Pointclear

JANUARY 13, 2015

Ardath Albee’s new book Digital Relevance: Developing Market ing Content and Strategies that Drive Results was published by Palgrave Macmillan (January 6, 2015). Strategies that Drive Results. Marketing Strategy Content Marketing' I was privileged to review an advanced copy this past October and absolutely loved it.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. Josiane heads up TeleSmart Communications , and is leading practice and thought leader in the area of inside sales and management. How can that be?

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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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Hiring Wireless Policies Travel 198

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Customer Relationship Management needs to be a strategy that’s focused on creating the best possible customer experience, supported by well defined processes that are enabled by technology and with everything being driven by managers and staff committed to a customer-centric culture. Change management and executive commitment are essential.

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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. With a web presence optimized to attract “more probable” prospective customers, using a content strategy, keywords and search technology, you can organically bring potential buyers your way. Inbound Marketing.

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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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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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JANUARY 9, 2015

Join hundreds of others who have already signed up for 5 Productive Strategies to Crush Quotas in 2015. It is sponsored by Velocify and is a non-sales session devoted to giving you specific actions to take to shave 10 or 20% of unproductive time away – maybe even more. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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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. Where is the overarching strategy to make them all come together to help us save time? Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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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? What if you spent several hours working on a prospecting strategy for success – if in fact you really were reaching NO ONE now? 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

HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, Cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today.      '

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Learn How to: How RevOps fits into today’s overall sales strategy. 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.

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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? I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

B2B companies must respond by implementing digitally-enabled selling models and they must think beyond the front line of sales representatives and create solutions for call center agents, inside sales reps, and the rest of the sales engine network. Source: [link] ).

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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. I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

You are, after all, working to come up with new strategies or roll-out programs and concepts that a creative approach is helpful for. 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.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Check out the results of the 2015 B2B Lead Generation Trends Report, which was produced by Holger Schulze’s B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn. How do you see Sales Tech changing as an industry? Sales technology as a category in its own right is still fairly new, despite CRM platforms having been around for many years.

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Scale B2B Trends Lead Rank 120

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively? Well, you can get many tips, tactics, and strategies from various sales management books. Best sales management books you must read. Sales management simplified.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

  Velocify, the leading sales acceleration platform provider announced its inaugural virtual sales kickoff,  ELEVATE , co-sponsored by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP). WHAT: ELEVATE – Virtual Sales Kickoff Educational Forum and Networking Event.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Whether you’re a sales professional that likes reading or doesn’t, you’ll find fresh frameworks and tons of insights in the book. 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. Fanatical Prospecting.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

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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. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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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. Pre-demo discovery that leads to a white-glove trial.

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Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Review the relationship between Marketing and Sales – today the two must be aligned through out the sales cycle. Reexamine the degree to which the sales team is effectively leveraging institutional resources such as: CRM system information, inside sales, engineering/technical support and company success stories.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

YoY increase from 2015. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. And its not just your direct sales reps that have the issue. Many organizations are relying more and more on channel partners and inside sales to drive growth.

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ExecVision

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Since our founding in 2015, we’ve worked with over 140 organizations to drive revenue attainment and solidify our place in the modern organization’s sales tech-stack. Second, the much-anticipated Manager and Executive Dashboard feature has been released from private beta and is now available to all ExecVision customers.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 4, 2016

From the highest-value targets, to the best training, equipment, and support possible , genuine sales teams have the ability to move upstream, much like his team and their total revenue growth of 92% in 2015. Next in the spotlight was Andrea Hansen , Head of Sales Development at Gainsight.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 11, 2017

As you and your team kickoff the New Year, there are some important research findings you should factor into your 2017 sales enablement and content strategy. Sources: 2017 – The Year B2B Sales Reps Can Finally Sell Value?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Scale 45

Velocify

OCTOBER 17, 2017

If you aren’t seeing emoji use increase in your daily communication, allow me to introduce some metrics into the mix: Since 2015, there has been a 777% increase in the use of emojis by marketers. They allow us to communicate faster and with more clarity. Emojis have become a standard part of customer communication—but is it working?

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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. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

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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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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

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

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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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With this in mind, it wasn’t a surprise to me to learn that top sales reps use data to drive their strategies and choices. Do you feel that your sales strategy could benefit from an injection of data? The data says: 80% of sales require five follow-up phone calls after the meeting, according to The Marketing Donut.

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Data Prospecting Top of Funnel Lead Rank 89

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

What’s the secret to succeeding in SaaS sales? In this article: Jim Steele’s Strategies to Improve Sales Teams for Better Results. Treat the Sales Process Like a Relationship, Not a Transaction. Bonus SaaS Sales Tips: Improve Customer Interactions with the LVI Process. SaaS Sales Techniques to Improve Your Revenue.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. 8X published author, sales champion, passionate mentor. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? ” What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2015 everything including Ferraris can be purchased on a mobile phone with one click and how on Earth do I know it's not a scam? Is it possible to close deals without an inside sales team, field sales team and solely as a CEO founder leveraging marketing automation and LinkedIn alone? Is the engine full of sawdust?

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