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Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

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Number of qualified strategic or referral partners that you talk with. If you are in outside sales, the number of targeted events you attend (events where your customers and prospects are). Number of qualified appointments or demos that you set up.

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Is Your Lead Generation Data Leading You Astray?

No More Cold Calling

Sure, we reviewed sales reports, and we knew our quotas and our clients, but that was it. The way we learned about our prospects was to call the corporate communications department and request an annual report. We also discussed deals with others in our company who had connections in our prospect companies. They mailed it.)

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For LinkedIn holdouts – 30 Day Action Challenge

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Put this in your calendar so you don’t forget and so that you honor the time – this is what Covey would call, “Quadrant 2 time” – relationship building and referral building time that is “important not urgent” – and really priceless. join groups in the industries your customers and prospective buyers belong to.

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Endless Referrals – Bob Burg

Hyper-Connected Selling

Ask any salesperson or business owner what their three biggest challenges are, and one of them will be “finding new prospects.” Much of this is wasted, though, because it doesn’t actually lead to the relationships that create sales. The only challenge can be that sometimes they don’t know how to articulate who their ideal prospect is.

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9 Principles of Effortlessly Effective Networking

Keith Rosen

Professional networking functions provide access to qualified prospects—fast. It’s a safe assumption that any salesperson would rather follow up with a qualified prospect they recently met rather than make a cold call. To do so, she found an outside sales position selling a line of self-care products. Bring a Wingman.

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Sales and Marketing Strategy for Today: How to Enable Smart ABM in Turbulent Times

Sales Hacker

In the midst of a crisis, this will help boost productivity without blowing your marketing and sales budgets. With COVID-19, outside sales teams have switched to inside. Ground-level interviews with customers and prospects. Sales reps can survey or interview customers to determine how their operations have changed.

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Sales Hiring: The Ultimate Guide for Maximum Success

Vengreso

In the meantime, if a position opens up in your company and no one is qualified for the job, you need to rely on referrals or external hires. Luckily, we have created this guide to help you develop and execute a perfect sales hiring strategy program. How to Hire an Outside Sales Representative (aka Field Sales Rep).

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