Score More Sales

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is a new year and a fresh start for many in the B2B sales world. Having had a monthly or a quarterly sales quota over the course of 15 years or so, I know that good feeling of have a blank slate – but it also can be a tough feeling to start back at zero. Doesn’t it feel good to get a fresh start? Expand Your Pipeline.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

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. The second page of the Google search results was even worse, including proclamations that B2B selling is dead and that field sales is dead. Februrary 19 2015. Don't get me wrong.

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Inbound Inside Sales Sales Process Top of Funnel 120

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There’s a saying in B2B sales that people buy with emotion and justify with fact. For those of us who sell solutions, our jobs will increase by 10 percent, according to a 2015 report by Forrester. Because sales AI doesn’t have human emotions. We’re not obsolete … yet. It’s more than a saying; it’s a fact.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inside Sales Enterprise 232

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Midsize business owners (and their c-level execs) are optimistic and have put dollars into their 2015 budgets to invest in: Technology (85%). When it comes to hiring, 74% plan to hire in 2015, although 61% of the respondents feel there is a shortage of qualified talent. Others are predicting a strong 2015 for business as well.

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Hiring Wireless Policies Travel 198

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Last year, new research from Forrester boldly predicted the Death of the B2B Sales Rep, making some stark forecasts: Much of B2B buying will not need sales reps anymore, and will move to lower cost self-service or inside sales reps. Over 1 million B2B salespeople would go the way of the dodo by 2020.

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Trends B2B Decision Maker Forecasting 80

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

By 2020, the B2B SALESMAN WILL BE DEAD. The author, Andy Hoar, outlines the following as major contributors to this demise: B2B buyer preferences have fundamentally shifted from speaking with a sales rep 1-on-1 to a self-education ecommerce type model for purchasing. Source: [link] ).

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. What is your plan to grow and improve your presence in 2015? Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Company Trade Show Engineering Ideal Customer Profile 215

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Sales organizations need to take advantage of this scenario and leverage it in 2015. If it is true that sales reps do a better job with their CRM using a mobile app, then they should be encouraged by you and your company to do so. Here is another post written this year about how mobile helps sales reps sell.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 9, 2015

THEN, come to a focused session on becoming MORE productive with your time as sales leader (for your reps) or for sales professionals everywhere 4 days later. Join hundreds of others who have already signed up for 5 Productive Strategies to Crush Quotas in 2015. If you see a mention on Twitter about it, please re-share.

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Webinar Metrics Twitter Inside Sales Google 120

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How different would it be to begin 2015 with some solid appointments and opportunities rather than a blank slate? ” Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Twitter 262

Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Derrick Williams, Tenbound Derrick has been scaling high-performance Inside Sales & Sales Development teams for more than 10-years for hyper-growth startups and Enterprise companies such as Verizon and Dell. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. Recently, DiscoverOrg sat down with Schulze to uncover the momentum sales technology has gained over the past 12 months. How do you see Sales Tech changing as an industry?

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Scale B2B Trends Lead Rank 120

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of the best first steps you can put into place (aside from hiring an expert to help you put a full plan in place to get your sales and marketing ready for 2015) is to focus on listening. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Where are you?

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Social Selling Company Ideal Customer Profile Twitter 223

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

What can you put in place in 2015 to help sales reps be more effective in starting with the best data possible? Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Think of the questions sales and marketing needs to get answers to in order to better serve buyers in 2015 and beyond. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 8, 2015

For more detail and data, check out the Annual Sales Kickoff Meeting Research e-book. Contact us if we can offer more ideas to help you make 2015 the year that sales really take off. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

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Twitter Inside Sales Groups Survey 120

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Who should read this : Inside sales reps will find a lot of high-value advice for smarter cold calling and actionable techniques for tackling specific sales challenges. Why salespeople need this book : It’s one of the best cold calling books on B2B sales prospecting—for both inspiration and insights.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

If you want to learn about the latest ideas in sales you need to be a student of learning. I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. I can’t wait for 2016. Close More Deals.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Nonprofit 120

Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. Simply put, the root cause of the problem in 2015 was that reps were forced to find their own leads—or had poor-quality “leads” dumped on them—most of which they ignored. Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 100

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Here are our top three picks for how to use Star Wars to streamline your sales process and become a B2B Jedi Master: 1. green inside sales reps and SDRs) and encourages them to go back to basics with old school selling techniques. ” The sales process takes heart, patience, and persistance. Our top pick?

