ClickFunnels

AUGUST 9, 2021

The post 8 Sales Prospecting Ideas To Boost Sales & Conversions appeared first on ClickFunnels. You have to identify your dream customer, find them, get their contact information, build trust, and explain the value of your product or service. To capture conversions from people who need a little more time and convincing.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 19, 2021

The post What Is A Normal Sales Funnel Conversion Rate? But what conversion rate should you aim for? Today we are going to discuss: The four types of sales conversion rates. The #1 way to increase the conversion rate of your sales funnel. The best conversion rate optimization practices. What Is a Conversion Rate?

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 9, 2021

The post 12 Sales Funnel Strategies To Increase Revenue & Conversions appeared first on ClickFunnels. Think of it as a gift you’re giving to someone in return for their email address and/or other contact information (phone number, address, etc.) — but to start, it’s usually just about getting the name and/or email address.

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Iannarino

JULY 5, 2021

The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. It’s also important that you have the right conversations at the right time. Time each conversation based on its ability to create value for decision-makers and your other contacts.

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Iannarino

JULY 7, 2021

Here are the rules you are required to follow: You are not permitted to say anything about your company, including your company’s name or anything that might allow your contact to recognize your employer. You may not try to develop any personal rapport with the contact, including asking questions about their personal life.

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Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

The Gist: Your clients measure your performance by the value of the conversations they have with you. Your intentions can spoil the outcomes you hope for by preventing the conversation from being valuable to your contacts. In early conversations, your intentions must focus on creating value for your contacts.

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Salesforce

MAY 15, 2024

That’s why an omnichannel contact center needs to be part of your customer service strategy. An omnichannel contact center uses cloud-based software to manage customer interactions across multiple channels. It helps you deliver an efficient, personalized experience every time — no matter how your customers contact you.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 3, 2021

The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. That first meeting can end with you impressing your client by using their time wisely and making the experience a valuable one, moving both of you forward in the sales conversation. Low-Value Conversations. How to Avoid a Second Meeting.

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Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It is your responsibility to create value for your contacts and stakeholders in the sales conversation. Almost everything you have been taught and trained to do works against this critical outcome.

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Contact Sales Clients Conversion 281

Iannarino

JULY 6, 2021

The Gist: A modern approach to sales calls for a new sales conversation. The outcomes of early conversations have changed, in large part due to our complex environment. The end goal is a sense of certainty, something that requires a different set of conversations. You Make Sense of Their World. You Guide the Right Decision.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This is where AI -powered contact center automation comes into play to help your team work more quickly and efficiently, all while focusing their attention on the customer. Let’s zoom in on eight major contact center automation trends that are already making waves in customer service and are set to get even bigger in 2025 and beyond.

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Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

25% of sales people make a second contact and stop. 12% of sales people only make three contacts and stop. only 10% of sales people make more than three contacts. 2% of sales are made on the first contact. 3% of sales are made on the second contact. 5% of sales are made on the third contact. Email Marketing.

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

This strategy is still effective, as recognizing the prospective buyer's pain points allows for a good and effective sales conversation. This makes your contact One-Down , lacking the information and experience that would ensure they make the right decision. The second question was how people were treated.

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B2B Contact Clients Entertainment 272

Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

A long time ago, I noticed that the contacts I called on were not always interested in the meeting they had accepted. Not too much later, I noticed that contacts sat silently while I walked them through the traditional legacy approach. Eventually, I ran into contacts who asked me not to use a slide deck.

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Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In a sales conversation, much of your contact’s communication means more than the words indicate. To fully understand your contact, you need to speak fluent client. Most salespeople agree that they need to speak well, but they don’t believe that listening is an even more important skill.

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Tibor Shanto

JUNE 8, 2021

One thing that great prospectors have in common, is an understanding that at first contact, we are an interruption. That initial interruption is never welcome, leading many sellers to want to “normalize” the conversation too quickly. You have to get them out of their prospecting response mode to business conversation mode.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 12, 2022

There are certain B2B sales conversations that are important to both the salesperson and their prospective clients. One of the reasons salespeople struggle to create value for their contacts is because the sequence of the conversations doesn't match their client's needs.

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ClickFunnels

JUNE 22, 2021

How to improve the lead generation funnel conversion rate. Has given you their contact details (typically their email address). Keep in mind that someone who has visited your website but hasn’t provided their contact details is not a lead. You also want to set up a conversion goal to track the sign ups. Continue reading….

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Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

It’s unlikely that a more recent lead is automatically better than an older lead, or even than a target that is already locked into a contract with your competitor —even if the new contact devoted two minutes to filling out a form on your website. Occasionally, this is true. But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell.

