The Sales Heretic

JANUARY 22, 2019

Do you have a prospecting plan? A prospecting plan is like a business plan for your sales efforts. It’s a planning tool that helps you sketch out your goals, your best prospects, how to reach them, and more. If you want to boost your sales, it can be a huge help. Sound complicated? Don’t worry, [.].

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

Instead of manually targeting prospects, lookalike modeling automatically produces ideal prospects based on the collective traits of converting customers. A lookalike audience is a kind of ideal representation of your best prospects and ideal customers. Facebook Lookalike Audiences. What is a Lookalike Audience?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you’ve worked in sales for any length of time, you know your success is dependent on the quality of your prospect lists. Instead, modern sales professionals find success by creating and reaching out to hyper-targeted lists made up of only the most qualified prospects. Let’s get into it! Step One: Understand Your Offering.

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SBI Growth

JULY 8, 2013

His early and often Facebook wins for Bounty were quickly squashed. An outspoken prospect did not like Rick’s aggressive style. The prospect posted negatively on Bounty’s Facebook site. At his previous company, Rick garnered some success via social selling. He assumed the same would work at Bounty.

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SocialSellinator

APRIL 24, 2023

From increasing brand visibility to creating more meaningful relationships with prospects, the advantages of using social media strategies are limitless. Social media marketing is a powerful tool for insurance agencies looking to reach and engage their target customers.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 11, 2023

Better prospecting is the most direct path to increase sales conversations. Her four steps are: The right list Great skills Strong process The right software What can your team add to improve their prospecting? Is your sales team struggling to have conversations with the right buyers? Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

A first-touch attribution model assigns all credit to the first touchpoint that leads a prospect to an eventual conversion. Example: A prospect sees a paid Facebook advertisement for a recent blog post about essential tools for modern sales reps. They click the ad and ultimately read the blog post. Last-touch attribution.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With social media, you can prospect at your fingertips — and sidestep the awkwardness of a traditional cold call. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the best social media channels for prospecting. Read on to learn more about social prospecting, and discover which social media channels are most effective.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 5, 2014

Software salespeople, in particular, love to give demos, thinking if someone agrees to a demo, the prospect is qualified and can go into the CRM as a lead. A prospect is not a lead until you speak with that person and ask your qualifying questions. How do you make life easier for your prospects and Referral Sources?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Companies in industries like healthcare, security, aerospace, technology and finance have long used unbranded content to curate leads while educating prospective clients on what are often complex, highly technical products and services. The video opens with a screenshot of Gavin’s Facebook page which disappears after 40 seconds or so.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2014

With referral selling, the hard part is over before you ever speak to prospects. asked Jim, my prospect. At this point, my prospect hadn’t met me or read my book, and hadn’t seen anything other than my website. You don’t have to sell yourself to referred prospects; someone else has already done that for you.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Or you can close the laptop and actually talk to colleagues, prospects, and clients. Get out there and actually get to know your prospects. Connect with No More Cold Calling Follow Joanne on Google+ or Twitter @ReferralSales , or connect on LinkedIn and Facebook. Relationships matter, and trust is the foundation. We all are.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

Facebook & Twitter ads deliver high volume but lack the high-level targeting options. This gives marketers the ability to deliver highly targeted content to prospects beyond sidebar ads. Prospects are more likely interact with promoted posts than the traditional sidebar ad. Mike Volpe , CMO at Hubspot.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Automated sales prospecting. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io and Intelisale, enable businesses to use filters and predictive insights to choose prospects wisely and focus on those most likely to convert. For instance, AI now customizes emails to prospects and addresses their problems.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

More than 90 percent of salespeople convert at least half of their prospects to clients when they get referrals. I asked the same question in a different webinar, and 80 percent reported turning at least half of all prospects into clients when they get referrals. No other prospecting method competes with referral sales strategies.

