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Cold Calling

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
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
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.

Sales

Sales qualification
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.
AI Sales Examples
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.

Webinars

Catch up on these value-packed Loop Live sessions from expert guests, digging into what works today in the modern marketing landscape.

Demand Generation

CRO tests
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.
Marketing Mistakes
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.

Lead Generation

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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.
What is lead conversion rate and how do you calculate it?
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.

We're on YouTube

Whether you are a beginner or an expert in the B2B space, our aim is to give you actionable sales and marketing tutorials so you can keep up to date with the latest B2B sales and marketing strategies.

Check out our Podcasts

Discover the latest insights from a wide range of sales and marketing leaders, as they unpack how B2B buying behaviour has changed.

Posts on sales

Selling To The CIO: The Ultimate CIO Cold Calling Script
If you’re struggling to dial and book meetings with CIOs, it’s because your outreach isn’t personalised enough. Find out more in our cold calling script.
Inspiring Sales Teams: 84 Motivational Sales Quotes
Fuel your sales success with these 84 motivational sales quotes. Inspire your sales team and elevate your sales game today. Click to see the quotes!
Multithreading in Sales: The 7-Step Formula for Success
Multi threading in sales involves developing relationships with multiple decision-makers in a business. Discover more with our 7-step formula.
The Pod: the B2B Sales Team of the Future
Some say it’s the sales team structure of the future - and Cognism has been experimenting with it! Click for a deep dive into the sales pod.
The Ultimate Guide to Software Sales Demos That Close Deals
In this blog, we’re sharing our top software sales demo tips that’ll help you negotiate with prospects and close deals like a champ.
How to Close Sales Deals Like a Pro: 8 Tips and Strategies
Check out our tips on closing sales deals and getting more wins for your team. Featuring an 8-step process and 10 of the best deal-closing techniques.
Slalom Generates $400k of Opportunities With Cognism
Slalom, the leading global technology consultancy, uses Cognism to ramp up outbound prospecting and streamline revenue operations. Click to read more!
How to Hire SDRs: a Sales Leader’s Guide
You need a great process in place to hire SDRs. We’ve outlined the best way to build a sales team. Click to read our hiring framework.
Real Live Cold Calling
Want to improve your sales skills? Get tips and tricks from Cognism's Cold Calling Live sessions! Click for advice on discovery, objections and more.

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