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Part 4: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

Part 4: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

  • July 20, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales

As I wrote at the end of Part 3 of this blog series, the false “No” is the worst disposition one can get when making a cold call, because it tricks you into disqualifying the well-qualified, perhaps even the perfectly…

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Part 3: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

Part 3: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

  • July 14, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog, I discussed the tragedy of false negatives: mistakenly labeling sales prospects as negatives when they don't fit our selection model — when, in fact, many of them do. And I pointed…

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Part 2: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

Part 2: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

  • July 11, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales

As I said at the end of Part 1 of this blog series, the real question is, what’s on the hook? Because every fish that swims off before you have a conversation with it is a tragedy worse than the…

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Part 1: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

Part 1: A Fishy Tragedy, Avoided

  • July 7, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales

Let’s take a break from the question of whether outbound sales can be industrialized. Spoiler alert: the simple answer is “Yes,” with the qualification that you need to adjust your thinking, processes, and toolset to get it done. But that’s…

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Part 2: Can B2B Sales Be Industrialized?

Part 2: Can B2B Sales Be Industrialized?

  • June 28, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, High Performance Mindset, Sales Management, Uncategorized

In Part 1 of this series, I disposed of the idea that B2B sales has already been industrialized by the widespread adoption of the sales development model. Let’s suspend the question of whether B2B sales can be industrialized and ask,…

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Part 1: Can B2B Sales Be Industrialized?

Part 1: Can B2B Sales Be Industrialized?

  • May 27, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales, Sales Management

I find myself using the phrase “the industrialization of sales” a lot recently — and overconfidently, it turns out. The meaning seemed obvious to me, and I naively thought it must be in common use, until I googled “industrialization of…

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Part 2: Sales Is Already Dominated By AI Robots. Get Over It!

Part 2: Sales is Already Dominated by AI Robots. Get Over It!

  • May 23, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales

So, what about the prediction that sales robots will wipe out millions of sales jobs? In a way, they already have. Maybe not millions yet, but information and automation working together as sales slaves have brought efficiencies to selling that…

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Part 1: Sales Is Already Dominated By AI Robots. Get Over It!

Part 1: Sales is Already Dominated by AI Robots. Get Over It!

  • May 18, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, ConnectAndSell, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales, Sales Management

First, fair warning: I’ve been involved one way or another with artificial and augmented intelligence since 1968. So I’m a little stuck, in that I actually know a bit about how this stuff works. I know less about how human,…

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Go Nuts! Think Like A Squirrel

Go Nuts! Think Like a Squirrel

  • May 16, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales

Generally, I try not to generalize. But this morning when I slid open the door to the “flight deck” and watched yet another Cirque du Squirreleil act (leaping from an upside-down position on a slick, tubular, suspended bird feeder 10…

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Your Prospects Are Not Psychic

Your Prospects Are Not Psychic

  • May 11, 2017
  • Chris Beall
  • Chris Beall, Cold calling, High Performance Mindset, Inside Sales Professionals, Sales, Sales Management

One should always hesitate before pronouncing something "the best," and be even more circumspect before saying "the worst." But what the heck? The worst thing I hear reps say to open a cold call is "Did you have a chance…

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