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 30, 2021

That’s why companies like Facebook, Google, and Dell are investing billions of dollars in upskilling their employees to sell and service customers in a “hybrid environment.”. What Your Prospects Aren't Telling You. The post 3 Things Your Prospects Aren’t Telling You appeared first on Shari Levitin.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Are your sales reps wasting time prospecting? If you’ve beaten the odds and have held your role for more than 18 months, you’ve already gotten your team lined up, your prospecting strategy in place, and your goals set. When your sales reps prospect through referrals, they: Get every meeting at the level that counts with one call.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

Prospect research is a challenge that's every bit as frustrating as it is essential — so to help you out, we've put together a list of 18 of the best places to research buyers before sales conversations. If you decide to leverage LinkedIn to guide or support your prospect research efforts, there are some key steps you should follow.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process. Have you checked out the prospect’s LinkedIn profile? What are your other connections to this prospect?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 2, 2014

When it comes to communicating with clients and prospects—building the kind of relationships that increase sales and revenue—there’s simply no gadget, gizmo, or automated process that can replace the power of a real human connection. When it comes to communicating with clients and prospects, there’s simply no gadget, gizmo, or.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

The purpose of the explanation is to convince prospects that your services are easy to use, but highly effective. The purpose of your mail is to convince prospects to take the desired action. Stick to the essentials instead and let the prospect know what makes your offer so amazing. You can meet him on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 11, 2014

As we have all noticed more and more companies are putting the Twitter and Facebook icons/logos not only on their marketing materials, but on trucks, and the signs on their buildings. Unless it involves a company you want to approach in order to do business with them, basically someone you want to prospect.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Often the things one does to persuade say a prospect, start with or lead don’t always lead to being liked. Whatever your view of Facebook, it has highlighted and exploited this common weakness, the need to like and be liked. Which is why you need to lead with results right from prospecting, through to implementation.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. In simple terms — speak to your prospects and customers immediately and witness faster conversions. Your marketing will always feel irrelevant and intrusive when it is not driven by your prospects.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A prospect is ready to buy and reaches out to your sales reps, who close the deal with little effort. But it’s not a reliable lead generation strategy, because your sales reps didn’t initiate prospecting. Too many sales organizations now rely on incoming requests and outgoing emails to grab prospects’ attention. How about you?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, they (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. There is no other sales prospecting strategy that can claim these results. Think again.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

We’ve all made this prospecting mistake: The customer told us her challenges. We jumped ahead to the easy part of prospecting—offering solutions—and didn’t take time to demonstrate the impact our solutions could make on the client’s business. The Problem with Your Prospecting. The post Are You Derailing Your Prospecting Success?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

They bring buyer insights to the sales team that can be easily leveraged in sales campaigns and prospecting. Interview prospects, customers and lost/no decision opportunities. Ask the reps to provide prospects and customers to interview. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 9, 2014

It’s our job as smart, strategic sales pros to deliver value—real value—and we can only do that if we’ve invested time in researching our prospects. Before they make contact with us, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. Because Buyer 2.0

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 23, 2018

This means the average user spends approximately 6 hours a week, or 303 hours a year, browsing over Facebook updates, Linkedin notifications, and an abundant amount of tweets. Social selling is when sales professionals use their social network to communicate with prospects and develop relationships to solve problems and achieve sales goals.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Mass email these days seems to mostly go into prospects’ spam filters (0.01% response rates etc.). Don’t just post on people’s Facebook page for their birthday. Due to some people figuring this out the success rates of getting through to people via email and social media platforms seems to be dropping every year. Pick up a pen!

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists. Follow Joanne on Google+ or Twitter @ReferralSales , or connect on LinkedIn and Facebook. I will only refer you if I know you and trust you to take care of my contact as I would. That''s my. Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Don’t waste your prospects’ time with demos or put them to sleep with PowerPoint slides. Follow Joanne on Google+ or Twitter @ReferralSales , or connect on LinkedIn and Facebook. They want to hear what it—and you—can do for their businesses. Instead have a real business conversation. Connect with No More Cold Calling.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Most B2B sales and marketing professionals rely on a combination of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook for lead generation—with research pointing to LinkedIn as the most effective ( source ). Similar to Facebook, images and videos work best to drive engagement. Or, use Twitter to promote a live-stream you’re doing on Facebook.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Earn trust and credibility with your prospects, who are pre-sold on your ability to deliver results. Convert prospects into clients at least 50 percent of the time (usually more than 70 percent). Meet with hot prospects while your competitors are still figuring out how to get in. Is that how you want to spend your selling time?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Because a person visited a tradeshow booth, she’s a prospect. A prospect is not a lead until you speak with that person and ask your qualifying questions: Inquiries are not qualified leads, and neither are those coveted lists of names some companies still insist on buying. Because someone downloaded a whitepaper , we should call him.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Working at a digital marketing agency, you might hear this often from your small business prospects… “I’m doing everything in my power to extend my online reach but still not garnering enough response from our digital ads.” You know what makes your prospect tick online. Don’t waste another minute stumbling in the dark.

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