Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Last week, I had the privilege of speaking with Howard Dover’s Digital Prospecting Class at UTD. I had no prepared materials, it was a Q&A about how to connect with prospects more effectively. They realized it would enable them to engage prospects in more impactful ways, focusing on what they cared about.

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Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A B2C salesperson is going to reach out to customers by phone, mail, or door-to-door. A retail salesperson need only wait for a customer to walk in their front door. Prospecting in B2B sales is different than the other types of sales.

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 6, 2023

Email prospecting is one of the simplest and most widely-used strategies for generating sales leads. That means both customers and their corporate firewalls are extremely particular about which messages they interact with. If you think every email you send to a prospect lands in their inbox, think again! Deliverability.

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ClickFunnels

JUNE 24, 2021

The post Creating A Sales Prospecting Process That Works appeared first on ClickFunnels. So how can you convert more potential customers into leads? That’s exactly what we are going to discuss today: What is sales prospecting? How to create a sales prospecting process that works? What Is Sales Prospecting?

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Predictable Revenue

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The post How to Add Personality to Your Prospecting to Attract Ideal Customers appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Josh Garrison joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss the hard skills needed to succeed at SDR Management and how to thrive in a sales management role.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 17, 2021

The post The Best Sales Prospecting Tools To Use For Your Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. Sales prospecting can be a great way to get a new business off the ground. Today we are going to take a look at the best sales prospecting tools that can help you to: Find prospects. Reach out to prospects.

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Iannarino

MARCH 6, 2023

To do this, the salesperson will need to contact potential customers over time, identifying and scheduling a first meeting with potential buyers. B2B salespeople need to create a pipeline of new opportunities to achieve their goals.

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

AI is increasingly being used by marketers to create content and experiences for prospects and customers. Recorded live during the Spring 2024 MarTech Conference, this episode features marketers discussing the ways they’re experimenting with and using AI in their work, with a focus on customer experiences.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2023

Dear SaaStr: Is It Normal to Feel Like a Pest When Prospecting for Customers for a Startup? That can make prospects love them, and your product. Prospects have problems to solve. The post Dear SaaStr: Is It Normal to Feel Like a Pest When Prospecting for Customers for a Startup? Boy sales is hard.

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Mike Weinberg

JANUARY 16, 2022

As I recently posted on LinkedIn, for all the logistical chaos created by clients postponing or converting conferences from in-person to … Stop Falling All Over Yourself Thanking Prospects & Customers for Their Time Read More » The post Stop Falling All Over Yourself Thanking Prospects & Customers for Their Time appeared first (..)

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Learn how these factors impact your prospecting, and what you can do to yield better outcomes in sales. #1: To improve prospecting, relevance is key.

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Eliminate Your Competition

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Staying top of mind with your customers and prospects is crucial for long-term success in B2B sales. This assurance resonates with customers, making them more likely to trust their suggestions. I regularly discuss that there are three things that each salesperson sells to every prospect: their product, their company, themselves.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Marketing leaders looking to expand their customer database should focus on delivering value to the customer as the top priority in their strategies and campaigns — or risk undermining their customer data exchange efforts and investments. Today’s consumers are taking a more active approach to withholding their personal data.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 21, 2022

It ended up being the wrong call, it was a prospecting call, “Dave, this is Chris from…… We missed you at Dreamforce and wanted to talk about how you can leverage our tool at your company.” ” I thought, He could have blown me off as a crackpot and gone on prospecting to the others on his list.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You’ve triumphantly sealed the deal in a B2B transaction and warmly welcomed a fresh face into your customer base. A well-crafted post-sale customer marketing plan is vital to constructing solid customer relationships, minimizing attrition, and extracting maximum lifetime value from your clientele.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes, I feel like a broken record talking about Customer and Business Acumen. Yet these same leaders complain about the ability to connect to prospects and customers. I ask: “How does your customer make money?” “What work does your customer do? “What work does your customer do?”

