The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 4, 2013

People are quick to say how cold-calling doesn’t work and how if you’re doing cold-calling, you’re wasting your time. Today’s marketplace might be making cold-calling more difficult, but in so doing, it’s opened up a huge new opportunity — I refer to it as “informed-calling.”

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 31, 2021

Harvest referrals. Even in what some call normal times, routines have their place, and need to be constantly reviewed. Harvest Referrals. One constant opportunity is to harvest referrals. While I do see value in cold calling, I prefer referrals. Take time to catch up with your inbox.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 7, 2014

Bob Terson posted my article, Are Your Salespeople Still Cold Calling - The Ugly Truth over at the Selling Fearlessly Blog. When marketers and writers tell us that cold calling is dead, they never remember to qualify what they are trying to sell us. New to selling? New to the industry? New to the vertical?

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Women Sales Pros

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Stop cold calling and start warm calling with centers of influence and referrals. A center of influence (COI) is a person, group of people or an organization that increases your access to prospects through referrals and that crucial word-of-mouth testimony. John Smith of ABC Company suggested I give you a call.”

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 25, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Cold calling. You still receive calls like this from new, and sometimes not so new salespeople selling insurance, investments, copiers, office supplies, commercial real estate and long distance phone services. Cold calling isn't effective except for the most brilliant of callers.

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Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s cold-calling prospective clients or following up after a meeting, discipline moves the successful salesperson to get it done and get it done on time. With an ROI almost double that of cold calling and networking, email marketing should be the go-to method for salespeople looking to get ahead. Discipline.

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Salesforce

MAY 18, 2023

We may live in the time of TikTok, where an unknown number calling your phone strikes fear, but in my 13 years of training sales teams, I’ve found nothing is more impactful than the cold call. In fact, cold calling accounts for up to 50% of new deals , according to Dale Carnegie Training. What is cold calling?

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Veloxy

MARCH 28, 2022

Authentic Cold Calling: The Path to Fearless, Effective Cold Calling Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling The Secrets to Cold Call Success: Close More Business in Less Time than Ever Before Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!)

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2022

Help us plant 50,000 trees this holiday season, and sign up using a friend’s referral link. Start the cold call or that email or whatever it might be with their world first. Sam Jacobs: Is cold calling less or more effective than it used to be? This is how we decide to start conversations with our prospects.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2019

That’s the world of referral sales. Turning referrals from “happenstance” to “happening all the time” drives revenue like no other channel. The post Stop Cold Calling: Get the One-Call Meeting appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I grew up in a sales world where, if you called yourself a sales person, you prospected for leads. You did cold-calling, you sent out direct mail, you networked, you bought a booth at conferences, you spoke as an expert to groups of prospects. Trouble shooting: Hire hunters. Use technology to find leads.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2016

Before we can even answer the question and have a reasonable debate, we have to define, “What is cold calling?” But if this is what cold calling is, it should have been KILLED decades and centuries ago. There are those who want cold calling to be dead–because it’s hard work!

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Prospecting Strategies Efficient prospecting strategies for outside sales representatives include networking and utilizing referrals. Another effective prospecting strategy is cold calling, which, when done correctly, can yield excellent results. Is outside sales a hard job? The post What is Outside Sales?

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ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Cold Emailing Cold Calling Asking For Referrals. … Take cold emailing or cold calling, for instance. When a new marketer or entrepreneur thinks about ways to generate leads for their business, the first ideas that come to mind are often things like…. and so forth — things that require a lot of work.

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Women Sales Pros

JULY 27, 2018

Referral leads arguably close easier, race through the pipeline to close faster than other lead source and generate higher loyalty and lifetime value. Referrals work because people trust people, more than they trust any other source of information. The most important ingredient for a successful referral program is to “be referable”.

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Women Sales Pros

OCTOBER 18, 2019

And without strong relationships, you can forget about getting referral leads. Top salespeople know existing clients are their best source of referrals to new clients. Clients will always take calls from these sales reps, because they provide insights and guidance. Joanne Black is America’s leading authority on referral selling.

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Hubspot

JULY 19, 2010

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that we HubSpotters aren't confident in the success of cold calling as a sales and marketing tactic. The Abusive Math of Cold Calling. Marketing Takeaway: Cold calling is not an effective sales method. Author: John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 5, 2024

Our article explores some of the elements necessary for growing the numbers to increase authority, referrals, and business growth. Early in my sales career, I was advised to make an exponential number of cold calls daily. But sadly, this perennial thought often omits integrity.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While we’ve shared six tricks on getting past gatekeepers in our cold calling guide , we left out one juicy tidbit of information. Call prepared with references to things that the gatekeeper rarely hears from sales people. Get referrals. Get past gatekeepers. Don’t reach out just because. Be an early adopter!

