No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The problem is that many sales managers were raised in Sales 1.0 They don’t have the skills or tools for success in a Sales 3.0 Account based sales reps are the only feet on the street anymore. Sales is not a department. According to CSO Insights, only 55.8

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SalesLoft

MARCH 8, 2016

From marketing to sales development to sales, it’s all about account personalization and an agile, strategic process. Marketing has made incredible advances. But they forgot to figure out what was happening in the sales meeting. And sales didn’t know what was going on. Highly personalized.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …).

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. 7 Sales Best Practices. Some aspects of sales, however, don’t.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Kick to the Curb in 2018. If you’re still cold calling prospects and think it’s a great way to generate new opportunities, stop selling now. I mean it -- quit sales and get a new job. Of course, you still need to do call prospecting, and in this scenario, warm calling is the way to go.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

What has changed though is what we are selling, and how we now go to market. But today, what we are really selling is change and that takes more than us just knowing our product specs, our pricing and our place in the market – the lines have blurred. Prospects and customers either answered the phone (or pager) or their PA did.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

Kyle Porter talked briefly about how he and his co-founders heard a common issue from other startups in the Atlanta Tech Village – that it was very difficult to source good leads of prospective buyers. Craig Rosenberg of Topo spoke next about how even top inbound marketing companies have outbound sales development reps.

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Velocify

AUGUST 24, 2017

BambooHR added Velocify Pulse® and Velocify Dial-IQ® to their sales stack in 2016, working alongside Salesforce and ActOn to empower SDRs in ways that were impossible with their previous inside sales solution. Zak Bills, an SDR at BambooHR, said that their previous inside sales solution was unreliable.

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ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

Seller MUST: have a knowledgeable sales force that can be responsive to a buyer’s inquiries, engage with the prospective buyer, and be an “expert” who can guide the buyer through the buying process. #2: The statistics are firmly established and organizations with inside sales are well aware of the changing buying environment.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Who should read this : For inside sales professionals that do a lot outbound prospecting.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the top destinations on the web for all sales subject matter. How to Make Sales and Marketing Meetings More Effective and Impactful. Blogger Blurb: Max Altschuler and Gaetano DiNardi put out some amazing content over at Sales Hacker. Leah Bell is the Content Marketing Specialist for SalesLoft. WoodPecker.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 16, 2020

While money is essential, you need to understand what is emotionally driving your prospects and address that. Hence, salespeople need to develop empathy for their prospects. After all, prospects care more about feeling like they’re being understood than understanding what’s being sold. Understand the Root of “No”.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

trillion messages sent worldwide in 2012 [1] , it’s no wonder that sweethearts and marketers alike are flocking to this communication channel, and salespeople are just beginning to understand its value. Texting: A new frontier in sales. 1] Portio Research, Mobile Messaging Futures 2012-2016, 2012. [2] With an estimated 9.6

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SalesLoft

MARCH 10, 2016

The dust had just begun to settle at the end of Rainmaker 2016, the largest sales development conference in the world. And more leads come from targeted and intentional prospecting. Takeaway : Focus 80% on your customers, the market you serve, and the value you add. Some rushed to the airport, others back to the office.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The potential of online channels has enabled small and medium enterprises to take a more global approach to their sales strategy. billion online buyers in 2016. In fact, in 2016, 58.3 When it comes to the impact of the internet of B2B sales, in the US B2B online sales will hit $1.8 SALES STATISTICS AND EMAIL.

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Close.io

JUNE 24, 2019

Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. Marketing, driven largely by traffic goals, developed all sorts of techniques to build inbound interest and send leads pouring in— but this increase in traffic also increased the number of low-quality leads.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Mendix is currently hiring across a range of sales positions. Drift provides a conversational sales and marketing platform that allows businesses to better connect with prospects and customers. Drift is a good fit for ambitious sales professionals and is searching for people to fill sales roles. WordStream.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

And if you’re curious about how Stripe developed its go-to-market model and sales motions, Meka led a Hubspot lesson last year that you can still download for free here. Why Brooke should be on your radar: Brooke Bachesta currently leads the mid-market SDR team at Outreach.io. VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop Inc.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

CMO (Chief Marketing Officer). During an earnings call on February 24th, 2016, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff credited their success to their ability to target the CEO. ” According to Anthony Parinello in the book Selling to Vito , targeting the CEO/President/Owner will result in: A shorter sales cycle. Face-to-Face Closes 2.5x

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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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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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Appbuddy

MAY 16, 2018

In 2016, IBM estimated that poor data quality costs the US economy $3.1 Our obsession with collecting and managing too much data often starts from the very beginning—marketing lead capture forms—and then trickles into our CRM. Is your marketing team asking for too much information? Are processes taking too long?

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

This term, however, doesn’t have a strict definition or boundaries, and most sales experts understand it differently. For the purposes of this article we’ll use “sales lead” to denote: The contact data of a decision maker obtained for the purpose of prospecting/lead generation. Total Addressable Market.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

This term, however, doesn’t have a strict definition or boundaries, and most sales experts understand it differently. For the purposes of this article we’ll use “sales lead” to denote: The contact data of a decision maker obtained for the purpose of prospecting/lead generation. Total Addressable Market.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor. According to the Factor 8 website, Factor 8 is an award-winning inside sales training and consulting firm catering only to inside sales. 3. SalesLoft Blog. 7. Koka Sexton.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor. According to the Factor 8 website, Factor 8 is an award-winning inside sales training and consulting firm catering only to inside sales. 3. SalesLoft Blog. 7. Koka Sexton.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

SDRs (also commonly called business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first part of the sales process: Researching, prospecting, and qualifying leads. Once an SDR has determined the lead is qualified, they pass the opportunity to a sales rep. Unlike a closing sales rep, SDRs don’t carry a traditional quota.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? Hang Black.

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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. Microsoft has remained quiet since its LinkedIn acquisition in June 2016. Categories Are Morphing.

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