Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I recently published, Increase in Social Selling Yields No Improvement in KPI''s. Among the things being debated are: The migration from outside to inside sales - yes it''s happening and it''s good; but it won''t happen in every company, to every salesperson or necessarily soon.

Inbound 209

Inbound Survey Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209

Chorus.ai

MAY 7, 2020

In today’s Daily Briefing, Jim Benton was joined by Tom Boccard , SVP Sales at GlobalData. About 90% of my team is inside sales.” Inside Sales has had to adapt quickly, and there have been surprises along the way. Are sales leaders joining more customer meetings? It’s similar to 2008 or 2009.

Ideal Customer Profile 62

Ideal Customer Profile Campaigns Pivotal Energy 62

Chorus.ai

MAY 27, 2020

2008 was a crazy shock to the system, but we rebuilt relatively quickly when you look at the numbers,” said Craig. It made me better because I consulted inside sales teams for a few years afterward when it was really hard to sell.” 2008 was a great lesson. You can see this in the sales productivity data.

Outbound 62

Outbound Segment Coaching System 62

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Let’s address the elephant in the room – there are just too many sales resources available to know what’s good and what isn’t. We decided to tackle the heavy lifting to create this round-up of our favorite sales resources, tools, and guides. Sales Outreach: Tools & Templates. Remote sales resources. Best sales books.

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Resources Webinar Metrics Hiring Hubspot 80

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. But what about real sales reps? I’ve got bills to pay! Don’t do it.

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Motivation Incentives Incentive Lead Rank 191

Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Texting: A new frontier in sales. Sales professionals can learn a lot from the pioneers that have come before them, and there is much to be gained by using text messaging in the sales process. 2] AT&T Text Messaging Survey, The Role of Texting in Dating, 2008. [3]

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Leads360 Unica Lead Rank Lead Scoring 109

Green Lead's B2B

JUNE 1, 2022

Back in 2007, Linda and I had no idea we would have built a global pipeline generation company that the Fortune 1000 and some of the biggest tech firms in the industry would trust to generate their sale pipeline from high level Ideal Customer Profile leads (ICPs) to booked and confirmed Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs, or appointments).

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Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 49

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics. Marketing (6398). Training (4995). Prospecting (4539).

Lead Rank 99

Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but here are some great companies to consider for your next sales job. ProfitWell.

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Hiring Company Policies Analytics 76

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry. Clearly, if your team needs sales training, there's a lot of options out there. Best Sales Videos. Sales Videos by Well-Known Selling Experts. Companies spent approximately $2.2B

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Channels Video Training Hiring 112

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What are the best sales conferences and events of the year, where you’ll find plenty of networking opportunities , training, and career-changing tips? Here are the 26 sales events in 2020 (organized by the season of the year) that we’re most excited about. Best 26 Sales Conferences in 2020. The Surf and Sales Summit.

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Conference Scale Networking Industry 90

The Sales Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Bernadette McClelland mentors and teaches salespeople within B2B markets in Australia, NZ and India to sell more effectively, step up their sales leadership skills and become trusted advisors. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. Posted by Jeff Arnold.

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Pharmaceuticals Meeting Customer GoldMine 32

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 75

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Bill Binch , Chief Revenue Officer for Pendo and a former sales executive at Marketo who, over close to 10 years, helped guide the company through multiple phases of growth including both an IPO and an acquisition. . Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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Scale Marketo Hiring PeopleSoft 13