No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These “gatekeeper” tactics are insincere, duplicitous, unprofessional, offensive, and a waste of sales time. Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career. Consider the opposite sales approach. But until you qualify them, names are not sales leads. A waste of your time.

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Increase Sales

MARCH 3, 2014

Direct Mail (USPS) campaign. Hot” calling (from a solid sales lead). Warm” calling (from a partially qualified sales lead). Mid-size to small businesses lack the resources of time, money, energy and emotions found within much larger organizations. Civic Organization. Chamber of Commerce. Cold” calling.

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Inbound Outbound Marketing Direct Mail 114

Selling Energy

AUGUST 6, 2020

There were so many ways to communicate with customers at the beginning of this year: phone calls, voicemails, texts, in-person visits, video conferencing, emails and direct mail. What are we really losing because of social distancing and working from home?

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Selling Energy

JANUARY 7, 2021

If you couldn’t, you could use phone or direct mail. One nice thing about today’s selling environment is that there are so many options for contacting your prospects and customers. When I started selling more than 40 years ago, it was preferable to meet people face to face. That was it.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 10, 2021

Are you and your sales team able to easily generate all the pipeline you need to achieve your ever-increasing revenue targets? Prospecting seems to be getting harder for most sales professionals. In those 10 years, we’ve seen the emergence of the pure-play prospecting function with sales development reps and business development reps.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Many times sales coaches or business improvement consultants are hired because there is a sales problem. Yet, after the dust settles, the real problem is not how to increase sales (even though there is always room for improvement), but rather marketing. These are the actions of marketing. Build a relationship.

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Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Outbound sales haven’t changed that much in the last 100 years: You get a contact, send an offer, and wait to see if the lead converts. But before any sale happens–whether via snail mail, email, or a direct call–a salesperson has to get to the contact. Sales is still a very human process.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 22, 2015

And that’s a good thing in sales. Men still outnumber women in the upper echelons of sales. Success in sales is about building and nurturing relationships. We delight in enlisting multiple generations in our sales efforts. But I do love sales. I’ll put the same challenge to all women (and men) in sales.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 18, 2015

Now imagine a sales world where you only meet with clients who want to meet with you —a world where you never have to cold call, send prospecting letters, pester strangers on social media, or entice clients with special offers. But that’s the easy part, at least for sales pros with real expertise. But change isn’t easy.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 21, 2022

” My mom is an amazingly high energy 91 years old (sorry to make that public, mom). And these calls can be executed across any channel, phone, social, email, direct mail, text. Many sales people make excuses about cold calling because it is an interruption and interruptions aren’t appreciated!

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 31, 2019

These days, sales conversations are becoming even more buyer-focused, which means sales reps have to get creative when it comes to prospecting. Everyone is scrambling to develop their own hacks, techniques, and processes for prospecting in order to move prospects through the sales funnel and turn them into customers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Sales Hacker founder and VP of Marketing at Outreach , Max Altschuler. If you missed episode 47, check it out here: PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere. Why Sales Engagement as a category is here to stay. Sales Engagement, the Book [29:59].

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Content management Account management Campaign management Data management Sales enablement (publication, awareness and training) Channel sales enablement Tier 2: Content Marketing Campaigns rely on content to drive engagement with prospects. navigation, placement of content, imagery, etc.) co-registration, email list purchases, etc.)

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In 2016, TOPO’s Sales Development benchmark report revealed that 80% of high growth sales teams were using the triple touch method — sending an email, leaving a voicemail, and a LinkedIn InMail within minutes of each other. So with five touch types to incorporate into your sales process, what’s your best course of action?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2021

If only sales and marketing were that swashbuckling in real life, right? Every crew member on a ship has a duty to perform, and it’s the same when your sales and marketing teams are aligned. Secondly, did you notice that marketing was sales’ secret weapon? Direct mail. In ABM, that’s true.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

What happens when a Global Head of Sales, an Inside Sales Director, and an Account Executive walk into a bar? They sit around a table and share actionable insights about their company’s transition from SMB to enterprise sales. . Why they restructured their B2B sales team into three key verticals. Mid-market. Enterprise.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2019

It’s important to understand the different types of real estate because the sale and purchase of property differ depending on its type. Guiding the negotiating of the sale price. Coordinating the sale and closing process. Some sellers opt to sell their home themselves, which is referred to as For Sale By Owner (FSBO).

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 12, 2016

Sales teams also know exactly what they want in their ideal clients, but they rarely get this specific. Ivan Levison, who penned my guest post for this month, knows a thing or two about how the words we use can move a sales process forward or derail it. Or perhaps someone who loves sports and outdoor adventure. About the Author.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

Sales leaders acknowledge that referrals are their fastest revenue driver and solve their two biggest issues: getting qualified leads in the pipe and scoring meetings with decision-makers. While all salespeople love to receive referrals, most are uncomfortable asking for them, and many sales leaders don’t believe referrals can scale.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

Sales leaders acknowledge that referrals are their fastest revenue driver and solve their two biggest issues: getting qualified leads in the pipe and scoring meetings with decision-makers. While all salespeople love to receive referrals, most are uncomfortable asking for them, and many sales leaders don’t believe referrals can scale.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 7, 2021

What is Sales Productivity. Sales productivity is the ratio of productive hours to unproductive hours. Sales productivity can also refer to increased profitability and effectiveness by using more efficient methods and improving teamwork. To increase sales productivity, you need creative solutions for your business.

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The Bridge Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Account-based revenue is a concept as old as outbound sales. The names have varied—whale hunting, selling to big companies, target account sales, and so on—but the desire has always been the same: Get strategic on big accounts. Even the smartest, prettiest plays are dead on arrival without co-creation and buy-in from sales.

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