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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I'll preface these tips by mentioning that many sales teams struggle to hit quota during the holiday season — and those issues come from a lot of different angles, including: It's a shorter quarter with weeks-long holidays for prospects. Prospects take additional PTO during the holidays, in addition to company-wide holidays.

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Quota How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 142

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Making the cold outreach process less intimidating often depends on sales quotas. You want to set attainable quotas that achieve real success without compromising the seller’s sanity or the prospect’s journey. To be successful, quotas should be based on tried and true data. 270 emails x 3.5 minutes = 945 minutes = 15.75

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Outbound Quota LinkedIn Follow-up 130

Alice Heiman

APRIL 15, 2020

A month ago, you knew what to say when you picked up the phone or composed an email to prospect s. You had all the tools you needed to prospect efficiently and effectively. . The New Reality of Prospecting . How to Talk to Your Prospects . Here are five tips for talking to prospects. . Relationships matter.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting How To Face-to-face 166

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The obvious may be to look at technology, or skills training to help, but there is one low tech approach that works for many, regardless of sales church they claim allegiance to, namely, slow down! Building a base of knowledge and understanding with a given prospect, their objectives, hurdles, etc., In essence, quantity over quality.

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Scale Quota Margin Referrals 265

Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

At first, it seemed almost rude to utter it… But let me ask you: out of ten prospects you pitch to, how many end up actually buying? Yep, two out of ten prospects you speak with turn into buyers. That’s why many sales teams don’t make their quotas. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 255

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. In any organization, the top sellers often make quota.

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Training Hiring How To Proposal 116

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2018

Yes, they still get a phone, which they rarely use, because most prospects and clients are never at their desks and only give their mobile numbers to salespeople they actually want to hear from. The majority (71 percent) leave voluntarily, for two main reasons: The employer provided inadequate training, coaching, and professional development.

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Account Hiring Lead Generation Face-to-face 272

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. But as Mike Tyson said, the best made plans are laid out by the first punch or prospect objection. Doing a much better job selling the manager on the discount than selling the value to the prospect.

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SME Lead Rank Lead Scoring Discount 299

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. And you will align all systems in your organization—recruiting, training, and compensation—to support the referral selling process. Yep, most of us are lazy and lack discipline.

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Missing even more than 5% of your budgeted team can cause a missed quota. Social Selling Emphasis : Social Selling is a modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities. Training your sales team how to social sell will immediately improve your sales pipeline. Book a social selling training in three weeks.

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Hiring Top of Funnel How To Social Selling 325

SBI Growth

APRIL 27, 2013

It didn’t matter how much training or communication they received – they were simply “old dogs that couldn’t learn new tricks.”. Doesn''t even check messages on Linkedin or research prospects. Lately, however, has started to work her LinkedIn network better to focus on prospects. LinkedIn is her first stop for prospect research.

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Buyer Persona Networking LinkedIn Trends 335

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 23, 2020

Are prospects going to answer their phones? In a sea of uncertainty, one thing is sure: we still have quotas to reach, bills to pay, and life will go on. More and more companies are opening up; each one of these companies have goals and quotas just like you. And I don’t mean a “quota” production plan, I mean an activity plan.

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Face-to-face Referrals Call-back Quota 220

Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s also reported that, when a person suffers from stress, they’re unable to access previous knowledge or training and instead resort to an automatic response—typically shutting down, quitting, or losing confidence. While this advice may sound cliché, it really is important for sales reps to approach their quota one day at a time.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 258

Sales 2.0

MARCH 30, 2014

Subject: @Your Company: Tips for Training Your People. Hi Bruce, Loved the recent tweet from [Your Company] on how to train your people. Your quota I suspect. Prospecting Sales 2.0 Here’s a real email received this week (of course edited to protect those involved). This email came from a “Sales 2.0 tools company” rep.

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Tools Face-to-face Social Selling Banking 323

No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2018

Find out how they know your prospects, what’s important to the prospects, what their challenges are, what they value, how they communicate, and what might get in the way of your sales success. Or, would you rather spend your time on a cold outreach and try a dozen touches to reach your prospect? A referral is highly personal.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Social Media B2C 288

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Sales training. Why are reps not being taught how to generate demand in the new prospects? Shouldn''t the front line sales managers be leading the training and it be buyer centric? How was he going to teach his team to generate appointments inside their target prospects?

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Eighty percent of the prospecting sales force is under 25 years old. Outbound prospecting shouldn’t be any different. And since the sales process is a journey for a prospect/customer, it is also the roadmap for a sales rep’s job. A linear, measurable, and repeatable outbound prospecting process.

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Quota How To Outbound Cold Calling 129

Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . Salespeople who had poor selling skills before COVID are now extremely challenged in hitting their quotas. Coaching and training have a fourfold impact on acquiring new skills than training alone. . .

