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Relationships rule(s)

August 18, 2018 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

Over the years I’ve developed a framework for making prospecting calls more effective. I call this framework “social calling”.

The three elements of the framework are: (1) having clean contact data, (2) leveraging trigger events and (3) using relationships. I’ve covered the first two elements in the two previous posts. Now I’m going to go over the one that makes the biggest difference, relationships. Read More…

Filed Under: Prospecting, Social selling

Pull the trigger

August 11, 2018 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

In my last post I shone a light on the fact that to prospect you need to have a good prospect list.

In this post, I want to tell you about something that boosts prospecting results: trigger events. A “trigger event” is when something changes in your prospect’s world.

Change is good for you when you’re selling as when something changes in your prospect’s world, it often creates a need. Sometimes that need is something your product can address and hence a sales opportunity is created. Read More…

Filed Under: Prospecting

Prospecting bread and butter

August 4, 2018 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

In order to contact prospects you need to have their contact information.

Today’s post is not about rocket science. This is the first post in the more practical area of actually doing this prospecting thing.

During the posts about preparation I told you about getting your prospect profile together. If you did that, you should have a good sense of who you want to contact, including the type of company they work for, where they are located and their typical job title.

Now you need to take that prospect profile and grab actual people’s names, company names, addresses, emails and social media profiles that match it. You want to grab these and put them in a spreadsheet or your handy CRM system. Read More…

Filed Under: Prospecting

Treat yourself to some social selling

July 28, 2018 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

OK I need to come out of the closet.

In the last two posts I did a bunch of math. I wanted to boil down cold calling vs. social selling data so we could do a somewhat fair comparison. Here’s the punchline. Read More…

Filed Under: Prospecting

Social calling math

July 21, 2018 by Nigel Edelshain 1 Comment

This post is a bit of a continuation from last week’s post. In that post I did some math.

The math was about the conversion rates of cold calling based on data I have collected over the last few years from others and my own sales team.

This post is going to be about math too but this time I want to focus on prospecting using a social selling approach or what I call “social calling”.

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Cold calling math

July 14, 2018 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

Today’s post is going to include a few numbers.

I’ve actually gone a step further than I’ve gone before in this post and boiled everything down to time, which is the “ultimate currency” for us humans.

I collect data on cold calling whenever I see it, as I am fascinated by trying to figure out if there are better ways to prospect. I’ve got three sets of data for you here. One from a university, one from a smart sales expert and one from my team. Read More…

Filed Under: Prospecting

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