Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Its critical to realize that we are each unique individuals, prospects included, with varying thinking and abilities.

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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. Or, would you rather spend your time on a cold outreach and try a dozen touches to reach your prospect? Dramatically shorten your prospecting time.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Social Media B2C 288

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

percent of business buyers prefer to work with referred vendors, and 73 percent prefer to work with referred salespeople, according to IDC and LinkedIn. That’s leaving money on the table, because 83 percent of satisfied customers are willing to refer products and services, according to a marketing survey conducted by Texas Tech.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 27, 2019

While someone's reference to a hard sell may differ, the perception of the hard sell is fairly universal. After prospects state an objection, say they're not interested, or tell the salesperson, "No," prospects tend to raise their resistance. No offense intended to those of you in one of those three industries!

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2025

These pain points hurt team morale and your bottom line: Pain Point #1: Your team struggles to get meetings with prime prospects. Prospects dont know you, dont trust you, and dont want to take your call. When your reps are introduced to prospects by a trusted connection, they no longer start the sales conversation as strangers.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

When I refer you, I put my reputation on the line, so I need to trust that you’ll take care of my connection as I would. I refer you to someone I know well. They know I won’t waste their time, and they’ll gain insights from anyone I refer. So, when I refer you, this person’s trust in me gets transferred to you.

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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. How do you get access to your prime prospects? Referrals can transfer earned trust from a customer to a prospect.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Since then I’ve sold millions of dollars of technology and services, run my own sales outsourcing and training company, grown a digital agency and pioneered a new approach to selling now known as “social selling”. Getting in-the-door with a cold calling.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. Fifty of the company’s best clients said they’d be glad to refer them! Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. In 2018, I was referred to LinkedIn Learning. The year was 1996.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. And you will align all systems in your organization—recruiting, training, and compensation—to support the referral selling process.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Managers tell reps to stress the quality, the warranty, the features and benefits, but your prospects have heard all that before, haven’t they? Often times, services and products are roughly the same, and prospects will buy from the people they like, know or trust. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Want a better way?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One of the most important skills that a salesperson needs to possess is the ability to engage in what I refer to as “appropriate and respectful confrontation” with a prospect…at least when the need arises. For the sake of simplicity, let’s just refer to that as the ability to push back.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This is the only way to earn a returning and referring clientele—the hallmark of The Smooth Sale! Prospects who soon become paying clients may find annoyance with products and services that perform poorly as promised. Commit to learning in every way possible, including unforeseen errors, insights of others, and formal training.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

P hoto by DigitalArtist Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Add Gamification to Your Strategy for Business Growth You’ve probably heard of “recreational shopping,” which refers to customers enjoying themselves by looking for and purchasing items. For further references and insights, please visit: 1. Frank Mayer 3.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The underlying goal of prospective clients is to realize the value of working with you in all respects. When customers and clients walk away happy, you are well on your way to the Smooth Sale—earning a returning and referring clientele. Sales Training Part of selling comes down to execution.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They need to be trained in how to ask for referrals successfully. And unless asking for referrals is an organization’s #1 outbound prospecting strategy, sales teams will revert to their old habits: cold calling and occasionally asking for referrals to “anybody.”. It would be great if happy customers referred us all the time.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 6, 2017

Much like my mom’s BMW, I use personalized emails to catch the attention of my most important prospects. Either I get responses from someone who forwarded my email, or the prospect who received the email responds themselves. So what situations are appropriate for this type of prospecting? When your prospect is a decision maker.

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MTD Sales Training

MARCH 26, 2019

By different types of sales, we’re referring to the styles that salespeople will adopt when they are with prospects and customers. So, what are we referring to when we talk about different types? This type of sale requires an element of trust and relationship between the salesperson and the prospect. Happy Selling!

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 23, 2017

They are thinking about who can the customer refer to them who may possibly buy the product or service, and this is a mistake. Likewise, when thinking about referrals, sales people are looking for a “ready made customer” instead of a possibly qualified prospect. MTD Sales Training. appeared first on MTD Sales Training.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

percent of business buyers prefer to work with referred vendors, and 73 percent prefer to work with referred salespeople, according to IDC and LinkedIn. That’s leaving money on the table, because 83 percent of satisfied customers are willing to refer products and services, according to a marketing survey conducted by Texas Tech.

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 23, 2024

They have also introduced a number of innovative features that can be leveraged to increase your prospecting effectiveness and this includes on LinkedIn and other social networks. A Suggested LinkedIn Prospecting Process Discover, evaluate, document, engage, nurture and in this order. Here’s how!

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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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Shari Levitin

JUNE 30, 2021

What Your Prospects Aren't Telling You. Here are three strategies you can leverage right now to enhance your customer experience and make prospects feel like doing business with you. Later, I incorporated this idea into our training programs. The very act of answering these questions will shift your frame of reference.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 20, 2018

5. Know your prospects. Find the problem, discover solution, present why solution is best for prospect. And I’d like to refer to them as Identity Skills. Make your key objective to help the customer, not to close a sale. 6. Know your competition. Solve their problems. Know your company story. Build rapport. Networking.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While one looks at buyer’s state of readiness to buy, you can cross-reference with length of relationship with incumbent provider. Everyone gets trained; buyers know what to say to shunt also-rans and reward the 20% they want to deal with. These are say but two factors that answer the question “where the buyer is at.”.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. Effective cold email outreach means find something your prospect values – and something you have in common. It’s time to get personal.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

Sales enablement refers to the process of providing a sales team with the information and content they need to nurture prospects and close deals more efficiently. A sales enablement content strategy involves a structured process for sales teams to access and deliver relevant content to the prospects in their sales pipeline. .

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 10, 2024

All the while, peers, prospects, and clients observe us fully to realize whether we are motivated to continue and perform well or are simply there to collect money and be done with them and further offerings. Prospective clients can hear the anxiety in their voices if everything is left to the last minute for finalizing business.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Author: Michael Nørregaard When prospects are evaluating your company, they’re looking to ultimately maximize their return on investment. They want minimal downtime, support they can rely on and access to as much training as possible, so they can be in turn, as successful as possible with their deployment. This is crucial.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2018

More than 10 years ago, a marketing agency told me most sellers cave on price before prospects even ask for a discount. We’ve trained our buyers to expect discounts and that everything is negotiable. Price isn’t an issue with referral business. Sadly, that behavior continues in sales negotiations today. Prequalify with Referrals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling gives a prospect a compelling reason to hear you out. Early stage prospects often gravitate toward videos and short, educational demonstrations. Closing the deal.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. Sandhu also touched on the value of leveraging a "teach-show-do" framework when training reps. Sandhu also stressed how managers need to commit to repetition when training their reps.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 18, 2024

But sadly, those who aren’t trained in sales are left in the dark on how to get past the overwhelming number of ‘No’s!’ Moreover, they sarcastically laughed at my conversations with prospective clients while I was on the phone. The ‘numbers game’ is only to be in the sales arena, not with prospective clients.

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MTD Sales Training

APRIL 12, 2020

You’re conducting an online sales presentation to a prospective new customer…. I am also referring to the cost to the company regarding resources. If talking about money or earnings off topic, changing the frame of reference can sometimes sound more appealing e.g. Saying £2.4m This really comes down to a number of key points.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. It is through the use of the right B2B prospecting that we can continue to succeed in this always-evolving field. But before we start, let’s define what sales prospecting is.

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