Close.io

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to inside side sales training, you’re going to spend less time reading and more time interacting with people. Investing in an effective inside sales training system within your company can pay amazing dividends. What is inside sales? Let’s start from the top.

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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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Velocify

APRIL 22, 2013

A good coach doesn’t treat each player the same,” said Lori Richardson, ScoreMoreSales.com. We’ve blogged recently about the importance of leveraging the skills of your inside sales team and playing to each reps strengths like a good coach. Tip #2 – Allow time for training and development.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 8, 2021

As I coach sales reps these days and listen to how they ask for the sale, I’m reminded of myself because guess what? The post Ask for More to Get More appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. In addition to getting larger deals, I also found it was easier to drop a prospect to a lower amount if I started high.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 2, 2016

If you want your team to follow a sales script, then you’d better lead the way. In fact, if you want your sales team to sell using a defined sales process, then pick up the phone and demonstrate how to do that. A great coach once said to his players: “I don’t hear what you say – I hear what you do.”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2022

I received the following email from a previous coaching client of mine (Rino Racanelli). His email boils down my sales philosophy, and it shows how much success you can have if you follow just a couple of proven principles. Just wanted to update you on my progress and let you know my sales have increased thanks to you!

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 25, 2020

They call them less, have briefer interactions and engage them later and later in the sales process. Rethink the Sales Process. To guide sellers, sales leaders and managers should start by reimagining their sales process and offering sellers clear guidance. Maximize Your Tech Stack.

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Factor 8

AUGUST 3, 2017

Factor 8 is hiring bad-ass sales coaches! If helping reps improve is your favorite part of the job, you love to train and call coach, and you agree that inside sales is harder than field sales…read on! That means our trainers have to be ready to live-coach messaging and delivery. Why Factor 8?

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Is your crazy busy schedule getting in the way of devoting time to regularly coaching your sales team? Use these three tips to coach your team even when things are busy and you’re just one person. 47% of sales leaders admit they invest less than 30 minutes coaching each rep each week. more sales.

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Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

If you’re growing or starting up a team, you’re wise to spend time researching the type of rep that will best suit your sales process, talent pool, and customer preferences. And if you’re researching roles in sales, even better. Let’s dig in – starting with the top of the sales funnel or beginning of the buying process.

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ExecVision

MAY 23, 2018

This series will help you identify what coaching culture looks like and how to start, build, and maintain one that drives ROI for your organization. All sales leaders know they should be coaching their reps, but when your day consists of running from meeting to meeting and call to call it’s easy to put coaching on the backburner.

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Allego

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to the Gartner report, “The sales enablement market has broadened beyond sellers to include the enablement of people in revenue-generating roles such as customer success, presales (technical sellers), and marketing.”. Gartner reports the need for a more holistic, 360-degree view of enablement, driven by changes in B2B sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 2, 2016

I downloaded one such free value this weekend - a Sales Process Cheat Sheet which promised a standardized playbook and a simple, easy-to-follow sales methodology cheat sheet to help managers coach their inside sales reps into following a proven, standardized process from discovery to close.

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Women Sales Pros

APRIL 19, 2019

Bad hires are the number one reason for the failure of sales organizations. It’s not your bad sales process. And clarity regarding role, expectations and decision authority levels enable inside sales, outside sales, account management and enablement to work more collaboratively and communicate much more effectively.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 9, 2018

Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales receives multiple awards from AA-ISP’s 2018 Leadership Summit last week: Service Provider of the Year Award – Sales Script Development AND The TOP 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professionals in 2018 Award. . He also offers customized sales training programs, works as a virtual V.P.

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ExecVision

JUNE 7, 2018

This guest post was authored by Chad Dyar , Director of Sales Enablement at OnDeck. Over the last year, sales coaching has become THE hot topic. There has been an avalanche of articles in sales publications on coaching and new tools focused on making it easier to coach. Step 2 – Select Judges and Calibrate.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 16, 2020

For Sales Managers . Use Live Call Studio for Coaching & Conversation Intelligence for Call Review. Valuable coaching opportunities aren’t limited to the sales floor. Use Live Call Studio to coach your team even though you can’t be with them in person. However, what likely must change is your sales process.

