Velocify

APRIL 24, 2013

Leads360’s new calculator provides a lead assignment recommendation per sales rep, per day in order to boost revenue and profits. Though inside sales is undeniably becoming more and more complex, at the end of the day, it is really a numbers game.

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Inside Sales Leads360 Cost per Lead Distribution 95

Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 25, 2020

Without travel and face-to-face meetings, how can sales organizations maintain—and grow—their sales revenue? To protect both customer relationships and economic health, sellers need to look at social distancing not as an obstacle but as an opportunity to do things differently and build more successful partnerships with buyers.

Inside Sales 80

Inside Sales Revenue Face-to-face How To 80

OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps. Short History.

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Telemarketing Salary 31

Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

For nearly 20 years, Trish and The Bridge Group have helped over 320+ companies build, expand and optimize their Inside Sales practices including building pipeline, generating revenue and redefining the image of the profession. In fact, her latest book, The Sales Development Playbook , was an Amazon #1 bestseller!

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Influencer B2B Social Media Twitter 188

SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2018

With our verified deals-in-progress product called Qualified Sales Opportunities, we’ve done much of the inside sales work for you to provide all the information necessary to have a super productive meeting. We have hundreds of customers you can reach out to. All you have to do is use is get the meeting set up.

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Intent Data Intent Data Enterprise 139

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 14, 2014

I called customer service, got a very good agent. So while they had designed a process that was very efficient and effective for them, it was unworkable for me–the customer. It’s not limited to customer service, but I see it in sales, marketing, customer service and other parts of the organization.

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Customer Territories Account Call-back 94

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 21, 2022

I mean, hasn’t revenue enablement–that is maximizing our ability to create and grow revenue, been key for our organizations forever (We might, also, consider Profit Enablement)? Isn’t the responsibility of every customer facing function to figure ways to grow revenue and profits. I get this.

Revenue 70

Revenue Face-to-face Maximizer Channels 70

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2020

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. Replace Sales Cadence Stress with Simplicity. Outbound Sales Cadence Example #1.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead InsideSales 124

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Upon reading the title of this post, some of you are probably thinking, “Dave, don’t you have it backwards, aren’t we supposed help the customer solve their problems?” We are supposed to help our customers identify and address their problems. How should we work with them to maximize the value we c0-create?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

You can maximize user engagement by offering both a full-featured free trial and a limited free-forever plan. Focus on customer success. Take a more hands-on approach to inside sales. Include a full-feature free trial.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2019

To forge these lasting customer relationships, sellers must create a world-class sales system that consists of three components: customer engagement, performance support and sales enablement. Deliver Consistently Great Customer Experiences on Every Channel. Are You World-Class?

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Customer Face-to-face Top of Funnel Channels 55

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 28, 2018

My answer is always the same: sales skills and best practice selling techniques are transferrable. Core inside sales skills and strategies work in all industries (that is why they are foundational) and can be adapted to work effectively in other industry. And this is especially true in the legal field. And they work!

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Conversion Inbound Industry Insurance 120

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Systems are complex, imagine our organization’s “system,” working with a complex set of customer systems, supplier systems, investor, and so forth. For example, we have engineering/product development, manufacturing/service delivery, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, HR, operations, and so forth.

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System Engineering Tools Groups 112

Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

Partners in EXCELLENCE president and blogger David Brock challenges that sales professionals go beyond providing rudimentary features and benefits. Customers need strong business justified solutions, he exclaims. Sales needs to go beyond to provide financial justification. Going Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis.

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Cold Calling B2B PointClear Hiring 195

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As reps are qualifying leads in their pipeline, here is some criteria they can consider: Does this potential customer fit your ideal customer profile? Does this potential customer have the budget to pay for your products or services? Is this individual the appropriate decision-maker for this purchase? Account Management.

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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 130

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

A few indications your sales strategy is not working for you: Missing the # - Your reps are trying to be all things to all people. Your reps have no consistency in customer size or type. A must-have if you are to properly allocate your sales resources. Benefit – Gives you the ability to prioritize your customer/prospect base.

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Strategy Hiring Margin Top of Funnel 317

MarketJoy

AUGUST 6, 2020

Irrespective of the business you are in, your leads or prospective customers are essential to the growth of your organization. However, in the last decade Google Adwords, mobile-readiness, landing pages, web forms, and the marriage between sales and marketing has become table stakes for effective lead generation. Personalization.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 105

The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sales scripts are a valuable tool that can help salespeople have meaningful conversations with customers or prospects. What are Sales Scripts? They usually refer to a prepared walk through of a sales conversation including talking points, value propositions, discovery questions and “asks” or “commitment” steps.

How To 52

How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Our recipe for success requires that you be able to listen to the customer and flex in ways that help bring big opportunities and deals to closure. You call on those companies who are “more probable” to buy from you than those who are “less probable” to maximize reps’ time. Don’t act like an enterprise company that is immovable.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

Michael Womack , Direct Inside Sales Manager at Garrett Metal Detectors , suggests leaders need to respect and retain new managers' individuality. Your role in training a manager is to maximize and grow the individual potential of your team. Don't try to create a mirror image of yourself. Make training an ongoing process.