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Hubspot

JULY 25, 2023

Cold calling is the bread and butter of sales reps in real estate. So, how should you cold call in real estate? In this post, we'll share 11 cold-calling scripts for real estate agents. Though cold calling is time-consuming, it can prove very beneficial in real estate. Let’s discuss this next.

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SalesHandy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Outbound Sales Statistics Cold Email Cold Call Follow-up Inbound Sales Statistics Organic Lead Statistics Lead Nurturing Statistics Sales Prospecting Sales Cycle Sales Closure Referral Sales Statistics Social Sales Statistics Sales Training Statistics. Cold email statistics. Cold call statistics.

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criteria for success

JULY 12, 2022

Asking for Referrals. Referrals are crucial in sales. A trusted mutual contact can open a door to a prospect, warm up a cold call and increase your chances of getting a call-back or an in-person meeting. So, how do members of your team ask for referrals? Cold-Calling. 30-Second Commercials.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2019

Everyone seems to be an expert these days on getting referrals. It seems that every blog on the block right now has an article on how to ask for referrals or build a referral program. A solid referral program is not built on a foundation of getting. And it all starts with something I call the Referral Machine.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 22, 2015

Do you have a systematic approach to generating a stream of introductions and referrals or do you still depend on cold calls? Are you still relying on mass marketing approaches in the hopes that enough people will respond only to realize that most of those that do are looking for free information? What about Qualifying?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 7, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan N ot too long ago, before the advent of Social Selling, if a salesperson needed to add new opportunities to the pipeline there were basically two options: Make Cold Calls; or. Call Existing Customers for Referrals and Introductions. Have your salespeople pretend it''s 1985.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 27, 2015

Here are some examples of doing WIT: Making calls – Regardless of how tired you are, how much you just sold last week, how difficult it is to handle the rejection – if you are going to be successful in selling, you have to pick up the phone and call someone. If you work strictly on referrals or introductions, that task is easier.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

So it’s not that the SDRs aren’t still there, they’re now spending time down funnel doing things that aren’t automatable yet like following up with leads, cold calling them, etc. Clay deliberately nurtures these happy customers through referral and affiliate programs.

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Pointclear

MARCH 11, 2014

Cold calling has long been a staple of sales, but knowing just a little bit about a prospect is actually not much better. There is no such thing as “warm calling,” says my latest guest on PowerViews, Joanne Black. You’re either cold or you’re hot—lukewarm doesn’t cut it. Referrals cost nothing. The best part?

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 11, 2021

You might think that cold calling for sales pitch might be a thing of the past, but did you know that 92% of customer interactions still happen over the phone? But despite those numbers, the success rate for cold calls is appallingly low. Best Cold Calling Scripts to Boost Your Sales.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 16, 2014

The question on the table was this: How do we continue to get referrals from our partners even though they won''t get paid for them anymore? call on the phone. So, why then do you spend so much time cold calling today?". I was talking to a prospect yesterday about this very thing. Someone I don’t know.

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SalesLoft

MAY 17, 2017

With such a deluge of information assaulting your eyes, ears, and inbox each day, a quality personal referral is more powerful than ever before. Simply doing a bit more research and asking a few questions of prospects, sales reps can reap the rewards of referrals. These are my three tips for leveraging referrals. Transcript.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

I remember, and this is maybe outdated because I haven’t ran BD teams in many years now, but back in the day, if it didn’t look like we were going to hit our number that month, we would set up Aussie hours where my team would cold call into Australia. Market has become over the last little bit.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

[…] Women are darn good at sales. We’re hardwired to be nurturers, connectors, and collaborators. We see the complexities in deals and dig deep to find the best solution for each client. We instinctively know how to build strong relationships and earn clients’ trust. Yet, women in sales face barriers to our progress.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 21, 2009

Cold calling today is direct, targeted and above all it’s a communication skill. Those who disparage cold calling are totally missing the point. The bottom line is that no matter where you find a lead, whether from networking or a referral (or even i

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Sales people can find those prospects in lots of different ways: Introductions, direct mail, internet offers, net working, internal referrals from business partners, cold calling, pre-approach mail, association memberships, business networking groups. Sales people have to have prospects - that''s the truth. This is all true.

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Women Sales Pros

MAY 3, 2019

Ask for more referrals. Referrals are the easiest way to get more business, yet the most frequently ignored prospecting strategy. Set a goal for yourself to ask for 2 referrals a week. Following up on marketing qualified leads, prospecting in a large account, and drop-by cold calling all count.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2012

Getting a referral or introduction is very powerful in helping us identify new opportunities and we should leverage them as much as possible. We have to…… I’m hesitant to say…… I guess I’m scraping the bottom… God forbid… but we have to cold call!

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