Pointclear

AUGUST 27, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. Man we are hurting. What am I gonna do?”

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Telemarketing Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Management 184

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There are two regulations that are most relevant to B2B sales and marketing teams: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA ) Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation ( CASL ) Here are some key factors to consider when crafting a compliant, responsible, scalable go-to-market strategy in Canada.

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Telemarketing Marketing Inbound Intent Signal 130

Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 22, 2018

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, we welcome Lars Nilsson, CEO of renowned Bay Area sales consultancy SalesSource. The post From Telemarketing to a Seat at the Executive Table: The Evolution of the SDR With SalesSource’s Lars Nilsson appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Sales Evangelist

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Sure, some people believe that people are born to be sales professionals but for many people, such as myself and my guest today, we believe that sales can be taught. Sure, some people believe that people are born to be sales professionals but for many people, such as myself and my guest today, we believe that sales can be taught.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2022

If you Google "How to close a deal", you'll quickly stumble across some tried-and-true best practices for sealing a sales deal. But, in reality, sales deals can be unpredictable and often require sales reps to think on their feet. Read on to learn the wildest ways five HubSpot sales experts have closed deals.

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Closing Telemarketing Hubspot Proposal 95

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2022

As privacy compliance regulations become more stringent, an increasing number of organizations are being penalized for activities that were once seen as standard practice for sales and marketing. This eliminates the chance that a salesperson would reach out to someone who has opted-out of sales and marketing phone calls.

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Telemarketing Scale Strategy How To 100

Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Learn the best effective phone sales techniques including successful cold calling business prospecting, outbound telemarketing, professional telephone calls process, and other opening selling skills, tools, methods, tips and ideas. Again, many sales rep just steamroll over their prospect’s receptiveness and just go into their pitch….

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

To stay ahead of the competition and thrive, it’s essential to identify and adopt sales techniques that can boost your productivity and results. The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Automated sales prospecting.

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

Register for Back in The Black Sales TV—first episode on January 19. The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. Why am I doing a monthly Sales TV Show? We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn cold calling techniques for handling and overcoming the most common objections in telemarketing phone sales including the best call rebuttal responses for “not interested.” ” One of the main reasons sales reps dislike prospecting and cold calling is because of all the sales objections they get.

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Cold Calling Objections Telemarketing Face-to-face 148

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Cold calling is a duplicitous, disingenuous sales tactic. If you make 100 calls, you’ll talk to about 20 people, schedule 10 sales appointments, and if you’re lucky, close one new deal. You might think you’ve been able to avoid sounding like a telemarketer, but that is exactly what you’re doing, and your prospect knows it.

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Cold Calling Social Media Telemarketing Referrals 365

The Sales Hunter

APRIL 23, 2013

Lousy voicemail messages will kill sales faster than you can hit speed dial. If you’re going to sales prospect by way of the telephone, then you better be able to do it with energy. If you’re going to sales prospect by way of the telephone, then you better be able to do it with energy. First, it lacked energy.

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Telemarketing Cold Calling Energy Consultative Selling 229

One of a Kind Sales

AUGUST 29, 2022

When seeking more qualified appointments for their sales team, many businesses outsource to an appointment setting service. These services focus on the “pre-sales” process, which includes implementing professional telemarketing campaigns designed to prospect from a list to set up appointments.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Because a phone conversation efficiently replicates face-to-face sales activities, these one-on-one flowing and probing interactions are the most effective method to validate the quality of a lead. Sales is sales.

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Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 24, 2018

Discover effective openings and sample outbound cold calling phone telemarketing sales pitch scripts including the best tips, techniques and examples ever written for closing calls. If you close sales or do sales presentations over the phone, then you might be wondering what the best way to open the closing call is.

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Cold Calling Examples Telemarketing Outbound 144

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Sales prospecting techniques are the tactics a salesperson uses to find new customers. Sales prospecting techniques are the tactics a salesperson uses to find new customers. Let’s jump in.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Read it and remember the days before it seemed like every call was from a telemarketer. For more on how to leverage technology AND relationships for sales success, get your copy of Pick Up the Damn Phone!: Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' Or get the digital version for your Kindle or Nook.

