Sales

Increase new and repeat sales. Cold calling, follow ups and the benefits of regular sales contacts

Connect Your Reps with Prospects Sooner, Not Later

It was very recently brought to my attention that when we migrated the Boxpilot blog, one of the earliest posts was lost.  Since it was one of my favorites, I’ve taken the liberty of reposting it here. It’s been a year and a half since I wrote this post and while the market has continued …

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Evolving the Cold Call

Cold calling has different meanings in different businesses, but for B2B Lead Generation, cold calling is the art and the science of using the telephone to introduce a helpful, relevant, new idea to a company or contact with whom you have not worked in the past. The degree of pre-call preparation will vary and how …

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Tackle Voicemail Like a Pro

I just read a great article about how to tackle voicemail.  Like it or not, voicemail is never an excuse not to have the conversations you need to have to make your sales. Voicemail – like every other obstacle a sales person has to deal with – carries in it the seeds of a fresh …

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Marketo – Revenue Rockstar Fall Tour

As the company leading the evolution from B2B marketing automation software to revenue performance management, Marketo has an abundance of knowledge to share about: Getting your sales and marketing teams working better together to accelerate predictable revenue growth Best practices to measure and optimize your revenue generation How companies have been able to thrive in …

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Are Your Voicemails a Silk Purse?

Having followed  many discussions lately on cold calling, it was something of a surprise to follow a discussion that accepted that cold calls are still a reality of sales and marketing for many companies. Rather than talk about how cold calling should be replaced with inbound lead generation (usually leveraged off social and email marketing …

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Case Study – Solving a Small Account Renewal Challenge

Background – A North American security software developer, selling to business organizations of all sizes, was concerned about the low rate of maintenance agreement renewals from its base of smaller customers (under 50 seats).  Because they already knew that a call from the sales reps at 90, 60 and if necessary 30 days, was the …

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Repositioning Your Sales Team

Every marketer and business executive understands the concept of positioning.  They position and reposition product lines, service offerings and corporate identities all the time. And now it’s time for businesses to take a long hard look at how to reposition their sales teams within a business environment filled with buyers who avoid sales like the …

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12 Prospecting Rules

Just a quick post to draw your attention to 12 Most Important Rules for Prospecting For sales people in smaller organizations and especially for Business Owner/Operators who are pulled in about a million different directions, it makes some very useful points. My favorite is the cautionary note to be able to separate prospecting/contact research from …

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What Are Sales People?

In reviewing a few of my favourite conversations on LinkedIn, I came across the following from a comment made by Peter Johnston, who lives in the UK. With the changes we are seeing in sales and marketing, the past definitions of what is a sales person seem to have fallen out of date (and out …

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What Do Your Peers Think About Cold Calling?

Introduction: Forums and group discussions are one of the oldest forms of Social Media.  They provide an unbiased insight into the thinking of your peers on a variety of topics, but are also time consuming, intrusive and distracting to follow. However, for all the drawbacks, they are an outstanding source of information and insight, dealing …

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