SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Overview : Acme was the preferred vendor in the market. These LDRs were well trained and capable of qualifying true prospects. Prospects who did engage were speaking with multiple vendors as well. Prospects who did speak with the Teleprospectors were better informed and more aware of competitive alternatives.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Based on how successful my last blog was on handling the objection: “We’ve Already Got a Vendor for That,” I thought I’d give you another proven response to help you overcome the objections and resistance you get daily. Then remain completely quiet and let your prospect tell you what the REAL objection is!]

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper How To Licensing 224

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 7, 2024

Questions while qualifying: Closed ended: “Do you ever use an outside vendor?” Assumptive: “How often do you use outside vendors?” Assumptive: “Hi, can you connect me with __ please?” (or or just—“Hi, __ please.”) Closed ended: “Are you the best person to speak to about this?” Assumptive: “How do you get involved in this?”

Selling Skills 224

Selling Skills Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 224

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2020

You go back to basics: you acknowledge them, and then go around them to either earn the right to have a conversation, or to qualify the prospect. Let me ask you this: When things settle down and you get back into the office, and back to doing business again, what does your ideal vendor look like?”. Response: “I totally understand.

Face-to-face 281

Face-to-face How To Call-back Gatekeeper 281

SBI Growth

JANUARY 21, 2013

However, it leaves sales as the sole department with spotty metrics. If you present metrics like win rate, pre-qualified pipeline, and prospect meetings to the CEO, you’re in trouble. These are "inward out" metrics that only Sales leaders care about. The other three vendors sent AT LEAST two field representatives.

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Face-to-face Vendor Decision Maker Inside Sales 244

Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

If you’ve read my stuff before, you’ll know I have one basic prospecting framework I’ve been harking on about for the last 4-5 years. It’s a framework aimed at getting you access, setting up those oh-so-important initial sales meetings. Prospecting Sales 2.0 I literally wrote on a napkin.

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InsideView Cold Calling Decision Maker Twitter 309

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. InsideView delivers the most accurate company and contact information, including business insights, and professional connections to increase sales and marketing productivity. LinkedIn: Sales Solutions.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 13, 2018

Avoid Rejection While Prospecting with this One Technique. Discover sales training with best tips, rebuttal techniques and responses on how to go about handling and overcoming most common objections in phone cold call prospecting. Before I give you this sales prospecting technique, let me tell you how you’ll use it.

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Cold Calling Objections Sales Qualified Lead Prospecting 143

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Table of Contents What is inside sales training? Here are five reasons you should.

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Inside Sales Training Hiring Outsourcing Services 110

Pointclear

MAY 12, 2011

Surprising fact, research shows that 70% of B2B buyers find their vendors, their vendors don’t find them.). It’s important to keep your market primed so that when it comes time to buy, these prospects reach out to you. Market coverage, yes it’s part of our business.

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Outsourcing Services Channels Penetration Prospecting 140

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

These are folks who have not studied the dynamics at play in effective voice mail, generally have a less than sufficient prospects in their pipeline, and BTW, have not tried the technique they are commenting on. When that call comes, you can then proceed to getting the appointment or engagement if you are in inside sales.

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Cold Calling Call-back Pipeline Face-to-face 293

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Offering visual descriptions to prospects on how your services will solve their big issues is a great start. Sales author Anne Miller gives us some examples: Hit? Close business because you showed the high value your company is offering and prospects got it. Kill Crutch Words – Inside Sales Power Tip 133.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Inside Sales 229

Score More Sales

JULY 11, 2013

This information gained by learning more about our client in a curious, light-hearted manner kept us as a primary vendor for several years. It can take weeks or months for some in sales to truly qualify a sales opportunity. If you would like more on this, visit our recent Inside Sales Power Tip on Listening.

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Sales Qualified Lead Opportunity Lead Rank Lead Scoring 309

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Regardless of the way you reach out—via email, social media, text, direct mail, or even a knock on the door—prospects are cold as ice unless they know who you are and expect to hear from you. What Is Cold Calling?

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When you are working predominantly with inside sales reps and their immediate sales leaders, it is easy to only think about being in the office and not ever going out at all. If you are an individual contributor in an inside sales role, is there one big event each year you could somehow get to?

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Conference 203

Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you prospect by phone for a living, then you’re no stranger to rejection. Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. What I’ve found is that those companies who are already using a vendor for this are surprised to learn that….”.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Cold Calling Objections 191

Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Sales and marketing activity.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Score More Sales

MAY 19, 2014

when talking directly to a prospect. when talking to a vendor. But the prospective client did not call back when he SAID he would – has that ever happened to you? Prospect says, “This looks great. 30 Ways to Reach Prospects . when sending an email message. when talking to a strategic referral partner.

