Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

Up next is sales extraordinaire, Trish Bertuzzi, CEO of The Bridge Group Inc. Like Jeb, Trish is known by many in the sales industry as an expert coach and consultant. In fact, her latest book, The Sales Development Playbook , was an Amazon #1 bestseller! Trish is one of the leading ladies in the Inside Sales profession.

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Influencer B2B Social Media Twitter 188

Velocify

JANUARY 29, 2013

According to a 2012 Bridge Group study [1] , from 2009-2011 the number of inside sales jobs grew 124% in the U.S. This evolution means an increasingly mature buying market that is driving new CRM-related needs for sales and marketing teams. The bottom line, process is critical for inside sales teams.

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Inside Sales CRM Leads360 Eloqua 71

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Within our organization, we may break them down into functions, business groups, or divisions. For example, we have engineering/product development, manufacturing/service delivery, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, HR, operations, and so forth. Within sales, we are very familiar with the subsystems.

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OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps.

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SBI

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Two years ago, I wrote about the perfect sales tool and included a wish list of capabilities that simply didn’t exist back then. Certainly as a group, no one product could proclaim to include all features and many singular features weren’t available in any product. Is there a perfect tool for individual scenarios?

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Sales Tools Tools InsideView Field Sales 139

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. Use all the tools in your toolbox. Trends that are here to stay.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

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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Ideal Customer Profile Salary Hiring Lead Rank 119

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Now, many tools will help you through assessments and there are books available to help walk newer managers through this. First, a couple of tools, then a book. Assessment Tool: Roundpegg. Assessment Tool: Objective Management Group Sales Candidate Assessment.

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Hiring How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 229

Score More Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2014

I will post the results AND will be sharing aggregated responses when I talk about sales productivity at Dreamforce on October 14th (9AM at the Marriott Marquis if you are going to Dreamforce) There are no names attached to this survey – so please be honest. It feels unprofessional and lame. Increase Opportunities.

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Survey Ideal Customer Profile Twitter Inside Sales 279

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan For some salespeople, selling is as caked in tradition and ritual as any religious ceremony. To get a sense for this, consider the many inside sales roles, demo-centric salespeople, and low-level in-home salespeople. Top Sales & Marketing Thought Leader - Dave Kurlan.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

They have some level of success, but by not using other means of prospecting tools they are certainly leaving money on the table. In fact it was the topic I chose as part of the Sales Acceleration Summit sponsored by Inside Sales earlier this year. You can watch the video here. Hand-written note - yep, they work.

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Prospecting Strategy InsideSales Twitter 217

Score More Sales

JULY 30, 2014

For some of us it is easy to be social in sales, for others it is an effort, and for a third group, a confusing idea. I have been meeting more and more leaders in mid-market companies who are simply confused about the value of having their sales reps focused on social selling because they don’t see the payoff. Close More Deals.

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How To Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Twitter 230

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. He's well known from his videos, blog, and newsletter as “the ROI Guy.” Our Panelists.

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

Tenbound

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Using Teamflow, groups of SDRs and AEs (or basically anybody in inside sales) join others in a virtual meeting to create a virtual sales floor and start making calls. Similar to the old-school sales “bullpen” of yesteryear, where people used to work together in an office in a group.

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Trends Inside Sales Groups Meeting 59

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

Will you be building an inside sales team? Will your outside sales team use the data? Building a large enough list to fill your sales funnel could take months, even years. Email validation tools like NeverBounce allow you to verify emails and determine which ones are safe to send to and which ones are not.

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Inbound 200

Score More Sales

JUNE 27, 2014

Jill Konrath took matters into her own hands and created a conference for sales women with all women sales experts as presenters back in 2007. Although the conference is not still in existence, he group of women sales experts still meet annually – we are called Sales Shebang® and I’m honored to be leading this group now.

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Study LinkedIn Hiring Conference 231

A Sales Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Quick, name 4 blogs you subscribe to and read frequently. Sales Solutions Architect (Townsend Wardlaw). The Sales Blog (Anthony Ianarino). Now quick, name just two sales webinars you attended in the last 3 months: Me: Forecasting Accuracy Savo Group. Inside Sales Virtual Summit. Jill Konrath.

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Webinar Metrics Video eBook Resources 115

SalesHandy

JULY 5, 2021

Social selling isn’t a completely new concept in B2B sales – it’s been around since social platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter exist. With the rise in Software tools and API access to these networks, it’s easier today to leverage these social selling automation tools to build social selling into your B2B sales process.

