The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2019

No, I am not going to talk about green selling or climate change, not even sales change. Environmentally friendly prospecting is about understanding and leveraging your mutual settings and events. Starting right in prospecting, of course, means putting the buyer at the centre of every action. By Tibor Shanto. Let’s Start Right.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sales enablement is having a moment. If you work in sales or marketing, chances are you’ve recently heard the term sales enablement. With that in mind, I asked our experts to answer five questions about sales enablement: What is Sales Enablement? How Do Analysts Define Sales Enablement?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sales prospecting is arguably the most critical part of a sales professional’s workflow. Sales prospecting is a foundational element for a revenue team — it’s the practice of identifying and connecting with potential customers to initiate the sales cycle. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 7, 2020

This week, I listened to a closing call from one of their reps, and here is how the prospect opened the call: Prospect: “Let me just tell you upfront that we’re looking at a lot of different options right now of which yours is just one…”. Here’s what I teach: Prospects have all the answers. Take what a prospect gives you.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2020

Voicemail is a great example in sales, there are as many opinions as there are pundits. It’s about voicemail for buyers vs. voicemail with prospects. And all this will serve you well as a salesperson once you are engaged and selling to a prospect. Base assumption: You need to speak with the prospect to initiate a cycle.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 8, 2015

During my career in the finance industry, I had many occasions to discuss opportunities with prospects that centred around their investments, pensions, banking circumstances and the like. We’d have maybe spoken a lot about how the prospect had got to this situation and detailed how he felt about the whole thing. Ah, gotcha.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the key promises of generative AI for business is the ability to eliminate time-consuming, manual research and prospecting tasks for frontline go-to-market professionals. However, even exceptional salespeople rarely have time to read the fine print of a prospect’s latest 10-K, and for good reason.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 13, 2023

85% of salespeople using AI/automation agree it makes their prospecting efforts more effective. As prospecting is an extremely critical step in the sales process , adopting AI to help with your processes is worth considering. Read on to learn more about using AI for sales prospecting and specific use cases for generative AI.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ask yourself the following 10 questions to help assess how you’re doing with prospecting and selling: What do I feel is the #1 reason holding me back from being more successful? What would I say is the strongest part of my sales process, and what can I do to leverage it more? What can I do to shorten my sales process?

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 12, 2022

Congrats to those companies & individuals who sent in their prospecting scripts for review. The problem with this is you’re A) Identifying yourself as a sales rep, and B) You’re now inviting the gatekeeper to qualify you out. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Rep: “I’m looking for the person who handles your XYZ.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. Along with actionable intelligence, guidelines for cold calls allow both sales managers and SDRs to tailor their sales processes. Reason for Calling.

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Jordan Crawford joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to use data and research to improve your sales development prospecting process. The post How To Find Companies At Scale The Exact Moment They Need You appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Smarter Prospecting in Less Time For experienced sales professionals, using ZoomInfo for the first time often feels like discovering a secret; after spending years going door-to-door, suddenly having a world of information at your fingertips can be an invigorating experience. Meeting people face-to-face was a valuable experience.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 20, 2024

Prospecting is an essential part of the sales process, but if you want to strike gold, you need to have a well-thought-out strategy in place. In this guide to sales prospecting, you’ll get everything you need to know. Table of Contents What is sales prospecting? Table of Contents What is sales prospecting?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the world of sales, time is your most valuable asset. That’s where sales qualification comes in. Sales qualification is the act of evaluating potential prospects to determine whether they possess the characteristics that make them a good fit for your product or service. Consult your buyer personas.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” Here’s a simple fact: you can’t close a sale until you have someone to sell to. So what does it take to successfully prospect? Have a dedicated time on your calendar to prospect. Don’t allow interruptions!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 6, 2020

What’s the biggest mistake sales reps make with prospecting or cold calling? You know, that desperation sales people have when they finally get someone on the phone. Your prospecting will go a lot better if you do! Cold calling mistake #2: Don’t pitch your prospect—yet. and allow your prospect to engage with you.

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BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Merging Buyer Insights with Business Need for Personalized Sales Conversations What if you could know not just who your prospects are, but how they think, communicate, and make decisions? BuzzBoard has always stood for empowering sales teams with deep company insights to fuel meaningful sales conversations.

