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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

You know you need to begin planning for 2014 now. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Phase 2 - Develop Go To Market Plan - Many sales VPs don’t know the best route to market. Sales training.

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Is AI impacting Inside Sales Rep Revenue? Mike Plante of InsideSales Says it Is.

Pointclear

Now there is a rush for software and computers to reason (yes, that is the right word) and to take action for sales and marketing revenue increases by people or in a programmatic fashion. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell.

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How Data and Intelligence Are Going to Change the Sales Industry Forever

Crunchbase

For sales teams, access to customer information is essential to do their job. Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. Today, this traditional sales structure is undergoing a drastic change. Align on team goals and strategy.

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The Rise of Social Selling

SBI Growth

As a result, your sales team is missing out on revenue opportunities. Signs this is happening to you are: Customers and prospects are declining meeting requests. You get RFPs from prospects you haven’t been talking to. Competitors are beating your sales team consistently. Modernizing Your Sales Process.

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Global Warming, Social Selling and The Sales Force of Tomorrow

Understanding the Sales Force

Social selling experts use data from the marketing, inbound and inside sales groups with whom they work. As you might expect from groups who spend all of their time at the top of the sales funnel, there has been a positive impact on their ability to add opportunities to the pipeline. That leaves the B''s.

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Prospects and customers either answered the phone (or pager) or their PA did. It was expected that you build a relationship and schmooze prospects with lunches, networking events, in-house days and free giveaways, whereas today so many more people are involved in the decision making process. Contact was relatively simple.

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Top 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14

SBI

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. Phone, email, SMS and other channels are the lifeblood of inside sales.

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