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. Measure and improve –Tracking the adoption and use of tools and practices, and the impact that the approach has on sales success, measuring win rate improvements (vs.

Lead Rank 45

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota Scale 45

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

Outsourcing Services 279

Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 1, 2017

I teach, train, write books on phone scripts, and develop customized phone scripts and inside sales training programs for sales teams worldwide. You’d think that I would never get tripped up by or neglect the fundamentals of sales, right? We had good rapport. He was an inbound lead. Where did I go wrong?

Sales Qualified Lead 133

Sales Qualified Lead Inbound Inside Sales Objections 133

ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Sound familiar?

Training 71

Training Hiring Journal Education 71

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 1, 2017

I teach, train, write books on phone scripts, and develop customized phone scripts and inside sales training programs for sales teams worldwide. You’d think that I would never get tripped up by or neglect the fundamentals of sales, right? We had good rapport. He was an inbound lead. Where did I go wrong?

Sales Qualified Lead 120

Sales Qualified Lead Inbound Inside Sales Objections 120

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 9, 2018

Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales receives multiple awards from AA-ISP’s 2018 Leadership Summit last week: Service Provider of the Year Award – Sales Script Development AND The TOP 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professionals in 2018 Award. . He also offers customized sales training programs, works as a virtual V.P.

Inside Sales 24

Inside Sales Hiring Scale Conference 24

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

Demand Generation Targets 120

Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The second half offers a simple model for sales leadership as well as some effective and practical advice on sales management that you can start implementing immediately. Get this sales management book on Amazon. The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness. Published- March 2017. Published- September 2017.

Sales Management 116

Sales Management Face-to-face Quota Coaching 116

EyesOnSales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mike has been voted one of the most Influential Inside Sales Professionals for the past seven years by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals, and won the 2017 Service Provider Award for training and development from the AA-ISP.

Scale 73

Scale Hiring Inside Sales ACT 73

SalesLoft

JANUARY 9, 2018

In 2017, we offered a day of training the day before Rainmaker officially started. Join Ginger Knighton (Training Manager + Salesloft University extraordinaire) and her guests to dive deep into Salesloft with interactive discussions & hands-on exercises covering current selling trends and overcoming challenges.

Exercises 52

Exercises Engineering Inside Sales Sales Cycle 52

EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

by Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales. Think about it: 80% of sales reps are desperate to “fill their pipelines," and will send out just about anybody with the pulse just so they have someone to pitch later on. Companies and sales managers train them in this way (“It’s a numbers game,” they claim.),

Closing 51

Closing Sales Qualified Lead How To Inside Sales 51

EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

by Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales. Most sales reps hate getting objections. When sales reps ask me how they should handle objections, they are often surprised by my answer. Get it today and start closing more sales tomorrow! Don’t Answer Objections, Isolate Them. Sound familiar?

Objections 53

Objections Scale Hiring Inside Sales 53

EyesOnSales

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You’ll get over 500 word-for-word scripts, questions, and phrases to help you open and close more sales starting today! Mike is hired by business owners to implement proven sales processes that help them immediately scale and grow Multi-Million Dollar Inside Sales Teams.

Scale 51

Scale Hiring Inside Sales Follow-up 51

EyesOnSales

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Mike has been voted one of the most Influential Inside Sales Professionals for the past seven years by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals, and won the 2017 Service Provider Award for training and development from the AA-ISP.

Proposal 53

Proposal Competition Scale How To 53

EyesOnSales

AUGUST 29, 2017

This is one of my favorite sayings, and I love to use it during training or during a speaking event. Mike Brooks, is founder and principle of Mr. Inside Sales, a North Carolina based inside sales consulting and training firm. By Mike Brooks, [link].

Inside Sales 47

Inside Sales Scale Call-back Hiring 47

EyesOnSales

AUGUST 22, 2017

I just worked with a great inside sales team in Louisville, KY (hi Kathy, Darryl and the team!), At the close of each day of training, I told them that the biggest challenge isn’t going to be learning the new scripted approach (although that will definitely take some effort), but rather it will be in unlearning their old habits.

Inside Sales 49

Inside Sales Scale Hiring Exercises 49

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Brewing your coffee at home, which was the norm in 1971, costs (in 2017 dollars) about $0.08/cup2 Scott Jeffrey, PhD, was in graduate school at the University of Chicago when he decided to figure out how academic studies applied to real sales reps in the field. Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete?” You’ll be glad you did.

Motivation 191

Motivation Incentives Incentive Lead Rank 191

EyesOnSales

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Mike has been voted one of the most Influential Inside Sales Professionals for the past seven years by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals, and just won the 2017 Service Provider Award for training and development from the AA-ISP.

