Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the past, the salesperson would call their prospective client and ask for a meeting. The value proposition for the meeting would be "to share a little about us, how we are helping companies like yours, and learn about you and your company." This was the cold calling script, and believe it or not, it worked.

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Meeting Cold Call Clients Sales 266

Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

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.

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Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Clients 291

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many people stress toward year-end, knowing that most prospects said ‘no,’ and fear losing their jobs by year-end. However, one easy strategy relaxes everyone we meet during the selling process, including follow-up. However, do not give it a second thought regarding prospects and clientele.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2024

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. Across the country, most salespeople just chase prospects. They fundamentally lack a process, a decision tree, if you will, for deciding yes or no in terms of determining if a prospect is truly a prospect for them.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You want your sales team to qualify prospective clients. You don’t want them to pursue prospects not likely to buy from your sales team. Yet, the ridiculous amount of pipeline you require makes it easy to add an opportunity with nothing more than a first meeting.

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Iannarino

MARCH 13, 2023

In The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the 10 Commitments That Drive Sales , you will find one of the most powerful sales strategies for acquiring a first meeting with a prospective client.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As many articles here have described, using an executive briefing is how we open a first meeting. Here, we will explore eight ways this approach benefits a prospective client. We prefer this insight-based method because it creates much value for the salesperson to offer their client.

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Clients Meeting Prospecting Sales 289

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 10, 2025

Our team of sales experts at Anthony Cole Training Group have compiled 25 sales tips to help your salespeople prospect smarter, plan effectively, and sell with confidence. You should consider using them for sales team meeting discussions. We want to help you and your team make 2025 your best sales year yet!

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Iannarino

JULY 10, 2023

To succeed in sales, you need to be able to acquire a first meeting. That is your audition, and your contact will decide whether you are worth a second meeting. If you cannot book a first meeting, it means your approach sends the message that meeting with you isn’t worth your contact’s time.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. Whether you call it cold-calling, prospecting, outbound, or hunting, the name doesn’t change what it is or how difficult it is.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In the old days of selling, closing was about what happens at the end of a client or prospect meeting did we get them to sign something, give us the green light, or seal the deal? The activity was about applying pressure on the buyer to make a decision NOW.

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Technique Closing Clients Meeting 289

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In analyzing those salespeople who are successful year after year, we find significant consistencies in prospecting behavior and practice management. These top sales producers adhere to “The ONLY "A" priority is prospecting” principle. They also have fires to put out and meetings to attend.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause. Let's see what they had to say!

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Prospecting Contract Follow-up Pitch 81

Iannarino

MARCH 6, 2023

To do this, the salesperson will need to contact potential customers over time, identifying and scheduling a first meeting with potential buyers. B2B salespeople need to create a pipeline of new opportunities to achieve their goals.

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Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. In addition, I reached out to other sales experts to hear what they had to say about setting and meeting revenue goals so you can take home some best practices from their experience. Table of Contents What are revenue targets?

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Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Are your traditional sales methods no longer delivering the results they once did? It's time to rethink your cold-outreach strategy with these innovative approaches.

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Meeting Clients Sales Prospecting 308

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2025

A similar scenario where salespeople spend time getting ready before conducting an act happens with prospecting for new business. While not all salespeople are required to prospect, those who do often follow the gift giving ritual where they spend quite a bit of time getting ready before making their calls. So it’s the opposite.

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Hubspot

JULY 15, 2024

Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Ingram's Tested, 10-Step Process for Nailing Prospecting on LinkedIn Your LinkedIn profile is your first digital impression, and you don‘t want to waste your shot with a lackluster profile. Lead with a compelling headline.

