This post is a response to the question “What are the best sales tools for inside sales?” over on Quora. In later work work we’ve gone to great lengths to list many of the sales tools out there. This post serves to share the best of the best sales tools for our sales process. Good question. Sales is so tools-driven …
3 Ways To Get Free B2B Leads
3 WAYS TO GET FREE B2B LEADS3 WAYS TO GET FREE B2B LEADS3 WAYS TO GET FREE B2B LEADSThis post will tell you how to get free leads. No catch!! Agree or disagree: You can never have enough leads!! Agree, right?I know most of our clients at YourSales would certainly agree you can’t have too many leads. Very few of …
Sales: Click-to-Dial with VoIP and Spreadsheets
Click to Dial using SpreadsheetsSales can feel complex at times, and sometimes companies will be looking for single tools to just solve a single problem. In this post we share how to set up click to dial using a spreadsheet and skype or an IP phone client. That said, using a spreadsheet as the base for your calls isn’t the …
Repeat Your Customer and Sell More
Just heard something really startling: if you’re a waiter who takes an order, chances are about 70% higher of getting a tip if you repeat your customers order out loud, than if you just go “got it”. 70%!! This is all about how you acknowledge what your customers just told you. If you respond to any request with words or …
B2B Selling on Twitter: Worth the effort?
B2B Selling on Twitter has always been a bit of an odd discipline. LinkedIn has almost exclusively sucked up all the oxygen in that space and almost everyone uses Twitter as just a marketing channel. Are you the kind of Sales Professional who helps out your customers wherever you can? It’s an excellent way to win friends and create trust. …
Ask Revealing Questions and Avoid This Fatuous Mistake
With B2B sales being a profession, which is all about helping people make better decisions for themselves, it’s critical to listen more in conversations. You want to learn, receive information, test hypotheses and presumptions, and eliminate assumptions completely. Every day, we all ask questions. To sell something, to get to know something, to get to know someone better, to understand, …
True Sales Professionals Prospect for New Business
The very first time you’re put in a chair with a phone and a computer in front of you, the task at hand usually is to – at best – call on customers who haven’t been called on for a while. At worst – and more frequently the case – your task will be to call people who have never …