No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Not getting the ROI you expected from your lead-gen tactics? Your lead generation tactics aren’t driving bottom line revenue. Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. They complain they don’t have enough leads, or at least not enough qualified leads.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On-Demand Webinar “Think of the 70% of tasks that don’t directly contribute to closing deals — updating CRM records, scheduling follow-ups, sorting through data,” Blount says. AI can generate insights and predictions at lightning speed, but if your data is flawed, you’re essentially weaponizing those errors.

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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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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two. 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.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Even that can be open to interpretation, I know a number of B2B sellers who have success prospecting on Saturday. I understand people trying to be as efficient as possible by pinpoint the best time to make prospecting calls. The idea is sound, but in many instances leads to less prospecting and an excessive amount of “figuring out.”.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy. In fact, when you’re tenacious enough to book a call, data from Marketing Wizdom suggests that a mere 2% of sales leads will close on the first meeting. It’s a time consuming but necessary process, which means mastering the AI sales follow-up can be a game-changer.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Efficiently managing leads and routing them to the right accounts is a challenge for many companies, no matter the size. Lead-to-account matching and routing software addresses this problem head-on, automating key processes to help sales teams work smarter and faster.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 16, 2021

If you have a base of accounts, you can probably get by for a time, but it eventually catches up. But if you must prospect to succeed, you will need to focus and practice the fundamentals. Here are 5 prospecting mistakes you can avoid. The 5 Prospecting Mistakes. Getting in vs. Selling. Go figure?!?

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Crafting a sales lead list can have a major impact on success. Nearly a quarter of sellers say prospecting is a top challenge. Yet prospecting is vital to the sales process. To bridge this gap, industry professionals suggest sellers incorporate lead lists into their strategy. What is a sales lead list?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. Your marketing and sales teams need both. What are customer buying signals? Let’s break that down.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2025

Most salespeople face the same persistent challenge: Their prospects lack urgency. Often, they end up offering huge discounts with expiration dates. Once other potential customers learn the businesss salespeople are willing to discount heavily, its difficult to sell at full price. The solution? Lying is no way to make a sale.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Random group texts offering to sell you real estate, cheap prescription drugs, or oceanfront property in Arizona. I don’t blame salespeople for filling up our various inboxes with unsolicited and unwelcome pitches. They’re accountable for sales touches, not for generating leads that are actually qualified.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Assertive businesses have taken the lead and have handled the crisis with resilience. Old Sales Funnels Are Drying Up. 57% of professionals surveyed are generating fewer leads, with an average decrease of 20%. 57% of professionals surveyed are generating fewer leads, with an average decrease of 20%.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 31, 2025

When you’re selling you are a steward of a buying process. Follow up is a critical part of selling. Its way too easy to miss the follow up you need to do to generate pipeline and progress opportunities. Its way too easy to miss the follow up you need to do to generate pipeline and progress opportunities.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Successfully executing a sales process is a lot like growing a flower, and in the context of this half-baked analogy, prospecting is like finding seeds. Anyway, this week's edition of The Pipeline covers some key mistakes experts say you need to avoid when prospecting. 7 Fatal Sales Prospecting Mistakes You Might Be Making 1.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 17, 2025

In the Ear of the Beholder One of my roles for this client is to help them sell more complicated services than their salespeople do on a day-to-day basis. I accompany salespeople to meetings where the prospect has an interest in these types of services. Many of these prospects have very little technical background.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Sales leaders have an ongoing challenge to get more qualified leads in the pipe, but seller access has evaporated. Unless … Breaking News.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Boo, you were ghosted by a prospect you thought for sure would convert. You need a healthy pipeline of leads to meet those targets. That‘s why I’ve contacted some sales pros and AI experts to learn how they or their clients use AI for sales lead generation. Want to generate more inbound leads ?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 16, 2020

It means pushing back when a client tells you what they want, and you know the consequences will be dire if you don’t speak up. The rest just want to sell you their products—the heck with caring about who you are. At least, that’s what many prospects have come to believe. How Your Prospects Choose Whom to Trust.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Discover how a broken approach to social selling can damage your sales reputation, costing you business referrals and lost revenue. Steve thought he was a social selling pro, but his first message after connecting with me on LinkedIn proved that he wasnt. What is referral selling? Effective social selling is trust-based selling.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you know someone that runs a business with a sales team, or they lead the charge themselves, have them take a look at the areas below for ways they can increase their sales. Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

You could say that the Philadelphia Eagles showed up for Super Bowl LIX with tremendous urgency to win. While the single most important thing for salespeople to achieve in a discovery call is urgency, you can’t tell a prospect that they have urgency, you can’t manufacture urgency, and you can’t fake urgency. .:

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2025

Are you keeping up? Referral selling isnt just a nice-to-have sales strategy. Your Referral Edge Referral selling is not just a conceptits your unfair advantage. Wait, and you risk playing catch-up for the rest of 2025. Top sales teams win with referrals. As Q1 comes to a close, CROs face a critical inflection point.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The project has already thrown up a few reminders I see time-and-time-again in the sales world. I have been looking through the old dusty files to see if the previous salesperson left any qualified opportunities that could be quickly closed. Little left behind My journey through the old dusty files did not turn up much.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

This requires accurate and relevant information on potential leads. They cannot rely on guesswork or assumptions to understand market dynamics. It provides the required data that sales teams need to find and target relevant customers, identify ideal prospects, personalize outreach, and close deals faster.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

According to recent research from SalesLoft best-performing senior salespeople (like Account Exectuives) need to self-source around 48% of their pipeline–rather than having leads come from a sales development rep (BDR, SDR etc.) or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

Big events are happening so quickly it’s hard to keep up. The global crisis is taking up everyone’s mindshare. This includes your prospects. It’s time for business owners and sales leaders to take action to make sure you can sell effectively if we enter a downtown. Your prospecting numbers may drop too.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2021

One way to stand out is to demonstrate to prospects that you not only bring different habits but are willing to change. If you want to lead your prospects to change their buying habits, be a role model. Change needs to be led, and how you prospect, sell, and manage discovery is the first step. Start With Yours.

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MarketJoy

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A sales strategy should have a concrete lead-generation process set up that can drive a consistent flow of interested prospects who can become loyal customers. B2B lead generation services are your solution to creating a solid lead-generation process for your business.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sales leaders bemoan that they don’t have enough qualified leads in the pipe, that their people aren’t getting meetings with decision-makers, that they can’t seem to differentiate themselves from competitors. That doesn’t surprise me, considering those same salespeople only spent about 28 percent of their time actually selling.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Referral selling is hard for us all, because it’s the most personal kind of selling. It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects.

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The Pipeline

JULY 20, 2021

I’ll follow up by asking “for prospecting and selling?” The majority will tell you they do most, if not all their “research” before even prospecting someone. It is clear that many salespeople use the “activity” as busy work and a means of avoiding actual prospecting. Research Or Recreation?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2025

Youre selling something to someone who just wouldnt budge. Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. If I just described a familiar struggle one you might know all too well Im here to share a solution that might be the answer to your prayers: Gap selling. Table of Contents: What is gap selling?

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