Close.io

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to inside side sales training, you’re going to spend less time reading and more time interacting with people. Investing in an effective inside sales training system within your company can pay amazing dividends. What is inside sales? Let’s start from the top.

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Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Because of this, CRM Radio and the sister program SLMA Radio, have been interviewing executives on the subjects of the marketing and sales uses of Artificial Intelligence. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell. The host is Jim Obermayer.

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OutboundView

MARCH 31, 2021

Inside sales is a dominant sales model in high-value SaaS, tech, and B2B industries. It involves handling sales remotely where reps mostly work inside an office or in a shared office environment, unlike outside sales reps who are traditional field reps that travel to meet clients.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Inside Sales. When it comes to inside sales, put aside old visions of airplane hanger-size room filled with lots of salespeople making lots of sales calls using finely polished scripts. These rooms may still be around but inside sales has undergone a dramatic shift in the last several years.

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Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

This role is key if your charter is growth, you have large available lists to work, your customers are used to a separate appointment for a demo (SaaS really made this role popular), and if your other reps have account bases to manage and upsell that would prevent them from acquiring new business. Account Executive . Let’s move on. .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

This article takes you through 5 crucial tips to efficiently manage your sales pipeline. Before we jump right in, let’s define what a sales pipeline is. A sales pipeline is a systematic and visual representation of your sales process. Alternatively, it could be that it’s merely been forgotten! Overdue tasks.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 28, 2022

In fact, it should be called buyer-seller engagement, because that’s really what it is. . The key to sales engagement is getting our buyer to respond and say, “Yes, I’d like to take a meeting. Sales Engagement vs. Sales Enablement. My #sales conversations are easier, smarter, and faster now.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Know "who" your buyer is. If you really want to nail your buyer-focused messaging, create a buyer's matrix by listing out important factors about your buyers, including typical business objectives, external challenges, strategic initiatives, and internal issues. Different buyers prefer different communication methods.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But when you ask them to describe their sales process, their descriptions vary wildly. To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. To others still, it means a key account plan. We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Inside Sales Rep. In an increasingly digital world, inside salespeople are the go-to for prospecting, nurturing, and converting leads remotely. They rely on email, phone calls, videos, and virtual meetings—instead of face-to-face interaction—to build relationships and move people through the sales funnel. Account Manager.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

To be a game changing Sales Operations leader, you should be asking yourself the following: What is the market for our products/services? Are we currently covering or capturing buyers in our target market? How well do we know the buyer of our product/service? We have a lot of opportunities at software companies right now.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

You sell to a more informed buyer. Phase 2 - Develop Go To Market Plan - Many sales VPs don’t know the best route to market. You may need to increase the size of inside sales. Phase 3 - Sales Force Design - How many reps and what type? Steve is a VP of The Americas of a large enterprise software company.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 23, 2012

You see, for years, an inside sales position has been considered as the bottom rung on the sales ladder — their immediate ambition to gain promotion to an outside sales job, with a car and an expense account: An obvious sign to their family and friends that they were “making it” in sales. Not anymore.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without further ado, here are some of the female movers-and-shakers who are creating powerful ripple effects and paving the path for the next generation of women sales leaders. Amy Appleyard – SVP Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. Andrea Austin – VP at Nokia Software | Published Author.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 26, 2018

. Sales Trends of 2019 . AI for Sales . More Sales Time – Less Sales Admin Time . Buyer Enablement and Communication . Account Expansion . Sales Effectiveness vs. Noise. AI For Sales . More Sales Time – Less Sales Admin Time. Buyer Enablement & Communication .

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 20, 2020

As a result, B2B sales and marketing teams are yanked towards inside sales strategies like account-based marketing and remote selling. Sales and marketing must banish silos and band together during this turbulent time. Why Account-Based Marketing Is the Right Response. CRM data from high-value accounts.

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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. Immediate pain (Help today). Conclusion.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. Buyers have changed, and top salespeople have to change with them. Back in the 1990s, inside sales was a stepping stone, not a career. Inside sales is simply more efficient and scalable.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

What Is Sales Training? Sales training is the process of developing and fine-tuning the skills of sales professionals and managers by increasing their understanding of their buyers, modernizing their approach to the sales process, and equipping them with strategies, techniques, and technology that top performers use to achieve sales success.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Inside sales or field sales?

