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. We’ve already introduced you to amazing sales books. Let’s get started.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

But now that countless sales professionals are forced to make the transition for the first time, many face an entirely new set of challenges. There probably isn’t a more directly impacted area than the field sales rep. Key Challenges in Remote Sales: Connecting with prospects and coworkers. Delivering a great online demo.

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Fill the Funnel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Sales Scenario: You work in a company of 50 people. There are 9 other sales people, inside sales and outbound. There are 5 System Engineers. There is a Sales Manager. Possibly a System Engineer has a connection that they used to work with that begins working at your target company.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Chalen Schoyer, Principal Sales Engineer at Spiff “Be confident in your negotiations. Whether that’s within a sales cycle or negotiating salary/benefits. Amy Plante, Sales Engineer Team Lead at Spiff “Don’t get discouraged by the losses as they’re inevitable and even necessary to become a better seller.”

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CloserIQ

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We’ve compiled some of our favorite reads to help you advance in your sales career and build top sales teams. Featured Article. How to Recruit College Graduates for Sales Roles. Recruiting college graduates to fulfill SDR and other entry-level roles is critical for the health of any sales organization. .

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without further ado, here are some of the female movers-and-shakers who are creating powerful ripple effects and paving the path for the next generation of women sales leaders. Amy Appleyard – SVP Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 2013-2018.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Hiring for Your B2B Sales Team. Finding the right people on your team to handle inbound leads is critical, regardless of whether it be your outside sales team, inside sales team, sales engineers, or some hybrid role. Segmenting Your B2B Sales Team. Pro-Tip: Do not over-segment your sales team.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2017

I read an article in which the position was put forth, “Inside sales does not have the responsibility for creating pipeline, only the responsibility for selling. They should never pick up the phone and make a prospecting call!” We have inside/outside/partner/channel sales people.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The reason we are able to answer this question today, and never before is that technology now exists to capture the engagement between the prospect and the seller(s). . Then the rise of inside sales and sequencing tools brought a level of visibility to the initial parts of a sales cycle. .

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The trend for inside sales is not coming — it has arrived and is sitting at our doorstep. Fuel and labor costs have soared and, because of intense competition, the prices of our products and solutions have largely flat-lined — as have sales achievement levels. Natural selection is now at work in sales teams everywhere.

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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. Lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers, and other 'professions' all have sub-specialties where they focus and hone their talents.

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Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

In our discussion, Lori shared key insights into the B2B buyer's journey as well as marketing and sales alignment. There's a lot of discussion in the marketplace about articles you've written, including "The Lead-Nurturing Payoff For The Tech Industry." But they don’t know everything about recommendation engines.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

In this article, we’ll start by going over job description basics and then look at descriptions for two common sales positions: Sales development rep (entry-level sales role). Account executive (more tenured sales role). Auth0 took a similar approach in their description for a Junior Sales Engineer.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In our last article, we did a tactical tear down of when to hire sales trainer or sales consultant. In this post, we’ll explain how to find and hire the right sales consultant or sales trainer for your business.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Like all B2B sales , the end goal is to make your customers more successful, whether that means saving them time, saving them money, or improving their own ability to drive revenue. Educational selling is very important for my team,” says Kyle Ferretti , the US Sales Manager at SEMRush.

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Don on Selling

OCTOBER 26, 2018

If you conduct searches on Google and look at popular sales blogs, you will find plenty of articles about what it takes to locate the perfect sales representatives. You will also find information about how to write the best job description for a sales position and how to boost customer retention.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. Although cold calling, inbound marketing, inside sales and field sales still have a place in the sales planning of many companies, the modern B2B buyer is looking for a different type of interaction with B2B sellers.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communications for each prospect, every time enabling personalization at scale, previously unthinkable. The tide has gone out and you see who does or doesn’t have strong sales processes.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! We’re so excited about seeing these pros speak that we took a little time to gather some of the best articles, webinars, podcasts, and guides they’ve shared with the Sales Hacker community in the past.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To make the process easier to navigate, I’m going to walk you through everything you need to know to build a killer go-to-market strategy in this article. This journey was divided into three sections: But the sales funnel is no longer the best way to look at your buyer’s journey. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Trend data reveal that sales organizations are shifting resources from outside to inside sales. Inside sales growth is 30% faster than their outside sales counterparts. The number of Inside Sales departments is projected to grow from 800,000, in 2009, to over 2 million in 2013.”

