Score More Sales

APRIL 21, 2014

Remembering Pamela Paul’s New York Times article, Don’t Call Me I Won’t Call You back in 2011, it garnered 468 reader’s comments. I talked about having a multi-faceted strategy in a session on the InsideSales Accelerate 14 Summit and believe it to be a key strategy for success in an inside sales position.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core. Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model. Before this year, there was already a clear split in sales models. When we examined how technology influenced this transition, we noticed something interesting.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards are an effort to show some love to the actual reps and practitioners on the front lines. They don’t often get the widespread recognition they deserve, since most other online sales awards often become influencer popularity contests. Sales Leaders. Scott Leese – SVP Sales, Qualia.

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SalesHandy

JULY 5, 2021

Social selling isn’t a completely new concept in B2B sales – it’s been around since social platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter exist. With the rise in Software tools and API access to these networks, it’s easier today to leverage these social selling automation tools to build social selling into your B2B sales process.

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Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. In our discussion, Lori shared key insights into the B2B buyer's journey as well as marketing and sales alignment. But they don’t know everything about recommendation engines.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It was founded 4 years ago by James Oberhausen, Susan Campanale and Mark Friedman who had a vision for serving the sales lead management community with valuable information and resources. You’ll find articles, book reviews, webinars, and an “ask the expert” feature. Membership to the association is free. Thank you Trish!

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Erica Bukowski, Inside Sales at Evolve Vacation Rentals “Make the phone call. For the greater half of my sales career I always feared talking to someone who had 20+ years of experience on me. I’ve worked with so many talented sales professionals who have taught me and influenced how I’ve evolved along the way.”

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

12 Interviews With Inside Sales Gurus. The Gist: The title of this sales podcasts program pretty much is the gist. Its episodes are geared towards those in sales leadership roles and take a look at how to grow revenue, land big positions, and otherwise rock an entire sales department. 18 Sales Influence.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Twitter Lead Scoring 98

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Why Meka should be on your radar: Meka Asonye is vice president of sales at Mixpanel, where he leads the company’s global sales and professional services teams. His meteoric rise to VP of sales did not go unnoticed–he’s definitely a sales leader to keep on your radar in the coming years. Belal Batrawy.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 29, 2020

The difference between a good and great sales development rep (SDR) is the skills they grasp. In this article, we discuss 14 SDR skills that have been mastered to fill the pipeline and ultimately make more revenue. In this article: Productivity Tools. Some SDRs do much more and follow the sales process until a sale is made.

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InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Learn call planning best practices from Jeff Boyle of Cision and find out why you should never skip this part of the sales call process. RELATED: How To Optimize Your Sales Process Top To Bottom. In this article: Why Pre-Call Planning Is Important. Is 15 Minutes Enough for Sales Call Planning?

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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). 2+ years of software selling experience; SaaS experience preferred.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2010

Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Sales Career Advice.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2012

This article is written for the Sales Executive who believes that listening to Customers is a great way to drive revenue growth. This research yields compelling insights into how Buyers want to engage with your sales force. By eliminating travel time, your sales force can become up to 150% more efficient.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Persona insights: Intelligence on the typical decision-makers, influencers and users of your proposition. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Market insights: Topical themes and drivers that can open conversations. Customers and prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Pete : Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t say that HubSpot’s sales software enables this.). For example, “ I have an idea that can speed up your sales cycle ” or “ We recently completed some research about how CTOs make purchase decisions. Become an influencer in your industry. Scrap self-serving messages.

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SalesHandy

JUNE 5, 2020

Teams that are good at nurturing their leads generate 50% more sales-ready leads at ? In this article, we will cover what lead nurturing is and why it is essential. You can implement this using your existing tool stack or the ones we have recommended towards the end of this article. Align sales and marketing teams.

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OnePageCRM

JUNE 15, 2017

Once you reframe it like this, everything boils down to the basics of influence and persuasion. You need to prove that you have something valuable to share so that they trust you and will be proud to refer you to the influencer you’re trying to reach. Besides, they could be the very person you really need to convince.

