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Getting Salespeople to Prospect When They Aren’t Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

I devised an incentive. Incentives work. When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. When there aren’t many new opportunities in the pipeline, very little new business will get closed n months from now where n is the length of the sales cycle.

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Think Your Team Does Referrals Well? Here’s Why You Might Be Wrong

No More Cold Calling

Youre just assuming your team is doing well with referrals, and assumptions dont fill pipelines. These pain points hurt team morale and your bottom line: Pain Point #1: Your team struggles to get meetings with prime prospects. Prospects dont know you, dont trust you, and dont want to take your call. Cold outreach is a slog.

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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Sales Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

In his article he shares a systematic approach for prospecting " loosely based upon a conversation with Thomas Ray Crowel." In the fifth step of the prospecting call he says that if the prospect sounds interested you should skip the script and jump right to the close. Isn''t this a prospecting call?

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

Home About The Pipeline. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The Pipeline Guest Post – Jonathan Farrington. The REAL Problem with Sales Training – The Pipeline Guest Post – Jonathan Farrington It seems that every week… [link]. Free Resources. 0 Subscribers. Subscribe by Email. February 2012.

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The 4 People in Your Sales Pipeline You Must Know

Score More Sales

In order to be most productive with the sales opportunities in your pipeline there are a number of people you need to know well. You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long buying cycle. Your prospect.

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The Value of Cross Referrals – Sales eXchange 158

The Pipeline

Last week I was working with a group, we were looking at more effective prospecting, when we got around to discussing referrals, I got back some familiar comments. The specific comment was that the rep was reluctant to ask prospects/clients for referrals “because what if the person or company they refer are out of my territory?”

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The Best Sales Coaching Software Tools in 2025

Zoominfo

It includes features for pipeline development, customer engagement, revenue tracking, and task management. The platform serves as a centralized workspace for sales teams to organize activities, interact with prospects, and follow structured workflows. It also provides real-time tracking of incentives and sales activities.