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APRIL 15, 2013

“You have two ears and one mouth for a reason,” said my sales manager years ago, and it wasn’t the first time he had said it. Tom had all the answers, and if he could just get in front of more people, he figured he could close tons more business. I used to work with a guy named Tom.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 6, 2020

In this day and age, with all the voice recording technology, the sales training and scripting, the A.I. technology, there is simply no reason for sales reps to be so totally unprepared. And one proven way to do that is to enroll your team in my upcoming, 7-week, live, inside sales training. And yet many of them are.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Inside Sales. When it comes to inside sales, put aside old visions of airplane hanger-size room filled with lots of salespeople making lots of sales calls using finely polished scripts. These rooms may still be around but inside sales has undergone a dramatic shift in the last several years.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Throughout a sales career, you may run into direct leadership (sales manager) who is not interested in a win for your customer, just a win for the company (“have you closed that deal YET?”). Abundance Mentality: believing there is plenty for everyone.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Inside sales reps are tasked with nurturing leads and converting them into customers. Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Sales Enablement needs of field reps are far more complex than that of inside sales teams. Inside teams are in close proximity to their managers and mentors. Field reps, more often than not, are left to their own devices to ensure their readiness to close a deal. Refreshing. Communication.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Sales Enablement needs of field reps are far more complex than that of inside sales teams. Inside teams are in close proximity to their managers and mentors. Field reps, more often than not, are left to their own devices to ensure their readiness to close a deal. Refreshing. Communication.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

Jeb is also a renowned author, having written eight hard-hitting books on sales development, including the best-selling, Sales EQ: How Ultra-High Performers Leverage Sales Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal. In fact, her latest book, The Sales Development Playbook , was an Amazon #1 bestseller!

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2010

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager.

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OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Outside salespeople are responsible for closing new business. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. But what is inside sales, really?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many sales reps and sales managers commented and shared about the previous post on How Salespeople Goof Up on LinkedIn so we were compelled to share more ideas to help sellers do better. First, I wanted to share that our blog is up for an AWARD – as one of the top Sales Blogs at Top Sales World.

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Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

Staying current on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be daunting, especially in the the digital space. PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The blog is exceptional – I encourage you to regularly read it. Book: Hire Right, Higher Profits – The Executive’s Guide to Building a World-Class Sales Force by Lee B. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan For some salespeople, selling is as caked in tradition and ritual as any religious ceremony. To get a sense for this, consider the many inside sales roles, demo-centric salespeople, and low-level in-home salespeople. There are only 3 days before the polls close on Friday, December 13.

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JUNE 9, 2014

By the same token, a sales manager is one of the sales professional’s top customers – if not THE top customer. Help your sales manager do their job by getting them what they ask for in a timely manner. You know what I mean – the sales rep who emphatically says they’ll be closing a deal.

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JUNE 30, 2014

The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity. Close More Deals. Assess everyone through metrics and conversations.

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MAY 6, 2013

Go now to Top Sales Academy and if you are a sales leader or aspire to be one, and join in on the first group of ten sessions about Sales Management and Leadership. Then join me for the Internal (Inside) Sales Series. After that, Outside (External) Sales courses begin on August 27th.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

For now, you can review my six ideas on how to keep new rep on-boarding, sales messaging, and sales management SIMPLER so that we can all accomplish a lot MORE. If you are a new sales rep at an existing company, how long has it taken sales reps to ramp up? Or their first deal closed? Close More Deals.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What happened was that I found myself in situations where there was great lessons to be learned, and all I did was try to close my mouth once in a while and open my ears. Trish Bertuzzi has set a standard in research and factual study of B2B Inside Sales, and is top thought leader for it.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

A couple of years ago, a sales manager I was coaching had labeled one of the sales reps on his team as “incapable of closing a deal”. Because he had this label in his mind, he helped the sales rep less and even showed some disdain (by his look) when the rep asked him questions or needed his help. Close More Deals.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

So that means that if you have a crazy sales manager who doesn’t acknowledge much of what you do that is good – it’s fine because you are doing it yourself. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

If you are a sales rep, are you leading with your prospects and existing customers? If you are a sales rep, are you updating your sales manager before he or she comes to you for updates? If you are a sales leader, are you leading your team by example? Close More Deals. How are you leading today?

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 25, 2012

“The growth in sales jobs, and therefore one would think, in sales training is in inside sales. Although there is a migration to inside selling, most sales training is based on the assumption that sales calls will be face to face. Now, however, inside sales is a career, not merely a stepping-stone.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 20, 2023

Group Coaching Inside Sales Reps In sales leadership, fostering a culture of continuous learning and feedback is paramount. By group coaching inside sales reps, you can tap into the power of collective insights can pave the way for a more informed and cohesive sales team.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Guard your time – a bit of advice given to me years ago by a wise sales manager that I’ve always worked to remember. Because of everything you do in your sales career, time is the one thing you cannot recoup. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Those of us in and around hundreds of sales teams know that it is not just about more women applying for sales positions – it is about the culture of the company, how interviewing is done, what job descriptions look like, and whether first line sales managers are trained in gender neutral communication, among other things.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. For all seven skills, the majority of respondents felt it was “urgent” or “extremely urgent” to close gaps.

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JULY 17, 2013

Video for sales training and coaching is a given. Nothing fully replaces in-person interaction with prospects, clients, or in-house training, yet video can work as a close second in augmenting in-person meetings. Gerhard had been in the UK recently for a Sales 2.0 Sales managers should hire learners, not students.

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Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Closing (3085). Blog (5972). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. Tools (2872).

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 4, 2020

Hillary and her sister, when shopping with their parents at the department store, would pretend they were sales assistants and ask, “What can I help you with today?” Within just nine months, Hillary had moved into a closing role on the company’s inside sales team. Hillary says. We are a consumption-based model.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a busy sales rep, you don’t have a ton of time to spend perusing blog posts. But, what if we told you a quick reading break might actually increase your sales productivity? Here are 25 of our favorite sales blogs. Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 2. Hubspot Sales Blog.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Database management. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Return on marketing and sales investment. Revenue performance management. Sales lead management. Sales management. Customer acquisition. Demand creation. Lead generation. Marketing automation.

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