MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

That big smile projects the image of the stereotypical telemarketer and puts the prospect on the immediate defence. Your enthusiasm is NOT going to force the prospect to get excited about your call; in fact, it does the opposite. You even know what the prospect will say and how you will respond. MTD Sales Training.

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Exact Prospecting 267

MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This type of thinking is what causes burn-out in the telemarketing industry, and is one of the primary causes of phone-phobia. Either way, understand that if prospects continually hang up the phone on you, there is a problem and that problem begins with you… personally. #2: 3: Never Hang Up On a Prospect. It is personal.

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Up-Sell Prospecting 249

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Always free. Always fabulous! Think again.

Gatekeeper 265

Gatekeeper Cold Calling Referrals Telemarketing 265

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 15, 2012

This type of thinking is what causes burn-out in the telemarketing industry, and is one of the primary causes of phone-phobia. Either way, understand that if prospects continually hang up the telephone on you prematurely, then there is a problem and that problem begins with you…PERSONALLY. Prospect: “…And another thing!

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Up-Sell Follow-up 216

MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

In the recent post, “Today’s Warm Call is the New Cold Call,” I uncovered the fact that with today’s modern prospecting avenues, sales people are often able to establish some contact with a prospective customer before making a telephone call. Don’t assume that the prospect has received all of your information or has read the material.

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Cold Calling Gatekeeper Telemarketing Face-to-face 216

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Over the last 20 years since we began Anthony Cole Training Group , it's been a combination of learning of new stuff, old stuff and old stuff taught a new way. Can your clients or prospects say the same thing? Get Introductions - Get your referrral sources to introduce you and qualify prospects for you.

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Insurance Insurance Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 208

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

Even with the growing number of digital routes, outbound phone calling, or teleprospecting, remains a powerful method to engage personally with your prospects. Skilled telemarketing professionals can reveal needs, discover market intelligence, form early relationships, and ultimately qualify the prospect as a lead, primed to pass on to sales.

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Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113

The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

How do I Overcome my Lack of Confidence When Prospecting: It’s sad to say, but this situation is a major issue and one of the biggest reasons why there’s such a high turnover in sales. If you want proof, just listen to the next telemarketer that calls you. Sales is merely a mind game. Sales Motivation Blog.

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Selling Skills Telemarketing Sports Motivation 175

Leading Results Rambings

JUNE 24, 2013

I was probably a prospect for both the pest service and the alarm company. Make the time and create the processes to train your staff. Customer Service Rants Sales brochures business cards lost sales Sales training telemarketing calls' So please. And I am a customer of the first vendor mentioned. First impressions count.

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Training Telemarketing Vendor Trends 89

Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Assuming for a second, which is always dangerous that you are dealing with the lead situation either by hiring hunters or hiring telemarketers lets move on to the next Must Have strand - Qualifier. Qualifiers do not fear rejection and are not concerned about if the prospect "likes them". It's okay if a prospect wants to think it over.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead InsideView Lead Rank 181

MTD Sales Training

JULY 20, 2011

Stranger, telemarketer here!” While you never want to try to fool the prospect into thinking that they know you if they do not, there are ways to introduce yourself with less abrupt “sting.”. Avoid statements that emphasize that you and the prospect are in different places, especially if you are working long distance. “So,

Cold Calling 120

Cold Calling Telemarketing Conference Video 120

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 12, 2011

To get the appointment, you must pick up the telephone, reach the prospect and get him or her to agree to meet with you. This changes the relaxed state and tone of your natural speaking voice, which in turn makes you sound rehearsed, phony and even suspicious to the prospect. appeared first on MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling!

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Gatekeeper Decision Maker 120

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

“I like numbers when I want to look at quantitative data from a sales manager role, but the power of storytelling is way underrated,” says Carter Young, director of sales training and operations at SaleScout Data Solutions, a B2B sales intelligence provider. That’s why telemarketers always sound robotic,” Pollard states. “A

Marketing 226

Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 26, 2011

The Prospecting Call for Info Only. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. The post Handling the No Name Policy When Cold Calling: Part III – When You Have No Info appeared first on MTD Sales Training. Another, less threatening caller may get that name from the GK. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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Cold Calling Policies Telemarketing Gatekeeper 133

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 10, 2017

Some obviously get the importance of having a standardized, best practice approach set of scripts to train and measure their reps against, while some others don’t think their reps should use a script. They think they’ll sound too much like a telemarketer or that their sale is too “consultative” for them to follow a script.

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Telemarketing B2C Microsoft Sales Qualified Lead 124

Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I’ll sound like a telemarketer,” he said. “I I have to go with the flow because each prospect is different,” he persisted. There are a lot of great sales training books, CD’s, and courses you and your team can take advantage of to get better. John thought he knew better. John didn’t believe in using scripts. So, he didn’t.

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Face-to-face Inside Sales Telemarketing Gatekeeper 157

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Six months into the situation three new reps had been hired; two were in the field only a month and one was finishing training. Training took about four weeks even with experienced salespeople. The sales manager went from new territory to new territory, training and trying to boost the new reps’ closing rates.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Master the art of sales training to supercharge your entrepreneurial success. 00:02:10 – Evolution of the Company Trevor talks about merging seven companies to form the largest digital sales prospecting training company and developing FlyMSG, a text expansion software to aid sales prospecting.

