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Five Sales Certifications to Help Advance Your Career

CloserIQ

With that in mind, here are a few of the most important in the industry – courses and programs you should almost always add to your repertoire. Whether you’re a first-time job-seeker looking for a career in sales or a seasoned professional, there’s always something more you can learn. 3) SPIN Selling.

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The Proper Way to Follow Up on a Lead

Mr. Inside Sales

In my book, Power Phone Scripts , I reveal the secret of sales: 90% of selling situations are recurring selling situations, which means if you want to become a superstar sales person, then you have to take the time to script out a best practice response to them. Of course not! The same is true in sales.

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You Are a “Generalist” – Unless of Course You Are a “Specialist?”

Jonathan Farrington

At this point you are probably anticipating that I am going to say something like: “ At Jonathan Farrington & Associates , we take a very unique approach to sales team development by …” but I have to disappoint you, I am not going to use this post as an advertisement. Oh, and me?

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Of course, those who refuse to adapt even slightly, are still very much alive and well, just diminishing in numbers. Very much like the sales profession. Customers are researching, they are testing, they are trialing and they are paying for products from behind a keyboard with very minimal sales interaction.

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Stop Doing Stupid Sh*t: 18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Abandon in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Of course, you still need to do call prospecting, and in this scenario, warm calling is the way to go. Back in the 1990s, inside sales was a stepping stone, not a career. Junior reps started in inside sales, and as you moved up through the ranks you were given your own outside territory and sent out on face-to-face sales calls.

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PODCAST 85: AI will not replace SDRs/BDRs w/ Dan O’Connell

Sales Hacker

Dan is the chief revenue officer and chief strategy officer at Dialpad, which is helping people manage their telephony across big customer support teams and big customer service teams, sales teams, etc. Dan was also an early employee at Google, where he led the inside sales organization at AdWords. The first is DocuSign.

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PODCAST 10: Using Data to Align Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success

Sales Hacker

The one nice thing for me in running both sales and customer success is that I talk about our company framework of goals before. Now, we of course have to bring ample new logos in. Composition of field sales versus inside sales. My number for growing our business is an exit ARR number no matter how we get there.

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