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The Tyranny Of “More!”

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They keep asking for “More!” ” The need for more pretty much permeates everything sellers and managers do. more product to sell, more territory, more pipeline, more commission, more people, more funding, more, more, more… And the response to these request is, generally, to provide more.

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Start With The End In Mind, The Tyranny Of More, Part 2

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I wrote, “Tilting The Numbers In Our Favor, The Tyranny Of More.” ” In that, I suggested we might actually be more effective if we started thinking about how we accomplish our goals by doing less. For example, we could choose to do more prospecting or even better prospecting.

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Tilting The Numbers In Your Favor, The Tyranny Of “More”

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It seems the mantra is always “do more.” ” The solution to anemic pipelines is “do more prospecting” (that seems to be the magic solution to every sales problem). After all, we are already busy, so doing more means we have to figure out a way to get more done in a shorter period of time.

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Cliff Notes And AI…….

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Plagued by guilt and paranoia, his tyranny leads to more murders and eventually his downfall. It cut into my time socializing, drinking beer, partying and sports. I wasn’t the only one, it seemed all my friends suffered with the same problem. We discovered the secret to our success, Cliff Notes. I found I struggled though.

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“You Have To Make Your Number With Only 50% Of Your Current Prospecting Calls!”

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We know, almost daily, we have to make more calls than we did yesterday, last week, last quarter. Fewer customers are responding, so to make our numbers, we have to make more calls. ” Yeah, I know you are thinking, “Dave, you are crazy, we have to make more calls. What if we tried something different?

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Why Are We Satisfied With Such Poor Win Rates?

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” The answer is always, “Do more!” It’s far easier to demand we do more. It’s easier to push marketing for more leads, to ask SDRs for more, and to tell sales people, “Work harder.” They may be curious, they may want to learn more. I simply don’t understand this!

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Knowing “How To Win,” Makes You A Better Prospector!

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The answer to making your numbers is always more demand gen, lead gen and prospecting. Talk to any manager, most will say, “We need more in our pipelines.” I won’t rehash everything I wrote in that post, but I suggested we are squandering the opportunities we have, forcing us to prospect more than we really need to.