Summer is a great time for B2B Sales Prospecting
Summer can be the best time to start lead generation programs and begin new relationships with prospects and thus find those hidden nuggets of gold. This is an article that a Canadian company wrote about prospecting in the summer and every point made
Lead Generation That Converts Leads into Sales Opportunities
Recently, we were asked to help further qualify respondents to our customer’s lead generation campaign. We were able to uncover some immediate sales opportunities but we also determined where the other leads were in the sales process and helped to determine what
5 Ways to Reach an Evasive Decision Maker
In the e-book “Cold Calling for the Clueless” it states the “the Gatekeeper is our friend” in this article that statement is reinforced. I have several anecdotes how an appointment is set with all communication being through the gatekeeper. I’m not quite sure how I
Why Holiday Prospecting Works
Making business to business telemarketing calls during the holidays can be an extremely productive endeavor. The article below states what we explain to our customers and prospects “when they want to hold off until the beginning of the year”. It only makes
There’s No Such Thing as “No Decision”
We do database cleaning for many of our customers. The cleaning is done to their prospect list that at some point had interest but there was “no decision”. When we call on the list we not only determine the correct
Here are 14 Lead Qualification Questions
I just finished a workshop on prospecting and writing a telemarketing scripts. The audience could easily write a description of what their company did and how they help but the biggest issue was developing the lead qualification questions. Below are samples and descriptions to help with creating
Best Practices for Following Up After the Trade Show
It’s Your Call will be exhibiting at the #CTBEXPO this Thursday June 9 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. We’ll be across from the Sales Education Hub booth #337! We can help with the Follow Up for the b to b lead
5 Best Practices for Sales Prospecting
It seems apparent that no one method of sales prospecting is the best. Integrating a variety of approaches covers the different ways to connect with your prospects and turn them into qualified leads. Our most successful customers use a process that uses
How often do you follow up?
Once again we were asked to do follow up calls to a “culled list” of prospects and once again half the list was not interested or bad numbers. Going to business networking events and collecting business cards is just the
7 Ways To Be Better at Prospecting
If you’re more of a do it yourself-er and have the time to make those necessary prospecting calls, this is a great article. My favorite part of this article is part 4 “Write Scripts”. Our customers will cringe at first