DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 12, 2016

So, we recently published a blog entitled, “ What You Won’t Learn from Books About Sales ,” and now here we are sharing our favorite books and blogs that can make your better at inside sales. Yes, best performing salespeople learn from experience and develop “grit” without the help of sales books. Sound interesting?

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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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Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

Britton Manasco is a principal with Manasco Marketing Partners. His new firm, which specializes in strategic positioning and provocative sales messaging, is called Visible Impact. So I attended this event expecting to find out more about how and when resources would be flowing to inside sales teams.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2020

The facts (research) show that just because some sales leads are six months to a year old, half of any given group of leads with the same age is still in the market to buy. Companies are not immune from the same issue – no (or slow) follow-up, no sale. Outline the sales stages required to make a sale.

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Zoominfo

MAY 12, 2016

Yes, best performing salespeople learn from experience and develop “grit” without the help of sales books. The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi “As you well know, arousing curiosity, generating interest, and getting prospects to open up about their priorities is about as easy as potty-training a coyote.” Sound interesting?

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Velocify

JUNE 5, 2013

New Leads360 study identifies several characteristics of duplicate leads that show a higher likelihood of conversion than average. Among lead generators and sales teams alike, there’s often confusion or disagreement about duplicate leads and how to best handle them. The post Study: Think duplicate leads are all bad? Think again.

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Velocify

JANUARY 29, 2013

According to a 2012 Bridge Group study [1] , from 2009-2011 the number of inside sales jobs grew 124% in the U.S. This evolution means an increasingly mature buying market that is driving new CRM-related needs for sales and marketing teams. The key success factors in this environment are: Response time.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With the shift to inside sales, marketing and B2B teams are being pulled in different directions. In the current market, sales and marketing must work together to be effective. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Who currently have job openings for marketing help.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The last time sales teams were offered real change in their tech offerings was back in the early 2000s, when cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems came into vogue. That technology permanently shifted the way sales teams operated. Source: High Growth Study 2021, published by the Hinge Research Institute.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. An essential tool for doing that deep dive to gain intelligence about the account is your inside sales team or telemarketing firm.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 20, 2020

As a result, B2B sales and marketing teams are yanked towards inside sales strategies like account-based marketing and remote selling. Sales and marketing must banish silos and band together during this turbulent time. Why Account-Based Marketing Is the Right Response.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. Outside or inside sales? It’s all sales.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. Josiane heads up TeleSmart Communications , and is leading practice and thought leader in the area of inside sales and management. How can that be?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This is second installment detailing DiscoverOrg’s TiLT Sales Development Challenge and it’s 10 core learning modules. Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. You Say “Tomatoes”.

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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! Our current team of Advisors are Inside Sales experts with backgrounds of 15 or more years at the Director or VP level.

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Richardson

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Richardson’s 2019 Selling Challenges Study research reveals a panoramic view of the changes confronting sales professionals today. With hundreds of responses, we’ve captured timely insights into how 2019 will unfold and how to address emerging challenges. Our research reveals that:

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: TIM RIESTERER Sales training and enablement leaders, it’s time to level up. As a result, your content can’t be just a companion to a sales-led customer conversation?— There are four forever changes transforming sales training and enablement from here on out: Marketing is the sales development team.

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Velocify

JUNE 13, 2017

A wave of new sales technologies is providing businesses unprecedented choice in building out their ideal sales stack. As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The problem is that many sales managers were raised in Sales 1.0 They don’t have the skills or tools for success in a Sales 3.0

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Openview

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It’s an age-old question: should SDRs report to sales or marketing ? Ask five people, and you’ll get five different answers based on individual experience and factors ranging from company stage to the SDR career path to the individual personalities and preferences of a company’s heads of sales and marketing.

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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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InsideSales.com

JULY 15, 2020

As we live in the digital age, we need to adapt our digital marketing tactics as an ever-changing fluid strategy. You need a strong marketing team that understands the demands of following and competing with social media marketplace trends. Related: WHAT C-SUITE EXECS REALLY THINK WHEN CONTACTED BY INSIDE SALES REPS.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The answer lies in lead generation driven by sales development reps. To truly unlock their potential, a robust sales development playbook is vital. Read on for a list of essentials for lead sourcing, nurturing, and actionable tips to outperform in a competitive market. What Is a Sales Development Playbook?

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Perhaps how I stumbled into finding great mentors in the B2B sales world might inspire you to find mentors and inspiration yourself. Jill Konrath is THE top name in B2B sales thought leadership today due to a 2nd best-seller, SNAP Selling – and her talented writing and videos regularly produced to a worldwide audience.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a sales rep, you need solutions to the problems you face when selling over the phone. And that’s why my blog has thousands of subscribers and why more and more sales teams are added daily. Study these and adapt them to your product or service and then use them to overcome the objection: “We’re all set.”. Responses that work.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Has your sales department ever calculated the cost of sales reps with average sales skills? However, upon deeper reflection, it’s unequivocal that top sales reps are exponentially more productive than average reps. Therefore, the cost of sales reps with average sales skills is a number most companies cannot afford.

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Mereo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

With the business world still experiencing great disruption from COVID-19, we are taking an in-depth look at exactly how sales teams are being altered by this situation — and the best ways to adapt for success in the uncertain future. Inside Sales Teams. Sales will follow. Field Sales Teams.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A new study from Process Street in partnership with sales email tool PersistIQ reveals the inside sales outreach of the world’s 281 top SaaS companies, and how they respond when a high-ticket lead (in this case, we used Vodafone) signs up for a free trial or demo. Most SaaS companies have two sales contacts per lead.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 29, 2014

This is the feeling potential buyers are getting when visiting many large companies’ websites according to a survey done by Velocify called The Fortune 100 Online Buyer Experience Study. Click here to download the study. According to the study, one-third of leads submitted NEVER receive a phone call. Increase Opportunities.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. 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.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 27, 2017

Jeb Blount, author and sales acceleration specialist, knows well how successful sales professionals (ultra-high performers) possess four types of intelligence that are tightly intertwined – each connecting, affecting, and amplifying the others: IQ : how smart you are. Read our free study: “Why Didn’t They Buy?

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SalesHandy

JULY 7, 2021

You might be new to SaaS products, or even been doing it for awhile – SaaS Sales aren’t easy. Figuring out how to generate sales for SaaS products might seem like a pretty daunting task. What SaaS sales is all about, and how do you go about selling your SaaS to qualified leads? What is SaaS Sales?

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Highspot

APRIL 10, 2020

In their new report, Building the Business Case for a Modern Sales Enablement Toolset , Forrester explores how modern sales enablement improves customer experience and drives business impact. Modern Sales Enablement Drives Marketing and Sales Alignment. Modern Sales Enablement Improves Productivity.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Expand market niche (70%). So says the study done by The Hartford, in September of this year, called the 2014 Midsize Business Monitor. The businesses who participated all have annual sales revenues between $10M and $1B. The businesses who participated all have annual sales revenues between $10M and $1B. participated.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

Recently we posted about a study that showed the power and necessity of follow up in building relationships with buyers who ultimately do business with you. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To answer this question, let’s start with some data: According to the latest HubSpot Research Study , we found that 40% of businesses will miss revenue targets this year. 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.

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