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Martech

MARCH 12, 2024

You’re likely familiar with the Pareto Principle, the old 80/20 rule and how it applies to marketing — 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your customers. You also know who those “best” customers are. The metric that illuminates your best customers is customer lifetime value. Your TAM has a subset of your ICP.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2022

But, it’s interesting to look at this as an example of how we “connect” with customers. Some observations: This presentation was intended for initial meetings with prospective customers. In 16 pages, the word “customer” or “client” or “you” appeared 6 times.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 8, 2020

There is no excuse for stupid prospecting! Sadly, too many organizations are committed to prospecting malpractice. None of us can escape or have spam filters powerful enough to filter out the stupid, irrelevant prospecting that is inflicted on us on a daily basis. Customers are interested in relevant content, insights.

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Membrain

APRIL 12, 2023

Everyone talks about sales prospecting , and we all think we know what it means. It’s just going out looking for potential customers to put into your sales pipeline, right? Traditionally, this was a task entrusted to junior “hunters” on the sales team–young hungry salespeople tasked with “drumming up opportunities.”

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Martech

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Marketers who think of their customers’ and prospects’ best interests in everything they do tend to create marketing that resonates better and is overall more effective. While most marketers believe they’re customer-centric, certain behaviors demonstrate it. Let’s look at five ways to prove your team focuses on customers.

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2023

In real estate, you have to understand that prospects aren't going to appear out of thin air. This is a concept known as real estate prospecting. Building meaningful relationships in real estate is vital to converting them into loyal customers. And in the highly competitive world of real estate, prospecting can be challenging.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. Or possibly our problems are that too many sales people just don’t want to prospect?

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Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Are you grappling with the challenge of finding the right prospects for your business? In this insightful blog post, we will delve into the world of prospecting, account selection, and the transformative impact of data-driven strategies. Our guide on this journey is none other than Jamie Shanks, the Founder and CEO of Pipeline Signals.

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Salesforce

APRIL 24, 2024

It’s not possible (yet) in the physical world, but with zero copy integration, that’s how you can handle your customer data. Some of them are reluctant to adopt a customer data platform (CDP) because they don’t want to duplicate data. Their main goal is to provide better customer insights back to their sales and marketing teams.

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Martech

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Data-driven marketing has had a transformational shift not only in how we engage with our customers but, even more importantly, in how we target new prospective customers. How you’re differentiating your messaging to existing customers versus prospective buyers. Data usage for customer vs. prospect targeting.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 24, 2020

Our customers, like us, are struggling to understand, to cope, to develop strategies to move forward. They must adapt and change, but, again, they struggle with what that means, how to change, how to recover, how to manage the risks–both to their people, their organizations, and their own customers/suppliers.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

Focusing deeply on the customers you serve. Satisfied customers don’t just come for more, they’ll spread the word about you. This is where an ideal customer profile (ICP) comes in. An ICP identifies your best-fit target customers that you can serve exceptionally well. Do you know what drives revenue growth?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

95% of our prospecting is just wasted time, so just stop it! We know the customers don’t want to talk to us. If that’s the method of prospecting, just STOP! They don’t go through the same routines, but somehow their prospecting works. But they approach prospecting differently.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I recently had a conversation with a really smart sales VP who said, “I need my team to remember that our job is to provoke our customers. It’s to bring them new ideas that they … Read More » The post Keeping the Prospect Engaged | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 28, 2022

Personalized videos have emerged as one of the most effective ways to stand out and earn attention when prospecting for new business. And savvy SaaS sellers are also discovering new ways to use custom videos to educate prospects, build better relationships, and “walk the digital halls” of target accounts.

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Answer Advisory and consulting services play a crucial role in customer experience (CX) transformation programs for several reasons: 1. They understand the best practices, industry trends, and successful strategies for delivering exceptional customer experiences. Dig deeper: What is digital transformation?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

Like everything in the digital world, traditional prospecting is undergoing a big transformation. In today’s article, we’ll focus on one specific type of prospecting message and its uses—video. Inbound vs outbound prospecting. Outbound prospecting is any kind of approach to sales when you reach out to the customer.

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