Remove 2014 Remove Channels Remove Inside Sales Remove Sales
article thumbnail

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

A Sales Guy

Last year I predicted that 2013 would be the year of hiring, that sales people would be on the move, freed from the downturn in the economy and feeling safe, I predicted sales people would start looking for new opportunities. I saw a lot of organizations trim their dead weight and build new and improved sales organizations.

Strategy 115
article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Sales productivity – it’s the time, stupid

Sales Training Connection

Increasing sales productivity. Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . The authors noted that top performing sales companies have about the same number of people in sales roles as low performing companies.

article thumbnail

Nancy’s Sales App of the Week: @Velocify

SBI

Get to know your sales tools in just 2 minutes a week. This week, Nancy profiles Velocify , a sales acceleration tool that improves performance and conversion rates of both inbound and outbound calling. Sales ToolSkool Video Transcript: Velocify Helps Sales Teams Accelerate Performance. Go to Velocify.com to learn more.

article thumbnail

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. More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Act-On ToolSkool.

Vendor 139
article thumbnail

How to Build an Online Presence as a Sales Industry Influencer, According to Notable Sales Experts

Hubspot Sales

Between 2014 and 2019, the increase in influencer marketing spend mirrored the decrease in print advertising spend. Now go ahead and put your salesperson hat back on so we can talk about what it means to be a sales industry influencer. Wonder what it takes to become a sales industry influencer? A clear, defined niche.