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SalesFuel

MAY 6, 2024

Not all prospects will be easy to deal with, and you’ll encounter many types of difficult prospects. As HubSpot’s Jay Fuchs notes, “difficult prospects are a fact of sales life.” But even the most difficult prospects can be worked with to reach a deal. Efforts to work with these prospects require patience.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 12, 2023

Isn’t that a great analogy for what happens when you miss, or skip a crucial step in the sales process? Your prospects and customers use a similar process for choosing who to buy from. Yesterday, while watching our son play in a summer collegiate baseball game, I missed a step and tumbled all the way down the bleachers.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2023

So many sales reps are anxious when they speak with a prospect. They know that unless they get these “tough” questions answered, there is no way to move the sale forward. Plus, they know that most of the “prospects” they speak with don’t turn into a deal anyway, so, why not learn who is a real prospect right from the get go?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2019

He told me that he was reaching and having brief conversations with some prospects but those conversations went nowhere. He said he was trying to be consultative, to elicit details and to drill down on prospect objections. But no matter what he said or did, he would hear, “I’m not interested,” and a click as the prospect hung up.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 15, 2021

To avoid this trap and maximize every opportunity in today's challenging sales environment, you'll need a workable sales strategy and viable methods of researching prospects. You know that you can make a real difference to this prospect if you can just get in front of them and show them your magical product.

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 26, 2017

I often meet salespeople in my visits to clients and ask them for their favourite strategies when it comes to sales. Because it helps you build confidence when you are working with prospects and clients, and enables you to change direction when buyers put up obstacles or objections. See what you think: Step One: Vision. Happy Selling!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 30, 2024

If you’re looking forward to an extended holiday and want to know the best way to spend it, then I’ve got a suggestion: Why not spend some of it learning and getting better at your craft of sales? Better than the other sales reps competing with you? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Writing for Sales Marketing & Management, Paul Nol a n points that traditionally, it was the seller who focused on qualifying buyers. How a buyer perceives the seller has significantly more impact on whether a sale is made,” he adds. It shows that you’re not just trying to make a sale but actually have a solution that can help.

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

What’s your mindset around follow-up efforts for reconnecting with prospects who have stopped responding? Shift Your Mindset to Give THEM What They Need Neither of those mindsets serve you or your prospective clients well. Financial Advisor sales training doesn’t have to focus on pushy tactics or high-pressure pitches.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. I’m sure by now you’re thinking, but Dave, what the heck does that have to do with sales process? Similarly, many prospects are also non-believers in your product or service.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How good are you at requalify existing accounts, or prospects you haven’t spoken with in a while? And that means that just because a prospect or client was in charge of a certain function last month or 6 months ago, it doesn’t mean they are in charge of it today. And why would you even want to do this? How about timeline? And so on….

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What does this teach us as sales reps? It takes persistence, a proven sales cadence, and many calls to finally persuade a qualified buyer to buy from you. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! I’m now waiting for a tech to come and bring that cable into my house to take advantage of their superfast Internet speeds.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 17, 2019

Here’s a question: How should sales teams spend their time? There are two primary ways to ensure that sales teams actually have time to sell: Make sure the right teams own the right tasks. Decrease the time spent on “non-sales” tasks, or better yet, automate them. Which one will make your sales organization's lives easier?

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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? Engage with your prospects.

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Selling Energy

JULY 27, 2023

It may sound simple, but one of the best strategies for determining the ideal sales approach for a given prospect is to get into their shoes. There is no universal sales strategy that works across the board, so you need to figure out exactly what each prospect cares most about and work that angle into your proposal.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2024

But even though having a productive LinkedIn presence is one of the bigger “no-brainers” in sales, a lot of reps struggle to leverage the platform to its full potential. Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Engage your prospects by leaving active comments.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Setting targeted Google Alerts for sales can give you invaluable insights into your niche. These sales alerts also give you a relatively low-effort way to keep tabs on your main competitors and ideal prospects. These sales alerts also give you a relatively low-effort way to keep tabs on your main competitors and ideal prospects.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 22, 2019

Let’s start with the obvious: Sales reps talk too much. Whether it’s nervousness, fear, inexperience, or just the conviction that if they stop talking the prospect will say “Not interested” and hang up, it doesn’t matter. If you listen to calls from your sales reps, you’ll find that they simply talk past the close.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales people like to talk; if you don’t believe me, just listen to a recording of one of your reps (or of yourself!). And when your ears are closed, you learn nothing about your prospect’s buying motives, their possible objections, or whether or not they are buying into your pitch. Ask questions frequently of your prospect.

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