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Velocify

MARCH 19, 2013

Great coaches can coax peak performance out of their athletes and so can sales managers when they use Leads360’s sales Performance-Based Distribution feature. And with the stakes so high, the coaches need to play to the strengths of each of their players, optimizing for peak sales performance.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 25, 2013

If this proves anything, it’s that the sales process isn’t about your “gut feeling.” Examples include a well-defined sales process , and regular call cadence. 15% of ‘C’ players can jump to ‘A’ through effective coaching and focus on fundamentals. Many industries are trending towards inside sales.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2020

Why Sales Efficiency Matters. It's crucial to keep tabs on sales efficiency. The figure is one of the most straightforward, definitive metrics for understanding whether your sales processes, methodologies, and overall strategy are actually worthwhile. Let's assume all your sales reps hit their quota one quarter.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Now that these sellers are stationary, the feeling is they can be put on cadences that resemble inside sales processes and productivity targets instead of loosey-goosey field behaviors. sales teams are standing up pilot inside sales programs because they don’t believe long-tenured field sales reps can make the transition.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 10, 2014

Sales Training Coaching Tip: Keeping is the third phase of the 3-Phase-Sales-Process and will only grow in importance. Now not later is the time for you to plan for those inbound sales leads before you are behind the flow and are left in the wake of your competitors who have already taken that action.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dionne Mejer is the Founder & CEO of Inside Sales by Design and author of the highly anticipated book, The Stepped Approach: Onboard Better, Systemize Smarter, and Bring Out the Best in Your Sales Team. Her innovative inside sales training tactics and proven approach gets her clients results every time.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 2, 2019

This lead management software leverages automation to speed up sales processes. Your sales team will be able to reach more prospects, respond faster, and boost production. Velocify LeadManager prioritizes leads, creates reminders, and triggers follow-up actions to simplify processes. VanillaSoft. MindTickle.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Mike covers three crucial areas of sales leadership with real-life examples, ethnicity, and honesty- leading, managing, and coaching in this excellent sales management book. Get this sales management book on Amazon. The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness. Get this sales management book on Amazon.

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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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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training is the process of developing and fine-tuning the skills of sales professionals and managers by increasing their understanding of their buyers, modernizing their approach to the sales process, and equipping them with strategies, techniques, and technology that top performers use to achieve sales success.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

You must have a repeatable sales process and methodology for your team to follow in order to repeat the results you desire. Do you have a well thought out process? Conduct assessments to find reps consistent to what it takes to succeed in sales at your company. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As the VP of Sales, you’re pulled in 15 directions. You’re coaching and mentoring Sales Directors and Managers. You’re implementing new processes and practices to improve performance. Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. Also, he thought the sales reps could prospect locally for more leads.

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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. Modern sales organizations are transforming their enablement function.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 1, 2019

Bad hires are the number one reason for the failure of sales organizations. It’s not your bad sales process. And clarity regarding role, expectations and decision authority levels enable inside sales, outside sales, account management and enablement to work more collaboratively and communicate much more effectively.

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

The adoption was led by Inside Sales Manager, Matthew Johnson, who has been with the Kings organization for nine years. In such a diverse sales organization, we found that this approach wasn’t as practical in an ever-evolving sports world. This diversity made ensuring consistent messaging in the sales process critical.

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

Selling to HR and have an inside sales function or are considering an inside sales function? When they’re working, it’s an amazing engine bringing new talent into the organizations and deals into the sales pipeline. Budgets that were once available for inside sales teams have diminished.

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Xvoyant

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ralph Barsi, VP of Global Inside Sales at Tray.io, joins Rob on Episode 83 of the Sales Leadership Podcast to teach us how to make sure all of the members of the sales team are following the same process, and all managers are coaching with the same process.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 4, 2020

Within just nine months, Hillary had moved into a closing role on the company’s inside sales team. And being part of a collaborative sales process is very appealing to me, too.” Hillary’s jam-packed morning schedule also includes handling emails, sitting in on demos, and joining pricing or other sales process calls.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 25, 2019

First, for some context, consider the six categories of sales playbooks: Reference – Everything a sales rep needs to know to get their job done. Messaging – How to effectively prepare for and conduct sales conversations. Coaching – How sales managers execute critical processes to motivate high performance.

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