Sales Tips for 2025

The new year always brings a fresh start, new ideas, new strategies and hopefully, new sales. Now is the perfect opportunity to revamp your company’s B2B sales and marketing plan. This article will show you how any company can improve its sales in the upcoming year, despite the challenges that may come along the way. Consider these sales tips for 2025: 

Prospect List and Qualification 

Get started by evaluating your company’s prospect list. Identify your most qualified business opportunities. Take some time to reconstruct your target market and focus your attention on them – particularly, your Top 100. It’s important to requalify your list to be sure you have the most practical targets during this time. Refine your list by deciding what factors make for the best segment to target.   (more…)

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“Call Me After the Holidays”

“Call Me After the Holidays”

As the cold weather approaches, so does the infamous objection that anyone making prospecting calls dreads to hear: “Call me after the Holidays”.

With Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years and other holidays on the horizon, the excuse that prospects won’t have time to talk until after the New Year is going to pop up often. Many prospects will get lost in the thought of good food and spending time with friends and family. While your mind may drift off into similar thoughts of your own, you can use this time to increase your sales pipeline into the New Year!

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The Evolution and Strategy of Outsource Sales from Amanda Puppo

In a fascinating episode of the Transform Sales Podcast, hosted by Amir Reiter, guest Amanda Puppo, a seasoned expert in the outsource sales industry, shares her journey and insights. Puppo’s story begins with a candid admission of being fired from her first job due to a lack of closing skills, despite being adept at cold calling. This moment of adversity propelled her towards entrepreneurship, eventually leading to the founding of her company, MarketReach, over two decades ago.

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Top B2B Sales Strategies for 2024

This year, it’s time for your business to start thinking about the sales strategies that will help them succeed in 2024. While it’s important to continually adapt and adjust your sales strategy to fit the needs of your business and your market, there are some tried and true tactics that have been on the rise for B2B businesses everywhere. 

Here are our top trending B2B sales strategies to try implementing in the coming year.

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Sales Tips for 2024

The new year always brings a fresh start, new ideas, new strategies and hopefully, new sales. Now is the perfect opportunity to revamp your company’s B2B sales and marketing plan. This article will show you how any company can improve its sales in the upcoming year, despite the challenges that may come along the way. Consider these sales tips for 2024: 

Prospect List and Qualification 

Get started by evaluating your company’s prospect list. Identify your most qualified business opportunities. Take some time to reconstruct your target market and focus your attention on them – particularly, your Top 100. It’s important to requalify your list to be sure you have the most practical targets during this time. Refine your list by deciding what factors make for the best segment to target.   (more…)

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How Companies Can Use Social Media to Increase Sales

How Companies Can Use Social Media to Increase Sales

Now is the perfect time to think about how your company can use social media as a tool to increase sales. Whether your company has been experimenting with social media for years, or is more recently diving in, a few things are for sure – social media can help you reach the prospects you are looking for, drive web traffic and, ultimately, generate more sales. Consider using these tips to improve your social media marketing strategy:   (more…)

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How to Set Sales Appointments using B2B Telemarketing

Key Takeaways:

  • Find a telemarketing agency with a proven track record. Avoid off-shore telemarketing agencies.
  • Focus on lead gen, make sure to implement a lead qualification process so you don’t waste time on low-quality leads.
  • Don’t be pushy when calling your pre-qualified leads.
  • After you close a sale, deliver exceptional service. This leads to word-of-mouth referrals which makes more inbound leads for your business.

When you run a B2B business, your telemarketing can (and should) look different from other run-of-the-mill telemarketing operations. 

You need every call to drive a deeper relationship with your prospects. You need your leads to not just agree to set a sales appointment – but you need them to WANT to set up a sales appointment. 

Sales appointment setting through telemarketing can be a daunting task, so we’ve compiled a how-to guide to help you get started! 

Let’s dive in- 

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Measuring Sales Rep KPIs

Measuring Sales Rep KPIs

Key Takeaways

  • Identifying KPIs for your sales reps will help you evaluate their effectiveness.
  • Making your KPIs known to your sales reps will help them self-evaluate and improve performance. This reduces the need for intervention from you and other administrators.
  • When evaluating your sales rep’s performance, your highest priority KPIs should include:
    • Opportunity-to-Win Ratio
    • Number of Appointments Booked
    • Rate of New Contacts
    • Number of Qualified Leads
    • Average Deal Size
    • Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
    • and Monthly Revenue
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What’s a Book of Business Got to do with Picking Up the Phone?

What’s a Book of Business Got to do with Picking Up the Phone?

How can calling still drive leads? It’s suprisingly a very effective way of marketing. People always have their phones available, so contact has never been easier. You just need to know how to sell to whoever answers your call.

After speaking with several successful, tenured producers at the Professional Insurance Agents’ (PIA) annual conference in Atlantic City, it was interesting to note that many built key blocks of their book of business through outbound calling.  Evidently picking up the phone has got a lot to do with a book of business.

Some will protest this statement, citing, “But it is 2022 now.  There is no way a producer could profitably or reasonably add new clients to their book of business by pounding the phones, is there?” The answer is, yes. Here’s why.

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8 Essential B2B Demand Generation Best Practices for 2023

8 Essential B2B Demand Generation Best Practices for 2024

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Written by William Anthony
For Integrate.com

Key Takeaways

  • Demand Gen is a marketing tactic that helps bring your ideal clients to you by generating interest in your product or service.
  • You can generate demand by building better relationships with businesses, enhancing operational efficiency, and focusing on your top-of-funnel process as well as implementing account-based marketing tactics.
  • Consistent communication with your clients, as well as your sales and customer service teams, will help you get the best information about how to generate demand.

When you have a product or service that is in high demand, you’ll see in increase in profits and the lead generation practically comes to you.

Demand generation is a B2B marketing discipline designed to create interest in products and services that results in greater sales pipeline opportunities and revenue. A comprehensive, effective demand generation strategy will also result in happier customers and better sales-marketing alignment.

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