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Prospecting Process Real Estate Non-Profits 78

Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Moreover, AI helps prioritise leads by analysing which prospects are most likely to convert based on their behaviour and past interactions. The result is a more agile and adaptable workforce that can meet the evolving demands of inbound sales in a digital-first world.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Here’s how to turn challenges into opportunities and secure those elusive meetings. Struggling to break through the noise with your cold outreach?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Finding commonality and relating to a prospect is an important first step. An effective sales pitch should begin with identifying areas of connection, often achieved by doing research on the industry and client prior to the meeting. An effective sales pitch should begin with the early "bonding and rapport" part of selling.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

6sense uses AI to surface prospects most likely to be in-market for your product by monitoring buyer intent signals such as web searches, content engagement, and company behavior. Over time, it learns which email content resonates best with different prospects. AI Solution : Platforms like Outreach.io

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Iannarino

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Gist: We have reached peak email prospecting, the point when its effectiveness begins an inevitable decline. It’s time to reimagine email’s role in prospecting. and their solutions, then asking them to click a link to book a meeting. How does your email justify a meeting? How to Automate Away Your Reputation.

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Martech

JANUARY 8, 2025

Tools like Calendly or HubSpots meeting scheduler let prospects see when youre available and book a time instantly. For group meetings, these tools can combine everyones availability to find the perfect slot no emails, no hassle. The easier prospects can book, the faster sales can move.

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Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Asynchronous prospecting does not provide the experience necessary to become a great salesperson. Yet all these approaches deprive you of the many benefits of cold calling, by allowing you to hide behind a screen and avoid having to speak to the human being you are asking for a meeting. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook.

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Tibor Shanto

JULY 20, 2021

I’ll follow up by asking “for prospecting and selling?” The majority will tell you they do most, if not all their “research” before even prospecting someone. It is clear that many salespeople use the “activity” as busy work and a means of avoiding actual prospecting.

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Appointment Education Prospecting Meeting 321

Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

This is the foundation of your sales management, outlining the progression from prospect to customer. It traditionally has steps that include prospecting, engagement, qualification , presentation, objections and closing. This way, you willbe able to rock your conversion rates by softly moving your prospects through all stages.

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Iannarino

JULY 31, 2021

Key Result One: Second meetings with target (prospective) clients. Key Result Two: Second meetings with existing clients to explore new initiatives. Sales starts by scheduling meetings with your target clients (prospects) to engage with them about some better result you believe you can help them achieve.

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Objectives and Key Results Contract Sales Clients 342

Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

Instead, believe that anyone with a phone and a heartbeat is a prospect. You are always better off identifying yourself, sharing the reason for your call , explaining the value you are offering in trade for your prospect’s time, and then asking them for a meeting.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

Wrap touchpoints around meetings. If you’ve made in-person sales calls, then you’re probably already comfortable being in a room with prospects. The main one is to treat video sales meetings like in-person calls. Would you show up to a serious meeting in a t-shirt and baseball cap? The sales process matters.

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Iannarino

JULY 29, 2021

There is never a reason to fear calling a stranger, especially since every won deal starts by meeting a stranger. The poll he posted asked which medium to use first in a prospecting sequence : phone, email, social media, or an in-person visit. Only after the prospect clicked the link did this person believe he could reach out them.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 7, 2021

Many of them are now so prevalent that sales organizations embrace them, even when their prospective clients reject them. Email Prospecting. The best way to repel your prospective clients is email prospecting. C&P enables reputation damage and being blocked from communicating with prospects. Avoiding the Phone.

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Cold Call Clients Sales Pitch 276

Iannarino

MAY 15, 2022

The first way to start the conversation occurs when a salesperson calls a prospective client to ask them for a meeting to talk about how their prospect may improve their results. This is called outbound, cold outreach, or prospecting. There are two methods of starting a sales conversation.

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Tibor Shanto

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It’s a prospecting call, please stop apologising, it’s OK to do your job. Don’t say “I am hoping we may book a time to meet.” Or “I was wondering if we can meet?” I am call specifically to set a time, book an appointment, schedule a meeting, but none of the softy stuff. I’m Sorry, I Didn’t Mean To.

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Cold Call Appointment Prospecting Meeting 296

Martech

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Audience definition Different teams have different “customers” — prospects, partners and existing clients. However, when it was reframed during the workshop, sales management realized their teams could use the event as a catalyst for prospect meetings and an incentive for accounts showing renewal hesitation. But the payoff?

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Strategize Angle Territory Sports 111

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

” The responses are, “Well they are talking to us, we are having interesting meetings. Why would they be meeting with us if they weren’t serious?” Too many sellers fear having the right conversations with their prospects. They fear asking, “Why are you interested now?

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