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Nothing is more frustrating to a salesperson than being shut down by a company’s gatekeeper. “They’re not in.” “They’re in a meeting.” “We aren’t interested.” “I will forward you to their voicemail.” All of these responses are in the way of us reaching our end destination – our targeted prospect! Yet, if you modify your strategy slightly, you may just slip by the gatekeeper more often, increasing your bottom line sales figures each and every month. Read the full article →

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Oh no he didn’t!

Well, actually, I did. A few weeks back I helped out the HubSpot crew with their HubSpot Original Videos and threw down with Julie Devaney (@jalicedev) for a video depicting the burgeoning underground office rap scene. Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments:

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LinkedIn’s Dirty Little Secret

March 15, 2010
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After a great conversation with Rick Roberge of The Rain Maker Maker, I noticed that LinkedIn has a little bit of a “Security Inconsistency” within its search application. This particular security flaw isn’t the most extreme, but it may help you when you are trying to get to the decision maker in the sales process. [...]

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3 Tips for Prospecting Online

February 21, 2010
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We all hate it, but prospecting is the single most important part of selling in 2010. With all of this technology surrounding us, we should at least be able to take out some of the drudgery. As a social salesperson, here are a few questions that come to my mind when I prospect: Is this [...]

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How do you prospect?

February 17, 2010

How do you prospect? Which sales tools do you use? MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn? Leave a comment below and we can build a tool, together, that allows us to prospect faster and close deals, easier, using the power of the web.

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5 Questions Applied to Social Selling

February 14, 2010
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In order to give a good baseline of the purpose of this blog and the articles I plan to write, I wanted to apply the 5 W’s to the concept of Social Sales. What is Social Selling? Social Selling makes use of the social web to help inside and outside sales representatives sell faster, better [...]

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