No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Are you looking for your B2B sales leads in all the wrong places? Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? There’s a better way, but it takes guts and conviction from every sales leader. Your conversation shifts.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Hosts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen discuss the importance of face-to-face conversations in sales and how sales leaders can encourage their teams to embrace in-person interactions. These reactions make it easier to be empathetic and build trust, essential for successful sales relationships.

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Face-to-face Video Decision Maker Loyalty 296

SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

Plagued by Sales Rep turnover? This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Here’s a sales rep turnover example. These also relate to Sales Rep turnover. Sales success is 50% talent and 50% performance conditions. Your Company.

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Hiring Outsourcing Services Lead Nurturing Demand Generation Targets 326

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 15, 2020

The sales teams positioned to succeed during this time will be those who help rather than haggle customers – understanding, too, that “success” will look somewhat different these days. Here are best practices for securing sales while remaining sensitive to customer circumstances amidst crisis. Focus On Customer Relationships.

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Loyalty Cancellation Churn Face-to-face 296

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Brooke is NPS certified and has a passion for collaboration and creativity and skilled in Campaign Strategy and Design, Marketing Management, Sales, SEO and Loyalty Rewards. Listen to other episodes here.

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Scale Social Media Loyalty Campaigns 308

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Build Loyalty. With stakes that high, it is perhaps ironic that the early steps of building customer loyalty start with the figurative eyes and ears of a company. Offer expansion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If she were accepted, she’d get a lifetime discount — all she had to do was promote the brand on her social media pages (and hopefully make some sales). In a loyal customer, prospects can identify with someone just like them: a regular consumer who happens to be enjoying a product. Have brand ambassadors hurt customer loyalty?

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Hiring Loyalty Discount Social Media 246

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Women in sales have everything they need to succeed. It’s sneakier than gender discrimination or racial prejudice of old, but just as damaging for careers, relationship-building opportunities, and account based sales teams. The first is Sue, a successful field sales manager in a tech company. Comments were prolific.

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Cold Calling Loyalty Account Intent 266

Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening Podcast, Rob Ulsh , VP of Dealer and International Sales for Great Dane, discusses the use of AI in sales leadership. He also explores the practical applications of AI in sales, including prospecting, customer retention, and pre-call planning.

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Company Sales Leadership Retention Loyalty 296

The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2014

Yesterday on this blog, I wrote about sellers who drive commerce for their buyers have greater success than those who just drive sales. Focusing on those objectives, and how they impact and are impacted by the commerce environment our clients compete and live in will drive more and better sales for all. ” – Aous Shakra.

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Webinar Metrics Objections Loyalty Segment 292

Bernadette McClelland

MARCH 11, 2018

Ensuring a great UX makes sure our brand and reputation stays strong, and ends up generating a stack of loyalty and advocacy. Not dissimilar to Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs, we can take our customer from the most basic of emotional needs of simply being satisfied through UX and CX, to the height of advocacy and loyalty.

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Lead Rank Loyalty Lead Scoring Face-to-face 294

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Top of Funnel 207

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The conversation delved into the evolution of sales strategies in response to changing buyer behavior, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of artificial intelligence. This blog post will break down the key insights and actionable advice shared by Wes, focusing on his five proven steps to making every sale.

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Video Strategy Top of Funnel Direct Mail 116

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

Author: Tim Riesterer Have you ever had a service problem with a customer and worried about the damage it could do to your relationship and long-term revenue prospects? And, worse, maybe they will spread the word throughout their network and negatively influence other prospect or customer decisions. Maybe they won’t renew.

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Loyalty Remedy Journal Study 234

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 13, 2019

What makes them keep buying from you and building long-term loyalty? The answers to these questions will help you determine on what you need to focus when working with a potential buyer or attempting to increase the loyalty of an existing one. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo.

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Buyer Loyalty Follow-up Trends 192

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

What has all of this to do with sales? For more on referral sales, check out my blog posts from this month: Why You Need to Make Time for Asking for Referrals. Message to sales leaders: Your job is to get the rocks off the road so your team can close deals, exceed quota, and blow past revenue goals. I have no clue.

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Referrals Cold Calling Loyalty Fashion 197

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Some sales organizations saw their pipelines disappear overnight, so they began to reevaluate processes in an attempt to preserve them. Aligning sales and service teams will better position an organization to engage with customers throughout their journey and achieve mutual success for themselves and their clients. .

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SAP Compensation Face-to-face Analytics 207

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2019

When your prospects land on your website, they want to find what they’re looking for without having to click back and forth endlessly. It’s a good idea to place relevant links to your blog posts within your content and provide your prospects with an opportunity to learn more about the topic they’re interested in.

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Customer Churn Loyalty Small Business 240

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Build Customer Loyalty in the First 30 Days In the wake of election season, one principle stands out: the power of a loyal base. Before you can rally these advocates, however, you need to establish a foundation of customer loyalty. These are three ways that you can build customer loyalty in the first 30 days – let’s get into it.

