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Old-fashioned sales techniques

by Nigel Edelshain

Sometimes it pays to do what is “out”.

Social selling has become synonymous with technology. Many definitions make it all about using social media to sell.

But I think social selling is about being social and actual human beings do more than just hang out on social media platforms. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Prospecting

Google thyself!

by Nigel Edelshain

When you send a prospect an email or leave them a voicemail what do many of them do?

They Google you (as well as your company.)

As you know, buyers are seriously concerned about burning their time these days. If you happen to pique someone’s interest with your brilliant email or voicemail they are likely to vet you before they call you back and invest their precious time. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Prospecting

Social Capital changes prospecting results

by Nigel Edelshain

The big difference between a cold call and a referral call is social capital.

Social capital is the currency of relationships. It’s the currency of trust. If you’ve been in sales doing it the old school cold calling way long enough you may start to believe social capital does not mean anything. But I believe it means a lot. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Prospecting

Pull the trigger

by Nigel Edelshain

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

Build a prospecting team

by Nigel Edelshain

The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients.

Cold prospecting techniques get harder-and-harder every day. Even cold techniques turbocharged with boatloads of technology get harder-and-harder every day as everyone gets the technology and the arms race for a better sales stack escalates.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Prospecting

Dust off some CRM records

by Nigel Edelshain

This post is about an interesting place you can look for “suspects” when you are prospecting.

This is a place that is super-obvious, but as with many real world things, often not utilized: your company’s own CRM/old contact lists.

I’ve seen the scenario umpteen times. A rep has a quota to make and feels under-the-gun. The first place they go for a “suspect”/”lead” list is Linkedin or another third-party list (InsideView, Zoominfo etc. etc.) Where they don’t go is their company’s own CRM.

This is odd because the people in your CRM have presumably had some thought put into selecting them. Someone at your firm may even once have talked to those people. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Data, Prospecting

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