Scale 49

Scale Hiring Inside Sales Call-back 49

EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Now there’s a proven way to motivate your sales team! Mike has been voted one of the most Influential Inside Sales Professionals for the past seven years by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals, and just won the 2017 Service Provider Award for training and development from the AA-ISP.

Motivation 49

Motivation Hiring Scale Inside Sales 49

Velocify

JUNE 13, 2017

A wave of new sales technologies is providing businesses unprecedented choice in building out their ideal sales stack. As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting.

Study 49

Study Sales Technology Lead Rank Lead Scoring 49

OutboundView

JUNE 17, 2019

Building an inside sales team internally OR. Below is a quick breakdown of key considerations when either building inside sales internally or outsourcing sales development. Building an Internal Inside Sales Team. A highly functioning inside sales team can add so much value for a growing organization.

Outsourcing Services 34

Outsourcing Services Hiring Inside Sales Scale 34

LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Best Sales Podcasts for You This 2021. The ability to listen to an almost inexhaustible supply of training, case studies, and applicable tips via sales podcasts shouldn’t be taken for granted. From individual sales reps to Founders, there are so many great “shows” to help you become better at your job.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Twitter Lead Scoring 98

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Why Trish should be on your radar: Trish Bertuzzi is a sales powerhouse, a bestselling author and founder of The Bridge Group, an organization dedicated to helping B2B technology companies build world-class inside sales teams. She’s an advocate for women in the aviation industry and beyond, and an accomplished sales leader.

Top of Funnel 101

Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

Our research showed the ideal sales organization structure includes an equal mix of inside sales representatives and outside sales professionals (50/50). Inside Sales Is an Unstoppable Trend. As sales teams move toward specialization, the sales development role is becoming more important.

Direct Mail 97

Direct Mail Industry Salary Compensation 97

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This percentage has steadily decreased from 63% over the last five years, indicating that something is wrong when it comes to sales performance. Do sales professionals lose their sales negotiation skills even with constant training, practice, and use? The Sales Associate Skills That Make a Great Representative.

Face-to-face 78

Face-to-face Scale Motivation Negotiation 78

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.

Outside Sales 147

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.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Cold Calling 130

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. 6. Sales Hacker. Score More Sales.

Top of Funnel 206

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 206

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. 6. Sales Hacker. Score More Sales.

Top of Funnel 170

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 170

Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

But the number listed as salespeople in 2017 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is 14.5 Buyers can gather much pre-sale information via an online search. Here, inbound marketing and inside sales organizations are paramount. But when sales reps must work with channel partners, their core tasks change significantly.

Channels 42

Channels Marketing Retail How To 42

SBI

JULY 25, 2019

Bigtincan will integrate the Veelo Sales Enablement Platform with the Bigtincan platform to provide additional capabilities to sales teams, including the creation of a single pane of reference for users to manage content and training materials, and automatically deliver them to user devices. Sales Enablement.

SAP 78

SAP Marketing Sales Enablement Inside Sales 78

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Trish Bertuzzi is the founder of The Bridge Group that helps B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams. For more than two decades, she has been instrumental in promoting sales development and inside sales as a community and engine for revenue growth. Meghan Gill – VP of Sales at MongoDB.

Webinar Metrics 11

Webinar Metrics Cold Calling Marketo Hiring 11

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2019

It’s been heartwarming to see how eagerly people in sales have lifted up their peers, mentors, and employees. The Sales Hacker Top 50 Award Categories for 2019 Are: Sales Development. Sales Operations & Enablement. Account Executive/Inside Sales. Sales Leadership. Sales Development.

Hiring 108

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale Lead Rank 108

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 12, 2017

SaaS reps generally have a higher base pay than other salespeople because of the training, expertise, and high motivation they need to succeed. And The Bridge Group , an inside sales consulting firm, calculated the average base salary for a SaaS inside sales rep to be $60,000 -- with on-target earnings of $118,000.

Lead Rank 112

Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Salary 112

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2019

It’s been heartwarming to see how eagerly people in sales have lifted up their peers, mentors, and employees. The Sales Hacker Top 50 Award Categories for 2018 Are: Sales Development. Sales Operations & Enablement. Account Executive/Inside Sales. Sales Leadership. Sales Development.

Hiring 75

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Scale Lead Rank 75

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. – John Barrows , Owner, JBarrows Sales Training.

Trends 96

Trends Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 96

InsideSales.com

MARCH 15, 2020

Here are some sales team management tips to set your team up for success. RELATED: 3 Questions Data-Driven Sales Managers Must Answer. In this article: Build a Sales Team Based on Your Needs. Invest in Training. Sales Metrics Matter. Invest in Training. Sales Management. Sales Management.

Hiring 58

Hiring Top of Funnel Promotion Distribution 58