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True Confessions of a Legacy Laggard

Iannarino

I started making cold calls for a charity as a fifteen-year-old boy. A few years later, my cold calls were to businesses. The first person to suffer through my attempt to acquire a meeting hung up on me. But before he did, he left me with this opening: “Call me back when you don’t need a script.”

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Is Your Sales Career Surviving or Thriving?

Anthony Cole Training

Most of us coming up in sales have learned some hard lessons on the street. We have been kicked around…stood up…knocked around…used…turned over…and otherwise had to deal with the frustrations of getting past gate keepers to find our way into the office of the decision maker. Is it more introductions over cold calling?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 98: Q&A with Henry Schuck

Heinz Marketing

We’ve already featured some great guests and have a line up of awesome content and special guests into 2016. Fundamental belief that to be (AND scale) a high growth company, you have to DO the HARD things: define your target market, cold call relentlessly, align sales and marketing, execute an ABM strategy, etc.

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How Much Will Your Reps Make? Everything You Need to Know About On-Target Earnings (OTE)

Salesforce

Sign up now Thanks, you’re subscribed! Determine your team’s base pay: This will vary depending on your industry, the kind of products or services you sell, and the experience of each sales rep. Instead, you want to find the right balance between your revenue goals and your rep’s selling capacity.

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How to Supercharge Your Sales Velocity for Quicker Wins

Salesforce

Below, we explore how to track sales velocity and rev up your sales team’s productivity for faster conversions. To calculate the length of a sales cycle, add up the total number of days that it took to close each sale in the time period you’re considering. Sign up now Thanks, you’re subscribed!

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What Is Lead Qualification and How Does It Work?

Salesforce

Reps spend only 28% of their week actually selling, according to the State of Sales Report. Product qualified leads (PQLs) Most often, PQLs are prospects that have signed up for a free trial product or freemium version of your subscription or software. You can email or cold-call prospects, but many salespeople also use LinkedIn.