Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most companies are under immediate pressure already to begin accomplishing their new goals and sales targets. You can probably feel it in your company, too. If I get an, “Ah, I don’t know,” then I once again use layering questions like: “Have you heard of my new On Demand Inside Selling Skills Training?” Get Access Today.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2023

One guy—mid 40’s, tall and lanky—started walking towards the Starbucks, and when he entered the store, I recognized him from many years before when we were both struggling inside sales reps trying to sell investments over the phone. I invested in Stan’s training program, “Double Your Income Selling Over the Phone.” Yes” I said.

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Allego

JANUARY 13, 2022

In doing so, the company garnered the attention of several organizations during 2021, winning awards and accolades for its technology, customer service, and workplace culture. We turned two bronze awards to gold, and we rose in the ranks of best places to work—to name just a couple accomplishments. Best Places to Work.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 14, 2023

NOTE: While this article talks about using this technique as an interview question to determine what kind of sales rep you’re about to hire, it’s also a great technique for managers to use to diagnose what is wrong with reps who may not be hitting quote consistently. Let’s first look at how most sales reps go about doing it.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2021

What often makes the difference is your enthusiasm and belief in your company and what you’re selling. When I got into this industry I did my own research, just like you’re doing now, and I looked for the company that not only offered the best (product or service) but also delivered the best customer service and follow-up.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

With stay-at-home mandates causing what many reference as the “groundhog day” effect, your sales team is the perfect audience for incorporating surprise rewards as part of a sales incentive program to keep remote teams engaged and company morale high. How to start applying this to your sales team.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 26, 2023

Some of the quotes include: “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” While I’ll still be working with a select group of clients with my inside sales company, I’ll be spending a lot more time pursuing my new path: writing both fiction and nonfiction. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2021

Most company’s sales teams are under immediate pressure to begin accomplishing their new goals and sales targets for 2021. Here’s how I handle the companies and contacts I speak with in January. Or I ask a good assumptive question like: “How much of a budget do you have per quarter for sales training?”

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Finding and hiring good inside sales reps has always been a challenge, and it’s gotten even tougher since the pandemic. The entire work landscape has changed, and working remotely has made it harder on both companies and individual producers. They consistently find solid and profitable inside sales producers—even in today’s landscape.

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Allego

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the process, they redefined sales enablement and disrupted an entire market. The founding team realized that traditional sales training was broken. The time was right for agile, on-demand, personalized training that leveraged the strengths of mobile technology and interactive video. Creating a Company and a Culture.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 13, 2022

What is a sales person’s dream? Someone has found your company, responded online or sent an email, and wants to know more about how you can help them. Many sales reps today still make the mistake of taking “implied interest” in your company or service, to mean someone is interested, qualified, and ready to buy.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 1, 2021

You may want to win, want to make more money, want to be in the elite class of closers at your company, BUT: Are you willing to put in the work? I hung out there talking b g about the company with the other bottom producers, and I couldn’t wait for lunch time, and by Friday, I didn’t work too hard (casual Friday, you know).

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Alice Heiman

MAY 19, 2022

People are bombarded with emails and sales messages. By using sales discovery to truly understand the prospect, you can build a relationship and partner with them to solve the challenges they’re facing. JodyGlidden, #CEO of @Introhive, joins #Sales Talk for CEOs to discuss how to approach sales discovery and win new #customers!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 17, 2022

Jeffrey Gitomer tells a great story about how he once bet a client his entire training fee on whether there were more than eight objections their sales team got on a regular basis. 3: Need to think about it. #4: 7: #8: Turns out, this company’s “complicated sale” had just six objections they got 90% of the time. . #7:

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 14, 2020

Have you ever stopped and examined your attitude about sales? About having to be a salesperson? When someone asks you what you do for a living, are you embarrassed to say you’re in sales? See, I was smarter, better, had more to offer than just “sales.”. I embraced sales as a profession—not just a temporary “job.”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 22, 2021

How many does your sales teams ask? If you’re like most sales reps, then you’re probably doing a lot more talking (read pitching) than you are listening. And: Your prospects have all the answers about whether they’ll buy from you or not, and what you need to say to sell them. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 23, 2022

How many times have you been stopped by the gatekeeper asking you: “Will he/she know what this call is about?”. The number one mistake inside sales teams make when asking to speak with someone is not using a directive statement afterward. Here’s what not to do: Gatekeeper: “Johnson company, may I help you?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you think about it, that’s the perfect stall. From a needs standpoint, how motivated is (your company/department/are you) to change/fix/replace/buy XYZ right now?”. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. What’s the number one blow off prospects use these days?

