Closer's Coffee

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Look at any job description for an inside salesperson and there is something very important missing. Inside sales representatives work with customers to find what they want, create solutions and ensure a smooth sales process. Inside sales reps are friendly, well-spoken and ready to close the deal.”.

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Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

But, when I attended the recent Leadership Summit put on by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP), I was reminded that sometimes questions can just lead to more questions. So I attended this event expecting to find out more about how and when resources would be flowing to inside sales teams.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 1, 2020

By separating out people who are “just looking,” sales reps can identify and spend more time with the real buyers. And this means higher closing rates, more sales, and less time, energy and resources wasted on unqualified leads. To be a Top 20% sales producer, you have to begin finding buyers—whatever the lead source.

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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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SBI

APRIL 24, 2012

Tweet AA-ISP Inside Sales Summit. Four hundred Inside Sales leaders attended the 2-day American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Summit last week in Dallas. The Summit is the only conference dedicated exclusively to Inside Sales Leadership. Evening out with my gal pals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

Right now buyer behavior is outpacing sales organizations. This is leading to frustration among many B2B buyers. Buyers have been trained to expect speed, availability, and a self-directed buying experience. SBI’s 7 th annual research session will expand on the agile sales concept. Amazon, Netflix, EBay.

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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. Admittedly, the perfect sales tool will never exist because the needs of sales organizations vary from company to company. Is there a perfect tool for individual scenarios?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 14, 2013

When you sign up for the session, you’ll learn 4 new ways to modernize your sales force: Understanding the New Buyer. Modernizing Your Sales Process. The New ‘A’ Player Sales Rep. Sign up for our research tour and get a free tool: 5 Traits of Social Sellers. Technology – LinkedIn is the #1 B2B resource.

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SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

This is where Human Resources can help ensure that change initiatives are successful. This post is for Sales and Marketing leaders and their HR business partners who are implementing change. ” It includes a downloadable tool to assess your readiness for successful implementation. Who isn’t?

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

Will you be building an inside sales team? Will your outside sales team use the data? This is the most common, and arguably the easiest and most efficient way to build your marketing or sales contact database. The answer is twofold: time and resources. Your objective may affect the type of data you collect!

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Mereo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This article, written by Mereo’s 2020 summer intern and future revenue performance leader, dives into how COVID-19 has affected specifically inside sales teams, field sales teams and sales enablement teams. Inside Sales Teams. Virtual sales require new capabilities and tools.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It harmonizes sales and marketing to ensure focus on unified business targets. To amplify its impact, many companies integrate the playbook into a collaborative sales training platform that allows SDRs to easily access the playbook’s resources, engage in interactive learning modules, and apply the acquired knowledge in practical scenarios.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Midsized companies who have not invested in resources to enhance and improve your online brand are leaving money on the table. Here are three reasons you should work to improve your digital presence right now: Your Sales Reps Want Meetings with Executives. Buyers go online to find the products and services you offer – every day.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 28, 2022

These days, a lot of sales engagement happens through social media, as more and more of your target audience is using social platforms in their everyday lives. Sales leaders can improve sales engagement by giving their teams the tools that provide the right analytics and platforms to engage with the customers to grow their sales pipeline.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

Selling to HR and have an inside sales function or are considering an inside sales function? When they’re working, it’s an amazing engine bringing new talent into the organizations and deals into the sales pipeline. Budgets that were once available for inside sales teams have diminished.

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SBI

JUNE 12, 2018

Brainshark elevates sales training by providing tools, assessments, and dashboards that help our customers answer this question with confidence. Provide fast, easy access to training material and other sales resources: Again, we believe in the importance of enabling sellers when, where, and how they work.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 12, 2015

Explainers – who have been leveraged in the past to convey information about various solutions, are next most at risk due to buyers being able to find this relevant content online more effectively in most cases than from the Explainer sales rep. As well, 60% of customer interactions are remote, even for direct sales folks.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 4, 2020

Not only has personal social media usage been on the rise, but professional social media usage has become more prevalent as well — and the field of sales is no exception. With so many teams now focusing on inside sales, using strategies such as social selling to connect and win over customers are more important than ever.

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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. Ensure you’re optimizing your most expensive resource: Your sellers’ time. Finally, ensure you’re optimizing your most expensive resource: Your sellers’ time. We asked the experts. Here’s what they said.

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Vengreso

JULY 17, 2020

Hang develops and delivers a strategic framework for consistently onboarding new sellers, continuous talent nurture, and implementation of best practices in sales programs and tools. What Will Sales Look Like in 2021? Hang says that at Juniper Networks, she is focusing on two major bets for the future of sales: .

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

She’s also a champion of social selling , something more and more sales teams are utilizing in addition to cold calling and predictive solutions. Author of “The Sales Development Playbook,” Trish Bertuzzi has been a major player in the sales game for the past two decades. — Jill Rowley (@jill_rowley) November 29, 2020.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The sales industry is incredibly progressive. There are always new tools to implement and new strategies to try. So, we decided to ask a group of sales experts this one question: What is the biggest trend you expect to see in the sales industry in 2019? . Sales Trends of 2019 . AI for Sales .

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Velocify

APRIL 27, 2017

Did you know that 78% of buyers who read reviews report satisfaction with their final purchase? But for inside sales organizations, the AA-ISP (American Association of Inside Sales Professionals) is the ultimate one-stop shop. Review sites have become a critical step in the buying process.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2020

The four steps I’ll cover here will help you reframe how you sold your products yesterday, reposition your products and sales outreach to provide value today, and keep the near future in mind, when we start operating “normally.”. Step 2: Put your buyers into two buckets (buyers today / buyers tomorrow).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

Will you be building an inside sales team? Will your outside sales team use the data? Option 1: Purchase Contact Database Access This is the most common, and arguably the easiest and most efficient way to build your marketing or sales contact database. The answer is twofold: time and resources.

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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. by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 2013-2018.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Whether that is as a result of disruption, digital platforms, and buyer preferences. As salespeople are to the fore of human to human buyer interactions, training them has to mirror the digital journeys most customers now take. It is so easy and works like a dream with zero admin and less resources.

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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. Pro-Tip: Do not over-segment your sales team.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 27, 2014

His tips included having “5 x 5″ sales messaging campaigns – send 5 different messages using 5 pre-planned templates over 5 touches to offer more insight and value to potential buyers than typical sales messaging. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 28, 2019

For many companies, the ramp-up time for new sales professionals typically is 6 months or more, but inside sales has changed. Sales automation tools like email and dialing technology have turned SDRs into revenue-generating machines. Buyer personas. Tools training. Competition. Objection handling.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales leaders are responsible for the success of a company. Marketing provides necessary resources, while sales is crucial to capturing valuable turf. Recruit, Organize, and Segment Your B2B Inbound Sales Team. The two tools I use are Trello and Asana. Define Your B2B Inbound Sales Standard Operating Process.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Let’s address the elephant in the room – there are just too many sales resources available to know what’s good and what isn’t. But finding out which of these tools are the real deal? We decided to tackle the heavy lifting to create this round-up of our favorite sales resources, tools, and guides.

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SBI

MAY 1, 2012

The definition of dubious is “of doubtful promise or outcome” and there should be no surprise that the true nature or quality of these leads will be questioned by Sales. Unqualified Interest : The lead fits the profile of a typical buyer. There can be an issue, however when “sales-worthy” is confused with “sales-ready.”

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