Close.io

JANUARY 2, 2020

Industry events provide opportunities that your sales team can’t get elsewhere. So, should your inside sales team be attending industry events? One of the first things we did to get some attention with content in our space was actually attending the Sales Hacker conference in 2013 and live-blogging it. Why Attend?

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Some of them are marketers who, in order to push their applications, must convince you that marketing can handle both finding and closing sales - all via the internet. Others are from the big new inside sales industry. It''s clear that most of the inside sales/marketing folks lack clarity when it comes to writing about sales.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

You might call a potential buyer ten times over the course of a few months. Other posts here on trust: Inside Sales Power Tip – Build Trust. Rather than calling and calling to reach someone, rarely leaving a message, I suggest building trust while leaving some amount of voice mail messages. How do you demonstrate it?

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Eventually, most antiquated models are replaced by more up-to-date, efficient, and sometimes exciting models. Outside sales is being replaced by inside sales but not in the way that most people think. Let''s quickly compare inside sales to outside sales.

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MAY 6, 2013

Go now to Top Sales Academy and if you are a sales leader or aspire to be one, and join in on the first group of ten sessions about Sales Management and Leadership. Then join me for the Internal (Inside) Sales Series. After that, Outside (External) Sales courses begin on August 27th.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2023

We re-acquired Sales Hacker and are relaunching it under GTMnow, the media extension of the GTMfund ! For those of you who don’t know, my partner Max Altschuler , founded Sales Hacker in 2013 and ran it for 5 years (I joined SH later in the journey) before it was acquired by Outreach where it ran for another 5 years.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Who should read this : Experienced and new sales professionals that are ready to unlearn detrimental sales axioms that they have formed over the course of their careers. Whether you’re a sales professional that likes reading or doesn’t, you’ll find fresh frameworks and tons of insights in the book.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million sales professionals in the U.S.—47% 47% are inside sales reps, while about 53% are outside. Of course, inside sellers handle all their meetings remotely. But get this: today, outside reps spend 45% of their time selling remotely, an 89% increase from 2013.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Of course, those who refuse to adapt even slightly, are still very much alive and well, just diminishing in numbers. Very much like the sales profession. From 4 people in 2013 according to CSO Insights to an average of 7 people in 2016 according to the Gartner Group.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 10, 2013

Our regular feature writers, Barb Giamanco, Nancy Nardin, Babette Ten Haken and Tamara Schenk are joined by sales management guru Keith Rosen. As usual we also announce this month’s Top Sales Article and Top Sales Blog Post, and you will find all the details on nominating your favorites for the 2013 Top Sales & Marketing Awards .

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

That’s how many sales professionals are currently in the U.S., Just over 47% of these salespeople are inside sales reps, while just under 53% are outside. So, what’s the average sales call look like? For the non-math majors, that means that 75% of all sales meetings are now handled remotely.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Why Trish should be on your radar: Trish Bertuzzi is a sales powerhouse, a bestselling author and founder of The Bridge Group, an organization dedicated to helping B2B technology companies build world-class inside sales teams. VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop Inc. Founder of Sistas in Sales. Chantel George.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In 2013, American companies alone spent $164.2 in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry. Sobczak is known for his hands-on, practical advice for telephone and inside sales professionals. Companies spent approximately $2.2B

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Channels Video Training Hiring 112

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2014

I read most of the other sales blogs too. Some of them are from companies within the Inside Sales community which, in an attempt to sell their services, are also publishing misinformation. And the misinformation is killing sales forces. Image Copyright: lianna2013 / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Consultative Selling Inside Sales Lead Nurturing ACT 275

Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2016

If you worked at the xyz company from March of 2009 to July of 2013, then your next job should begin on August of 2013. Don’t make the sloppy mistake of putting down that your new job started on July of 2013. So the jobs should read: ABC Company September 2013 — Present. XYZ Company March, 2009 – August, 2013.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Sales Strategist, Top 50 keynote speakers, Best Selling author of Heart and Sell-(chosen as the textbook for Harvard’s Strategic Selling course) Top Voice on LinkedIn 2018. Specializing in helping sales leaders up skill teams to survive and thrive in a hybrid world. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Of course, the second sponsor of the Sales Hacker podcast, I’m sure you know who they are, it’s the company, it’s the unicorn, the billion-dollar valuation company that is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. I just thought of the dealership, the used car salesman, of course.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 12, 2013

It is of course the oldest profession – you may need to think about that for a moment – and quite rightly, we should do everything we can to preserve its status. It has been an exhausting and eventful week, so need to re-charge the batteries ahead of the launch of Top Sales Academy – Inside Sales Level – next week.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 10, 2013

It was a full day at Day 1 of the AA-ISP (American Association of Inside Sales Professionals) 5th Annual Leadership Summit in Chicago. I’m here with 450 others who live in the world of professional sales, and I feel like a kid in a candy store. Bob shared research from their 2013 Inside Sales study.

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The Sales Association

MAY 22, 2011

Surely your client roster must be down to zero at this point (I’m being facetious of course!). From the beginning, I saw the value of leveraging and integrating many marketing and sales channels in support of the customer relationship and the sale. Supporting sales associations and sales professionals.

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Telemarketing Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 24

InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. 7 Sales Best Practices. Selling Is a Competitive Sport.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

How to Make Sales and Marketing Meetings More Effective and Impactful. Blogger Blurb: Max Altschuler and Gaetano DiNardi put out some amazing content over at Sales Hacker. From the best sales blogs to the online course (many free), it’s the place to see all of the best sales minds in the world — all in one place.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98