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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

Iannarino

The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. How to Avoid a Second Meeting. Low-Value Conversations.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell,” A Quandary

Partners in Excellence

Since the earliest days of selling, our vision is to free up sellers time to sell! There are some necessary things–training and development to improve our ability to sell. Certain internal meetings to keep us up to date with strategies, priorities, and what’s happening with the company.

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Booking sales follow-Up calls: 7 tips for success

Salesmate

Statistics show that 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls in order to close. To get to the finish line, you must first master the art of the follow-up. Tips for scheduling follow-up sales calls. If they show a clear disinterest in what you’re selling, then it’s OK not to schedule a follow-up call.

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Lead Follow-up Malpractice

Partners in Excellence

But they really aren’t interested the things I’m interested in, they are interested in their own interests–to sell me something. And, perhaps, it would have created an opportunity to nurture my interest, eventually upselling or cross selling me. Ultimately, doing this may enable us to meet our interests.

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Automate your follow ups with Text (SMS) sequences

Salesmate

In this article, you will learn about creating your own sets of automated text messages with text (SMS) sequences and merge them with your email drip campaigns for successful follow ups. We already have shown how sequences can be used as drip campaigns for putting your email follow-ups on autopilot.

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Recap Emails: Better Follow-Up for More Wins

Sales Hacker

You’ve both agreed to meet next week for a demo, and your champion has agreed to invite the economic buyer to the call. You need to ensure that they follow through and show up to the demo, while also setting yourself apart from the other vendors that they’re evaluating. Include the following: Subject line referencing your call.

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Sales Lead Follow-Up: How to Respond Faster and More Effectively

VanillaSoft

How can you improve lead follow-up? Top that off with legitimate phone calls, tons of social media messages, online ads, and other forms of communication, digital distractions, meetings, coworker interruptions, and the hectic pace of just life in general. Actually connecting with a lead makes selling even more daunting.