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2020

One guy—mid 40’s, tall and lanky—started walking towards the Starbucks, and there was something familiar about him. He asked me what I was up to these days, and I told him I was an inside sales consultant. As I thought about it, I knew exactly what it was. My sales and income soared. His name was Brad. Brad wasn’t.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 19, 2022

If you manage an inside sales team, or if you’re an individual producer, then I’m sure you’d love to learn of an easy way to double your sales this year. Think about what that would mean for your company! As an individual producer, think about what doubling your sales this year would mean for you and your family.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

We’ve already got a company that handles that.”. Response Two: “Most companies I speak with are ‘all set’ and that’s why I’m reaching out to you now – I want to give you an option for the next time you’re in need of this. Let me ask you: the next time you are in need of this, are you the right person to speak to about it?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 1, 2019

Want to get your team excited about selling again? Are you ready to double or even triple your sales—in 2019? Better training = more sales. Starting on Tuesday, May 21 st , we’re launching our powerful, 7-week Online Inside Sales Training! This training will literally change your company and your life.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 4, 2018

What’s more, a Bain & Company study found that increasing customer retention rates by a mere 5% boosts profits by 25% to 95%. The fact is retaining best customers remains a challenge for sales and marketing professionals, leading to wasted time and money. How you do it is less important than that you train everyone to use it.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 25, 2021

Institute for Excellence in Sales Announces New Advisory Board to Complement World-Class Women in Sales Leadership Programs. The Institute for Excellence in Sales (IES) announced its new Women in Sales (WIS) Advisory Board today to help the organization advance its growing number of programs for Women in Sales.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 30, 2022

Feeling a little overwhelmed by all the new sales tracking technology that seems to come out every month (almost every week)? you can automate just about everything else—including phone calls, voice mails, email campaigns, etc. How about numbers of calls? How about: “We wouldn’t be interested right now?”. They won’t.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2021

Instead of opening your calls like: “Oh hi, this is _ _ with __ and my company, XYZ, is a leader in national and international shipping and freight services with offices in the top metropolitan cities across the world. Rather than break down what’s wrong with this opening (how about everything?), Less is more.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

I watched a sales rep making cold calls the other day. Prior to the call, I asked this sales rep to send over recordings, so I could play and point out exactly what he was doing wrong. If you could wave a magic wand and change two things about your online marketing, what would they be?”. Wait and respond accordingly—engage!].

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 10, 2018

When we ask salespeople how they prepare for making sales calls, most say they might check the company’s website and possibly check the contact’s Linked-In profile, but that’s about it, really. Read about their history. Check out any awards they have won. Look At Customer Reviews Of The Target Company.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I received two pieces of bad news about some horrible statistics. The first is about my award-winning Blog. The other piece of bad news relates to my award-winning sales training company, Kurlan & Associates. It seems that readers stay with an article for an average of only one-minute or so.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 31, 2021

Picking up the phone and making “cold calls” has never been easy, and this has prevented many reps from making the calls that can make them more sales and more income. Something like: “Hi __, this is _ _ with company, and I’m simply calling about our XYX. Quick question: How do you (or your company) use XYX?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 6, 2020

How good (or bad) does your sales team sound when prospecting over the phone? On Friday, (Jan 3 rd ), I received a sales call that went like this: Me: “Good morning, Mike Brooks here, how can I help you?”. We’ve been in business for over 15 years and I want to know how I can set up an appointment to speak with the owner about this?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 9, 2020

Skip any of these and it can come back to sabotage the sale. Obviously, there is an art to gathering this information, and I’ve written about it extensively in my book, The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! The answer to that tells me everything I need to know.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. Even the most seasoned sales reps need proper training to be effective sales managers.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 15, 2021

While this context is presented as an interview, it is completely translatable to sales—and that means YOU. If I gave you a pencil and asked you to sell it, how would you go about it? Let’s first look at how most sales reps go about doing it. 80% of sales reps start the same way—they start pitching.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

Then ask yourself: if your phone were taken away, would it affect your sales? Would you be as successful if you couldn’t reach out to these prospects and introduce yourself and your company? Disconnect your phone for a month and see if your sales suffer. If your answer is Yes, then guess what? Cold calling isn’t dead.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once you take the time to write an effective script (or hire a professional like me to write it for you or your team), then you can deliver the absolute best messaging and the most effective sales techniques THAT WORK. Sales reps LOVE to talk. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! And prospects like that! #2:

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 23, 2020

More and more companies are opening up; each one of these companies have goals and quotas just like you. Any referrals will do: Referrals in other departments of their company, other locations, other contacts they know. So, think about what you enjoy and reward yourself accordingly. Don’t give up. And they will.

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