The 5% Institute

MARCH 28, 2022

Below is a detailed breakdown of the 10 step sales playbook: #1 – Prospecting. . The first part of the 10 step sales playbook, is finding out who your ideal prospects are, and then targeting them using prospecting strategies. Prospecting can generally be two-fold – inbound and outbound. 2 – Building Rapport.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

The Changing Landscape of Sales Skills Sellers are experiencing a pivotal shift in when, how, and why prospects need them. Sellers must know your company and product, understand the market, give good presentations, handle objections, use tech tools, manage time, and build strong relationships.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Sales Stats for Prospecting. Sales Stat #1: DON’T use ROI in cold emails. Sharing ROI stats in cold emails is often shared as a “best practice.” Annoyed prospect. Annoyed prospect. I was hoping you’d call! Opening a cold call with “Did I catch you at a bad time?” Yes, yes, you did.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you call them SDRs, account executives (AEs), or business development representatives (BDRs), their ability to engage prospects through persistent, multi-channel communication outreach, and swift follow-up strategies is critical in transforming leads into viable opportunities and improving retention.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

Step 1 – Prospecting: Get the First Meeting Every Time. Prospecting is your first step in the sales process. Your only job at this stage is to keep the prospect on the phone for five minutes. If you don’t do the talking, the prospect will, and your call will be less successful. You should use a proven winner.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Depending on their role within the team, inside sales reps engage in research, prospecting, email and social media outreach, cold calling, lead nurturing, qualification, demonstration, and negotiation conversations. It’s easier to accommodate the prospect and get in touch ASAP when you don’t need to fly out reps for a meeting.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Prospects qualified? Looks like you’re ready to make a sales call. The most successful sales calls include tailored presentations and focus on building trust with prospects by addressing their unique pain points. Speed up your sales Wait, what is a sales call? How do you prepare for a sales call?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Hyper-targeted prospecting: AI is a personal research assistant who never sleeps. Real-life example: Creating ChatGPT parameters Nothing is more tedious than getting a long email from a prospect you need to pull key ideas out of and rewrite for the CRM. Researching ICPs and pain points Need to know more about your prospects?

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It includes detailed methods for engaging with customers, such as how to approach cold calls , effective emailing techniques , and tips for successful face-to-face meetings. It can also help when handling objections from prospects. Product demo plays Outline strategies for effective product demonstrations.

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Gong.io

JULY 6, 2018

If you think a morning-fresh, bright-eyed prospect is your best bet, guess again. Afternoon calls have fewer no-shows and prospects stay on the call longer: Mornings? Your prospect is 30% more likely to show up for a call at 4 PM than one at 8 AM. Instead, spend a few minutes warming up the tone of the call.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 6, 2020

You’re probably familiar with the concept of a Power Hour—a focused hour of calling in which everyone on the sales floor calls only your best prospects with a common theme or talk track. Cultivate playlists of the best calls from your team every week and have the team vote on their favorite and dissect why the call was good.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You can also get insights into how your sales team is using (or not using) content, if they’re nurturing leads, how quickly they’re following up with customer requests, what their daily behaviors are, and which channels they use most to communicate with prospects. Actionable takeaways. Make sure the sales leader is right for the role.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Hyper-targeted prospecting: AI is a personal research assistant who never sleeps. Real-life example: Creating ChatGPT parameters Nothing is more tedious than getting a long email from a prospect you need to pull key ideas out of and rewrite for the CRM. Researching ICPs and pain points Need to know more about your prospects?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

These activities commonly include: Prospecting. Demos, objection handling, closing. They are committed to meeting target metrics such as the required volume of prospecting activity they need to perform daily — even when their pipeline is already humming or when they have just closed a major deal. Lead generation.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

Step 1 – Prospecting: Get the First Meeting of the Sales Process. Prospecting is your first step in the sales process. Your only job at this stage is to keep the prospect on the phone for five minutes. If you don’t do the talking, the prospect will, and your call will be less successful. How’ve you been?”.

