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Inside Sales Influencers – First Annual Rankings

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At the end of January, B2B Sales and Marketing Influencer Craig Rosenberg posted a first ever, annual ranking of Inside Sales Influencers for 2013 on the Radius Intelligence blog. Craig based the list on Kred scores – something I was not even familiar with until I saw this list – drawn from Twitter engagement.

Lead Rank 224
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CRM Experts Talk SugarCon13 and More

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Give your opinion about integrating marketing automation into CRM? Not enough employees with CRM seats – companies will selectively give certain individuals seats, such as all sales but no marketing, or inside sales but not outside sales (or vice versa). What are some pitfalls when deploying CRM?

CRM 179
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Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

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In my sales career I had new revenue goals that seemed attainable, others that seemed like a healthy stretch – doable if everything worked together. But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory.

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The Silver Bullet for Sales Ops to Drive Revenue and Lower Costs

SBI Growth

Done right, deploying or expanding inside sales will improve revenue and reduce costs. If you already have an inside sales team I’ve still got the goods for you today. Push them higher up market and expand the team. A major buzz is around inside sales and it’s been getting louder because the strategy works. That’s dead.

Revenue 303
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The Rush to Get Inside

Pointclear

As 2011 meandered to an uneventful close, with no sign of a significant upturn in global economic conditions, we reflected on a year of flat-line results, during which 54% of frontline sales professionals missed quota. Their basic skills-set will include very high levels of commercial acumen, industry/sector/market knowledge.

Retail 215
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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. Sales processes that were easy to instrument were already trending toward being more data-driven.

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Six Key Principles To Managing Remote Sales Teams

Crunchbase

I also knew, as head of the food delivery business in Europe, that we were late in our entry into the market, and that the industry was evolving at an unprecedented rate. The solution required a distributed and remote sales force, with reps living in central locations so they could cover multiple countries and languages.