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The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Sales

Hubspot Sales

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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Build a Bold, Data Infused Sales Strategy for 2013

SBI Growth

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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Give Your Sales Territory Mapping the Direction It Needs

Gong.io

Sales territory mapping is the process of defining the areas of your target market that sales reps are responsible for growing. While only some sales organizations create sales territories, there are plenty of reasons to do so. . In an ideal world, sales managers would assign each account to the most suitable rep.

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Performance Management

Partners in Excellence

As leaders, our jobs are to maximize the performance of each individual and the organization. Instead, we manage by the numbers or dashboards. ” Managers are accountable for making sure they have real clarity around the expectations. If the numbers aren’t measuring up, we take action.

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Depend on Recurring Revenue? Here’s How to Contain Creation Costs

Braveheart Sales

But for businesses where the costs of creating new customers are measured by lenders to determine the health of that business, they are especially important to manage. The session, which featured a group of senior and sub-debt lenders, discussed recurring monthly revenue, customer attrition rates and the cost to create new customers.

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Inside/Outside, Is It Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

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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What is Inside Sales? The Definition of Modern-Day Selling

OutboundView

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. The genesis of inside sales has its roots in telemarketing.