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Gong.io

MAY 27, 2018

Here’s how we’ve seen the best salespeople start their sales meetings: Start with small talk: A common error for newer reps is diving straight into business as soon as the prospect hops on the conference call. Instead, spend a few minutes warming up the tone of the call by sounding like a real person on the other line.

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Gong.io

APRIL 27, 2018

Here’s how we’ve seen the best salespeople start their sales meetings: Start with small talk: A common error for newer reps is diving straight into business as soon as the prospect hops on the conference call. Instead, spend a few minutes warming up the tone of the call by sounding like a real person on the other line.

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Gong.io

JULY 6, 2018

If you think a morning-fresh, bright-eyed prospect is your best bet, guess again. Afternoon calls have fewer no-shows and prospects stay on the call longer: Mornings? Your prospect is 30% more likely to show up for a call at 4 PM than one at 8 AM. Instead, spend a few minutes warming up the tone of the call.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

1 Sales Skills for Prospecting: The ideal talk-to-listen ratio. Cold calling is not for the faint of heart. But the top sales reps are great at prospecting. For most sales calls, it’s about listening (we’ll get to that skill a bit later). Sound advice… but NOT for prospecting calls. It’s tough.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Sales analytics to improve booked meetings from cold calls. Watch these metrics to understand whether your approach to booking meetings using cold calls works: Calls made. Measure the number of calls your reps make per hour, week, and month. How many attempts does it take each rep to engage with prospects?

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

1 Sales Skills for Prospecting: The ideal talk-to-listen ratio. Cold calling is not for the faint of heart. But the top sales reps are great at prospecting. For most sales calls, it’s about listening (we’ll get to that skill a bit later). Sound advice… but NOT for prospecting calls. It’s tough.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 71

Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Prospecting 2. Objection Handling 6. They’re split into sections from discovery call tips , to product demos , to objection handling , and more. Prospecting Sales Tips & Techniques. Let’s start with PROSPECTING! There seems to be a ‘ cold calling is dead’ trend floating around these days.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There’s no second-guessing about what they need to do next or where each prospect is in the buying process. A sales cycle is the steps your reps take when converting a prospect to a buyer. Prospect buyers. Sales prospecting is the first stage of the sales cycle. Contact prospects. What is a sales cycle?

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Outreach

APRIL 9, 2019

The outbound sales process generally adheres to the following sequence: Prospecting Research Connecting Needs Assessment Presentation/Proposal Follow Up Negotiation/Objection Handling Closing In outbound sales, sellers initiate the relationship and drive interactions with target B2B buyers. B2B Inbound Sales Process.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Perhaps you’ve heard about it in a presentation from a software vendor. Sales engagement “consists of the various interactions that sellers have with prospects and customers. Sales engagement technology enables sales departments to efficiently deliver high-quality interactions with prospects and customers at scale.” ( TOPO ).

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 3, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. In it, Founder of Sales DNA , Josh Braun , shows you how to diffuse objections and close the deal. Why people raise objections. The problem with overcoming objections. A way out: examples of the defusing objections framework.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But we often present our product as a solution. Tailoring your message already starts in lead generation (cold calling, email prospecting). Objection Handling. How much time can you afford to spend on the phone, or crafting emails, or doing cold outreach ? Sounds basic and redundant, I know.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This time we hear from Jeb Blount in an episode we call “Sales Objection Handling from the Master: Insights from Best Seller Jeb Blount” Jeb is a best selling author of nine books and the CEO at Sales Gravy. You get objections when you ask for next steps. You get objections when you prospect.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A sales process refers to the series of steps — each consisting of several activities and involving one or more sales methodologies — that are aimed at finding and connecting with customers; getting them to make a purchase; and creating a template for achieving sales objectives and replicating a desired level of performance. Prospecting.

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SBI

JUNE 2, 2020

In business, snags cause deals to be lost at the last minute, cold-calls to not convert into meetings, forecasted deals to get pushed. In this case, we’d be neglecting a more fundamental and basic question, “Are we calling on the right people?” The definition of a snag is a tree, tree limb or bush that has fallen into a river.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

He became threatened and told me that I had to follow his ridiculously complex and impractical method that required presenting 60+ confusing slides. B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life.

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