Score More Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. Here are three reasons you should work to improve your digital presence right now: Your Sales Reps Want Meetings with Executives. Inbound Marketing. What is your plan to grow and improve your presence in 2015?

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Company Trade Show Engineering Ideal Customer Profile 215

Score More Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. Listen for Prospective Buyers. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Social Selling Company Ideal Customer Profile Twitter 223

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. Recently, DiscoverOrg sat down with Schulze to uncover the momentum sales technology has gained over the past 12 months. We want to see how sales technology is evolving and what the trends are.

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Scale B2B Trends Lead Rank 120

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Who should read this : For inside sales professionals that do a lot outbound prospecting.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

As I was putting this post together, I hopped into my time machine and zipped back to 2015 when I first attended Rainmaker and wrote about my experience that year. What I realized in reading that 2015 blog post was that the more things change, the more they actually stay the same. The best sellers understand human behavior.

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Conference InsideView Cold Calling Scale 101

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

The hypothesis above is based on the research and conclusions of four leading sales trainers who shared their findings at the 2015 PipelineDeals Accelerate Sales Conference and Sales Hacker Workshop with Microsoft in Seattle, WA. In fact, a demo without discovery can often leave a prospect feeling left out in the cold.

Ideal Customer Profile 133

Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

This is the final installment of a three-part series in response to the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? We generate high quality leads, align sales and marketing, and drive revenue. Why did we ask?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 100

Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

If you want to learn about the latest ideas in sales you need to be a student of learning. I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. They set to work to solve that – and created a product called Prospector.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Nonprofit 120

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Something like: “At Safeco International, I excelled by making an aggressive number of outbound prospecting calls. Here is how to turn this around: “At Safeco International – a leader in the cloud computing space – I was an upper tier producer out of an inside sales team of fifteen reps.

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Hiring Outbound How To Sales Qualified Lead 120

SBI

MAY 7, 2015

And it means empowering Sales with the right marketing materials so they can sell effectively no matter who they’re meeting with or where (that means mobile, social, and international)! See which tools we chose for: Mobile Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement. Inside Sales & Biz Dev. Social Selling.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

YoY increase from 2015. If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, with buyers becoming even more cautious and economic focused. 2) Central IT is Irrelevant? - You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments.

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ROI Decision Maker Proposal Forecasting 53

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Based on independent research from MHI Global / CSO Insights, taking your value marketing and selling to the next level can: Reduce the number of deals ending in “No Decision” by 30% Improve win rates to 51% (a 40% improvement) Boost the number of sales reps meeting / beating quota to 69% and increasing the average annual revenue attainment to 87%.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Scale 45

Velocify

OCTOBER 17, 2017

If you aren’t seeing emoji use increase in your daily communication, allow me to introduce some metrics into the mix: Since 2015, there has been a 777% increase in the use of emojis by marketers. If there are ways you can save customers or prospects time, consider taking those extra steps.

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Customer Real Estate Licensing Buying Cycle 75

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

To win in 2015 you're going to have to go so old school and new school at the same time, applying a dizzying array of multi-disciplinary principles that will give you an invincible edge. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Why Jordan should be on your radar: It’s probably a good idea to get used to seeing Jordan Arogeti on these sales leaders lists. From SDR in 2015, to enterprise AE in 2020–and she’s gathered quite the following on LinkedIn. Why Brooke should be on your radar: Brooke Bachesta currently leads the mid-market SDR team at Outreach.io.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Positive feedback from customers can be considered a success by the sales and marketing team. Aside from helping them with their sales process, a prospect also looks for SaaS providers they can rely on. Because of this, reps need to continually check in with their customers after a sale.

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SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

Search engines like Wolfram Alpha become so smart they can fully educate the prospect so they go 100% of the way through the sales process before ever needing to talk to a human. It's unclear if ERP firms even understand ERP and it's 2015. Inside sales doesn't have to be a career path to outside sales.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Cold Calling 130

CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Mendix is currently hiring across a range of sales positions. Drift provides a conversational sales and marketing platform that allows businesses to better connect with prospects and customers. Drift is a good fit for ambitious sales professionals and is searching for people to fill sales roles.

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Hiring Company Policies Analytics 76

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

What truly constitutes an ideal prospect? I've opined ad nauseam about the power of content marketing to create an octopus's garden to attract whales and that's an ongoing Challenge endeavor that Marketing and B2B salespeople should undertake together but that does not forego, the proactive whale hunting mentality each day.

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Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

So how do you separate the signal from the noise, and only deal with the sales data that matters most? The answer: with a sales dashboard. As Ezra Fishman, VP of Business Intelligence at Wistia says: When we let data drive our marketing, we all too often optimize for things that are easy to measure, not necessarily what matters most.

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Examples Top of Funnel Forecasting Lead Rank 82

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? Hang Black.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable. It was sales. Maybe we had marketing. I know you have product market fit. And then 2015, we did 4.7

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 75

Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2019

Markets across all industries are becoming more crowded. This hardship, combined with the CRM transition to the cloud and the rise of digital selling, has created a mini gold rush for sales software fueled by abundant VC money. Last September, it introduced High Velocity Sales for inside sales.

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Scale Intent Data Lead Rank Forecasting 100