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2014 The Year of Execution and Strategy – Why Most Sales Organizations will be Chewed Up and Spit Out

A Sales Guy

Lots of sales people took advantage of 2013 to move and find better fits, but companies also do a lot of moving. I saw a lot of organizations trim their dead weight and build new and improved sales organizations. For 2014, I’m predicting it will be the year of execution and strategy and most companies won’t be ready.

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Frank Cespedes: How to Build and Manage Your Multi-Channel Marketing

Cience

His most recent book is Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling (Harvard Business Review Press), which was cited as, “the best sales book of the year” ( Strategy + Business ), “a must read” ( Gartner Group) , and “perhaps the best sales book ever” ( Forbes ). Answer: Yes.

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Inside vs. Outside Sales: How to Structure a Sales Team for Success

Hubspot Sales

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? increase from 2014.

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Sales productivity – it’s the time, stupid

Sales Training Connection

This might include adding technical experts to the sales team or establishing an inside sales group to handle lead identification or augmenting the administrative sales support. Adding Channels. Increasingly companies are moving to multiple channels. ©2014 Sales Momentum LLC. .

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Nancy’s Sales App of the Week: @Velocify

SBI

and that’s why we’ve named Velocify one of our top sales tools of 2014. Stay tuned for next week’s episode when we’ll talk about a tool that will help you rocket your sales, especially if you sell through channel partners. Go to Velocify.com to learn more. That’s it for this week’s ToolSkool.

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts low IT spending growth for 2016

The ROI Guy

And its not just your direct sales reps that have the issue. Many organizations are relying more and more on channel partners and inside sales to drive growth. So how well do your sales reps and channel partners communicate and quantify your value to a diverse set of decision makers? #3

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Top 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14

SBI

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. InsideView delivers the most accurate company and contact information, including business insights, and professional connections to increase sales and marketing productivity. That’s me with Sassy. InsideSales.

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