DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

By 2020, the B2B SALESMAN WILL BE DEAD. Or at least that’s what a recent report by Forrester Research, an independent and leading research company in the marketing and technology space, has predicted. Ecommerce systems will eliminate 1 million B2B sales jobs by 2020 due to the shift to self-service platforms.

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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?

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

InsideSales.com

JANUARY 29, 2020

29, 2020 / PRNewswire / — XANT, the revenue acceleration cloud platform, today announced that Susan Bennett , the original voice of the Apple’s Virtual Assistant AI service Siri, will be delivering the keynote address during the inaugural XANT NEXT 2020 conference. Jon Bennion , VP Sales at NP Accel.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

Update: June 26, 2020. This blog post was originally “The 25 Sales Leaders You should Get to Know in 2020.” We realize, after speaking with several sales leaders, that this methodology excluded some of the most impactful sales leaders, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. Brooke Bachesta.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As the CEO of SalesLoft, a leading sales software platform, Kyle knows firsthand how to a salesperson to close more deals – even when the clock is working against them. — Kyle Porter (@kyleporter) March 25, 2020. — Jill Rowley (@jill_rowley) November 29, 2020. — Trish Bertuzzi (@bridgegroupinc) July 5, 2020.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 25, 2020

Today we discussed how often COVID-19 is being mentioned in sales calls across the market, and how SDR teams are adapting. Over the last several weeks, the mentions of COVID-19 on business calls has been exponentially rising week over week as we see the number of cases inside of the US rise, creating uncertainty.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 7, 2020

About 90% of my team is inside sales.” Inside Sales has had to adapt quickly, and there have been surprises along the way. You have to identify the markets you’re servicing. You have to identify the markets you’re servicing. Listen to calls, listen to the market. And they’re testing everything.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2020 has been a year of massive change. But what does "growth" mean in 2020? In August 2020, Yelp reported that 165,735 businesses indicated that they have closed, and 97,966 (60%) of those were reported as permanent closures. Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

“Early adopters of sales automation consistently report increases in customer-facing time, higher customer satisfaction, efficiency improvements of 10 to 15 percent, and sales uplift potential of up to 10 percent, ” management consulting firm McKinsey & Company reported in 2020. All sales essentially became inside sales.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Inside sales reps are tasked with nurturing leads and converting them into customers. Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 27, 2020

It made me better because I consulted inside sales teams for a few years afterward when it was really hard to sell.” “And Because of the way things were going, the market was ours for 3-4 years and we could just go for it.” The stock market bounces off the bottom but doesn’t reflect the main street.”. View Episode.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 25, 2020

How has your market opportunity evolved in today’s world, and how has your organization reacted? You want to align your sales team to the opportunity and ensure that they are equipped to go after the top accounts. If you cannot.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Speaker : Kevin Dorsey, VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop. Attend to hear Kevin Dorsey, VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop, share how to handle objections and bounce back from rejection. . Attend to hear Kevin Dorsey, VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop, share how to handle objections and bounce back from rejection. .

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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?

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Chorus.ai

MAY 19, 2020

They’re looking at tools like Chorus to help find market and deal intel.” “We What isn’t part of our DNA is that our inside sales team now offers our 30-day boot camp onboarding completely remote. “Over time, they likely continue to leverage the things they’ve typically done to help reps be successful.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

Mereo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

With the business world still experiencing great disruption from COVID-19, we are taking an in-depth look at exactly how sales teams are being altered by this situation — and the best ways to adapt for success in the uncertain future. Inside Sales Teams.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As the CEO of SalesLoft, a leading sales software platform, Kyle knows firsthand how to a salesperson to close more deals – even when the clock is working against them. — Kyle Porter ☔️ (@kyleporter) March 25, 2020 2. — Jill Rowley (@jill_rowley) November 29, 2020 4. The death of email templates is accelerating.

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Vengreso

JULY 17, 2020

Hang develops and delivers a strategic framework for consistently onboarding new sellers, continuous talent nurture, and implementation of best practices in sales programs and tools. Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and a passionate advocate for women in the workplace. 4:43] Women in sales. [8:28] Click To Tweet.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Let's take a look at some awesome sales articles from around the web. In today's Sales Brief we cover a variety of articles including the smartest way to approach content marketing , sales compensation plans that'll motivate your team , Zoom's rocketing success , and much more. Don't "create" content — "produce" it.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2021

“Gartner estimates that revenue in the sales enablement market came to $1.7 billion in 2020, an increase of approximately 12.1 Relative to the overall category of sales which was down to 10.9 percent growth, sales enablement is a high-growth segment within the overall sales category.”