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Training Sales Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 114

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This article is written with field sales teams in mind. However, if you run an inside sales team exclusively, don’t despair, you may still find a nugget or two of helpful information as well. I also had the privilege of hosting a breakfast where we discussed the state of sales in the security industry. Source: com].

Revenue 52

Revenue Hiring PointClear Inside Sales 52

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Sales development reps (also known as business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first step in the sales funnel: bringing in qualified leads. They conduct research to find prospective customers, reach out to gauge people's interest in the offering, and decide whether or not the lead is ready to move down the funnel.

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Hiring Salary Top of Funnel Commission 110

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Supposedly, we were out in the field everyday, in customers’ offices doing deals. We tended to think of inside sales as those people sitting in the office, waiting for the phone to ring, just focused on small deals, doing very high volumes. Many of my customers were in remote locations, or across the globe.

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Telemarketing Inside Sales Face-to-face Field Sales 48

A Sales Guy

APRIL 16, 2012

We often think of “cost” as something our customers and prospects are evaluating with us. But, our sales have a cost too. The cost of sales is an extremely important metric. Unfortunately, it’s not one I see on sales leader’s dashboards too often. Do you know what your least expensive sale is?

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Inside Sales Compensation Channels Outside Sales 117

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

We’d talk to the sales people, “We just aren’t finding the large deals. But we are making our numbers… ” Then we started looking at the customers. The customer view that average deal values should be much higher was a fair assessment, they just weren’t finding them.

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Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation Account 91

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Do you want more customers? The answer lies in lead generation driven by sales development reps. To truly unlock their potential, a robust sales development playbook is vital. What Is a Sales Development Playbook? This targeted approach maximizes the use of resources and increases the chances of closing valuable deals.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

Score More Sales

JANUARY 31, 2013

Ways to help retain more customers. How to maximize my calling hours. Ways to relate better to customers and potential customers. Ways to relate better to customers and potential customers. What is a sales pipeline and how can I grow one? Social selling tools to listen to what customers are saying.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Ideal Customer Profile Energy 169

ExecVision

APRIL 23, 2018

Further exacerbating this problem, many of the booth jockeys and inside sales reps aren’t used to meeting people face-to-face, and then are left to man the table alone, without a mentor in sight. On the flip side, if they say their favorite session covered prospecting and you sell customer service training, it’s probably not a match.

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ROI Ideal Customer Profile Maximizer Closing 40

Vendor Neutral

JULY 16, 2021

Join our upcoming webinar to learn the step-by-step road map that leads you to an effective sales technology ecosystem. Discover proven methods to effectively align your sales technology to stakeholders, customer needs, and your overall sales org strategy. Learn How to: Align stakeholders within your organization.

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Sales Technology Vendor Webinar Metrics Travel 52

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 9, 2022

There’s a statistic floating around the internet that says the average inside sales rep only spends 33% of their time actively selling. I’m not sure if I agree with that figure but time management is an undervalued skill among sales reps. The best sales reps have done the math and have calculated what their time is worth.

Engineering 62

Engineering Lead Rank Lead Scoring Maximizer 62

SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

What data can we mine to generate insights about our customers? Typically the focus is on blocking and tackling: basic execution of a compensation plan, sales dashboards, sales crediting, and territory/customer assignments. As Joe presents his findings and recommendations, questions begin to flow from the VP of Sales.

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Infusion Data Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 244

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

VP of Global Inside Sales at Tray.io. It’s about listening — mostly to customers, prospects, and partners — and managing what you measure. For example, your best, most active customers may pull back on expansion talks or inquire about term or price adjustments. Optimize revenue from existing customers.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 91

InsideSales.com

MAY 15, 2020

Lars Nilsson, Founder & CEO at SalesSource, has over 25 years of sales and operations experience in the technology sector. Prior to SalesSource, Lars was Vice President of Global Inside Sales for Cloudera, the company that transformed enterprise data management. Becc Holland Head of Sales Development at Chorus.ai.

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Webinar Metrics Tourism Enterprise Enterprise 52

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I appreciate the manner in which each has clearly presented B2B marketing and sales challenges, solutions (in the form of best-practice strategies and tactics), and results in areas like the following: Content marketing. Customer acquisition. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Jill Konrath (JK) : Know the primary business reasons why your customers purchase your offerings, and know how you "move" these business drivers. Do you help with lowering cost of goods sold, increasing uptime of machinery, ensuring compliance, maximizing lead-to-customer conversion rates, lowering operating costs, or increasing market share?

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Buyer Prospecting Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 110

Velocify

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The growing adoption of marketing automation presents a significant opportunity for inside sales. As marketing automation works its magic, the volume of quality leads creates more opportunity for inside sales. Not if the sales department becomes the next bottleneck in the funnel. Terrific, right?

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Leads360 Marketo Top of Funnel Marketing 79

Velocify

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To ensure successful implementation of a new sales technology, there’s some best practices to keep in mind as you go through the onboarding process and beyond. Read on for superuser tips from Velocify customers on how to get the most out of your sales solution. Superuser Tip #4: Maximize the Benefits.

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Sales Technology Guarantee Maximizer Vendor 61