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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

You know you need to begin planning for 2014 now. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. Market conditions 12 months ago were very different. Why This Matters— The size of your addressable market has shifted. Generating demand inside these customers is different. This is flawed.

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3 Key Insights Management Can Learn from an Inside Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2014-06-16. Teaser: In my 20-plus years of managing inside sales teams, I am still amazed at the amount of critical information they can provide to management. In my 20-plus years of managing inside sales teams, I am still amazed at the amount of critical information they can provide to management.

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Is AI impacting Inside Sales Rep Revenue? Mike Plante of InsideSales Says it Is.

Pointclear

Why it’s Important: “The companies that lag behind in adopting new ways of selling and marketing are slated for the trash heaps of failed businesses.”. At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. About CRM Radio Guest Mike Plante, Chief Marketing Officer.

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Why Inbound and Inside Sales Experts Think Sales Process is Dead Too

Understanding the Sales Force

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. It isn't dead but the authors are making a lot of money by saying that and pushing the Challenger Sale! And the rest were written by marketers who might sell a lot more of their services if they can convince you that sales process is dead.

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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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Is There a Lack of Clarity on the Current State of Selling?

Understanding the Sales Force

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. And if your company and/or your technology is new, you will require great salespeople.

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Midsize Business Optimistic

Score More Sales

Expand market niche (70%). So says the study done by The Hartford, in September of this year, called the 2014 Midsize Business Monitor. When it comes to innovation (one of my interests within growing companies), it was interesting to see these statistics among the participant mid-market companies: 53% use cloud computing.

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