Iannarino

AUGUST 7, 2021

Many believe that cold calling is dead, but the successful use it to outproduce their competitors. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook. Recently, I saw a sales job advertised on LinkedIn promising that employees would not have to cold call any prospective clients. Email Prospecting. Qualifying.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead.

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Iannarino

JULY 9, 2021

So far, not even the most, ahem, venerable salespeople have been able to produce anything close to a stereotypically aggressive pitch that you might call a hard sell. It is doubtful that any salesperson alive has made more cold calls than I have. Some years ago, I taught a class on Professional Selling at Capital University.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 21, 2022

I was reading a LinkedIn article on “Cold Calling… ” I’m beginning to think articles or surveys about cold calling happen when you don’t have anything else to talk about. The topic of cold calling will always raise opinions — however well or poorly informed those might be.

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Iannarino

JUNE 15, 2021

Execute your best sales calls with this FREE Sales Call Planner. Later, information about your solution seemed to hold the value, as it solved the client’s problem. Now, the value you create during your conversations with prospective clients is found in your insights, your advice, and your recommendations.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The 48 Types of VP Sales. When You Fall Out of Product-Market Fit Is Cold Calling Dead? Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Qualtrics, Cvent, Momentive. $18

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Three Valuation Lows in SaaS: 2013, 2016, and 2022 5 Interesting Learnings from Doximity at $450,000,000 in ARR Is Cold Calling Dead? 74% of You Say No!

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Someone tried to suck me into a LinkedIn discussion on cold calling today. The article declaring cold calling dead was written by a colleague I deeply respect, and I have no disagreement with the points in her article. I’ll look at a variety of aspect of cold calling. What is cold calling?

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s everything captured using Gong during web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails. Read the full analysis in ROI is Dead. Here’s why that happened (steady yourself for some bad news, my friend): Using social proof techniques during early-stage calls plummets eventual close rates by 47%. BILLION articles.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Cold, impersonal outreach won’t win points with customers — and that’s assuming that it even reaches their inbox at all. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. with the intent to purchase. Method 2: Target your email list.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 17, 2024

Google explained: “To distinguish conversions in Google Analytics from those in Google Ads, Analytics conversions are now called key events. If you disagree, then ask yourself this question: Would you rather tell your executives that you will be providing “sushi” or “cold, dead, raw fish” at their next meeting? Words matter.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2020

I suppose it’s human nature, we all have so much fun calling out obviously bad performance. It becomes too easy to call these out. It really isn’t a problem with the sales people we call out, it’s a management and leadership problem. Bad sales people and managers don’t read this blog.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 7, 2020

The Content Characteristics of High-Performing Blog Posts. A look at some of the common characteristics of top-performing blog posts. If Cold Calling Is Dead, Why Is The Topic So Hot? Why does cold calling keep coming up if it’s really dead? Are we in the midst of a social media hangover?

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Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

Google explained: “To distinguish conversions in Google Analytics from those in Google Ads, Analytics conversions are now called key events. If you disagree, then ask yourself this question: Would you rather tell your executives that you will be providing “sushi” or “cold, dead, raw fish” at their next meeting? Words matter.

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Smart Calling

JUNE 22, 2020

Upon examination of their methods, processes, and beliefs I often can spot mistakes being made due to belief in one—or many—of the cold calling myths that still are being perpetuated. I’ve list them, along with the Smart Calling truths. Cold Calling Myth: “It’s just a numbers game.”. Perhaps you’ve heard them.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 2, 2023

Learning how to get numbers for cold calling is a vital skill that can significantly boost your sales or recruitment efforts. With the right strategies and tools, you can efficiently source phone numbers and make impactful cold calls that convert. How do I find potential leads for real estate cold calling?

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. This week’s show is called “Is Outbound the New Normal? And so I always give him crap about, when he talks about the rain, I call it beach drizzle. We talk all about outbound and how to make outbound work. Eric: Absolutely.

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Pointclear

MAY 19, 2015

Have you noticed how many things are dead these days? Cold calling is dead. Outbound marketing is dead. Many say that even marketing as a whole is dead. I grew up during a time when it seemed like a lot of things were dead: Paul was dead. Soon after, poetry was dead. I don’t think so.

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Smart Calling

DECEMBER 2, 2018

“Cold” calling is indeed dead, and should never be done. However, the calling for new business IS very much alive, and being done in the Smart way by salespeople to generate massive amounts of new business. There’s no reason to, other than laziness. Listen Now.