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Jonathan Farrington

JANUARY 12, 2012

For years, an inside sales position has been considered as the bottom rung on the sales ladder – their immediate ambition to gain promotion to an outside sales job, with a car and an expense account: An obvious sign to their family and friends that they were “making it” in sales. Not anymore.

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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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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

It's called influence, understand the science and persuasion. If you are running a thriving inside sales team, study the bible of predictable revenue scaling that is Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross and mix this with Sales Navigator licenses to bring a whole new level of pre-call research and trigger event omniscience to your process.

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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. The Inside Sales Business Model The inside sales business model is when a prospect needs to be nurtured by a sales rep to convert into a deal.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success. How to Win Friends and Influence People. The ultimate account-based sales guide for the modern, digital seller, SPEAR Selling is the battle-tested process for both sales leaders and sales professionals to leverage in their pursuit for greater account-based sales results.

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Vengreso

JULY 10, 2023

My most famous line as an influencer and that was used in the movie “ The Story of Sales ” was: “Sales is the Art of Helping.” I’ve spent 25 years in the industry, starting at the age of 19 years old when I got my first big break as a telemarketer (now called SDR) at a software organization.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Match your offers to the different stages of their buying journey, and capture their contact information, so you can attempt to connect and influence them earlier in their decision process. In field sales, it's necessary to do physical ride alongs to observe reps. Track which contacts are in-market for your service.

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InsightSquared

JULY 21, 2020

Every sales leader should be coaching and nurturing these skills on a regular basis, but many lack the time or expertise to make a difference. However, coaching is key to the development of sales reps. Successful sales reps should know as much as they possibly can about the product or service she sells. No more excuses.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Whether it’s your first time creating a go-to-market strategy or your tenth, this article will teach you everything you need to know to be successful. This strategy is effective for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products that provide a relatively simple user experience and don’t cost the earth. Choose your sales and distribution model.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

I wanted to share some of my unique thoughts about this concept as it relates to the natural world and how I see the ramifications of decay rates and how they're impacting enterprise deals and influencing sales cycle stagnation, or acceleration. Reinvigorated by this article? Simplicity emerges. I certainly am. So what now?

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Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Sales development analytics and goals. Other great tools and software to use. 4 important sales development FAQs. Awesome articles and guides to learn more. Overview of sales development. What is sales development? The conversion rate average for lead generation in the software industry is just 5-10%.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 91

OutboundView

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

They hire five inside sales reps before they have the tools and processes to make inside sales successful. Buyer personas are the first step in the sales and marketing process. They help businesses clearly define who the key decision makers and influencers are at a prospective company.

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SalesHandy

MAY 22, 2020

In 2020, outbound sales is not just restricted to selling your product, rather it’s also about designing a robust sales process and predicting the revenue for your organization. Today in this article, we will be discussing various sales strategies, best practices, and tools to boost sales productivity.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A people person with extensive C-Level experience in enterprise software, business development and operations. In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices. I exited to pursue other interests after Upland Software acquired the company in 2019. Alicia Berruti.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Both techniques apply the same channel of communication (the telephone), but telemarketing typically encompasses a broader, B2C-form, whereas cold calling is the province of a more targeted, B2B, inside sales attack. However, to make it more personalized, an SDR needs to gather sales intelligence on a prospect prior to cold calling.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Regarding our 2017 sales predictions , here’s a quick reflection: What we were RIGHT about: Powerful partnerships and mergers e.g. Salesforce & Google. Powerful buyer influence of software review sites like G2Crowd & Capterra. The evolution of Sales & Marketing into Revenue Ops & Customer Ops.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s hard to imagine a PLG company employing an army of blazer-clad salespeople, hawking software at tradeshows and flying around the country to host fancy steak dinners. It’s even harder to imagine they have a gong-banging, beer-chugging sales floor, populated by hundreds of SDRs and AEs. Many parts of the sales job remain the same.

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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.

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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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