Sales Hacker

JULY 1, 2020

One of the professions that’s seen the most pandemic upheaval due to COVID-19 is outside sales. Sellers who typically meet with clients and customers face-to-face have been forced to sell remotely. Fortunately, by leveraging a few inside sales best practices, outside sales reps can successfully pivot to remote sales.

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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 and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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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. Summary: Set up weekly meetings with reps to assess individual sales pipelines.

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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. Yes, I want to have a conversation.”

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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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Score More Sales

APRIL 21, 2014

If you are relying on email and social platforms only to communicate with buyers I’d caution you to add in the old-school conventional phone conversation – whether by Skype or smartphone or desk phone for the following reasons: Hiding Behind Email: Some sales reps ONLY email back and forth with potential buyers.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 21, 2013

Armed with Marketing Automation Software, CMOs are tracing new customers back to their campaigns. If you present metrics like win rate, pre-qualified pipeline, and prospect meetings to the CEO, you’re in trouble. These are "inward out" metrics that only Sales leaders care about. Today, marketing has dramatically changed.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Discover how your potential customers are changing by conducting focused interviews: Download our Changing Buyer Interview Guide and discover your blind spots. Both are cases where the VP of Sales was blindsided by an evolving customer landscape. They used a field sales force model with 10 Field Reps and 3 Solutions Engineers.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core. Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model. This year, however, many organizations were forced to implement a fully remote or hybrid sales model. Offices have gone virtual.

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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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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. But even early-stage sales calls were done in person.

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Showpad

MARCH 19, 2020

A global manufacturer of building materials and solutions for the construction industry realized it needed to recall its field sales team and switch to an inside sales strategy. Sellers had previously relied on paper documentation during onsite meetings, but now needed a way to collaborate with buyers remotely.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

After all, role-playing helps sellers practice and prepare for real-world buyer interactions so they know how to handle every selling situation thrown their way. . 8 Types of Sales Role-Play. This is an essential exercise for any sales rep, but particularly BDRs who need support in identifying the buyers’ problems.

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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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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. 16 sales process templates for B2B pipelines.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The best sales organizations rely on analysis. Think about your organization’s monthly or weekly sales meetings. If this is the recurring theme of your meetings, it’s likely that you’re missing opportunities that analysis could provide. Track sales reps’ performance in real time. Want to give Close a shot?

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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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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.

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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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InsideSales.com

MAY 15, 2020

In this article: Meet the Speakers. Understand Your Buyers. Meet the Speakers. Lars Nilsson, Founder & CEO at SalesSource, has over 25 years of sales and operations experience in the technology sector. Lars is a global leader in enterprise software and selling solutions. Understand Your Buyers.

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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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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

By analyzing millions of sales interactions captured by Gong’s Revenue Intelligence Platform across web-conferencing, phone calls, and emails. Then they look at how seller and buyer actions impact success rates. Here are the 30 most eye-popping, jaw-dropping, mind-melting sales stats we’ve ever uncovered. Time is finite.

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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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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

After all, role-playing helps sellers practice and prepare for real-world buyer interactions so they know how to handle every selling situation thrown their way. This is an essential exercise for any sales rep, but particularly BDRs who need support in identifying the buyers’ problems. Great sales reps are skilled negotiators.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There’s something special about attending a sales conference. Perhaps it’s the rush of meeting new and interesting people during networking sessions , or the opportunity to learn actionable tips during the breakout sessions that will help you level up your game. The best part? AA-ISP Leadership Summit 2020.

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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. Your prospects may share that they’re pausing on projects or vendor meetings. They will push out/cancel demo meetings or they might just completely go dark in the middle of a deal cycle. Ralph Barsi.

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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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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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Whether you specialize in inside sales or are a field sales pro, you have likely picked up a lead or two at an event or trade show at some point in your career. You want to make sure you are attracting the right potential buyers, not just anyone with an internet connection. Host webinars and online workshops.

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Chili Piper

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, if a SaaS company knows about Chili Piper and the value of our buyer enablement solution , they’re going to wait (a reasonable amount of time) for us to call them because they know they can’t get the same solution anywhere else. The second challenge is buyers submit demo request forms at all times of the day.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And in this day and age of cutthroat competition, the War for Talent, and fast-evolving B2B sales and marketing environments, you need the best B2B sales and marketing professionals serving on your behalf. Hiring for Your B2B Sales Team. Segmenting Your B2B Sales Team. Create Instant Buyer Insights. Contact Data.

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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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Whether you specialize in inside sales or are a field sales pro, you have likely picked up a lead or two at an event or trade show at some point in your career. You want to make sure you are attracting the right potential buyers, not just anyone with an internet connection. Host webinars and online workshops.

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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? Support your buyer, help them prove value when needed. Chalen Schoyer, Principal Sales Engineer at Spiff “Be confident in your negotiations. See you then!

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Professional conferences are not only an opportunity to meet industry leaders -- and maybe do a little prospecting -- they’re also a way to break yourself out of your usual routine and pick up new skills. Sales Conferences 2018. 5) AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. Speakers include: Kyle Porter (CEO, Sales Loft).

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Episode 48: Stu Heinecke on How to Get a Meeting with Anyone. Podcaster Blurb: Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, bestselling author, sales leader, and entrepreneur. In addition to the weekly podcast, he updates his blog regularly to include daily sales tips to boost your confidence and skill level. The Gist: .

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