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Executive Buyer Insight Study: Executives' Preferred Forms Of Sales Contact

Engaging With Executives Is More About What To Say Than How To Say It

Scott Santucci
 and  two contributors
Sep 19, 2012

Summary

Growing the size and health of the pipeline is a major focus at most technology vendors. For the majority of sales leaders, prospecting remains the most reliable form of creating opportunity. Executive buyers still prefer traditional communication methods like phone or email. Instead of treating prospecting as a numbers game and finding more ways to generate more phone calls or larger batches of emails, as sales enablement professionals you should focus more energy on hot topics of the specific target executives and develop short but compelling examples of how your firm has helped others in those specific situations.

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