The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 31, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. 4 Things to Do Right Now to Get Better Sales Prospects. We all need better sales prospects. Rarely do I run into a salesperson who is not looking for more sales prospects. Expand your prospecting funnel. Client List. Testimonials.

Ideal Customer Profile 180

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Hiring Negotiation 180

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you have a solution that fits their needs, you can offer it to them in the exact context and phrasing of your prospect, ultimately leading to bigger and better sales. A focus on closing sales can also cause salespeople to spend too much time chasing down leads that will never close, instead of moving on to new prospects.

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Negotiation Sales Process Strategy Discount 292

Nutshell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

“National Customer Service Week.” It sounds like a made-up holiday that megacorps use to keep their frontline customer service representatives happy. In reality, National Customer Service Week has been recognized by U.S. Ah, marketing and customer service. Keep customers.

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Customer Service Customer Hiring How To 95

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Personalization allows you to make stronger bonds with customers, create more targeted and useful content, and ultimately boost sales. When you address a customer by their name, you make them feel good, and thus more likely to buy your product or service. Then, use their responses to tailor the customer experience.

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B2B Marketing Segment Scale 246

SBI Growth

MAY 31, 2013

Here’s a great example: Rick, a sales rep with a wholesale coffee company, calls on a new prospect. The prospective company operates 25 boutique coffee shops. During the call, Rick touts that his firm prides itself on exceptional customer service. The other part: exceptional storytelling. Why should I believe you on this?”

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Infusion Decision Maker ACT Follow-up 335

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Having an enterprise-wide Customer Master File (CMF) is the ideal first step. CMF’s provide a unified view across the organization of your customers. Sales, Finance, Marketing and Customer Service need this alignment. All your data is rolled-up to a common definition of the customer.

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Top of Funnel Territories Scale Segment 296

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 21, 2012

The Doctor thoroughly examines the patient (prospect), carefully diagnosis the illness (needs) and prescribes a remedy (solution). The Doctor sales style is only effective when the sales person has captured the total trust of the prospect. The sales person must be a bona fide expert and the prospect must BELIEVE that he or she is.

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Remedy Education Loyalty Negotiation 219

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I was trying to contact a prospect and couldn’t find the company phone number on their website. That’s just plain rude, and it’s certainly not how to build customer loyalty. When companies make it difficult for their prospects to buy, they lose business without knowing it. Stop confusing your buyers. I was so frustrated.

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Loyalty Customer Cold Calling Fashion 249

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With competition so immense, and the chances of failure so high (at a rate of 95 percent, to be exact), attention should be paid to delivering value to your target audience. It’s a short narrative explaining how exactly your products or services will help a customer’s life in a distinct way. Clearing the Field.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Consumer Exact 214

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. FREE Resources. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Negotiation.

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Negotiation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 276

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. When you contact each of your customers this time, you focus on thanking them for their business and asking them about how your company’s level of customer service has been. Again, you contact each customer. customer service.

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Motivation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 200

The Sales Hunter

MAY 24, 2019

Ask any customer service department what their biggest struggle is and this is what they will tell you. This happens when the customer’s expectations do not line up with what is actually being delivered. Frequently, all of this plays out when the salesperson fails to identify the customer’s exact expectations.

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Sales Process Intent Referrals Customer Service 167

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The point of list segmentation is to offer your customers and prospects a more personalized marketing experience. Think about it, is a customer or prospect more likely to engage with a general offer or with a personalized message tailored to their specific interests? This data is key to understanding your customer base.

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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

A more personal user experience and connecting with customers in better ways were the focus and themes throughout the recent Smarter Commerce Worldwide Summit hosted by IBM. Customers, partners, prospective customers and employees from around the world participated in a huge but fantastic event.

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Company Customer Conference Twitter 192

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There have probably been countless times you’ve sent out a proposal and the prospect is never to be heard from again. Why your prospect hates your proposal. But if you skip it, that may be exactly what you’re communicating to the prospect: that their business is a waste of your time. And brevity is a rare kindness.

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Proposal Prospecting Vendor Follow-up 119

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? The Benefits of Sales Prospecting Tools.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 128

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 2, 2013

You can determine this in a pretty simple manner – are you leaving voice mail messages for the right prospective buyers but getting no replies? We’re helping them solve customer service issues faster with higher satisfaction rates. . Sometimes in sales you just need to start over with your messaging.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Call-back 230

The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you want to be seen as a village idiot, then go ahead and make prospecting calls to somebody who is in the midst of a crisis and see what kind of a response you get. You’ll be seen as a village idiot, and needless to say, the damage you will do to yourself and your company could potentially be huge.

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Outbound Sales Team Outbound Call-back Exact 213

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. The more you can know about the customer’s timeline, the better. Conversely, the less the customer knows about yours, the better off you will be. Don’t start any negotiation until you know exactly what it is the customer wants.

