Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place. Another effective prospecting strategy is cold calling, which, when done correctly, can yield excellent results. Is outside sales a hard job?

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 17, 2025

You crushed your quota. But if every check disappears faster than a cold call prospect can hang up the phone, then youre just renting a lifestyle. And if you dont start investing for the long haul, future-you will be making cold calls at 70. Sleep well, knowing you're not one missed quota away from panic.

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Veloxy

MAY 3, 2022

If you Google sales resources, you’ll be inundated with a wide variety of helpful content and content that will quickly become cold calls and emails. Sales can be an intimidating numbers game. Sales quota. Sales Calculators. Number of prospects. Customer lifetime value. Is this free or paid?

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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 26, 2013

You don’t have to make 5 more cold calls. You don’t have to make it to your kids baseball game or gymnastics meet. You don’t have to do 150% of quota. We all make choices in our lives, the hard part is living with them. Jeremy Irons – (from the movie The Words). You don’t have to do anything.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. A hello, the thud of a large yellow pages phone book hitting my desk and a quota. You had to focus on all aspects of your game. Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: Number 5 in this 9 part series. The Bro Culture , . Lack of Coaching. Too much activity management.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

It’s the old 50 cold calls, inverted. AEs have to talk to 50 customers a day to hit their quota. SQLs may be, but really it becomes an efficiency, capacity, and closing ratio game. The key is closing as many leads as possible, as quickly as possible.

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Salesmate

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It is undoubtedly disheartening when you fail to achieve your sales quota at the end of the month or quarter, isn’t it? They explore various strategies and hacks to transform their game. Like these players, even you’ll have to play the game of sales differently by trying various hacks and strategies. Clement Stone.

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Cience

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Let’s talk about the key to success in your cold calling effort — the cold calling script ! Cold Calling Scripts — Do We Even Need Them? However, we believe that the success of a cold call heavily depends on whether you have a good or a bad script. Analyzing cold calling scripts.

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Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Besides old age cold calling , companies are increasingly using new technology to win more deals. But when real, face-to-face communication isn’t possible, video calls come to the rescue. About 73% of salespeople use software to increase their productivity, according to the Linkedin survey.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Quotas seem out of reach, and your team starts breaking into a cold sweat. According to the latest State of Sales report , only 28% of reps are expected to hit their quotas in 2022. The good news: You can set motivating quotas that are challenging but not soul-crushing. What you’ll learn: What is a sales quota?

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

He would read about me in the paper on Sunday’s after the game. I got caught and was suspended for that Saturday’s football game. I had to stand on the sidelines, in my game jersey, no pads and watch. We lost the game. So, when you don’t make quota. I think it made him proud. It sucked.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Complement cold calling Yes, further ignore the status quo by leading with cold calls on Fridays and before vacation time. We wouldn’t recommend calling after 2pm, especially if your lead’s office has a Kegerator or wine bar. Third, merge the list with this cold email template, and send them in scale!

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Cience

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Let’s talk about the key to success in your cold calling effort — the cold calling script ! Cold Calling Scripts — Do We Even Need Them? However, we believe that the success of a cold call heavily depends on whether you have a good or a bad script. Analyzing cold calling scripts.

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Cold Call Lead generation B2B Objectives and Key Results 52

RingDNA

MARCH 26, 2025

LinkedIn is no longer a nice to have in 2025, whether you’re a CEO shaping your company’s vision, a COO optimizing processes, or an SDR hustling to hit quota. Forget cold calling as your only tool. Expand Your Network with Game-Changing Connections We’ve all heard it: Your network is your net worth. It’s that simple.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 28, 2025

As any elite athlete will tell you, the mental games you play with yourself between your ears will make or break you. You can post quotes from every Stoic on LinkedIn and still spend the morning telling yourself, Ill never hit quota in this economy. When all things are equal, mindset is one thing that separates winners and losers.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In practice, it looks something like this: For this particular article, we reviewed millions upon millions of web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails to understand what separates the average sales rep from the pros. Cold calling is not for the faint of heart. Here’s why: Cold calling isn’t about discovery.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 118

CloserIQ

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

No pipeline, no quota attainment. Interestingly, there’s a bold shift away from a fundamental aspect of B2B pipeline generation: Cold calling. It’s turned into a full-on, anti-cold calling trend, which is not the right move in our books. So I’m telling you straight: ditching cold calls is BAD for business.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2022