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Telemarketing Small Business Small Business Enterprise 214

The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2012

Acknowledge – The goal of the exercise is initiate a conversation that for the field rep result in a face to face visit, and for an inside rep a sales call by phone. One reason people hate the mid-dinner telemarketing call is the one sided nature of the call: Telemarketer – “if you sign up today….”. Conversations take two.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Recently, I worked with a very capable salesperson who had a great sales plan and great leads; yet, she failed miserably in at hitting her number. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2023

To help you out, we’ve outlined the five worst types of sales emails and how to fix them. 5 Worst Types of Sales Messages 1. The “Me Me Me” Message When was the last time you interrupted what you were doing to take an unexpected call from a telemarketer? Probably never.

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Hiring Telemarketing Face-to-face How To 121

Anthony Iannarino

JULY 23, 2020

Numerous calls from the same number without a voicemail are proof that the person calling doesn’t want you to identify them, which is why telemarketers use different numbers. However, you do not want to use telemarketers as an example of how to prospect effectively in b2b sales.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Eliminate the time, expense and distraction of setting up your sales telemarketing, business development or inside sales organization. And, as Finkelstein says, “change the game on competitors, operating in bold, unexpected ways that are simply better” by outsouring your marketing and B2B sales lead generation.

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Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2017

Some companies have several inside departments to take in, qualify, nurture, and filter sales leads to such a finite extent that few leads go to anyone. You are: Delaying talking to buyers and reducing your chances of making the sale by 50%, because salespeople, on average, aren’t getting the leads until weeks after they’re created.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Telemarketing 140

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2016

Sales Lead Management is a complicated process. Sales lead management is a tough subject to truly get your arms around. There are dozens of outside vendors who say they manage some portion of the sales lead process and more than two dozen internal departments that contribute to the process and the decision making. Inside Sales.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 145

Go for No!

MARCH 1, 2021

That kind of production is not easy although, for someone in telemarketing, they could do probably do that by lunchtime. There’s a saying that goes: sales solves all problems. No one was there to tell him how crazy that was. Although, it worked and he got massive results by taking massive action. Please let me know your thoughts.

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Workbooks Telemarketing Referrals Lead Generation 139

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. It doesn’t matter how frequently you call prospects or how many years you’ve been in sales, you’ll always feel some anxiety before you dial — and that’s a good thing. If you’re nervous, you’re taking it seriously.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 14, 2013

I sat across the desk from Mike, the new VP of Sales. Before his promotion Mike was the can’t-miss Sales Manager. Now he was just another VP of Sales in the crosshairs. After a quick conversation, we found he was committing 3 of the sales myths below. The majority of Sales VPs are guilty of at least one.

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Sales Management Hiring Telemarketing Demand Generation Targets 326

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These “gatekeeper” tactics are insincere, duplicitous, unprofessional, offensive, and a waste of sales time. Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Consider the opposite sales approach. A waste of your time.

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eGrabber

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In B2B sales, one of the most important factors for success is your ability to connect with a live person. A recent customer review highlighted how LeadGrabber Pro consistently enables their telemarketing team to reach live contacts—something that sets it apart from Seamless AI. Ready to Improve your Sales Conversion Rates?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 30, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I have to question Geoffrey James for an article he recently posted on Inc. He makes it sound more like telemarketing than prospecting for appointments or meetings. It certainly doesn''t apply to a complex B2B sale! Magazine''s online site. Isn''t this a prospecting call?

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Prospecting Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 246

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sales ops executives are charged with improving sales effectiveness and efficiency. Your goal is to best enable sales. Look across the spectrum of Sales Operations. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Review your Sales Process.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? Although I’m not sure selling, per se, has changed! But the drawer is empty today.

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Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 15, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I was on three separate calls with sales managers whose salespeople needed to fill their pipelines but hadn''t. A perfectionist must do things perfectly and if ever there was a sales activity that was ripe for imperfection, it would be the prospecting call. They will fail.

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Telemarketing Pipeline Course Prospecting 260

Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 13, 2013

but if anyone knows what happened to Les, please let me know - I created a Sales Camp and a Sales University for Autodesk: One of the modules was “Telemarketing” which was a real challenge for me, as I had no experience. A positive and confident mind-set is essential for successful telemarketing and cold calling.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In a recent episode of the Expert Insight Interview, host John Golden sat down with Glenn Sandifer , the Senior Director of Securitas Technology US, to discuss the evolving landscape of inside sales. Understanding Inside Sales John Golden begins the conversation by asking Glenn Sandifer to define what an inside sales team is.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Eventually, most antiquated models are replaced by more up-to-date, efficient, and sometimes exciting models. Outside sales is being replaced by inside sales but not in the way that most people think. The people in outside sales aren''t being replaced by the people in inside sales.

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