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Mastering the Complex Sale. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Outbound Sales, No Fluff. Fanatical Prospecting. Combo Prospecting. High-Profit Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting. Hacking Sales – The Playbook for Building a High Velocity Sales Machine.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A lead gets here by clicking on an ad, social media post, or a search engine result, however these behaviors do not indicate that this lead is ready to make a purchase yet. This is when a prospect has demonstrated they have a problem your product can solve. Close: A deal is agreed upon and your prospect turns into a customer.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But on the other hand, outbound sales proves itself a fierce opponent. Yes, it often requires a human touch, and yes, it relies on pushing ideas onto ( sometimes ) unsuspecting prospects, but it’s one of the most powerful ways to build trust, close big deals, and maintain control. So who wins the battle? Inbound or outbound?

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Vengreso

JULY 10, 2023

However, the same requirement doesn’t usually apply to direct sales roles or for outside sales representatives for product companies (i.e. Sales roles can be broadly categorized into two groups: inside sales and outside sales (also referred to as field sales). door-to-door solar companies).

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

All of a sudden, inside sales leaders were panicking, saying, “Hey, we need to rebuild pipeline and fast. With the majority of our customers and prospects, we see that AEs still rely on their SDR colleagues to generate around 80% of their outbound pipeline. The sales career ladder is hierarchical. Not so much.

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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? Alicia Berruti.

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Sales Hacker Training

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The company’s training solutions aim to transform sellers into sales professionals who can orchestrate the desired outcomes for both buyers and vendors. Among other offerings, there are robust training programs for inside sales, field sales, telesales, and sales coaching for managers. Excellence in Inside Sales.

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Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

4 important sales development FAQs. Awesome articles and guides to learn more. Overview of sales development. What is sales development? Lead scoring models may differ a little depending on the company and industry, but in general, points are given based on different attributes and behaviors of the prospect.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

At Snowflake, he was the first rep and single-handedly built the outbound-engine on the way to scaling the business from pre-revenue all the way past $150M+ in ARR. Chris walks us through his habits, his principles, and his system for enterprise sales. Staffing a team of field sales, inside sales, and sales engineers in lockstep.

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OutboundView

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

They hire five inside sales reps before they have the tools and processes to make inside sales successful. We hear prospects say things like “we target the mid-market” or “we focus on enterprise customers” – but what does that actually mean? Buyer personas are the first step in the sales and marketing process.

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Markempa - Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We were talking about what’s the value proposition they create for sales, and sales is the downstream customer of theirs. I think, again, we have to rethink our working relationship, rethink the classic business process re-engineering of our workflows, our roles, and responsibilities. You have to prospect.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

What truly constitutes an ideal prospect? Is the engine full of sawdust? Reinvigorated by this article? Is it possible to close deals without an inside sales team, field sales team and solely as a CEO founder leveraging marketing automation and LinkedIn alone? Write this down on paper to memorialize it.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

This term, however, doesn’t have a strict definition or boundaries, and most sales experts understand it differently. For the purposes of this article we’ll use “sales lead” to denote: The contact data of a decision maker obtained for the purpose of prospecting/lead generation. Sales Lead Quantity.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

This term, however, doesn’t have a strict definition or boundaries, and most sales experts understand it differently. For the purposes of this article we’ll use “sales lead” to denote: The contact data of a decision maker obtained for the purpose of prospecting/lead generation. Sales Lead Quantity.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Amy Appleyard. One is water.

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