ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Are outbound and cold calling really dead? In the epiphany stage they want education and unique perspectives; in the awareness stage they want product information and subject matter experts (SMEs); and in the interest stage they want benchmarks and best practices.". Is outbound and cold calling really dead?

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ViewPoint

APRIL 19, 2017

One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These so-called experts proclaim that cold-calling is ineffective and pursuing prospects that aren’t coming to you is a waste of time. Mark Hunter summed the day up by saying: “Prospecting is not an activity.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 10, 2014

Why Cold Calling Still Works. Cold calling, contacting someone you don’t already to know, is one of the most effective ways to make a business connection because it’s so direct and personal. Cold Call Timing. Research has shown that the best time to contact a prospect is between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The Three “Lies” That Plague B2B Businesses Today Are: Cold calling is dead. The handoff of prospects from marketing to sales is clunky at best (if it truly exists at all). Well: Cold calling is not dead. 57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Cold calling is dead. The world’s most effective sellers get into selected, targeted accounts before there is an initiative, drive demand, build credibility, and are in the position to help the customer determine where they might be headed and how to best get there.”. Marketing and sales are aligned. Do you agree these are lies?

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Inbound Leads Suck and Cold-Calling is Dead. Click to start video at this point — It’s easy to imagine that Twitter and LinkedIn are the best places to sell yourself, but you should offer to serve others first, Kyle says. They’re on social media so that you don’t always have to be. You need to steer people to it.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 17, 2012

Traditional marketing departments are also not the best equipped for this important job. In our experience, best practices suggest that a separate group, inside or outside the company, needs to take control of the vital lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing functions.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 17, 2012

Traditional marketing departments are also not the best equipped for this important job. In our experience, best practices suggest that a separate group, inside or outside the company, needs to take control of the vital lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing functions.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2012

There have been more comments from marketing automation vendors that cold calling and other traditional ways of generating sales leads are going away. He notes the best companies—the ones that are lead machines—still only produce enough to get 50% or 60% of the company’s sales.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2018

Integrated, multi-media campaigns directed toward focused audience groups work best. Multiple media (such as email, voice mail, even handwritten notes interspersed with a proper cadence of telephone calls) will, absolutely, produce the highest return as compared to any other method.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 13, 2012

Click to start video at this point — Jeff differentiates between warm outbound calling and cold calling by noting that it’s ”the pure cold calling, and buying the anonymous lists, that is proving not to deliver the results people are looking for.”

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ViewPoint

MAY 2, 2012

Paul adds, “Outbound marketing through traditional channels such as cold calling, direct mail and email can all be made better by using analytics to understand the people we’re trying tor reach. This supports making a more informed outreach to those companies using traditional outbound modes. That’s how people learn.

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