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Loyalty Customer Face-to-face Scale 94

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

From many years of experience in customer-facing roles with large software companies, I’ve learned that there are many factors which can break a customer relationship after the sale. The CRM system can be a great place to deliver the high level view, allowing sales, support and marketing to be on the same page. Measure and refine.

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B2B Customer Vendor Enterprise 207

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

That sounds like a question you’d hear at a low-rent sales seminar — something that the speaker would ask the crowd and assure everyone that there are "no wrong answers.". It’s hard to define what qualifies innovation, especially in sales. Sales Innovation. The term "sales innovation" has a broad array of potential applications.

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Examples Social Media Scale Loyalty 139

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face. Too often potential sales leads are left to die a slow death on the showroom floor. Prospects - Major targets. Prospects - Known, 'keep in contact' but not in the buying cycle segment.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Capture 192

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

AI has arrived, but it’s mostly been implemented by consumer goods and services companies to personalize marketing messages, enhance their knowledge of customers, manage inventory and increase customer loyalty. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Engagement is driven by price (81%), quality (80%)and convenience (55%), loyalty is about likability (86%) and trust (83%). The Sales Rep’s Guide to Beating a Prospect’s Defense [Infographic]. Or contact our sales team to learn how we can help improve your marketing efforts.

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Top of Funnel Customer Buyer Persona Hiring 212

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

From many years of experience in customer-facing roles with large software companies, I’ve learned there are many factors that can break a customer relationship after the sale. The CRM system can be a great place to deliver the high level view, allowing sales, support and marketing to be on the same page. Measure and refine.

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B2B Customer Vendor Enterprise 177

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 4, 2018

The fact is retaining best customers remains a challenge for sales and marketing professionals, leading to wasted time and money. Thus, additional bits and pieces of information about prospects and clients can be input there, making it a true ABM model. What to do? Let me explain each one. Put your whole team in a customer-facing role.

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Customer Service Retention Hiring Account 286

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2019

But, sales and marketing organizations must resist this instinct in order to constantly adapt to changing markets, new technologies, emerging trends and so on. We’re speaking, of course, of the sales funnel. The sales funnel represents the theoretical customer’s journey to making a purchase. The Sales Funnel.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 228

Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2020

As businesses continue navigating the challenges that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, many sales leaders are wondering the best path forward. One of the toughest changes sales leaders need to adapt to is the dramatic impact the events of 2020 have had on win rates. Customer loyalty is more important than ever.

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Pipeline B2B Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 138

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2021

Author: Mary Beth Addison During 2020, we all dealt with unprecedented change, both as customers making buying decisions and as B2B and B2C sales and marketing professionals working to engage prospects and customers in new ways. Throughout the buyer’s journey, the prospect should always feel completely aligned with the sales team.

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Customer B2C Guidelines ACT 199

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 2, 2019

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, and it’s essential that when you are selling your promises of a better future to your prospects, you are able to keep manageable records for those sales. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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Benefit CRM System Loyalty 185

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 3, 2018

Somewhere between the stuffy boardroom of a local Best Western , and a weekend of company-sanctioned debauchery in the woods is the perfect Sales Kickoff (SKO). How to create a great sales kickoff: Identify specific goals and a focus of the SKO. Our objectives always fall into three buckets : 1) Loyalty, morale, bond; 2.)

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Up-Sell Outbound 202

MTD Sales Training

MARCH 5, 2019

Every touchpoint is an opportunity to build loyalty and your customer service skills can enhance each of those interactions, many of which you have little or no control over, like customer comments to others on your Facebook or twitter page. It means you make a decision to be excellent whenever you are in contact with a customer or prospect.

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Customer Service Customer Hotels Cold Calling 225

Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. If they can get it done working with sales people, they will do it. Learn how to skyrocket win rates, customer loyalty/growth, while simultaneously reducing sales cycles by as much as 30%.

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Customer Prospecting Revelation Trade Show 114

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

That’s why you can’t return to business as usual if you’re in B2B sales. Prospects need you to acknowledge their new realities; don’t glaze over the facts. Reset your sales approach. Your prospects’ buying patterns and priorities have changed, so previously compelling offers may seem irrelevant and insensitive.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 177

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Interesting tidbit: The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5–20%. Just ask the likes of Airbnb, Spotify, Peloton, Slack, Zoom, and more — who have maintained (and even grew) brand loyalty through meaningful product expansion strategies while working today’s mostly remote work environment to their advantage. In an image….

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Loyalty Airlines Hotels Hubspot 162

Engage Selling

MARCH 29, 2022

Discover four prospecting habits for success! The post 4 Prospecting Habits for Success first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader. When salespeople are stuck or in a slump, many of them tend to…wait. That’s right, far too many sellers just wait for things to … Read More.

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Prospecting Sales Talent Loyalty Sales 109

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 8, 2023

While many tech companies have adopted the use of BDRs to conduct inbound and outbound prospecting, most companies in most industries did not go there. So let’s assume that we are talking about a traditional sales organization with traditional salespeople who have responsibility for both finding and selling opportunities.

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Decision Maker Penetration Account Comparison 156