The Sales Hunter

MAY 21, 2019

We all wish every lead turned into a great prospect and in less time. Here are 10 things you need to do to prospect faster: 1. Use this list to as a guide as you prospect. Block enough time in your calendar to both lead development phase and qualify the prospect. Make your prospects earn the right to become prospects.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2019

You don’t just think about prospecting. Prospecting is something you do, and you do it daily. Watch this video : 10 Rules of Prospecting, to learn more! The number of deals you have to close directly reflects the amount of time you spend prospecting. Always have a dedicated time to prospect each day and each week.

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SalesProInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Two words that no prospective client is going to say. But “personal” — or a lack of it — is what I see as a barrier to higher conversions for advisors who provide a very personal service. The Dangers of Depersonalization in Sales Conversations What do I mean? “Let’s get personal.” To be more connected to the information.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 23, 2019

To be great at prospecting, you don’t have to be born with the “sales gene.” Commit to prospecting, regardless of what else needs to be done. Use multiple processes that fit each segment they prospect. Work consistently to improve their process and more quickly engaging the prospect. Use the telephone heavily.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In this article, we cover the impact and importance of speaking your prospects "love language" when setting a meeting and engaging them further in conversation. The pandemic has caused fewer face to face meetings, and many salespeople have yet to make the pivot (successfully) to virtual relationship building.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Since then I’ve sold millions of dollars of technology and services, run my own sales outsourcing and training company, grown a digital agency and pioneered a new approach to selling now known as “social selling”. conversations per week and 6.7

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Here’s a summary of our conversation and below this summary is the full transcript of our interview. The Sales Conversation is where the action is Applying AI to analyzing sales conversations is the highest ROI opportunity for companies, Paul says. “To To me the sales conversation is ‘where the action is.’

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 1, 2021

Most salespeople are afraid of silence because they perceive it to be awkward or a sign that the prospect has mentally checked out. It is critical that you let silence do some of the heavy lifting during your prospecting conversations. But that's simply not the case!

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 23, 2020

Companies today purchase the latest and greatest sales technology, provide minimal training, and then wonder why it’s not adopted across the board. Sales technology might help you identify prospects, but it won’t solve your sales execution challenges. “Joanne, the challenge is always in the execution.” Yes, you read that right.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. I told the rep the problem was that he wasn’t making any connection in the beginning and wasn’t allowing his prospect to engage with him at all.

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Here’s how I see it coming into play in sales situations, especially when faced with concerns or objections during our sales conversations. These are absorbed subconsciously by the prospect and create some kind of dissonance that makes them wonder about or question that area of insecurity. So, what can we do?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 18, 2023

Establishing rapport with a prospect in the very beginning is perhaps the most important first step to earning the right to have a conversation that might eventually lead to a sale. Here’s what not to do: DON’T open your conversation with, “How are you?”—if ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 28, 2020

You will no doubt have been in the position where you’ve been discussing purchase opportunities with your prospect and the subject of your competitors comes up. This will reduce the impact of the competition and the very nature of the conversation will attract their focus to you, not the competitor. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

With ZoomInfo, your go-to-market team can easily identify website visitors , engage prospects with website chat , and optimize web forms to transform anonymous visitors into actionable prospects. Impact on Business Growth Effective lead capture software can significantly impact a company’s bottom line.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You had a great sales interaction: Both you and the prospect were calm and comfortable. You developed some rapport and the prospect showed some positive buying signals during the meeting. If that’s been your experience, maybe you need to review the questions you ask to drive the conversation on, professionally and with confidence.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2020

You go back to basics: you acknowledge them, and then go around them to either earn the right to have a conversation, or to qualify the prospect. But we are still having lots of conversations and letting people know what’s available to them once this clears up. “If ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Conversational AI for sales teams can eliminate a lot of repetitive tasks such as follow-up emails and customer queries and even generate sales collateral. Operationally, conversational AI speeds up processes within tools like your CRM or CMS, makes reporting easier, decision-making more effective, and so much more.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2018

Typically, it would start with an email from a prospect, asking a question about price, availability or some product feature. The sales team was jumping on these opportunities, firing back an answer to the prospect’s question – often within minutes – and then following up with a phone call. The prospects had gotten what they wanted.

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That’s what we want with our prospective clients! We want them to feel so comfortable, and at home, with us during the sales conversation that they make that decision to work with us. Right-size all we do to show the good fit for the prospect. This is the speed of the conversation and process. How do we do that?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 6, 2021

It dominates and rules every conversation, casting a shadow over every sales conversation you have. Most salespeople are way over reliant on their product while prospecting or selling, continuing to lead with and hype features/benefits. But I would argue that they were not supporting the values and goals of their prospects.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. Based on a visitor’s activities, your chatbot can initiate a chat and then bring your sales team into the conversation.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

Plus, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations. If there ever was a time for real, authentic sales conversations, it’s now. Not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. Do your salespeople?

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The reason this is such a common objection is because your prospects have figured out it’s the best way to get sales reps to drop their price! Then remain completely quiet and let your prospect tell you what the REAL objection is!] Try these the next time you get this objection and watch your sales and conversion rate soar!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 25, 2024

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? If you have followed me for a while, you may know that my opinion on whether to ask a prospect, “How are you,” has changed over the years. You can’t tell if your prospect is annoyed, resistant, bothered, or if they are willing to have a conversation with you.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

If a client or prospect contacts you for something, say, more information or to look up the status of an order, etc., If a client or prospect contacts you for something, say, more information or to look up the status of an order, etc., ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! I’ll reach back once I have an answer.”.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 3, 2020

Salespeople are asked to change themselves, change how and who they deal with, change the focus of their conversations, and more. For example, many want me to layer on or retrofit my curriculum on something they trained three years ago. Your front-line managers are crucial to retrain managers whenever you introduce new training.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 13, 2018

I’m now responsible for training, daily coaching, revenue – and my team hitting our numbers. 35% conversion rate of lead to good fit completed demo. The key is just knowing the conversion expectations so (again) everyone is aligned. Finding optimum booking and conversion rates. Speed to sales lead.

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2020

It’s all about closing more deals — but that can’t happen without boosting lead conversion rates. Scripts create a setup for a quality conversation without stumbling on words or being pressured to put on a show. Having a variety of cold calling scripts on handmakes sales training easier for new hires as well. Cold calls?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 11, 2019

.” Something that can also be used to describe sales and prospecting. Making any growth or development we achieve, as something to have “lived through,” nowhere more so than in prospecting. People are paralyzed by the thought of being rejected when prospecting. Rejection Hurts. Ignorance Is Bliss.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. We ask for an introduction to our ideal prospect. The conversion rate of prospect to client has shifted from an average of 50 percent to 70 percent.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 20, 2018

5. Know your prospects. Find the problem, discover solution, present why solution is best for prospect. If most salespeople struggle with selling value or holding margin when they are in a crucial conversation, then what value would building their ‘ problem-solving skills’ give them instead of ‘overcoming objection’ training?

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 9, 2019

What would you consider to be the most important parts of the sales call, when calling a prospect? Even though this company sells some of the best products in their industry, the prospects were being turned off by a product push. Think: What state or frame of mind is my prospect in when I call? Why is that?

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Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Here’s a summary of our conversation and below this summary is the full transcript of our interview. The most skilled salespeople I know welcome the opportunity to train and hone their skills. Traditional sales models vs. AI-enabled selling. Nigel: Do you think salespeople will actually take advantage of AI? Heidi: I think so.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 14, 2022

Otherwise, listen to your own recordings and see where and when you give control of the conversation to the prospect. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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