No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 9, 2014

.” That must be the hook for this year’s Dreamforce exhibitors, who got my name off the list of attendees for Salesforce’s big event next week. Perhaps because I’m speaking at the event this year, they believe I’m easy prey. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle.

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Cold Calling Call-back Small Business Small Business 280

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

You held a big rollout event. Amazed, you watch him visit with the prospect. Many sales processes are devoid of an adoption and reinforcement plan. You spend all your energy upstream of the training event. The event happens and it’s a huge success. Team meetings are run by sales managers.

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Sales Process Webinar Metrics Vendor Energy 308

Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily. Think about it this way: If you're a sales manager and you help each of your 10 reps sell 20% more, you've essentially just "created” two new salespeople. Motivate Reps.

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Sales Management Hiring Buyer Persona Compensation 142

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. They cross collaborate with manager peers, their reps, and the VP. He helps the new reps ramp up quickly.

Construction 334

Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

Sales 2.0

MARCH 8, 2014

In fact, they are having a major event shortly with lots of sales experts talking about social selling and Sales 2.0. So how could this sales person call me and include nothing about me. So a plea to all companies helping push the social selling and Sales 2.0 Prospecting Sales 2.0

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Sales guru and guest blogger, Jonathan Farrington, explains why he’s never made a single cold call. Let me guess: You do some research, identify trigger events (what an over-used term!), And because referred prospects are more likely to be well qualified, the chance of converting the business is much higher.

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Cold Calling Referrals Banking Maximizer 298

Sales 2.0

MAY 18, 2014

A list of trigger events that cause your prospect to buy. Marketing material that really fits your sales process. A proven sales process. Generating leads is the job of the sales person. You’re saying that’s not clear to our prospects. A list of trigger events. What’s a “trigger event”?

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Hiring Case Study Lead Scoring Lead Rank 225

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 3, 2013

However, isn’t your goal to connect with people, engage them in conversation, identify key prospects , and leave with follow-up actions? When you don’t treat every prospect you meet at tradeshows like potential customers , you’re wasting your time and theirs. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business'

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Cold Calling Small Business Small Business ACT 293

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Finding the right contact – and context – for sales outreach is time consuming. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. In particular, focus on areas of training and coaching if you are looking to improve sales performance.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re asking strangers on social media for referrals, you’re like the guy at a networking event who shoves his card in people’s face and asks for theirs in return. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

Referrals 292

Referrals Webinar Metrics Social Media Face-to-face 292

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Now is the perfect time to follow up with your clients, prospects, and Referral Sources. Mark Hunter and Andy Paul revealed that 40 to 80 percent of sales leads are never followed up on. You’ve probably already accepted invitations to holiday office parties and client events. Reach out and ask what’s going on with them.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Above I referred to these rituals as an “event”, when they need to be ongoing process, reviewing the specific actions of the buyer, and planning and taking the next appropriate steps; do that and your pipeline and the opportunities in them, will fare better than if you’re just performing a CYA routine. Real or Fantasy.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Groups Opportunity 281

SBI Growth

JANUARY 22, 2014

You won’t dismiss the “training event” entirely. You may not have the luxury of an LMS (Learning Management System). social prospecting) is a great way to use drip testing. It’s incumbent upon you and the sales management team to identify gaps in the sales reps’ skills and abilities. But you will augment it.

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Training Customer Hiring Education 281

Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 21, 2011

It never ceases to amaze me, that with all the options salespeople have, they choose to alienate, anger or cause doubt in the mind of the prospect by setting the wrong tone with their questions. And maybe the prospect feels that’s none of your business. It’s a waste of the prospect’s time. Sales Management.

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Hiring Social Media Loyalty Commission 335

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You are strategizing with Sales Managers and reps. You know that there are certain things your EVP of Sales has no control over. 1 — Customers & Prospects: The most important thing is your customer/prospect. It should be a program, not an event. The Love and Hate of Q4. You love the pressure of Q4.

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Territories Compensation Buyer Social Selling 308

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? Otherwise you probably wouldn’t be in sales. You’re not fooling anybody.

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Referrals Gatekeeper Cold Calling Networking 260

criteria for success

OCTOBER 21, 2021

If you’re like most of the sales managers we talk to, you’re looking for a repeatable, effective sales prospecting process. You might have one or two top performers who seem to get great leads everywhere they go, while others on the team are attending event after event without anything to show for it.

