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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

Your Sales Strategy. It is one thing to have a sales strategy. You know you need to begin planning for 2014 now. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough?

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Inside Sales: Listen Up!

No More Cold Calling

What salespeople—and sales managers— need to understand is that calls are either hot or cold. Inside Sales Meets No More Cold Calling: An eBook I was thrilled when Ken Krogue, founder of InsideSales.com , invited me to present with him at Dreamforce 2014. I know that happens, because you’ve told me about it.

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

Pointclear

Now there is a rush for software and computers to reason (yes, that is the right word) and to take action for sales and marketing revenue increases by people or in a programmatic fashion. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell.

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

Understanding the Sales Force

How Sales Has Changed in the Last 5 Years and More April 10 2012 on the Hubspot Blog. The Death of All Selling Forever April 25 2014. There is some truth to what inbound marketing experts and inside sales experts are saying relative to the context of who they work with. Are Top Salespeople Challengers? April 29 2013.

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How One VP Hired 23 Reps in 100 Days (and Lived)

Sales 2.0

Great post for sales managers from two great people. I’ve come to learn that having a pipeline of candidates and making good sales hires is a critical part of a sales managers job. ZipRecruiter’s VP of Inside Sales, Kevin Gaither , was tasked with hiring 25 inside sales reps in just three months.

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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. It''s clear that most of the inside sales/marketing folks lack clarity when it comes to writing about sales.

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How To Hire the Right Sales Rep

Score More Sales

Assessment Tool: Objective Management Group Sales Candidate Assessment. I’ve followed OMG’s Dave Kurlan for a number of years and finally got to meet him at INBOUND 2014 in Boston this year. OMG’s products are backed by years of research and in working with hundreds of thousands of sales reps.

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