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Negotiation Motivation Strategy Ideal Customer Profile 200

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 19, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine More than 40 percent of salespeople claim that lead prospecting is often more difficult than qualifying and closing the actual deal. It’s easy for prospecting to get pushed to the back burner, especially when dedicated time isn’t set aside for the task.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 221

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2018

Regardless of how much a company might try to step away from email in favor of project-based communication or real-time customer service platforms, email continues to be the most reliable option given its widespread use. Emails give prospects enough space to be straightforward, which can be a surprisingly big deal in the modern world.

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Decision Maker How To Cold Calling Transportation 180

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Equally important, they need to know the business reason to refer you—that you have something valuable and relevant to offer the prospect. Find out how they know your prospects, what’s important to your prospects, what their challenges are, what they value, how they communicate, and what might get in the way of your sales success.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank 266

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Who does the CEO know, the mail clerk, the customer service representative? Who are the people on your sales, implementation, and customer service teams who touch your clients? Each salesperson determines the number of people he will ask for referrals each week. The answer is always no.

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Scale Referrals Decision Maker InsideView 174

The Sales Heretic

MAY 6, 2015

If you’re in sales or customer service, you’ve been taught that “the customer is always right.” Sometimes we have to say “no” to a prospect or customer. But that’s not true. But when exactly? Listen to my appearance on Breakthrough Radio with Michele Price.

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Customer Segment How To Exact 120

Vengreso

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Because when you have a highly motivated (and effective) sales team, then the customer experience is often better streamlined and supportive – helping to turn first-time customers into lifetime customers. How should sales leaders train to improve the customer experience? Learn more at kornferry.com/saleseffectiveness.

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Customer Service Motivation Top of Funnel Customer 77

Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2019

Without it, your sales team wouldn’t be able to identify, target, and connect with their target prospects and companies. But, unless you work with a third-party data provider, your CRM is full of information regarding current customers and prospects– not future customers and prospects.

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Data Vendor B2B Policies 199

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 23, 2012

CRM allows salespeople to place prospects in the wrong stage of the pipeline. CRM is too difficult to customize. Last week I spent 90 minutes with another client (8 people from Operations, sales, customer service, and marketing) showing them how CRM could be the answer to their inaccurate forecasts and pipeline reports.

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CRM PipelineDeals LandSlide Forecasting 216

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. FREE Resources. Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Negotiation.

Ideal Customer Profile 190

Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Facebook Hiring 190

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2018

List segmentation is exactly what it sounds like – the process of breaking up a marketing list into several smaller, more targeted lists, utilizing key customer data points. Through list segmentation, marketers are able to deliver the most relevant content to prospects and customers.

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Marketing Scale Segment Channels 194

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It's hard to overstate the importance of B2B prospecting in the context of most B2B sales processes. But what is B2B prospecting? What is B2B prospecting? B2B Prospecting Methods. What is B2B prospecting? B2B prospecting is one of the earlier stages in most B2B sales processes.

Ideal Customer Profile 111

Ideal Customer Profile B2B Prospecting Gatekeeper 111

Zoominfo

JULY 10, 2019

Better insights can not only help determine what topics your prospects care about most, but can effectively uncover significant buying motivators you may not have previously recognized, including any pain points, concerns and questions they share. Customer service. Lead generation. Reputation & crisis management.

Social Media 180

Social Media Media Ideal Customer Profile Lead Generation 180

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 26, 2012

They know how to handle the predictable and they know how to handle the unpredictable. It might be unpredictable, but in reality it’s not. The only thing that is unpredictable about the unpredictable is exactly what it is. Top performers know the unpredictable will happen and that’s why they can handle it.

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Call-back Motivation Exact Objections 242

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Product reviews provide an effective way for prospective customers to understand real experiences with products and/or services. Although for some, great products and services are enough to build a brand, reviews will also help spread the word faster. Top priorities include: Increasing focus on customer satisfaction.

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Scale Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 177

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Although each prospect is unique, your target audience will have some traits in common, based on industry, location, company size, etc. 5 Steps to the Customer Profiling Process.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

Hubspot Sales

MAY 23, 2019

And 90% of consumers rate an "immediate" response as important or very important when they have a customer service question. Speed is everything for today's buyers and customers. Web chat tools can be used at almost every stage of the customer lifecycle. It can be customized to fit your site's theme and language.

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Tools Lead Qualification Hubspot Social Media 138

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. The exact time you set aside for making cold calls is going to vary based on who you’re calling, where you’re calling and where you’re calling from. For many B2B industries, cold-calling on Mondays or Fridays is not feasible.

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Cold Calling Motivation B2B Hiring 186

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 20, 2019

To reiterate, a sales demo is the process of providing a prospect with a demonstration of your product or service. A product demo is the same process but it involves a current customer. At virtually every company, a sales rep will deliver a demo to the prospective customer. Research Your Prospect.

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Closing Prospecting Face-to-face Call-back 104