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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

ViewPoint

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Maybe I was just sensitive.

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Cold Calling Sucks, Call Website Visitors Instead!

ActiveDEMAND

Many salespeople have cut their teeth on cold calling: ringing people up just after supper to sell them on magazine subscriptions, or going door to door and facing rejection right up close and personal. And many of them avoid cold calling because it’s hard to make a living selling to people who have never heard of you.

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Three Focus Areas for Outstanding Appointment Setting

Only B2B

Speed-to-Inbound Lead: When someone takes the time to fill out a website form for a sales call or demo, it’s likely that you aren’t the only firm they’ve contacted. Cold Calling High-Level Decision Makers: Have you thought of cold phoning executive prospects during their “off hours”?

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Interruption Marketing – How it Works in Today’s B2B Environment

PureB2B

Remember, for people to notice you, you have to put their business priorities first, talk about your value proposition then end with a call to action. Cold calls - Many marketers dread cold calling. The magic of AI has revealed the most effective cold-calling technique after analyzing over 90,000 cold calls.

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Interruption Marketing – How it Works in Today’s B2B Environment

PureB2B

Remember, for people to notice you, you have to put their business priorities first, talk about your value proposition then end with a call to action. Cold calls – Many marketers dread cold calling. The magic of AI has revealed the most effective cold-calling technique after analyzing over 90,000 cold calls.

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Email Opening Lines That Actually Work

Stevens & Tate

For example, a recent product launch or an interview in a magazine with their CEO. ” It shows that you’re not just cold calling (or cold emailing) potential prospects but that you’re actually familiar with them. Use your opening line to bring up a recent event relevant to their business.

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Dead is Dead! (At Least in Sales and Marketing)

ViewPoint

Cold calling is dead. The rumor in 1969 was that if you played “Revolution 9” from the White album backwards, you heard the band in an apparent reference to Paul say, “turn me on, dead man.”) I wrote another blog about this concept that you can find in Top Sales World’s magazine here. Do sales reps like to cold call?