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Go through the motions

September 18, 2020 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

In sales we need to go through the motions.

Our buyers are “frazzled” as Jill Konrath says.

Even if you use social selling techniques that get you a referral or help you connect to a potential buyer using your mutual background, it is still likely to take some follow up before you confirm a meeting time (or virtual meeting time these days).

Research from XANT looked at the optimal “cadence” for prospecting based on the masses of data available to them through companies’ usage of their software. Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies.

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Filed Under: Getting in the door

Disrupted, Not Derailed–Your Pipeline in the Time of Covid

July 28, 2020 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by my friend David Krieger. David Kreiger is the President and Founder of SalesRoads. SalesRoads is a leading B2B Appointment Setting and SDR Outsourcing firm. [FYI from Nigel: you should contact them if you need this kind of help. They are the “real deal”!]

This year’s coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shutdown of much of the US economy has had an impact on just about everything: how we live, how we work, and even how we sell. 

My company, SalesRoads (North America’s leading B2B Appointment Setting and SDR Outsourcing firm), spends much of its time supporting the SaaS (software-as-a-service) industry, so we wanted to better understand their situation in this pivotal moment. To study this, we surveyed 755 B2B SaaS professionals who are part of the sales process at their companies in late May and early June 2020. We also conducted 25 interviews with B2B SaaS sales leaders to go into greater detail and get a better understanding of what they are experiencing within their own organizations. 

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Filed Under: Getting in the door

Sales lessons from a virus

May 20, 2020 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

If you didn’t believe that we humans are connected before COVID-19, you should now.

As you know, the virus has been transmitting itself exponentially through populations around the world. The only thing that has slowed its progress has been implementing some form of social distancing.

Social distancing is all about breaking the social network.

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Do you need an Enterprise Selling Plan (ESP)?

May 1, 2020 by Nigel Edelshain Leave a Comment

Don’t panic. We will return to normalish, at some point.

We will start selling at some reasonable rate again, soonish.

Budgets will be back in place and buyers will need things, in a little whileish.

When all this happens, you may easily forget the lessons of this panic/pandemic.

One of these lessons I believe is that big customers are good.

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Filed Under: Getting in the door, Planning and time management