With the seemingly relentless demands on Sales Managers to reduce costs while simultaneously increasing sales does outsourcing Lead Generation make sense? Why not simply get our team to generate their own leads? We’re paying salespeople anyway right? Why add the expense of ...
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Sales Lead Generation should be mostly pull instead of push - meaning that you pull people into calling your because of the valuable services, content and expertise you have. That requires visibility - you have to be seen to get noticed. I know blindingly obvious. There are tons of free places to get this visibility ...
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Becoming a though leader for your industry, market and prospects is the fastest way to get more sales. Becoming a sought after expert gets the phone ringing from people that want to buy from you. No other strategy will get you more sales ready leads than establishing your expertise in the minds of your targeted ...
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Sales is not about tricking people. If your product does not have value to those you’re attempting to sell to no lead generation strategy is going to be very effective for you. I can teach you how to deliver the right message to the right people very effectively but if the underlying value is poor ...
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Selling in the New Economy of hyper-competition and low demand require effective and robust sales lead generation strategies. Through years of consulting and observation we’ve learned that the six components of effective Sales Lead Generation are:
Value – The Cost of Admission
The Right People with the Right Message
Using the ‘Big Fish/Small Pond’ Principle
Varied, Consistent and Continual ...
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Sales prospecting is much more than cold calling. An effective sales lead generation process is built around four principle: Value, Relationships, Actvities and Technology.
The 4 Principles of Sales Lead Generation
What you sell must have Value for your customers. It must be something they want.
Not everyone wants a particular solution or product. You have to be ...
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In consulting and working with hundreds of sales reps and their companies, we’ve found the number one problem shared by all is getting in to see customers. In almost every meeting and conversation I have with salespeople they tell me "I know I could sell more if I could just get in-front of people. That ...
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Let’s be honest – the entire business world has changed except for sales . Pick up any book on selling and you’ll see the same advice and tactics taught at the turn of the century – the 19th Century. Companies like National Cash Register, IBM, and Hartford Insurance implemented selling ...
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You can't sell without having someone to sell to. In a down economy this is especially true. Demand is down, I get it. However Apple just sold $100 MILLION in iPads. So someone is always buying. You just have to find them using effective and intelligent sales prospecting methods.
Sales Lead Generation and Sales ...
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No question about it: sales are down. The economy has reduced the amount of new business in the marketplace. This has reduced our incomes, thinned our sales funnels and in general made selling much harder than ever before. However we still have a job to do - "get the name on the line which is ...
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