prospecting
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My Top 14 Articles on More Effective Sales Cold Calling
- November 13, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’ve written a lot of articles about cold calling more effectively, so I have linked to fourteen of those articles below.
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Prospecting Trends for the Sales Force
- July 19, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Three salespeople left voice-mail messages for me today. They were all cold calls, they were all bad, and they were all following up on brochures they dropped off last week. Nothing out of the ordinary here, as one of the callers wanted to know when our copier leases expire, one wanted to know when our commercial real estate lease expires and two wanted to introduce themselves as our new reps.
There are several reasons why they were so bad:
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Are Your Salespeople Still Cold Calling? The Ugly Truth
- January 25, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
One thing that will never change is word of mouth. Referrals and introductions from happy customers and clients will always be the finest method for generating new business.
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Top 11 Reasons Why Salespeople Fail to Close Sales
- September 19, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The reason I’m bringing this up is that in most companies, when certain stages of the sales process are not being exectued as they should, executives often don’t know why. That’s one of the many reasons why we evaluate Sales Forces – to identify root causes of the known (and unknown) problems.
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Most Salespeople Suck at Selling – Is it Worse Than Ever?
- August 26, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
What is your approach to get people to call you back after you have left 2 or 3 messages?”
In the past month, there have been 47 comments, one of the most popular topics I’ve seen there. Some of the replies have been on target but most are embarrassing to read. These are sales management executives and this is a “what salespeople must learn to do in their 1st week in sales” topic. Most salespeople do not have the skills to consistently get new prospects to the phone!
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Sales 2.0 Tools Have Their Place, But Where is It?
- November 23, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Sales 2.0 – I love the tools, but they don’t replace the basics.
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Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow Could be Your Veteran Salespeople
- September 14, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
There isn’t a single complaint that I hear any more often than this one: “My veteran salespeople are living off of their existing customers and I can’t get them to go and find new business.”
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Sales Prospecting on Steroids
- September 10, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
With all of the articles written about sales and cold calls being dead (I usually write the counter arguments to that. How would you find new business if the only thing you could rely on was a lead?) it was a breath of fresh air when Michael Strickland, my guest on this week’s edition of Meet the Sales Experts, spoke about prospecting on steroids.
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The Latest Fiction for the Sales Force – No More Hunters and Farmers
- September 10, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Today I received an email from Selling Power promoting their latest webinar, The Hunter/Farmer Paradigm is Dead.
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Will Gifts Get Prospects to Return Calls from your Salespeople?
- February 13, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
A fruit basket arrived this morning. My first reaction was, “who would want to send me a fruit basket?” It turned out that a salesperson sent it, hoping to get me on the phone. He had already left two voice mail messages and stopped by on one other occasion.