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Gong.io

APRIL 19, 2018

Many salespeople swear this is one of the best cold call opening lines: “Did I catch you at a bad time?”. It opens the door to a successful cold call. That’s the nature of cold calling opening lines — they have a shelf life. Three weeks ago, we published: Cold Callin g Is Dead, Unless You Follow These Rules.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

By analyzing millions of sales interactions captured by Gong’s Revenue Intelligence Platform across web-conferencing, phone calls, and emails. By analyzing millions of sales interactions captured by Gong’s Revenue Intelligence Platform across web-conferencing, phone calls, and emails. Sales Stat #1: DON’T use ROI in cold emails.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can even ask Siri, Alexa and Google or search on Audible!

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Gong.io

MARCH 29, 2018

Cold calling is a game of inequality. As a result, many people conclude that cold calling is dead. Most salespeople are failing miserably at cold calling. What are these cold callers doing differently? To understand what correlates with cold calling success, we threw some data at the question.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2022

” I got to tactical questions like, “Is cold calling dead?” Would you take a cold call if you could?” It’s a fascinating tool, offering some potentially fascinating potential. How should sellerrs deal with buyer aversion to working with sellers?” What do you think?

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

Now, there are a few naysayers who proclaim that “SaLeS fUnNeLs ArE dEaD.” . It‘s where a buyer initially becomes aware of your brand, typically through some kind of inbound marketing channel like a blog post (you know, like this one). The B2B sales funnel is a popular method for modeling this journey. What is a B2B sales funnel? .

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Pointclear

AUGUST 21, 2013

Anthony Iannarino wrote in a blog that “All generalizations are lies.” One of the biggest and most damaging is that cold calling is dead. The reality is that cold calling is alive and well. Trish Bertuzzi states,“It is the cold that is dead, not the calling.”. Cold vs. Gold.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 17, 2014

Although I don’t believe I’ve blogged about these numbers, I know I have verbally tossed them about with peers and customers. This information has been used to support cold calling scripts and cadences. What now, is cold calling really dead? Haven’t you?

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Smart Calling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Get the Smart Calling book here. Hear Episode 3, “The Cold is Dead, But Not the Calling” The post Calling Their Baby Ugly is Not a Good Prospecting Strategy appeared first on Smart Calling Blog. Some salespeople use the “Your Baby is Ugly” approach. And it should be avoided.

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Gong.io

MARCH 29, 2018

Cold calling is a game of inequality. As a result, many people conclude that cold calling is dead. Most salespeople are failing miserably at cold calling. To understand what correlates with cold calling success, we threw some data at the question. Here’s the reality….

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 11, 2021

You might think that cold calling for sales pitch might be a thing of the past, but did you know that 92% of customer interactions still happen over the phone? But despite those numbers, the success rate for cold calls is appallingly low. Best Cold Calling Scripts to Boost Your Sales.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

I've written many blog posts on the fact that cold calling isn't dead. Using these gold calling techniques will help you have faith in the cold calling process. Whether you call high quality cold calling Gold Calling or Cold Calling 2.0,

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Gong.io

APRIL 19, 2018

Many salespeople swear this is one of the best cold call opening lines: “Did I catch you at a bad time?”. It opens the door to a successful cold call. That’s the nature of cold calling opening lines — they have a shelf life. Three weeks ago, we published: Cold Callin g Is Dead, Unless You Follow These Rules.

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Lead Fuze

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Are they a good lead that will give you a front-page story, or is it a dead-end? People who’ve responded: If someone responds to your cold emails and phone calls, they’re still a lead until you qualify them a bit. What is a Lead? A lead is someone who has expressed interest in your company or product. LeadFuze in action.

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VanillaSoft

JUNE 3, 2021

Prospects getting cold feet is a major late-stage barrier you can expect when you’re trying to push a deal through the sales cycle, and the ones you think are buy-ready with money in hand aren’t exempt either. When your prospect is slowly leading you to a dead-end, here are five effective ways to turn that stalled deal into a money-maker.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

They do their own research via Google, blog posts, and customer reviews. This is a crucial trait when 80 percent of sales require at least five follow-up calls. Successful sales reps aren’t bashful about calling on a major prospect or making a bold (but true) claim. The hard sell is dead. The cold email is dying.

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Pointclear

JUNE 16, 2015

Many of today’s inbound pundits suffer from an over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I like to call “ inbounditis ”). Read what Mike Weinberg, author of New Sales Simplified , says about this pervasive thought: Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 However, these so-called leads really are not leads. What’s a good lead rate?

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Gong.io

MAY 3, 2018

Try googling cold calling tips and see what happens. So, why can we credibly claim that the cold calling tips in this article are the best ones you’ll ever read? At Gong.io, we have the largest database of recorded sales calls in the world. Cold Calling Tips: The Anatomy of Successful Cold Calls from Chris Orlob.

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