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Social Media Social Selling Media Sales Qualified Lead 98

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I recently published, Increase in Social Selling Yields No Improvement in KPI''s. In addition to my Blog , this article appeared on at least 5 other Web Sites leading to many interesting comments and very strong opinions. The results show us that usage of these tools is way up.

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Inbound Survey Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209

SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This year Trish Bertuzzi and founder of The Bridge Group, nominated yours truly for consideration. Trish’s company helps inside sales organizations make the big decisions. They assist with implementation strategy, productivity & performance initiatives, processes, technology and tools. Thank you Trish!

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Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 114

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 27, 2017

I was delivering a two-day Sales EQ seminar for a client. The rest of the group of roughly 20 people were participating and energetic. At lunch, I asked the sales leader if there was something going on. The first group will tell machines what to do. The second group will be told what to do by machines.

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Inside Sales Groups Face-to-face Buyer 145

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The great thing about the #reimaginework session was that it was a very small group in a low-key environment with little fanfare – just everyone rolling up their sleeves and sharing ideas. Stay tuned as we uncover more use cases and stories of real companies doing big things with these tools. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dionne Mejer is the Founder & CEO of Inside Sales by Design and author of the highly anticipated book, The Stepped Approach: Onboard Better, Systemize Smarter, and Bring Out the Best in Your Sales Team. Her innovative inside sales training tactics and proven approach gets her clients results every time.

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Customer Service Motivation Top of Funnel Customer 85

Score More Sales

APRIL 26, 2013

Now add in social tools – does it all work together? It was good to see all of the participants interacting and truly a smart way to see and hear a group of people discussing a subject. It was good to see all of the participants interacting and truly a smart way to see and hear a group of people discussing a subject.

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CRM SugarCRM Guidelines Face-to-face 179

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author of “The Sales Development Playbook,” Trish Bertuzzi has been a major player in the sales game for the past two decades. Trish is also President and Chief Strategist at The Bridge Group, a company that specializes in helping teams with inside sales. She quite literally wrote the book on it. Lori Richardson.

Social Media 205

Social Media Influencer Media Hiring 205

SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. Playbook is an apt description for The Smart Sales Manager.

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InsideSales Hiring Inside Sales Webinar Metrics 129

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This article is written with field sales teams in mind. However, if you run an inside sales team exclusively, don’t despair, you may still find a nugget or two of helpful information as well. I also had the privilege of hosting a breakfast where we discussed the state of sales in the security industry. Source: com].

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Revenue Hiring PointClear Inside Sales 52

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I trust their research and know of many ways they have embraced social into their inside sales teams and into their business plan. For example, right now I am getting messages from a tool called Signals which shows me when someone is on our website, is opening an email I sent, or is clicking on a link within an email I sent.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Selling Twitter 228

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I appreciate the manner in which each has clearly presented B2B marketing and sales challenges, solutions (in the form of best-practice strategies and tactics), and results in areas like the following: Content marketing. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Sales lead management.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. Use all the tools in your toolbox. Trends that are here to stay.

Demand Generation Targets 120

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

Score More Sales

JULY 17, 2013

Jim Crisera of The TAS Group spoke next and really caught my attention because of the great statistics he shared based on their research: Only half of sales reps can access key players at a prospect company – 54% to be exact. Devon McDonald – Director of Sales & Marketing Support at OpenView Partners. Expand Your Pipeline.

Hiring 192

Hiring B2B Video Lead Rank 192

Score More Sales

JULY 27, 2013

I included Score More Sales at the end of the list – we are thrilled to show you tips and ideas to immediately gain better traction in social selling. In no particular order – take them up on their classes, offers, e-books, and ideas: Miles Austin - the Web Tools Guy. Jamie Shanks – Partner, Sales for Life.

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Social Selling Maximizer Resources LinkedIn 189

SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

In this blog, I won’t cover why it’s so critical to sell in squads and pods – that should be self-explanatory. Your team has to conduct deep research using tools like LinkedIn to evaluate these relationships. We’ve been working with customers to develop that teamwork and build the selling in squads and pods muscle.

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Pipeline Case Study Top of Funnel Territories 93

Markempa - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. However, to ensure success, cold-calling needs to be part of a holistic lead generation strategy.

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Cold Calling Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 100

Pointclear

APRIL 10, 2012

Sales Trends Companies Should be Looking At. Click to start video at this point —Commenting on trends that we need to be looking at, Jonathan talks about the three levels of selling: inside sales, external sales and what he calls new wave selling (i.e., The Fight for Marketing & Sales Alignment.

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Face-to-face Social Media Hiring Inside Sales 184

The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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 ( source ). Successful Sales Compensation Programs.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. No surprise, according to Mike Marks, managing partner at Indian River Consulting Group.

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