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The Bridge Group

JUNE 15, 2017

A number of readers have emailed in and the top three requests have been: Update the 2015 calculator with the latest data (allow tailoring by geography, rep experience, ASP, etc.). Welcome to our new and improved AE & Inside Sales Leader Compensation Calculator (now available both in Excel and Sheets formats).

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Compensation Hiring Inside Sales Enterprise 37

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

The hypothesis above is based on the research and conclusions of four leading sales trainers who shared their findings at the 2015 PipelineDeals Accelerate Sales Conference and Sales Hacker Workshop with Microsoft in Seattle, WA.

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Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Consistently deliver – Implementing value communication and quantification, from marketing and inside sales, to channel, partner and account execs, to business consultants and value engineers. Sources: 2017 – The Year B2B Sales Reps Can Finally Sell Value?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Scale 45

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Why Jordan should be on your radar: It’s probably a good idea to get used to seeing Jordan Arogeti on these sales leaders lists. From SDR in 2015, to enterprise AE in 2020–and she’s gathered quite the following on LinkedIn. VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop Inc. Founder of Sistas in Sales. Kevin “KD” Dorsey.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

It's unclear if ERP firms even understand ERP and it's 2015. With advanced stealth B2B technologies I'm aware of right now, essentially one person can do the work of an entire traditional inside sales team of 50 and the CEO can just fly in and seal the deal. Inside sales doesn't have to be a career path to outside sales.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. Hughes 2015 What's not to love about that?!

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Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

Helping companies get there is a core part of what Vertical Relevance helps large-scale sales organizations achieve.”. Inside Sales Teams are Already Digital. We’ve known digital transformation was coming for a long time; many have already transformed their sales development and inside sales teams.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

As I was putting this post together, I hopped into my time machine and zipped back to 2015 when I first attended Rainmaker and wrote about my experience that year. What I realized in reading that 2015 blog post was that the more things change, the more they actually stay the same. In B2B sales, people still buy from people.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the 2014 State of B2B Procurement Study by Accenture’s Acquity Group , 94% of B2B buyers gather data and research online before buying. Are you using the latest in sales enablement technology to help your reps work more efficiently? CSO Insights reports that, on average, only 60% of inside sales reps meet quota.

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SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And since founding in 2015, we had one flagship product that focuses the AI product, and it’s essentially a very intelligent repository, store contracts in there, executed contracts. Vishal Sunak: I began my journey in B2B SaaS at Backupify, and got the opportunity to learn the SaaS game from some real experts.

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Scale Company Hiring Campaigns 107

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

I've opined ad nauseam about the power of content marketing to create an octopus's garden to attract whales and that's an ongoing Challenge endeavor that Marketing and B2B salespeople should undertake together but that does not forego, the proactive whale hunting mentality each day. So waiting for the sector to come to you is a red herring.

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Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

QuotaPath is a little bit bucking the trend for me, in that I built the product and engineering team first and wanted to make sure that the end-user saw value in the product, imagine that, before going and building up a bad-ass B2B sales team. So the inflection point was 2014, 2015… 2014, we did 750,000 and S in ARR.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 74

Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

To win in 2015 you're going to have to go so old school and new school at the same time, applying a dizzying array of multi-disciplinary principles that will give you an invincible edge. Inside sales hunters are constantly calling the companies that get funding. He's constantly bringing in warm introductions for the sales execs.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63