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Call-back Ideal Customer Profile B2B Conference 214

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Many sales reps still have trouble handling the initial resistance statement: “We’re all set,” or “We already have a dealer/supplier/vendor for that.”. Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. Presenter: Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales.

Face-to-face 138

Face-to-face B2C Inside Sales Gatekeeper 138

Showpad

MAY 29, 2019

Inside sales definition. Inside sales is a type of sales where representatives perform regular sales activities remotely rather than consistent face-to-face meetings. With this shift in sales processes comes the increased popularity of inside sales across B2B organizations.

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Inside Sales Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Salary 76

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 8, 2022

For those of you who are prospecting, this objection, “We’re happy with who we’re using,” is something you most likely encounter often. In fact, because you already have someone, this is the perfect time to compare prices and services with other vendors. The post Happy With Who We’re Using appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 156

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 24, 2022

For every sale, there are only about five core objections: price, think about it, talk to someone else, etc., Here’s how: If you’re qualifying a prospect to pitch later, and you know that price is the biggest objection you get, then qualify for it so you’re not ambushed when you get to the close. appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales.

Objections 156

Objections Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Gatekeeper 156

Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

Forrester does a great deal of buyer journey research on sources of influence in a lot of other dimensions: First, buyers do like to talk to vendors early in the process. They don’t like to be “sold to,” but they do like to talk to vendors because they see vendors as authorities in technology categories.

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Research B2B Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 253

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 11, 2020

If your prospect says yes, then there’s an opportunity here and you’ve uncovered it. There are, however, ways to position yourself to earn some of the business either now, or to be the preferred vendor they reach out to when they consider making a change. Could I at least do a no cost/no obligation comparison quote for you?”.

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Comparison Face-to-face How To Objections 180

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Tired of getting blown off with the objection: “We’re all set,” when prospecting? Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. What I’ve found is that those companies who are already using a vendor for this are surprised to learn that….”.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Objections Gatekeeper 156

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 22, 2019

[Special Offer: If you and your team would like to learn these techniques and save 15% on our upcoming 7-week online inside sales training, Click He re and use the coupon code: EARLY ]. When you are in the market again, could I be one of the vendors/suppliers/sources you go to for a quote?”. Response #6. Upcoming Schedule.

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Objections Face-to-face How To Inside Sales 153

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 19, 2020

I don’t know about you, but all my LinkedIn requests and emails from vendors now begin the same way: “I hope you and your family are staying safe…”. The post New Email Messaging for Covid-19 appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. One of the ways you stay ahead of your competition is to stop sounding like them. Get Access Today.

Face-to-face 158

Face-to-face Gatekeeper Call-back Licensing 158

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Less than 1% of cold calls lead to a sale ( source ). cold call attempts to reach a prospect. Low-quality data can impact every aspect of a business—particularly sales and marketing. If your team’s performance is lagging and your sales database is a mess, it’s time to conduct an audit of your data. of sales reps’ time.

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Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 198

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

He claims to be equal to everyone at the company – including the customers, vendors, and employees. If you are a sales rep, are you leading with your prospects and existing customers? If you are a sales rep, are you updating your sales manager before he or she comes to you for updates?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 1, 2018

I was listening to an experienced rep the other day just pitch and ad-lib to a good prospect, and at the end of the call, she had no idea about the prospect’s level of interest, nor did she qualify the prospect. If the prospect is agreeing with you, then you can feel confident at the end in asking for the sale.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 174

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 17, 2022

After the client thought about it, he declined Jeffrey’s offer, and then he polled the sales team, and here were their common objections: #1: Too expensive (don’t have the budget). #2: 4: Going to use their old vendor. #5: 7: #8: Turns out, this company’s “complicated sale” had just six objections they got 90% of the time.

Face-to-face 156

Face-to-face How To Gatekeeper Objections 156

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

Lead Generation 200

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Score More Sales

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the very best ways to grow sales opportunities, and ultimately revenues, in your business is by having “real” ideas that solve issues for your prospective customer. Use buyer insight to grow sales). I want to work with vendors who are responsive and don’t just make empty promises.

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Buyer B2B Ideal Customer Profile Vendor 203

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

In my continuing blog series on how to handle the stalls, objections, and real-world situations in sales caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, below you’ll find some suggested email responses to situations you may be running into. The challenges your prospects are going through are the same ones you are. Email from Prospect #2: Dear….

Face-to-face 157

Face-to-face Call-back Objections Gatekeeper 157

SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. They’re sick of vendors describing themselves in the exact same way.

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InsideSales Hiring Inside Sales Webinar Metrics 129

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are four prospecting tips, backed by data. With those odds, it’s going to take a lot to make an impact on a prospect. The data says: The best times to email prospects are 8 am and 5 pm, according to Get Response. 82% of buyers viewed at least five pieces of content from the winning vendor, according to Forrester.

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