Veloxy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are you a field sales representative struggling to reach potential customers? One of the biggest roadblocks you might face is figuring out how to find someone’s phone number, especially when you’re in unfamiliar territory. Luckily, there are tools out there that can help. It’s time to get connected.

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Iannarino

JULY 29, 2021

The poll he posted asked which medium to use first in a prospecting sequence : phone, email, social media, or an in-person visit. He argued (and I agree) that the phone should start your sequence. The reason is simple and straightforward: if the person who answers your call agrees to a meeting, you no longer need a sequence.

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Cold Call Referrals Clients Appointment 355

ClickFunnels

JUNE 24, 2021

The post Lead Generation Vs Prospecting – The Differences Explained appeared first on ClickFunnels. The terms “lead generation” and “sales prospecting” are often used interchangeably. But should you do that? What is sales prospecting? What is the difference between lead generation and sales prospecting?

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Veloxy

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you’re solely reliant on a canned elevator pitch and sheer luck to hit your quotas, you’re looking at a lot of hungry nights and empty accounts my friend. But knowing how difficult it is to convince prospects these days, it makes sense to use all the tools at your disposal to outdo the competition.

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Technique Sales Prospecting Up-sell 130

Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

You can make the same mistakes when making a cold call by using the same flawed techniques. Much of the time, I try to create enough shame to get them to walk out on their job: “Your poor mother! Do not target the companies that already buy what you sell or are highly likely to start doing so.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, just 17% of marketers have mature ABM strategies in place, thus presenting your business with a wonderful opportunity to gain an advantage over the competition. However, just 17% of marketers have mature ABM strategies in place, thus presenting your business with a wonderful opportunity to gain an advantage over the competition.

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Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Asynchronous prospecting does not provide the experience necessary to become a great salesperson. There is a bottomless pit of people, especially on social media, who will tell you why you should not make cold calls. Many believe that cold calling is dead, but the successful use it to outproduce their competitors.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

It isn’t the smarmy, pushy approach using sleazy tricks and gimmicks that unfortunately is how it’s still perceived by many. Rather, it requires process, structure, discipline and collaboration with customers to help them improve their business outcomes. Why I Love Sales Dave, I found your question very thought provoking.

Sell 122

Sell Assembly Line Territory Sports 122

Search Engine Land

MAY 10, 2024

How you navigate negative reviews reveals a lot about what type of business you are. This article covers the importance of navigating negative reviews from past employees, learning from these reviews and ensuring your company doesn’t take a reputational hit. The same goes for if you have good reviews.)

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Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A successful cold email program — or “prospecting,” if you prefer — takes careful handling. You’re reaching out to strangers one-on-one to persuade them to initiate a business relationship with you. ChatGPT and other writing bots can give you workable first drafts that you can tweak to match your prospects.

Pitch 107

Pitch Contact Follow-up Clients 107

SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Do you remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears ? That’s what we want with our prospective clients! That’s what we want with our prospective clients! We want them to feel so comfortable, and at home, with us during the sales conversation that they make that decision to work with us.

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Martech

MARCH 6, 2024

Since February, Google and Yahoo’s new spam policy updates have shaken things up for businesses using cold email outreach. Concerned that these rules will kill your cold emails and your outbound teams might go crazy? So what are the requirements and how should you adapt and avoid harsh penalties? Desired delivery.

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Electricity Non-Profits Construction Real Estate 104

PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

Sales and marketing are two terms that are often used interchangeably. Both business processes are crucial to generating revenue and keeping your company profitable. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics of sales vs marketing and how you can better align and use them in your business.

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Contract Legal A/B testing Teamwork 52

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I’m not referring to the presentation step of the sales process, as much as I am using “sales presentations” as a replacement term for “sales calls.” The point is that while I am fascinated by this insight, there is little chance that YOU care about this. Could it be my short-term memory?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. To fully understand this powerful analogy, you’ll want to read the next three paragraphs and allow me to make my case. Similarly, many prospects are also non-believers in your product or service.

Process 133

Process Pipeline Sales Gaming 133

Salesforce

APRIL 24, 2024

Remember the last time you moved? You probably had to pack up too much stuff, transport it in a truck and unpack it in the new location – hoping it survived the trip. Imagine if your furniture and belongings could just teleport to your new place in perfect condition. They don’t have to. What is a data warehouse?

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Customers Transportation Government UX 124

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales velocity is a KPI that indicates the rate at which your team generates revenue.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Legal Objectives and Key Results Lead generation 52

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Many salespeople waste too much time on prospects with little to no chance of converting. Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. Read on to learn more.

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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Gone are the days when gating all content to meet quarterly MQL KPIs was effective. Understanding lead generation ZoomInfo refers to lead generation as: “[T]he process of attracting prospects and getting them into the sales funnel, with the goal of converting them into customers. Contradiction? Let’s explore.

