The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” So what does it take to successfully prospect? Have a dedicated time on your calendar to prospect. The most successful salespeople are those who commit their time to prospect and stick to it. Qualify quickly.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Get Your Free Ebook Key Takeaways Outside sales is the practice of selling through direct, in-person interactions. The Sales Process in the Field The sales process for outside sales representatives involves prospecting and concluding deals, requiring a unique set of skills and strategies.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. Matt: All righty.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 16, 2020

On this Sales Gravy Podcast episode Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) and Anthony Iannarino (Eat Their Lunch) get down and dirty about why salespeople need to adopt a phone first approach to outbound prospecting sequences. Yet sales professionals across the spectrum have abandoned the phone for spamming prospects with an endless stream of email.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Each funnel stage defines your steps to turn prospective buyers into customers, even if they’ve never heard of your business before. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt: Welcome to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. This and a lot more.

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Salesforce

APRIL 11, 2023

We learned very quickly that the biggest obstacle to closing new business isn’t the objections themselves, it’s how the team manages the objections. The key to effective objection handling is using a question-based framework that puts the prospect at ease. Why is objection handling important?

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

While close ended questions give you faster and direct results, open ended questions deliver richer and more valuable insights. Better understand customer needs and pain points If you were to ask ten prospects, “Do you wish you could improve the productivity of your team by two or three times?

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The more control and visibility you have into your sales pipeline, the more revenue you’ll bring in. In fact, HubSpot Research found a positive relationship between the number of opportunities in your pipeline per month and revenue achievement. Growing a healthy pipeline is possible through careful assessment and management.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

Like everything in the digital world, traditional prospecting is undergoing a big transformation. This second point is especially interesting: the types of messages you send can have a big effect on your outreach results. In today’s article, we’ll focus on one specific type of prospecting message and its uses—video.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Some functions that benefit from Sales AI are sales forecasting, tracking and analyzing contact relationships, pipeline management, data entry, and much more. That’s because AI will be handling mundane tasks which take up a lot of time for reps, leaving them with more time to engage with prospects and clients. Don’t believe me?

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radio and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! Matt: Thank you everyone else for joining us on another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One area you will want to apply this technique is when you are deciding which prospects to add to your weekly prospecting list. If your current strategy involves calling a random list of prospects, chances are you are not seeing the results you want, or it’s the reason you procrastinate prospecting. New to sales?

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. And poorly managed prospecting lists will result in seller fatigue. In this article, we share how leads, prospects, and customers form the backbone of an effective sales process, enabling sales teams to tackle fatigue and sometimes mundane work.

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Veloxy

MARCH 15, 2023

It is a comprehensive approach that helps organizations increase their revenue growth by aligning their sales, marketing, and customer success efforts with their business objectives. This results in higher customer satisfaction, increased customer loyalty, and improved customer retention. Here are the three key advantages: 1.

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Openview

MAY 30, 2018

In this guide, you’ll find tips for designing sales compensation packages that yield results and actually scale. The key, of course, is to find the middle ground — the point at which every employee who makes up your sales organization feels fully motivated to deliver results that fuel smart growth.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Get instant pipeline insights with the mobile lead summary widget. Updated CRM object merge behavior to be aware of. Highlight key data instantly with conditional formatting in reports. Key changes include new record ID generation for merged records and prioritization of property values and associations from the primary record.

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Martech

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Marketing might deliver leads, but sales doesn’t follow up fast enough or misses key insights like buyer personas or content performance. Inconsistent messaging and poor handoffs confuse prospects and damage trust, making it harder to close deals. Pipeline growth : A healthy pipeline is a shared success.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m You can subscribe right at Sales Pipeline Radi o and/or listen to full recordings of past shows everywhere you listen to podcasts! My name is Matt Heinz.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 27, 2019

If you’ve been following me for a long time, you know that I don’t consider networking the same as prospecting. Too many people go to a networking event but call it prospecting simply to avoid prospecting. The issue I have is that networking by nature operates on a different timetable than prospecting.