You can evaluate how well reps did against quota. Make sure you review every stage of the sales funnel that may hold insights: inbound leads, cold-calls made, emails sent, meetings held, opportunities created, target accounts touched, demos given and deals closed. Be careful to not turn this bit into a blame-game.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If our coaching sessions are more about hitting quota than helping the individual, our employees will recoil from it. You know that we can practice cold calling, discovery questions a sport, game or an instrument. Do you forgive others and will you forgive yourself? This week practice your eulogy virtues.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 3, 2022

Predictable growth is the name of the game in the new year, and you need the right tools, tips, and techniques to make it happen. As our recent Sales Summit revealed, the old ways of selling — aggressive quotas, in-person sales calls, nagging pipeline reviews — just don’t work anymore. Drop the quota.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Imagine watching a basketball game without a scoreboard. Now imagine playing in that game. Sales leaders can use a dashboard to understand the game their team is playing as they sell and identify where reps may need help or extra training. It would be nearly impossible to understand what was happening or who was winning.

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CloserIQ

MARCH 1, 2019

It’s helpful to ask about a broad range of metrics that will be used to evaluate your performance —not just quota. 7) What proportion of sales representatives meet/exceed quota? Like the question on metrics, asking about quota shows that you’re serious about success. That shows you’re serious about accountability.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you’re good at engaging with people, it’s worth investing in your own skills to see if you can level up and start hitting (or crushing) your quota. When I’m working with salespeople who aren’t achieving their quotas, they are often looking for a “cheat code” to getting better at their job. . Have a strong, predictable process.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Here are some performance metrics to consider for your sales reps: Individual Quota Attainment - The percentage of the sales target reached for each sales rep in a given month or sales period. Conversely, if your entire team is hitting or surpassing quota without question, your goal may be too conservative.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Cold calling Making a cold call means reaching out to potential customers without previous interaction between the salesperson and the company. Outbound sales Outbound sales is a sales approach where representatives reach out to potential leads through cold calling, LinkedIn messaging, or emailing.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 25, 2022

When a sales slump hits and your quota is on the line, the first thing you want to do is jump on the phones and contact every prospect and lead you know. 9am-10am: Cold calling. Maybe you’re charismatic on cold calls but lose steam during a demo. Shift your focus. Practice consistency.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

AI doesn’t magically make every payroll or SOC2 product better, and hooking ChatGPT into an app doesn’t magically change the game. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Ideally, you take founder-led sales to two reps that can hit quota. That’s very telling. It’s still early.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 15, 2022

If that weren’t the case, we wouldn’t see quota attainment hovering around 50% for so long. What does it matter that Rep A has 3x more meetings per cold call than the rest of your team if you don’t implement a call coaching program? I’ve got a lot more to say about cold-calling, by the way.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For instance, let‘s say you’re selling call-tracking software, and you‘re on your way to closing a startup that has struggled with converting cold calls. Instead, you need to come from a place like, “Your current cold calling strategy is under-informed.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. It’s man and machine, working in harmony to close more deals and smash quotas out of the park. It’s man and machine, working in harmony to close more deals and smash quotas out of the park.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2021

It’s hard to get rejected 60 times making cold calls or answering inbound calls at home by yourself, not seeing your peers around you deal with some of the same thing. They get commission when they hit quota, they get paid. I’m worried about our second round game. That’s an incredibly hard job.

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SBI

JANUARY 29, 2014

Myth #1: Sales is a Numbers Game. When today’s Sales Managers came of age, we were taught that making more calls is what leads to more sales. The number’s game is not only not helpful, it actually hurts our ability to maximize revenue. Around 90% of phone calls go right into voicemail. Sales is not a numbers game.

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SBI

MAY 28, 2015

Myth #1: Sales is a Numbers Game. When today’s Sales Managers came of age, we were taught that making more calls is what leads to more sales. The number’s game is not only not helpful, it actually hurts our ability to maximize revenue. Around 90% of phone calls go right into voicemail. Sales is not a numbers game.

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Quota Manufacturing Gaming Cold Call 54

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.

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Gong.io

JULY 7, 2022

In fact, given the tendency for technology to make sales even more of a number’s game, Sandler’s method may be even more effective now than it was when it was first created. No wonder 50% more salespeople hit quotas when using the Sandler way than those without. Buyers should invite you in. Image Source ).

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When it comes to setting goals for Sales Development Reps, a lot more than quota comes into play. Sure, it’s an SDR’s top priority to hit their monthly numbers, but Rome wasn’t built in a day — and neither is quota. Sales development is a game of inches, and building up to monthly milestones is a daily process.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In practice, it looks something like this: For this particular article, we reviewed millions upon millions of web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails to understand what separates the average sales rep from the pros. Cold calling is not for the faint of heart. Here’s why: Cold calling isn’t about discovery.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 71