Forget about qualifying the hundreds of suspect companies tucked away in a rarely used corner of your CRM system. Instead, choose the ones where your background adds value and qualify only those.
Your hunting effort is limited by hours in a day. We will argue 'til we're blue in the face that too many names on a list is a negative, not a positive. Wildly successful reps tend to work far fewer accounts, all of which are extremely well-qualified.
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