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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. However, when there is very little incentive for bringing in new business, salespeople whose compensation plans are all or mostly salary, won’t do it for long.

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CROs: Stop Chasing Clicks—Start Building Connections

No More Cold Calling

Revenue leaders must prioritize relationships over digital shortcuts to drive real revenue growth. Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Digital isnt a sales strategy. Hope isnt a strategy.

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New Data: The Top 5 Unacceptable Sales Performance Findings

Understanding the Sales Force

One interesting finding that I read was that “53% of respondents believe collaborative and team-based incentives is another trend.” Collaborative and team-based incentives might also contribute to why 87% of teams are not hitting quota.

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Is BANT a Sales Process or a Man-Made Disaster?

Understanding the Sales Force

This is a 2018 article about 24 and how you can double your revenue. Until there is an agreed upon compelling to buy, the prospect has no incentive to enter into any qualification conversation. Circling back again, another topic I tackled in the past was this 2018 article about BANT.

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

No More Cold Calling

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. When your reps are introduced to prospects by a trusted connection, they no longer start the sales conversation as strangers.

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The Best Sales Coaching Software Tools in 2025

Zoominfo

Backed by 14 proprietary machine learning patents, Chorus is built to help revenue teams win more deals, coach more effectively, and scale performance. From accelerating rep ramp time to driving coaching consistency and boosting collaboration across teams, Chorus helps revenue organizations run smarter and close faster.

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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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