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Telemarketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 52

Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2021

Gopkiran “Gop” Rao, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at MindTickle, recently joined Matt Benelli, Managing Director at Sandler Training, on the ACTivation Nation podcast. Each interaction is a potential revenue moment so people need to be trained and know how to apply their skills in each moment. Everyone is now a seller.

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Face-to-face Telemarketing Distribution Vendor 95

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They did not follow up on the precious qualified prospects that they did find (assuming they knew how to qualify) – OR even worse – they didn’t follow up with actual customers who had a good experience with them but haven’t bought again due to indifference. Tricycle Telemarketing. Tricycle Telemarketing.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Lead Scoring 123

Pointclear

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Cost per Lead Top of Funnel Outbound Sports 154

Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. Prospecting must be smart , articulate, engaging and organized. Here are 7 steps to improve your cold calling results.

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Cold Calling Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 100

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2021

These campaigns can be executed for a number of reasons — including telemarketing, audience research, and customer support. Once prospects have been identified and nurtured through the sales cycle, the ask is ready to be made and the sale completed. A properly executed calling campaign can provide a number of benefits to your business.

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Campaigns Cold Calling How To Telemarketing 126

Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

Though no planning or training could have prepared any organization fully, those that could quickly adjust to their salespeople working remotely work had an advantage. Yet building sales capability involves more than just implementing training programs. 54% actively designed training programs. Invest in Technology.

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Company Sales Outsourcing Hiring Telemarketing 98

Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2022

In the age of COVID and increased remote work, sales development representatives (SDRs) and account executives (AEs) are finding that cold calling can be an effective means of reaching prospects — when handled correctly. B2B cold calling is simply calling a prospective customer before they’ve expressed interest in a product or service.

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Cold Calling B2B Commission Exact 130

Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Recently Dave published a couple of articles on prospecting where he shared that, when sales are low, the answer that most sales managers have is … “We need to fill the pipelines! We need to prospect more!”. We didn’t do telemarketing in those days. His discussion of ratios is of particular interest to me. No social media.

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Telemarketing Cold Calling Social Media Call-back 77

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As I contemplate what the prospect just said, often he or she will end up adding valuable information they may not have said otherwise. It's kind of amazing, because while my prospects acknowledge that this is a good question, frequently they don't have an answer. Covey’s 7 Habits: Start with the end in mind. You're absolutely right.

PointClear 124

PointClear Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 124

Sales Training Advice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

For a quick sales training course we are going to share two similar techniques named parroting or paraphrasing. Follow thee simple principles from our sales training course, “Selling is Easy” and you will listen, learn and sell. These are powerful tools in your active listening strategy. Keep it simple. Keep it easy.

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Hiring Telemarketing Lead Rank Call-back 77

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

Norton attributes his “rock-solid foundation of training and experience” in sales to his early years in D2D. And then immerse yourself in their training rather than worrying “so much about the pace of your career advancement.” He also recommends being enthusiastic, courteous, and confident enough to demand attention from prospects.

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 105

Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Telemarketing. In B2B outbound marketing, cold calling is a prospecting technique used to start business conversations with decision-makers over the phone. Velocify found that the average number of cold calls to a single prospect to close a deal is six. Telemarketing. Table of Contents. What Is Cold Calling? Warm Calling.

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Decision Maker 79

Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). In essence, how are you connected via your team by 2nd and 3rd degree to any client prospect. This Social 3.0 The Social 3.0

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Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 83

Mindtickle

JUNE 22, 2023

For example, businesses may need to adhere to laws governing telemarketing practices, such as obtaining prior consent from recipients or respecting “Do Not Call” registries. Tip #1 for sales leaders Prioritize sales training that focuses on understanding buyer pain points and business needs for effective engagement.

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 98

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 2, 2011

This includes both knowing the physical actions of the correct ratios for a) new sales calls to qualified prospect to proposals delivered to the number of wins for each salesperson. B) You have a plan to assist or help each salespeople attain those numbers and c) you have a plan to help them improve on those numbers.

Sales Leadership 66

Sales Leadership Hiring Telemarketing Face-to-face 66

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. What to check out: The Battles of Starting Your First Prospecting Role.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 98

Sales Training Advice

JULY 12, 2010

In fact, when a telemarketer calls me up at home and says those words that immediately identify them as a sales person, the “How are you today?” If you don’t do this, then you will be pitching and pitching and the prospect will just be waiting for you to take a breath so they can blow you off. Key Points: 1. Do you agree, or disagree?

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Prospecting Remedy Telemarketing Cold Calling 44

Sales Training Advice

JULY 30, 2012

Sometimes you have to prospect. The dictionary defines the verb prospect as “to search or explore (a region), as for gold.” ” When you prospect for clients, you explore your region—your town or your market niche—to locate the gold that may be buried right under your nose. Here are 25 ideas. In Your Office.

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Prospecting Hoovers Referrals Jigsaw 40

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The role of prospecting in a world without SDRs. Why prospecting sits apart from sales [6:59]. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Those two aspects, prospecting/SDRs and the sales assembly line are the two key aspects that I challenge.

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Commission Quota Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank 93