Leads became an endangered species in 2020. Business owners and salespeople looked everywhere and came up empty-handed and were scared. Their desperation grew as opportunities shrank. So they turned to activities that promised near-instantaneous results, like Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and pay-per-click (PPC) ads. Excitement and relief washed over them as leads started to trickle in again from Google Ads. In the rush of this quick hit of results, some decided it was time to ditch other tim...| KLA Group
Now that Microsoft has acquired LinkedIn, more users will be turning to LinkedIn to find experts for whatever it is that they need. To position yourself in front of the users looking for businesses like yours, you need to boost your signal on LinkedIn. With the right approach, you can be the expert they come to first.| KLA Group
The hot topic in sales recently is that cold calling is DEAD. The lead generation landscape has changed. Publish good campaign content and people will flock to you. Engage on social media to begin prospecting conversations. Don’t bother with calling. Nobody picks up their phone anyway.| KLA Group
Recently, one of my clients reached out with a challenge that many businesses face. While this client knew that personalizing emails, messages, and LinkedIn InMails was important, he was utterly overwhelmed by the task. With a list of 4,000 quality contacts on LinkedIn alone, how could he possibly personalize every message without it consuming every minute of his work day?| KLA Group
Business owners of more and more SMB companies that we talk with are frustrated because they can’t put a finger on the return on investment (ROI) from their lead generation campaigns. They’ve invested time, money and staff, but can’t articulate the value they’ve received.| KLA Group
Perhaps a business owner’s biggest frustration is seeing all those opportunities sitting in the pipeline, but nothing is closing. Proposals were presented. Prospects declared, “I’ll let you know.” But they haven’t, and now you don’t know what to do next.| KLA Group
In email prospecting, one of the first things I recommend is that you send yourself a draft before hitting send. That way, you experience what it’s like for the prospect you’re emailing – from the perceived length to the content and call to action. You can quickly see where you need to make adjustments to grab your prospect’s attention and get a reply.| KLA Group
It’s that time of year again when we all turn to goal setting. We set SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely), often lofty goals. We ponder the fastest way to achieve sales goals. Then get stuck without the critical business metrics for our revenue generating system to measure if we’re on the right path to achieve them.| KLA Group
Sales as sport – the comparisons abound. Sales TEAMS look to WIN business. Top salespeople are often recognized with TROPHIES. The list goes on. However, there is one connection to sports that often gets overlooked – COACHING. More specifically, coaching sales reps how to better convert inbound leads into sales-qualified opportunities. Sales coaching is critical for getting the highest results out of your salespeople.| KLA Group
When your reps are losing sales, use these questions and strategies to identify what to do to improve your sales process, restore your win rate, grow revenue.| KLA Group
Business owners are quick to set their lead generation goals, but what to include in a marketing plan to achieve them is somewhat of a mystery. They know that a marketing plan is a core element of their Revenue Generation System because it details how to build awareness for your company in your target markets and ultimately drives new leads. New leads produce new opportunities. New opportunities convert to sales. Enough closed sales equals growth. It sounds simple. But without a marketing pla...| KLA Group
Many companies come to us with no sense of what makes them unique. They feel as if they’re exactly the same as their competitors. Their goal is to run more frequent lead generation campaigns, or hire salespeople who will dial faster and shout louder than their competition. All this so they’ll reach prospects first because they don’t believe they have any unique differentiation to win sales on their well-earned merit.| KLA Group
A few weeks ago, I got an email from a savvy sales rep and client of ours who is in the middle of a lead nurturing campaign and prospecting for clients. He was reading Jeb Blount’s new book, Fanatical Prospecting (which I highly recommend), where Jeb says prospecting should not be done via bulk email, rather it should be accomplished through one-to-one email. He also noted that these emails should not be repetitive.| KLA Group
Your sales prospects don’t know how to be good prospects. They don’t ignore you out of spite. They don’t avoid sharing their proposal decisions to annoy you. They do those things because they don’t know how to be good prospects.| KLA Group
To achieve business goals, you must set sales and marketing performance expectations. Start with these 15 sales analytics metrics to monitor.| KLA Group
