No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads. Don’t believe me?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. Whether you call it cold-calling, prospecting, outbound, or hunting, the name doesn’t change what it is or how difficult it is.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2019

Prospecting is not an afterthought. Prospecting is the foundation sales should be built upon. If you remove prospecting from the equation, business and in turn the economy will be affected very quickly. ” To be successful, you cannot rely solely on others, however, when it comes to prospecting, many salespeople do.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. However, Optimizing your chat tool to maximize your team’s efficiency and generate leads requires finding the balance between automated and human touchpoints in your chat platform’s programming.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. I blame outdated lead-gen strategies, metrics, and leadership.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2019

You don’t just think about prospecting. Prospecting is something you do, and you do it daily. Watch this video : 10 Rules of Prospecting, to learn more! The number of deals you have to close directly reflects the amount of time you spend prospecting. Always have a dedicated time to prospect each day and each week.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

He looks for candidates with a proven track record of success in B2B sales, particularly those with experience in cold calling and prospecting. He understands that prospecting takes confidence, persistence, and the ability to handle rejection, making it a key indicator of a candidate’s potential success.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We’ve all been there – you call your prospect back at the appointed time for your presentation and they tell you any of the following: This isn’t a good time, OR. First, understand what’s happening here: Remember the law in sales: Leads Never Get Better! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! How long will this take?”

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Prospecting is one of the most important of the 21 Core Sales Competencies, because salespeople must have new opportunities entering their pipeline at all times. But what about lead relationship management? Once you have that important lead, how do you nurture it and potentially turn that lead into a long-term client?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 23, 2020

Companies today purchase the latest and greatest sales technology, provide minimal training, and then wonder why it’s not adopted across the board. Sales technology might help you identify prospects, but it won’t solve your sales execution challenges. “Joanne, the challenge is always in the execution.” Yes, you read that right.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 29, 2022

(Sadly, not increasing their competency will lead to sales as they are now…). You can make a measurable and instant impact by giving your team access to my proven On-Demand Training! To help you do that, I’m offering a one-time 30% discount on this award winning, Inside Sales Training Video Course. See it here. Get Access Today.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve witnessed sellers become their best, most efficient selves and seen marketers fully realize their TAM and identify messaging that really drives leads. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals. Real-time signals are the secret sauce.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. Plus, what was missing was a value statement of what might be in it for the prospect. Wait and respond accordingly—engage!].

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 8, 2021

Two weeks into the New Year, and are you already stressed about picking up the phone and making prospecting calls? Let me explain: If you’re like most sales reps, then you hate making calls because you’re either afraid of being rejected, or you’re are afraid you’re going to mishandle a call and so lose a good lead. Imagine that….

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Sales 2.0

MAY 6, 2020

Do you have training for new hires documented and readily available? Is your training available in different formats, for example video? Training : How about training for long-time employees? Do you provide skills training on a regular basis? Do you provide product training? Are those leads well-qualified?

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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

Not only that they generate better quality leads and are way more fun than cold calling (which if you’re like me is an activity running neck-and-neck with going to the dentist as a pastime.). I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Getting in-the-door with a cold calling. Making a social call.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 11, 2019

.” Something that can also be used to describe sales and prospecting. Making any growth or development we achieve, as something to have “lived through,” nowhere more so than in prospecting. People are paralyzed by the thought of being rejected when prospecting. Rejection Hurts. Ignorance Is Bliss.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Script #1: Make sure and have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. The point here is whether or not your prospect will: Give you the time to speak further with them. This tells you how cooperative your prospect is, and so how cooperative they will be throughout the sales cycle. Right then! Get Access Today.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2018

If only 20 percent of your clients were referred, then your team obviously hasn’t learned how to ask for referrals, which means you’re missing out on your prime source of qualified leads. Sales pros always agree that they get their most qualified leads when they get referrals. Dramatically shorten your prospecting time.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

Sales leaders acknowledge that referrals are their fastest revenue driver and solve their two biggest issues: getting qualified leads in the pipe and scoring meetings with decision-makers. 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. Can I drop your name?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 22, 2024

Once I get my prospect on the phone for our chosen closing time, I open with: “Before I get started, I’m sure you’ve looked over things, so, what questions do you have for me?” The important thing is that knowing where my prospect is in the beginning not only tells me which direction to go, but it also saves me a ton of time!

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. Their co-workers might suspect they’ve been given the best leads.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2020

Done wrong, it can lead to long term issues. If you’re prospecting, and you should prospect daily, number two or three on a to-do list, you’re inviting more activity. You can spend this on planning, calls, meetings, e-mails, come to my training, post social videos, whatever consumes selling time. By Tibor Shanto.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. For sellers, this makes access to prospective buyers the first chokepoint. Bottom line: Clients prefer to work with their current suppliers, so lead generation is getting tougher and tougher.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 6, 2021

Most salespeople are way over reliant on their product while prospecting or selling, continuing to lead with and hype features/benefits. Salespeople intellectually understand the need to win the business by not leading with product. But I would argue that they were not supporting the values and goals of their prospects.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2024

What’s the number one blow off prospects use these days? Not only is it hard to get prospects back on the phone, when you do, you usually lead off with the ineffective opening line of: “Did you have a chance to review that email I sent you?” And then when a prospect blows you off with, “Can you email that to me?”

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 18, 2023

Establishing rapport with a prospect in the very beginning is perhaps the most important first step to earning the right to have a conversation that might eventually lead to a sale. If your prospect asks you how you are (after you ask them), DON’T just say, “fine” or “good” and then launch into your pitch.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. I was a member of a leads group at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. We ask for an introduction to our ideal prospect. The year was 1996.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Many sales reps struggle when following up on emails they’ve sent out to prospects (or even clients!). When they get the prospect on the phone, they open with: “Did you get the email I sent?”. Try this: When you get your prospect back on the phone, say: “Nice to speak with you again. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Before you get on your high horse and tell me you wouldn’t be caught dead using a script, consider: If I were to record your prospecting and demo calls for a week, and then transcribe what you say, what would I get? Your prospects will trust you more, and you’ll appear more professional. And prospects like that! #2: Your script.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Prospecting. Engagement looks different between warm and cold leads. Leads that haven’t shown explicit interest in your product — cold leads — require more research to find their challenges. Warm leads have shown interest by interacting with content or form fills. Make meeting scheduling easier for prospects.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. But today’s outbound lead generation tactics are more than just dialing for dollars. Here’s how to effectively execute outbound lead generation, with examples and definitions to get you started on a new or refreshed strategy.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 30, 2024

Imagine: for less than $18 you can suddenly fly past gatekeepers, overcome initial resistance statements from prospects, and qualify leads so you’ll know exactly how to close them! ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! And all it takes is a little bit of effort, time, and a tiny amount of money.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2020

What do you say when you get this stall while prospecting? Let’s face it: This blow off is just a variation that prospects have been using for years. There is an easy way to find out: Have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. This tells you your prospect has time now and has an interest). Open the email.

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