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Coaching Face-to-face Selling Skills Call-back 282

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

This requires going beyond one-size-fits-all training and development programs that are measured by simple pass/fail certifications or completion rates. Many sales leaders hire long-tenured reps with the misguided assumption that they don’t have to invest in training. The Missing Metric.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 276

Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

Only a mere 13% of the modern sales force consists of ‘A Players’ – or reps who consistently exceed quota. In fact, for the last few decades, only about 50% of sales reps have achieved quota ( source ). CCS® specializes in world-class sales training that helps organizations predictably improve revenue growth and sales performance.

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Forecasting B2B CRM Quota 272

Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Are your sales reps relying on headquarter phone numbers every time they reach out to a prospect? A sales rep using a direct dial is 46% likelier to reach a prospect at the director level than a rep who is not using a direct dial. Studies show that sales reps forget 84% of all sales training content after 90 days ( source ).

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Sales Qualified Lead Penetration B2B Face-to-face 207

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Prospecting. Make meeting scheduling easier for prospects. Help build email sequences for lead nurturing — the ones that don’t respond to initial prospecting. It’s when prospects should be convinced that your product or service will resolve their challenges. Personalize content specifically for your prospect.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 16, 2018

The best prospecting strategies require a human touch. None of that would be bad, if reps were hitting quota. But most likely 57 percent of reps won’t make quota this year. To learn more about the most high-touch prospecting strategy of all, check out my new referral sales training courses on LinkedIn Learning.

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Fashion Buying Cycle Social Media Cold Calling 219

The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2019

Selective Training. The skinny legs for many sellers are prospecting. Not much new in that, sales people have always preferred almost any other sales activity to prospecting. Specifically, direct prospecting , not indirect, not merely answering an inbound call generated by marketing. Only The Shell Has Changed.

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Handbook Lead Rank Hiring Top of Funnel 235

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2020

Don’t confuse this with your quota or other short-term goals. It might be prospecting activity, learning or investing in key relationships. Many salespeople think in term of their needs – quota, income and recognition. Habit 2 means to begin each day, meeting or career with a clear vision of your destination, your big plan.

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Real Estate Webinar Metrics Intent Face-to-face 320

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Last week I posted a call for understanding the importance human involvement at crucial times along the prospecting experience. Given that less than 60% of B2B reps hit quota, I’d say we have an underperforming asset. By Tibor Shanto.

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Objections ROI Call-back Quota 258

Allego

JULY 20, 2022

A sales rep schedules a meeting with a prospect, but then they receive a request to attend a training session for the exact same time. Sales training is critical. But they also must win deals and hit quota. The best solution: Implement a sales training program that allows for both. Virtual Training Fatigue.

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Training Hiring Webinar Metrics How To 118

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Life is so Shakespearean , especially for the 40 some odd percent of salespeople who’ll fail to deliver quota, again. Let’s face it the quota train has left the station and headed for next year. Remember the prospect has had 9 months or so to learn to hate the incumbent or their choice. By Tibor Shanto.

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Objections Face-to-face Quota Pipeline 188

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. Because of this belief, CEOs invest more money in beer Fridays and office supplies than training their salespeople, sales managers, or any other department that interfaces with the customer. .

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Hiring Account SalesForce Quota 214

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The truth is, most sales reps haven’t received any formal training in this area. 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ). 98% of sales reps with more than 5,000 LinkedIn connections meet or surpass their quota ( source ). But, what do you really know about social selling?

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Social Selling Social Media Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 184

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It seems if we just showed up and shut-up, we may do better than some of the close rates quoted in the sales press, especially when measured by quota attainment, or lack thereof these days. But seriously, people talk about what they know, so if we help them understand what prospects want to know about, which is not product oriented.

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Vendor Discount Insurance Insurance 255

SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2014

The top 20% of reps are confident because they consistently hit quota. Train reps on each potential buying center within their accounts and the corresponding Personas. Teach your team to leverage social prospecting to get referred into other buying centers. Sales people quit when they lose confidence. Personas build confidence.

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Buyer Persona Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Buyer 303

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Here are five reasons you should.

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Inside Sales Training Hiring Outsourcing Services 110

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Access to high-quality contact data, market trends, and emerging predictive analytics tools allow for rapid segmentation of high-quality accounts and prospects. Get the prospect out of their own way.

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Conversion Decision Maker Outbound Top of Funnel 224

Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2019

It provides insight into where your leads are coming from and what channels are providing you with the most sales-ready prospects. Ultimately, knowing where your prospect places the most importance, will help you understand your buyer’s mindset and tailor your sales pitch to their needs. This is helpful for a few reasons.

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B2B Closing Guarantee Scale 252