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Iannarino

JUNE 28, 2023

Another way to measure your sales effectiveness is by looking at the effect you have on buyers and decision-makers in the sales conversation. Compared with their ineffective colleagues, effective salespeople have more influence over their contacts, especially at key points in the sales conversation.

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Iannarino

MARCH 19, 2022

There are a number of topics you might share with your contacts in the sales conversation they find to be immensely valuable to them, especially when what you share enables them to make the best decision for their company and their results.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If your contact already knows everything you tell them, it is difficult to create value for them in the sales conversation. One of the most effective sales strategies is information disparity, knowing what your prospective client doesn’t know. This is one reason why buyers refuse a second meeting with a salesperson.

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Iannarino

MARCH 1, 2024

One way to express this idea is that your client should make the decision you would make if your contacts asked you to make the decision for them. To achieve this, you would need to equip them with what they need to make that decision through the sales conversation, including your experience.

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Iannarino

MAY 6, 2023

Business acumen is a larger variable than most salespeople suspect, and when a contact senses it is lacking, they look elsewhere for help. Most sales organizations believe they are consultative, but few of their salespeople have the business acumen and experience to have the types of conversations this approach requires.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 2, 2021

We now have to do the work of accelerating our strategies and tactics to architect a new sales conversation, one that solves the client’s problems with solving their problems. Some of those conversations went very fast, taking just a few meetings, while others took much longer. You need to make sales. You need help now.

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Iannarino

JULY 22, 2021

Other evidence emerged when decision-makers and decision-shapers started to discourage—or in some cases, forbid—PowerPoint presentations in sales meetings, having already lost too many hours of their lives to soul-stealing conversations about the salesperson’s company and their products. Instead, they wanted to “talk” and “ask questions.”.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 1, 2022

End users will be disappointed if you decide not to share the features and benefits with them, but if you get too detailed about the day-to-day uses, you will alienate your higher-level contacts. To better understand which stakeholders need what conversations, we use a concept called Level 4 Value Creation™.

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Contact Sales Conversion 256

Iannarino

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s easy to sell on autopilot, especially when we believe that the conversation is mainly about our winning a deal —a goal best accomplished by not actively pursuing it. What if you dropped the same old set of questions your contact has heard dozens or hundreds of times? Here are five areas where you can play that role.

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Contact Clients Prospecting Up-sell 221

Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

They engage in a conversation with a contact or several contacts. At the end of the conversation, the salesperson walks out of the client's office by themself. A salesperson walks into a prospective client's office alone. Because this is true for a large percentage of salespeople, we don't tend to think about sales teams.

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Contact Sales Clients Conversion 216

Iannarino

APRIL 13, 2024

Being One-Up means you have knowledge and experience your contact lacks. When you are One-Up, you can take advantage of this information disparity, allowing you to create value for your contacts in the sales conversation. If you want to win more deals, especially contested deals, you will need to be One-Up.

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

To ensure your victim, er, I mean customer recognizes your message as spam, start the conversation with some sort of unprofessional nicety or attempt to build rapport. How is someone supposed to know if it’s a good or bad time to speak with you without understanding what your agenda is for the conversation? Step Three.

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Iannarino

JULY 18, 2021

SDRs are capable enough to handle the first conversation with a prospect. Instead of providing a person who can create the level of value necessary for their prospect to engage with the salesperson, gain something from the interaction, and commit to a further conversation, these companies provide a sort of trip wire.

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Iannarino

JUNE 29, 2021

The critical shift in competitive strategy now tracks who can create the greatest value for the client during the sales conversation. When your contacts are uncertain about the change they need to make, you create value by providing them with a safe path forward to the better results they need.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

Once a lead surrenders their contact info to your website, they’re officially entered into your sales funnel as prospects. Simply put, a discovery call is the first conversation a rep has with a prospect after they show initial interest in a product. 5: Ensure Two-Way Conversation. What is a Discovery Call? 6: Close the Deal.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You may discover intelligence not found anywhere else, or you may join a conversation rather than interrupting their day. Before you follow these ten steps, be sure to ask your closest contacts, the marketing department, and trade publications for the social media channels most used by your customer base. Join Conversations.

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Iannarino

JUNE 17, 2022

Inside the sales conversation, there are four levels of value: The first level of value is the conversation is sharing information about your product or service. While it's important to offer something good, starting the conversation with your product or service makes your contact treat you like a commodity.

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Iannarino

JULY 12, 2021

There is now a new sales conversation, one built around delivering a better prospective client experience and improving your odds of winning the deal. It starts by recognizing that you win and lose deals early in the conversation, most critically during the discovery phase. The New Sales Discovery Conversation.

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