats. Stat #1: Successful cold calls last 2x longer. The data proves that successful cold calls are nearly twice as long as unsuccessful cold calls: Some ways to earn that 5 min, 50-sec call?

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 25, 2013

A stupid salesperson working for a stupid sales manager. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Blog Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills customer service questioning skills sales presentation selling skills'

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today we have another rare opportunity to compare a personality assessment masquerading as a sales assessment to OMG's sales specific assessment. In general terms, SalesAP, like all personality assessments, makes assumptions about its sales findings. Sales specific.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 12, 2013

If you are a CEO or senior manager and you are planning to go on a sales call with someone on your sales staff, here are 9 things you must know: 1. The salesperson is going to be nervous having you along on the call. It’s not every day a salesperson has the CEO in their car and on a sales call with them.

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