Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business processes has been revolutionising industries across the world and inbound sales is no exception. According to a study by McKinsey, businesses that use AI to streamline sales processes report a 40% increase in productivity.

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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

JULY 16, 2021

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. The automation that claims to solve the problem of getting meetings causes the exact opposite outcome. We cannot continue to choose prospecting methods that destroy any possibility of a future relationship.

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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. Without value, sales is broken.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

The Gist: Prospecting isn’t easy, but it’s even harder with a poor strategy. Our only tool in sales is a conversation, making language a primary variable to success. An aversion to prospecting is often caused by horrible approaches to asking for a meeting. The Aversion to Prospecting.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It's important to be organized in sales. You always have open loops you need to close, like sending a new contact the case study they requested. Or perhaps you owe another client an edited contract for a new offering they are interested in buying.

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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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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

An effective sales pitch should begin with the early "bonding and rapport" part of selling. 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.

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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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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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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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Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the world of sales, time is money. This is where the concept of the sales cycle comes into play. A streamlined sales cycle can significantly boost your company’s efficiency and profitability. It can help you close deals faster, increase your sales volume, and improve your bottom line. What is a Sales Cycle?

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Objectives and Key Results Negotiate CRM Sales 130

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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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. When there aren’t many new opportunities in the pipeline, very little new business will get closed n months from now where n is the length of the sales cycle. The answer depends on a salesperson’s Sales DNA.

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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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Martech

JANUARY 8, 2025

The faster the sales process, the faster the revenue growth. This isnt just a sales problem, either. This isnt just a sales problem, either. Marketing teams play a crucial role in optimizing tools, content and communication throughout the sales process. The easier prospects can book, the faster sales can move.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Getting ghosted is an unfortunate fact of sales life nowadays. 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. 6 Ways to Re-Engage an Unresponsive Prospect 1. Let's see what they had to say! Offer a mini-audit.

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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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Iannarino

JULY 31, 2021

The Gist: Sales is made up of two parts: Opportunity Creation and Opportunity Capture. Grove had an admirable penchant to treat his sales force as the best source for figuring what was going on with Intel’s clients. Here’s how an OKR breakdown might look for a professional sales force. He listened, learned, and made adjustments.

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Objectives and Key Results Contract Sales Clients 342

Iannarino

MAY 15, 2022

There are two methods of starting a sales conversation. 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.

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Iannarino

JULY 9, 2021

While some sales organizations still use legacy approaches, none of them are based on high-pressure sales. Once they finished their assignment, I asked the students to raise their hand if one of their parents worked in sales. What made the hours on the phone worthwhile was securing a meeting. High-Pressure Techniques.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In this lively episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount welcomes Patrick "Pops" Garrett, Founder & Chief Drinking Officer of DrinkCurious, to explore the unique intersection between bourbon tasting and sales engagement.

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Entertainment Education Clients Relationship building 98

Iannarino

JULY 29, 2021

Much of the advice they offer validates and even spreads a fear of sales interactions. 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.

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Cold Call Referrals Clients Appointment 361

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 309

Iannarino

JULY 14, 2021

The Gist: A new sales conversation is replacing the traditional sales call. Clients increasingly find traditional sales approaches to be inadequate—and it’s causing them to avoid salespeople. There is a new sales conversation , and it shares little with legacy sales techniques of 10, 25, or even 50 years ago.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 7, 2021

The Gist: Some current sales practices actually prevent deals. There are certain strategies, tactics, and practices that prevent sales instead of producing them. Many of them are now so prevalent that sales organizations embrace them, even when their prospective clients reject them. Email Prospecting.

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Cold Call Clients Sales Pitch 278

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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Iannarino

JULY 24, 2021

There are (still) only two things we do in sales: we create opportunities and we pursue them. Build your sales workday around the outcomes you need to create, working in the order that enables the next outcome. There is an order of importance in sales, prioritizing certain tasks over others. In Order of Unimportance.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. Balancing Quality and Speed: Sales teams often struggle to balance quality with pipeline velocity.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Gist: It’s heresy to say so, but the sales process was designed to solve the sales organization’s problems. In particular, the standard “sales process” sought to provide a blueprint for success, a repeatable formula to ensure that every salesperson could win deals. You need to make sales.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 29, 2024

as he welcomes legendary sales expert, Mark Hunter, to The Sales Gravy Podcast! In this episode they dive into actionable Outbound strategies, discuss the latest AI trends, and reveal why authentic relationships are the cornerstone of every successful sale. Join host Jeb Blount Jr.

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Appointment Negotiate Sales Represent 97

Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. For salespeople who want to be treated as partners, there is a new sales conversation that creates greater value. Here is the order in which sales conversations were (and mostly still are) conducted in legacy approaches to B2B sales.

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Iannarino

MARCH 15, 2022

Just suggesting that more activity might be necessary to improve results makes sales leaders and sales managers nervous. They don't want to ask their sales force to make more calls (yes, calls) and schedule more meetings with prospects whose outcomes you sincerely want to improve. Activity gets a bad rap.

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Sales Meeting Prospecting 296

Veloxy

JUNE 24, 2021

Crafting a killer sales pitch? You need to exude a calm, confident demeanor when trying to reach out to prospects. If you’re looking to really drive a point home, why not try walking a few steps to your prospect? What does the science say about using non-verbal communication in sales? Avoid Fidgeting. Vary Your Gestures.

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Cerebral Selling

JANUARY 6, 2023

Email prospecting is one of the simplest and most widely-used strategies for generating sales leads. So when it comes to email prospecting, how can you ensure you break through the noise, hook prospects in, and move your deals forward? If you think every email you send to a prospect lands in their inbox, think again!

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Iannarino

JUNE 23, 2021

The Gist: Some salespeople try to acquire a meeting by mentioning their prospective client’s direct competiton. This approach is problematic because it implies that you’ll share confidential information that will somehow benefit your prospective client, making you untrustworthy. You Never Have to Kiss and Tell.

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