Finding pain points for customers is one of the best ways to generate leads. But it is not easy because customers can be reluctant to share pain points and often don't even know what pain they have. If you would like to learn how to get your cold calls, emails, voicemails, and first appointments more [...]
It can be very understandable for a salesperson to have questions around how many cold calls should I make to a prospect before either moving on or before starting to appear to be a pest. We will try to outline a process in this blog post and attached video to give you some ideas to [...]
I was watching some videos in this pretty cool video series called The Real Deal of Sales, and there was one that I found interesting. It outlines some responses from business professionals when asked what the most challenging things about sales are. I agree with most of the challenges being mentioned and could definitely add a [...]
I had a conversation with a family member recently, and I thought it was a good example of why you need a good sales pitch. Or an example of me not using a great sales pitch. Background The background is that I recently bought a set of ceramic knives, and I have been pretty [...]
We recently held a webinar on using sales gamification to improve sales performance. You can watch the recording and download the slides here. What is Sales Gamification? To start to understand what exactly gamification in the area of sales is and how to best do it, let’s start by looking at what exactly gamification is. According to Merriam-Webster, [...]
"Does cold calling work?" is one of the most commonly asked or debated questions. If you have asked this question, check out our webinar recording, which is simply titled "Does cold calling work?" You can probably guess how we will answer that question, but we will spend this time together to discuss the challenges that [...]
Following up with sales prospects can be tricky. Sometimes you don’t follow up enough and might be missing out on the business. Other times you might follow up too much where the only thing you are doing is damaging the relationship and wasting valuable time. If you can relate to that, you should watch our webinar recording [...]
In this short sales tips video, we talk about one of our tips for what NOT to do when you are prospecting for leads on LinkedIn. This video is part of a longer sales training webinar that we hosted on How to Use LinkedIn as a Sales Prospecting Tool Effectively. The Instant Pitch One [...]
When it comes to making cold calls, whether you don’t have time or the desire, it can be easy to find an excuse not to pick up the phone. Because of this, many salespeople try to only use email to generate leads. While we believe the best way to generate leads consistently is to use [...]
Sales role-play scripts are an important tool to help you with improving sales. Here are some key sections to include in your sales role-play scripts. Gatekeeper Introduction It is very reasonable to expect almost half of phone prospecting calls to get answered by some sort of gatekeeper. A lot of gatekeepers will have the [...]