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2021

21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Highspot , the sales enablement platform that increases the performance of sales teams, today announced the expansion of its leadership team with four industry leaders across engineering, product, account management, revenue strategy and sales. SEATTLE, Dec. billion annual revenue.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. For the first time ever, buyers and sellers are completely aligned. Buyer behavior and selling motion are in sync. What is Sales Prospecting? Great @GoModernSelling ep.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales? VP of Global Inside Sales at Tray.io. First, ask yourself: Are your customer success, and rev ops, sales and marketing teams all aligned and working toward the same goals? Related webinar: How to Align Demand Gen and Inside Sales to Close More Deals.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Finding the right people on your team to handle inbound leads is critical, regardless of whether it be your outside sales team, inside sales team, sales engineers, or some hybrid role. Organizing Your B2B Sales Team. Create a system of responsibility and accountability for owning inbound leads. Engagement.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Here are some of the incredible responses we received to the following question: What advice would you give your younger self before starting your career in sales? Natália Senra Costo, Account Executive at Project44 “People buy from people and everyone needs support. Support your buyer, help them prove value when needed.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 2, 2020

Art Sobczak’s Smart Calling Blog | How to Tips and Rants on Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Telesales and All Sales Training. Jill Konrath’s Fresh Sales Strategies | Get fresh sales strategies from Jill Konrath. Discover how to crack into new accounts, speed up sales and win more business.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2023

They’re also essential to your sales operation. Fifty percent of all sales happen after the fifth follow-up attempt, according to Inside Sales. Many sales representatives spend time following up with prospects along their buyers' journey. Not only are these emails a personal touch. Here’s how.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) refers to any cloud software product that a company hosts and makes available to customers over the Internet, rather than offering it as a download onto their computers or mobile devices. By the end, you should have a clear roadmap for reaching your or your company’s sales goals. What Is SaaS Sales?

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Allego

JANUARY 24, 2019

Event participation is even more important for us in advancing our account-based marketing (ABM) efforts because we get to meet our buyers face-to-face at event venues. From my perspective as a sales leader, I also love this event because I get to network with and learn from people who do what I do for a living. .

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 31, 2019

Salesforce was founded in 1999 and has been selling software for less than 20 years since. Concur, one of the oldest SaaS companies , only moved from selling CD-ROMs and traditional on-premise software licenses to a SaaS model in 2001. Salespeople shifted their processes to use these SaaS software products and work more in the cloud.

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Nutshell

APRIL 28, 2020

In terms of your sales tech stack , you probably already use lead generation , email automation, electronic signature software, and CRM solutions on a regular basis. But now that you’re working remotely, you have to invest in (and master) video conferencing software as well. Develop an Outreach Process. LEARN MORE.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

In this article, we’ll start by going over job description basics and then look at descriptions for two common sales positions: Sales development rep (entry-level sales role). Account executive (more tenured sales role). Auth0 took a similar approach in their description for a Junior Sales Engineer.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To amplify its impact, many companies integrate the playbook into a collaborative sales training platform that allows SDRs to easily access the playbook’s resources, engage in interactive learning modules, and apply the acquired knowledge in practical scenarios. Detailed Buyer Personas Understand your ideal customer.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

Percentage of participants who were unfamiliar with each type of sales technology. 1) Sales Gamification. Sales gamification software leverages game mechanics to incentivize rep performance. 2) Buyer/Company Intelligence. Sales managers can leverage this to develop accurate forecasts with reduced pipeline risk.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 31, 2018

CRM, or customer relationship management, is a strategy companies use to track customer relationships from pre- to post-sale. A CRM system is software that stores information on client and prospect interactions with employees. The biggest mistake many first-time CRM buyers make is evaluating vendors before deciding their own goals.

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Costello

APRIL 2, 2018

Ever since, Richard has always held positions in sales. Richard teaches the sales professions at his clients’ companies how to earn the right to ask questions and also helps instruct them on what to say, how to say it, and most importantly, how his approach works psychologically in terms of buyer decision-making.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Sales Conferences 2018. 5) AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. AA-ISP’s Inside Sales conference focuses on helping front-line inside sales reps and managers in their day-to-day roles through a combination of talks and workshops. Speakers include: Kyle Porter (CEO, Sales Loft). Date: 2/6/18 - 2/8/18.

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