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Discover 10 real AI sales examples from Cognism’s team, where AI hit, where it missed, and what every seller can learn from it.

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Common cold call objections and how to respond

9 Cold Calling Objections and How to Respond for More Sales

You can't avoid cold calling objections, but can you learn to love them? For Cognism SDR Ivana that's the trick & she's sharing her tips in this article!

10 Cold Calling Sales Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Stop losing deals to bad cold calls. Learn the 10 biggest cold calling mistakes reps make and how to avoid them to book more meetings and close more deals.

Objection Handling for 2025: Steps, Tips and Script

Facing sales objections daily? This guide offers essential steps, practical tips, and a foolproof script to help you handle objections like a pro.

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Sales Qualification: Ultimate Guide for Managers

Master the art of sales qualification with strategies tailored for managers. This guide offers insights to improve your team's lead qualification skills.

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Email Leads: 5 Ways to Get Them for B2B Business

Looking for email leads? Click for five easy ways to find and get them for B2B business, plus answers to frequently asked questions.

10 AI Sales Examples That Show What Works (and What Doesn’t)

Discover 10 real AI sales examples from Cognism’s team, where AI hit, where it missed, and what every seller can learn from it.

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12 Website Conversion Rate Optimisation Tests You Can Steal

We’re sharing 12 of our recent CRO test wins that helped to optimise our conversion rate. Quick wins, easy fixes, real results.

6 Common Marketing Mistakes (and How to Solve Them)

Marketing is a minefield of possible mistakes. Here are six common marketing mistakes, and how a group of marketing experts avoided making them.

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How to Make Your Business Stand Out: 7 Steps for Marketers

In a day and age when copycat marketing is rife, here are 7 steps you can take to make your business stand out against the crowd.

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How to Build an Email List: 15 Fresh and Easy Ways

Struggling with your email list building? Click to discover 15 fresh and easy ways to build an effective email list for B2B marketing and sales!

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How to Identify B2B Target Audience & Contact Them?

Identifying your B2B target audience and market helps companies deliver better marketing campaigns to their core customer base. Click to find out more.

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Lead Conversion Rate: Definition, Formula & Benchmarks

Learn the lead conversion rate formula, see worked examples, stage-by-stage funnel metrics, and benchmarks to compare your performance.

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All You Need to Know to Succeed as an SDR in France

Moving your SDR team into France? Or you're a new rep working in France? Here's your playbook for successful prospecting in France.

How to Be a Successful SDR in DACH

Are you going to be an SDR in DACH? Here’s all you need to know to be successful doing outbound in this region, from someone already doing it.

C-suite Selling: 7 Tips to Win Over Decision-makers

C-suite selling - tough, but not impossible! Click here for 7 proven tactics that will help you win over top-level execs and close more deals.

Cold Calling Examples From Real Life: What (Not) To Say

Looking for the best B2B cold calling examples? Click to see some examples of great and bad cold calls from sales experts Ryan Reisert and Josh Braun.

6 Tips to Win at Sales Call Planning

Ready to succeed on your sales calls? Discover six essential tips to master sales call planning and enhance your closing rates.

Tired of Cold Call Rejection? Top Tips to Handle Rebuttals

Feeling the sting of cold calling rejection? In this article, Cognism provides its best tips on how to handle rebuttals for better sales calls.

Enterprise Sales Cold Calling Script: Prospect Into Enterprise Orgs

Enterprise SDR Katy Mason-Jones gave us the cold calling script she uses to prospect into some of the world's biggest companies. Click to see the script.

8 Reasons Why Cold Calling is Important for Sales Success

Learn 8 reasons why cold calling is important in B2B sales today, and how you can turn it into an extremely effective way to drive revenue. Click to read!

Ultimate CISO Cold Calling Script: Book Meetings With CISOs

What keeps a CISO up at night? When should you call them? Find out the answers to this, plus more in our tailored cold calling script.