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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. So you pay your sales reps money to prospect and find buyers – it makes sense that you also invest in having the best representation of your company when they find it online. Inbound Marketing.

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Company Trade Show Engineering Ideal Customer Profile 215

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AUGUST 28, 2014

We are about to go into 2015 and smart marketers and sellers are positioning for predominantly mobile viewing of their site, offers, and ways to connect. It is an evolution, and now is clearly the time to be thinking about this and planning for Q4 into 2015. The time is NOW to build for the future with your website.

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Webinar Metrics B2B Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 214

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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. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers. Increase Opportunities.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

As soon as Monday, you (yes, you and your mid-market or SMB company) can sign up for the Beta offering of IBM ® Watson™ Analytics. This cloud-based service could help your team sort through the layers of data your company has compiled from marketing, sales, HR, and elsewhere. There is a premium version for bigger capabilities.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. 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

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JANUARY 8, 2015

At the beginning of the year, everyone should have hope and optimism for a bigger and better sales year ahead. If you do nothing else, make your meeting focused around what is in it for THEM (your audience – sales reps, front line sales leaders, account teams, marketing, etc).

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Twitter Inside Sales Groups Survey 120

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In the last few days I have been facilitating focus groups for a research study in Australia being conducted by The Eventful Group who are running a big CRM conference in Melbourne in July 2015. So far we’ve done half-day workshops in three cities with approximately 80 people ranging from senior business leaders to IT system managers.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” TOPOsales pic.twitter.com/SH0nzXJUCz — Salesloft (@Salesloft) March 18, 2015. Here are some of the key tweetable takeaways from the live webinar: First, map your process to your market and your buyer.

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Top of Funnel Sales Process Webinar Metrics CRM 52

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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. Your “value” should be conveyed in 30 seconds or in two sentences.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Nonprofit 120

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. Retaining top talent, especially in markets that experience a talent deficit.

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Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Coach your sales team until they have mastered the fundamentals of selling value. Review the relationship between Marketing and Sales – today the two must be aligned through out the sales cycle. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection.

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Discount Negotiation Study Engineering 50

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Based on independent research from MHI Global / CSO Insights, taking your value marketing and selling to the next level can: Reduce the number of deals ending in “No Decision” by 30% Improve win rates to 51% (a 40% improvement) Boost the number of sales reps meeting / beating quota to 69% and increasing the average annual revenue attainment to 87%.

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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. Why Brooke should be on your radar: Brooke Bachesta currently leads the mid-market SDR team at Outreach.io.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Thanks to Steven’s background as a Ranger Sniper Team Leader in the Army prior to his career in sales, he believes modern sales is very much in line with the Ranger Life. Next in the spotlight was Andrea Hansen , Head of Sales Development at Gainsight. Her mantra?

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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 It's Google Glass.

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

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

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

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 Cold Calling 130

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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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

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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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. Is the engine full of sawdust? I certainly am.

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Lead Rank Enterprise Enterprise Scale 66

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It was sales. So going through the recession, but just in general, sales was not talked about in the curriculum in school. Maybe we had marketing. Sam Jacobs : When you say you went at it hard from a technical perspective, does that mean that you trained yourself how to be an engineer? I know you have product market fit.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 75

Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2019

Markets across all industries are becoming more crowded. This hardship, combined with the CRM transition to the cloud and the rise of digital selling, has created a mini gold rush for sales software fueled by abundant VC money. Last September, it introduced High Velocity Sales for inside sales.

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Scale Intent Data Lead Rank Forecasting 100

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. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63