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While no one predicted a global health emergency, sales trends did anticipate future needs. More than blindsided by crisis, many organizations weren’t adequately prepared for virtual, which was expanding long before 2020. In the absence of foolproof magic, sales trends reveal what’s coming and how to prepare. And it worked.

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SalesHandy

APRIL 11, 2020

Here are the 13 tweaks and optimizations you can make to your current sales process to speed up your sales cycle in an effective way: 1) Generate more leads from best performing channels. It could be your product landing page, CTAs on blogs, social media, marketing emails, etc. 10) Involve marketing team in nurturing leads.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2020

According to the Insight 2020 Technology Report: IT Trends for Midmarket and Small Businesses , 66% of the SMBs surveyed reported that their workers encounter delays at least five times per week as a result of ineffective collaboration tools.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

But, I’ve been thinking: I see only a handful of certainties shaking out for the remainder of 2020. And one of them is sales and marketing having to hit the proverbial pause button on B2B events. But 7 out of 10 B2B marketers use events for lead generation. So what can sales and marketing teams do in the meantime?

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Face-to-face Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 123

The ROI Guy

MARCH 12, 2015

Despite a growing economy, research indicates that there will be over 1 million less B2B sales reps employed in 2020 compared to today. At the Forrester’s Sales Enablement Forum last week, a study by Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester was revealed showcasing this 22% expected decline over the next five years.

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criteria for success

APRIL 1, 2020

Upcoming Dates: Wednesday, April 1 2020 at 3 PM EST. Thursday, April 2 2020 at 3 PM EST. Wednesday, April 8 2020 at 10 AM EST and 3 PM EST. Click Here to Register. You need to know what you’re going to market with and why people should want to buy it. 5 Marketing Ideas to Encourage Sales & Marketing Collaboration.

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Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Don’t think you control your market or customers. I have found that change is one of the most powerful drivers of product and market awareness along with a focus on what’s most important. How often do we start analyzing sales and end up in the wrong financial or market territory? This is your starting point for 2021.

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Lead411

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The day of reckoning is upon many organizations who have ignored data quality issues until 2020. Companies with bad data will simply not be able to keep up with their competitors as we navigate 2020 and 2021. If you still think you can win in the sales world without having a solid data provider, you may as well close your doors now.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 16, 2020

Call recording systems can expose performance metrics and improve your team’s inside sales skills. Not all ‘sales’ teams are measured solely on how much revenue they make for the business. In a competitive market, which is easily influenced by the internet, customer satisfaction is key to success. Customer Satisfaction.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2021

AI-driven sales tech is emerging as a practical answer for many of the challenges facing sales leaders, trainers, managers, coaches, and sales enablement pros. B2B sales is evolving, and the Zoom boom of 2020 has only accelerated those changes. AI simply helps you make better business decisions.

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The Brooks Group

MAY 5, 2020

Though predictions of pent-up demand and hockey-stick-style growth are tempting to consider, it’s likely that a very cautious and traumatized consumer will be taking baby steps back into the market, rather than giant leaps. Retrench : Many companies and industries have taken to extreme downsizing measures to conserve cash flow.

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LevelEleven

AUGUST 9, 2019

This can be useful for many facets of the business world, such as inside sales, call centers, and marketing teams. Have you run a sales contest? 53 percent of technology stakeholders said that by 2020, the use of gamification will be widespread. What about motivating employees with bonuses?

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It’s almost time to say goodbye to the roller coaster that was 2020. As we prepare for a brighter 2021 (*knock on wood*) it’s also an opportune time to pick up some helpful resources that will inspire your sales strategy in the new year. . Hosted by Kevin (KD) Dorsey, VP of inside sales at PatientPop Inc.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

Gerhard , Huthwaite and many other sci-fi fans have prognosticated that sales itself may face an existential threat from artificial intelligence (AI) as we move further and further toward the COMPLETE buying cycle. Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85% of interactions between businesses will be executed without human intervention.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

(And notably, when the median salesperson fails to reach the goal, at least 50% of the sales team doesn’t either.). Now that more sales teams are working remotely, more sales conversations are happening online via video chat, email, and social media. The Different Types of Sales Training Programs. or a 353% ROI.

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