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AJ’s story – and the Split of Outbound and Inbound Sales Development

DiscoverOrg Sales

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Sales is hard. How effective is your sales team? An SDR team in transition.

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Build a Top Performing Sales Team in 2016

The Brooks Group

Great sales teams don’t just happen. Sales is the heartbeat of your organization and it’s important to invest in the right people. Hiring mistakes can cost you missed sales opportunities and management time in addition to salary and administrative expenses. They are carefully built. Improve the players you already have.

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The Monthly Rundown, Bonus Edition: January Venture Rounds for Black-founded and Co-founded U.S. Companies

Crunchbase

Industry: Productivity Tools, Scheduling, Software. About Calendly: Founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona , Calendly is an automated scheduling tool that takes the work out of connecting with others so that its users can accomplish more. The company’s latest raise puts it squarely in unicorn territory. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia.

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Size Matters: Digging in to Employee Counts and Social Media Discrepancies

DiscoverOrg Sales

If you work in sales and marketing, I’ll bet you think a company’s employee count on LinkedIn is the absolute best way to determine how many employees work at that company. I’ve been optimizing DiscoverOrg’s process for gathering firmographic data since 2016. Why is employee count important for sales? I would know.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.

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Six Key Principles To Managing Remote Sales Teams

Crunchbase

When UberEats first launched in EMEA in 2016, my team and I found ourselves immediately confronted with the challenge of scale. The solution required a distributed and remote sales force, with reps living in central locations so they could cover multiple countries and languages. Maintain Territory Ownership.

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A 2026 excursion to the future of sales training

Sales Training Connection

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. The presentation was developed as a comparison to what is happening in 2026 versus ten years earlier in 2016. Let’s tune in and listen to what Dr. Beckett has to say.