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Think Robots Will Replace B2B Sales Reps?

No More Cold Calling

Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, makes a clear and compelling business case (with data) in this month’s guest post: “Why You Shouldn’t Replace Your Sales Reps with Robots”. According to a study by Bank of America , robots are likely to be performing 45 percent of manufacturing tasks by 2025. Moreover, the U.S.

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Driving Good Sales Behaviors: 4 Tips to Incentivize a Sales Team & Achieve Targets

Sales Hacker

What can happen when employees are held to unreasonable standards by managers and their behaviors don’t drive the best outcome for the company? In 2016, it was discovered that Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers’ knowledge — to meet sales goals.

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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

Matt Rizzetta: We started to really invest significantly, Sam, in our operating infrastructure about five or six years into the business, 2015, 2016. We started to make a concerted decision to invest in those functions about 2015, 2016. We hired a dedicated HR person. We hired an in-house recruiter.

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Sales Leads – How to Tame a Unicorn

Cience

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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The Magical High-Quality Sales Lead — How to Tame a Unicorn

Cience

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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The insider’s guide to choosing the best CRM for your sales organization

OnePageCRM

Back in 2016, access to the web via mobile devices finally over took desktop usage. Your sales team wants and needs to access sales information 24/7, in and out of the office. You build up an invaluable picture of a contact and the effort and time it takes to close a sale which in turn allows you to plan for the future.

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Choosing the best CRM for sales [Insider’s guide]

OnePageCRM

Back in 2016, access to the web via mobile devices finally over took desktop usage. Your sales team wants and needs to access sales information 24/7, in and out of the office. You build up an invaluable picture of a contact and the effort and time it takes to close a sale which in turn allows you to plan for the future.

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