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SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

That’s what this final article in this series outlines…the key Practicalities for Using Your Sales Process.**. The first practicality of using your sales process is to make sure that the journey is laid out with transparency, not only to you and your team, but also in your materials, website, and actions with prospective clients.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Using the applicable insight and practices in this article, you’ll not only help salespeople widen their pipeline and shorten their sales cycles, but you’ll also improve sales team morale and modernize the sales process at your company. Most meetings should be focused on one thing and one thing only—pipeline management.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s been six weeks since you gave your prospect a demo. You cringe as you enter your Monday-morning pipeline meeting knowing that, yet again, you’ll have to tell your team that the deal’s “ still in the works.”. Your worst fears are realized… Your prospect has ghosted you faster than your last Hinge date. And then, poof.

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Martech

AUGUST 19, 2024

It ensures your marketing efforts are focused on high-value targets that align with your business objectives. Here’s how to effectively identify and select these key accounts. They also reveal shifts in market demand and highlight key topics in conversations with target accounts.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You’d have fewer lost deals right now and you’d be heading for the long-term results you want (like an accurate forecast and a President’s Club-level sales team). That’s why we created a key-metrics-only sales report template in Excel. How many attempts does it take each rep to engage with prospects? Not getting great results?

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Veloxy

MAY 24, 2023

It’s the most important metric to a Chief Pipeline Officer. Sales velocity measures the SPEED at which deals move through your sales pipeline, resulting in shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and increased revenue generation. It represents the volume of prospects your sales team engages with at any given time.

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Highspot

JUNE 15, 2021

The survey results were striking, and uncovered that desire, drive, and discipline separate top performing salespeople from the rest of the pack. ” Discipline to Use a Sales Methodology and Build a High-Caliber Pipeline. Another sales leader’s response emphasized discipline as a key attribute: “Persistence.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As an asset total, you maybe exceeding your objective, but how about the individual assets? Looking at the return (pipeline or sales results) is not enough. Just like in selling, if you get the prospect to recognize and verbalize the issues, challenges, problems, then they own them. But, is it performing as expected?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2021

This language, as well as understanding key processes, problems, challenges is all part of what we call “business acumen.” When a manager asks about the pipeline, we don’t conjure up sewage systems, water or gas pipelines and the associated pumps and valves.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It helps them close deals faster and project sales pipelines more accurately. . A sales cycle is a series of well-defined events, from when a salesperson engages a prospect until they make the sale. . Prospect buyers. Different companies have different methods of finding prospective buyers. Contact prospects.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

We know how to lock down next steps or overcome the next objection. The key in this step is to define who you should be targeting, finding your “ideal” account profile. The key is to remove (or at least significantly reduce) the gray area. What are their objections? SALES STRATEGY STEP 1: BUILD AN IDEAL ACCOUNT PROFILE.

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Objectives and Key Results Pipeline Sales Cold Call 118

Veloxy

APRIL 12, 2023

Address Objections As a solar salesperson, you’re bound to encounter objections from potential customers. These objections can range from concerns about the cost of solar energy to doubts about the reliability of solar panels. This can be a key factor in successfully closing deals with customers.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 14, 2023

We can spend a lot of time focusing on specific selling skills, for example questioning, probing, objection handling, presenting skills, closing skills. When we look at pipelines, there are a few key factors in our pipelines: Quality/integrity, volume, velocity. Do the math on what that means for pipeline coverage.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Remote sales or virtual selling is the process of prospecting, engaging, and closing deals from a remote location. Instead of traditional in-person sales meetings, the salesperson and the prospect are in different places such as their home or work. Keeping prospects engaged. What is remote sales? Sales reps are more productive.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 31, 2020

Did you know that 69% of B2B salespeople feel they don’t not have enough opportunities in their pipeline to meet sales quota? We uncovered key elements that contribute to a salesperson’s ability to consistently achieve sales quota year after year. The salesperson fails to communicate value to the prospect or customer.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Success depends on understanding your objectives, both for the organization and the people you support. Set priorities based on the org’s strategic objectives. Whatever those key goals / initiatives are, stay tuned in to them. But it supports a key best practice, and that’s to be seen as a strategic partner.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Welcome to another addition of Sales Pipeline Radio , our weekly Thursday broadcast replay and transcription blog post. Sales Pipeline Radio has been honored recently to have been named on a few lists: 10 Sales Podcasts You Need To Start Listening To. Matt: Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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