Prospecting 105

Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile eBook 105

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 145

SBI Growth

JANUARY 14, 2013

Last week, I received a phone call from an EVP of Sales. The board still hasn’t approved the sales plan. I need to take out another 3% on the expense line including sales management. Learning how to prospect using tactics like social surround is the wave of the future. That is my only chance to make the number.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Social Selling Sales Methodology 324

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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Conversion Sales Management Scale Call-back 119

criteria for success

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’ve been a sales manager for a while, it's inevitable that one or more people – or even your entire sales team – will get into a prospecting or selling slump. 7 Sales & Prospecting Slump-Busters. Have everyone set an individual weekly goal for how many prospecting activities they will perform.

Prospecting 105

Prospecting eBook Lead Scoring Lead Rank 105

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.” With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), Should my online training and events be live or asynchronous? Habits will need to adjust.

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Sales Enablement Scale Policies Distribution 227

Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2020

There is no excuse for stupid prospecting! Sadly, too many organizations are committed to prospecting malpractice. None of us can escape or have spam filters powerful enough to filter out the stupid, irrelevant prospecting that is inflicted on us on a daily basis. We spend more and more to produce less or stay even.

Prospecting 105

Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Channels Segment 105

Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 23, 2011

In order to struggle less, you must begin to make the transition from “making a sale” to “creating a buying atmosphere.” They concentrate on the system and not the prospect. Let me give you the non-sales skills version. Sales Management. Sales Videos. What is selling about?

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Selling Skills Hiring Social Media Lead Rank 326

criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As a sales leader, it can be a challenge to make sure your team is prospecting efficiently (or at all). That's why we put together something called the Prospecting Action Plan. This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. Sales conversations. The Mechanics.

Prospecting 97

Prospecting How To Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 97

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

I spoke this week to a group of sales professionals at the new monthly Sales Accelerators event at Hubspot in Cambridge, MA. It is a new event here in the Boston area for sales reps to network, meet and mingle with others. Thanks to Pete Caputa for the invite, and Andrew Quinn for the great questions and comments.

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Hubspot Twitter Inside Sales Objections 206

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

66% of Sales Reps believe that increasing the time invested by sales managers would help to increase their sales. After all, sales management is responsible for Sales Performance Management. Your manager is one of those tools. The thought process isn’t to just “make more sales.”

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Lead Rank Analysis 300

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

That’s because inbound sales transforms selling to match today’s empowered buyer -- so sales reps can sell the way people buy. What is inbound sales? Inbound sales is a personalized, helpful, modern sales methodology. Here's how to understand the difference between inbound and outbound sales.

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Inbound Top of Funnel Outsourcing Services Hiring 140

Pipeliner

JANUARY 31, 2021

Prospecting often makes businesspeople break out in a cold sweat. It has been harder than ever in recent years to get referrals and prospects to potential customers. How Prospecting Has Changed. Prospecting has changed a lot in the last few years, and it continues to get harder and harder. Categories of Prospecting.

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Referrals Prospecting How To Channels 98

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. The event was a culmination of thorough planning and conscious decisions about the learning objectives, content, fun and logistics. The second thing we did was discuss a go-forward enablement plan with all our sales leaders and CRO. We just didn’t overdo it.

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InsideView Scale Exercises Call-back 223

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. I had a recent conversation with a Sales Rep named Seth. This is the Problem.

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Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Buyer 300

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. I’ve found that cold calling is an excellent way to engage prospects one-on-one and move them to the next step in the buying process. Cold calling is most effective when paired with strategies such as prospecting and sales qualification.

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Cold Calling Top of Funnel Inbound Call-back 111

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

(My assumption is that as a sales person, you are unhappy when you don’t make your quota. Not only are you unhappy, but you also have an unhappy sales manager, owner, CFO etc.) Back in 2006, I came up with a framework for prospecting/getting a meeting. We’ve got lots of tools/databases to get prospect contact details now.

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Quota Call-back Small Business Small Business 170

Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

In real estate, you have to understand that prospects aren't going to appear out of thin air. This is a concept known as real estate prospecting. And in the highly competitive world of real estate, prospecting can be challenging. Prospecting should be a fundamental part of your business strategy as a real estate professional.

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Real Estate Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Social Media 105

Anthony Iannarino

JULY 9, 2020

You know how important it is that you acquire meetings with your prospective clients. It’s vital that you have a strategy for prospecting that results in you sitting down face-to-face or ear-to-ear or video face to video face (as may be the case). Some believe that because they need to make sales, everyone is a prospect.

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Prospecting Strategy Face-to-face eBook 112

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Blasting prospects with automated marketing messages doesn’t work. Neither does contacting them with pitches about trigger events. . Expose your ‘best stuff’ to your prospects, who are undoubtedly looking for what you have to offer. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' What does work?

Referrals 234

Referrals Scale Insurance Insurance 234

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. Everything is relative.

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Top of Funnel Proposal Coaching Networking 252