Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." That search turned up these articles on the first page of results: So who wrote all of these articles? How Dramatically Has Selling Changed? Februrary 19 2015.

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InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A great inside sales representative can deliver many wins for a sales team. In this article: About My Guest — Blake Johnston, CEO of The Outbound View. What Is Inside Sales? What Are Agile Inside Sales Professionals? The Importance of Having Agile Inside Sales Reps.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

What is inside sales? What is outside sales. Should you use inside or outside sales? How can inside and outside sales work together? Skills and qualifications necessary for inside sales. Skills and qualifications necessary for outside sales. What Is Inside Sales?

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

I watched a sales rep making cold calls the other day. He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. If you could wave a magic wand and change two things about your online marketing, what would they be?”. Would you mind if I asked how you go about doing that right now?”.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 1, 2020

Fortunately, by leveraging a few inside sales best practices, outside sales reps can successfully pivot to remote sales. Reshaping Your Sales Process. Ready to reshape your sales process, implement a few proven remote sales techniques, and become a remote sales expert? Texting your prospects.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Are you still stuck using legacy CRM’s to drive your Lead Management process? CRM’s have introduced a lot of fantastic features that over time have become staples of almost every sales and marketing organization. While they provide a lot of.

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Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

In the new world of sales, being well connected is no longer as important as being well informed. The Rise of Inside Sales. Inside sales became prevalent in the 1980s when companies wanted to sell large volumes of their products without having to travel. Throughout the 90s, inside sales teams grew in prominence.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

A survey of B2B sales operations by McKinsey & Company shows the pandemic has accelerated previous trends?—?omnichannel omnichannel selling, inside sales, tech-enabled selling and e-commerce. Offer the human touch whenever customers need it with your sales team?–?whether whether through inside sales or field sales.

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SalesHandy

JULY 5, 2021

The idea of engaging a lead over traditional channels like email and phone is quickly going stale as most salespeople have crowded towards them. This drives down the conversions on these channels, and makes it difficult for lead generation and sales functions to keep up. This in turn helps them engage leads more effectively.

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Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 12, 2020

Create an efficient and productive sales team with the right sales cadence tool. In this article: Give Your Sales Team the Right Tools What Is a Sales Cadence and Why Do You Need it? They can commit deal-breaking mistakes when it comes to their sales strategy. Using sales cadence tool to optimize sales.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 2, 2018

AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now. How Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sales Automation Software Tools Platforms are Affecting Inside and Outbound Sales. Quick: Can you tell me, in three sentences or less, exactly what AI is and how it is going to impact your sales career or company?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

We also introduced you to some of our favorite B2B marketing influencers —including the socially-savvy Ann Handley, Joe Chernov, and Joe Pullizi, just to name a few. However, the B2B marketing world isn’t the only industry boasting some big names in the social sphere. The B2B sales arena has a few social celebs of its own.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Does your business success depend on leads? If it does, you’ll want to know how to generate the most leads , how to capture the most leads , how to best score and qualify leads , how to track which leads convert to prospects, and the list goes on. Among those folks are: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are two other ways to organically connect with leads using LinkedIn Sales Navigator. 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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Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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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

Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2011

on the Marketing Automation Software Guide blog. Lauren’s article is based on her survey of marketing automation users that sought—knowing what they know now—the questions they would ask vendors if they were going back and buying their software all over again.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The more qualified inbound leads your team gets, the better it is for them – as long as they can do something with those leads. Sales leaders are responsible for the success of a company. Marketing provides necessary resources, while sales is crucial to capturing valuable turf. Organizing. Engagement.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote this article questioning the Death of SPIN Selling. Over the years I have questioned the impending death of other important areas like cold-calling, selling, sales process, salespeople and more. Others are from the big new inside sales industry.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2020

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. Both focus on output rather than spacing, and I’ll share them with you in this article.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead InsideSales 127

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Lucky for you this series goes behind the scenes with top salespeople to get the inside scoop. Today, we’re looking under the hood of a Lead Development Manager at an IT consulting company, and for that, we talked to Joe Latchaw. Title: Lead Development Manager. Sales Cycle Timeline: Varies based on software/solution.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 89

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This makes all sellers “inside sellers,” which opens the door to improving their productivity, performance and cost structure, while also imagining how former field sales teams should be operating on a cadence versus an expense account. All selling is inside selling. Marketing is the sales development team.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Here are three: Here is a New York Times article discussing how the trade show industry is getting flipped on its head. Here is a Fast Company article highlighting the tectonic shifts happening in Healthcare. Here is a Financial Times article explaining how the telecom industry is changing more now than it ever has.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Obtaining a ton of qualified inbound leads can be a blessing for your sales team – provided they are enabled and opportunistic enough to take advantage of them. My former Ambition colleague Dan Nice once compared B2B sales and marketing teams to Allied Forces storming Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2012

Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. 5 Secrets to Get Better Prospecting Leads. There are 5 secrets used by top-performing salespeople to get better prospecting leads. He states this in his 5 Secrets to Get Better Prospect Leads.

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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.

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SalesHandy

JUNE 5, 2020

30% of sales professionals believe that having introduced lead nurturing has been the most significant benefit to their team, resulting in better responses to campaigns and easier segmentation. Lead nurturing plays an essential role in high converting sales processes. What is Lead Nurturing. Table of content.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2017

These are the words of author and professor Sydney Finkelstein, whose article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal maintains that companies should hire teams, not individuals. That’s essentially what PointClear clients do when they engage us for outsourced lead generation. Read Is it Better to Insource or Outsource Lead Generation?

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

Selling to HR and have an inside sales function or are considering an inside sales function? If so, this article is for you. When they’re working, it’s an amazing engine bringing new talent into the organizations and deals into the sales pipeline. SDR teams are expensive and tough to manage.

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Chili Piper

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

You have a 7x chance of connecting with a lead in the 1st hour versus just one hour later.”. This stat comes from a Harvard Business Review study and for today’s B2B sales and marketing teams, it has several problems…. Contrast this to the type of leads say a plumber gets. For plumbing companies, speed-to-lead matters.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Take a more hands-on approach to inside sales. Establishing an inside sales team can enhance freemium conversion rates for enterprise-level B2B products by focusing on identifying and directly engaging high-priority leads. Great article by Auren Hoffman on this topic below.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Make It Happen Sales Blog (John Barrows) | Posts from John Barrows, leading B2B sales trainer and founder of JBarrows Consulting. A Sales Guy (Jim Keenan) | Award-winning blog offering solutions, insights and actionable sales tips to grow sales in the 21st-Century. For Sales Managers & Sales Reps.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core. Businesses moved their entire customer experience and go-to-market online, many for the first time. Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model. Offices have gone virtual. Your customer.

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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.

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