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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. We cannot continue to choose prospecting methods that destroy any possibility of a future relationship. Few professionals would sell something to someone who wouldn’t benefit from what they sell.

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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. For instance.

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Lead Follow-up Malpractice

Partners in Excellence

We struggle to provoke interest, to engage a prospect, to get people to respond to our outreach. But they really aren’t interested the things I’m interested in, they are interested in their own interests–to sell me something. And it’s not the fault of the sales people that are making these lead follow-up calls.

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Stop the Prospect Chase and Follow-up

SalesProInsider

In selling efforts, though, we are more likely to run into non-responders. Those prospects who seem to run away from you after a conversation. You have a meeting with a prospect that seems to go well. So you conclude: They’ve decided it’s a “no” and stop following up. Then reality hits.

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Booking sales follow-Up calls: 7 tips for success

Salesmate

For sales reps, one of the most gratifying feelings is getting a prospect on a call after weeks (sometimes even months) of chasing. 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. Let’s get started.

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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! Ideally, we’d like them to spend 100% of their time working with prospects and customers, helping them navigate their buying processes. There are some necessary things–training and development to improve our ability to sell.

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One Cause of an Aversion to Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: Prospecting isn’t easy, but it’s even harder with a poor strategy. An aversion to prospecting is often caused by horrible approaches to asking for a meeting. The gist, I think, was something about having a discovery call to see how her solutions could help me book more meetings with my prospective clients.