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A Gift to You: Our Best Blogs and Podcasts of 2018

Alice Heiman

So, we have gone through and found our top 5 blog posts that were published in 2018 and a few of my favorite podcasts I was on this year. Our Best Blogs of 2018. Showing your customers appreciation is part of any great sales organization’s routine. Every good seller has a sales process that follows the way people want to buy.

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Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

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Some of my favorite activity goals include: Number of high level conversations you have each week with influencers and decision makers. If you are in outside sales, the number of targeted events you attend (events where your customers and prospects are). Number of qualified appointments or demos that you set up.

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Inside Sales Growing by Leaps and Bounds

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The state of the profession known as Inside Sales – or Remote Professional Selling – is thriving. While outside sales positions are on the decline, Inside Sales positions are growing at a phenomenal rate. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 132 – Virtuality

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Some of the newest people to become inside sales reps are those who have left the field for now – perhaps forever. Many outside sales positions with fat travel accounts and face-to-face client meetings are slowly being switched over to inside positions. Thousands of outside rep jobs have even been eliminated.

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CRM Experts Talk SugarCon13 and More

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Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a panel where we discussed some of these things. I encourage you to watch the recording and follow-up with some of our blogs for more CRM discussion. Lack of leadership support for adoption – success of CRM must tie in with sales methodology and process. Increase Opportunities.

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Tips from the Sales Trenches: Is Inside Sales Demeaning?

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We have a very high respect for the Sales Force Effectiveness Blog over at Sales Benchmark Index. They regularly have great and highly valuable content, covering key topics and issues on the minds of sales leaders and C-level leaders around sales and leadership. Inside Sales doesn’t get any respect, right?

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The Customer Focused Sales Process

Partners in Excellence

.” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. We prospect to find potential opportunities, we qualify some with the idea the prospect is interested in buying our products.