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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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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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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Mediafly acquired his company Alinean, a pioneer in value messaging and interactive sales tools. Prior to Alinean, Tom founded Interpose, a provider of total cost of ownership (TCO) measurement and analysis software tools and training. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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JANUARY 8, 2015

Instead of full focus on new products and training for new products / services, be sure to make time for sales skills development. Unless everyone is at 100% quota, which is highly unlikely, have time for coaching and training. Finally, I love to see a theme for sales kickoffs and for sales offsites.

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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

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. She’s an advocate for women in the aviation industry and beyond, and an accomplished sales leader.

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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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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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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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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. The folly of Sales 2.0

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world. 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.

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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. I’m not a lawyer, I’m actually an engineer by classical training, and it’s been a fun and interesting ride to work with this community.

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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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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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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. Turning the camera on to the customers to garner their insight is a great way to align sales and marketing. Publish SME B2B content daily.

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