B2B 112

B2B Lead generation GTM CRM 112

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. Because it’s the right thing to do and in the 21st century — you are only as good as your public persona. Buyer beware.” Seller beware” is becoming the new norm.

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Process Territory Sales Education 84

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your sales team doesn’t have time for efficiency blockers in a competitive, fast-paced market. Even if you’ve defined your ICP and created a targeted list of prospects, you may still find that your prospecting isn’t generating impactful results. These requests also need to be processed within two days.

Prospecting 90

Prospecting Contact CRM Campaign 90

Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Think about the last time you watched a football game. It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Sales Technique 110

Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

Ultimately, all the technology in the world isn’t worth the investment if the data it relies on is poor. The systems they use to manage customers, fill their pipelines and generate new revenues are often outdated, incorrect and missing information. Can you blame them? Maybe your systems are in a similar spot.

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Territory CRM Manufacturing Pipeline 117

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each of us experiences the same thing, grumbling at the terrible quality outreach. Then, too many of us turn around and inflict bad outbound prospecting on our own victims. 100% of the prospecting messages I see are product focused. Some of you may react, “But Dave, we do this. How does it impact us?

Product 98

Product Sell Pitch B2B 98

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Videos are likely the most captivating tool to draw in prospects and guide them through the customer journey. For videos to be deemed a potent tool for your online strategy, there’s a crucial condition – they must be easily discoverable and suitable for indexing. This article tackles: Why technical SEO matters for video content.

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UX Engineering Follow-up User Experience 126

Martech

JUNE 23, 2023

HubSpot’s May releases include a prospecting workspace, playlists for coaching, an AI content assistant for social media, content approvals and many releases related to goals. Previously, many teams had to leave HubSpot and use a point solution to manage the high volumes of daily prospecting activities efficiently.

Contact 95

Contact Campaign Meeting Prospecting 95

Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. Using the same approach to all our target audience risks alienating the remaining 95% who are not yet in-market. We might have a decent operation for the 5% of in-market prospects.

Pipeline 79

Pipeline Contact Prospecting B2B 79

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Do you have a difficult time choosing the right tools for your team? Feel like maybe you have too many tools in your stack collecting dust? Worst of all, do these silos create roadblocks in getting your campaigns to market?

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 9, 2024

You'll learn the significance of how understanding personality styles will elevate your sales skills, help you build deeper relationships, and improve your closing ratio. You know it, I know it. You've got your quiet thinkers, your chatty Kathys, your decision-makers, and those who need a bit more hand-holding.

Sell 95

Sell Pitch Quota Gaming 95

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We need you to set it up, and figure out how we use it.” We need you to set it up, and figure out how we use it.” We were doing it all back then, with very little playbook guidance: Lead magnets. Tracking prospect activity on our website. Lead generation was at an all-time high. Lead capture forms.

B2B 112

B2B Technology Technology Pipeline 112

Highspot

MARCH 21, 2024

We’ll explore how to craft good sales emails that get opened and inspire action, all while introducing four metrics to measure sales email success. Marketing Emails Different Types of Sales Emails Steps to Crafting the Best Sales Email When Should You Send a Sales Email? A recent McKinsey & Co.

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A/B testing Sales Follow-up Click Through Rate 96

Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’ve ever tried using avatars or buyer personas to write a Google Ads headline, you know it can be frustrating and fruitless. You try to define your target market, only to be told, “Our audience is anyone who wants our product – we don’t exclude anyone.” Ready to refine your approach? Let’s dive in.

CTR 104

CTR Real Estate Legal Clients 104

Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Crafting emails that resonate with your audience and drive conversions is more challenging than ever. At the same time, repetitive tasks can take 10 or more hours per week. Even if you go this way, mind that it’s important to keep a human touch in your marketing and sales communications while optimizing your processes.

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Follow-up Contact Trust CRM 126

Search Engine Land

APRIL 15, 2024

Then, you must create what Google calls “ helpful, reliable, people-first content.” In this article, I will outline a process that shows you exactly how to do that and provide a simple template you can fill out to take your content to the next level. Step 1: Goals What is your goal for this content?

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While AI is all the rage , if you are not using it. It is not going anywhere, and rushing to the new shiny object because everyone else is using it does not guarantee you will improve your marketing or get your organization any closer to growth. I am not here to dissuade anyone from using AI.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you can’t see where each deal is in your sales process and how long it’s been there, you’ll struggle to improve it. . A well-defined sales pipeline makes your sales process transparent, allowing you to see your deals in the sales funnel, where they’re getting stuck, and how long the entire process takes.

Pipeline 118

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Sales 118

Gong.io

JULY 7, 2022

Modern tips, tricks, and software certainly have their place, but they help you maximize an effective sales methodology — they don’t replace it. So if you’re itching for a new approach, why not take a break and learn why this 55-year-old sales system is so effective and how you can implement it today. Buyers should invite you in.

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Sell Objectives and Key Results Technique Consult 118