Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2021

First the no part: Sales is much, much more than just “rolling the numbers,” as they used to say. Skill level of the sales rep is the most important thing; however, there are other variables like the type of lead—inbound versus outbound; the territory; existing client or new prospect; the marketing and/or branding of the company, etc.,

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Xactly

AUGUST 13, 2018

Let’s cut to the chase–if you’re not using data to drive your sales territory mapping, your territories might be hurting your sales performance more than they are helping it. Sales territory mapping software offers more benefits than sales managers may realize. Take Assessment. The answer?

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. But in the modern sales landscape, more and more salespeople have started reforming their behavior. That’s why I’m not the biggest fan of the one-call close. Their vertical market (i.e. Buyer beware.”

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Tenbound

APRIL 19, 2024

by Kathleen Robida LinkedIn is always buzzing with tips and tricks for SDRs to book more meetings and for Sales to win more deals. What’s the best cold call opener? However, what is rarely discussed is the critical importance of the Sales Development Representative and Account Executive partnership. Participation!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 24, 2019

Author: By Brad Soper, Lisa Jaeger and Alexander Stahmer While there are no shortcuts to creating and implementing an effective, long-term sales strategy, there are five actions sales teams can take to get that strategy on track – and keep it there – by generating more sales from existing customers. . Use heat maps.

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Shari Levitin

MARCH 9, 2023

Empathy in elephants, the idea that “emotions are contagious,” is backed by science. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business. Identify Your Target Market. The guide replied, “Absolutely; after all, she’s a hunter.”

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

ABCs of sales lead management 3. Sales Lead Management Process 4. Implementing a Lead Management Strategies to increase sales 5. However, inbound sales teams need a well-defined lead management system and the right tools to get the most value out of those leads. Overview 2.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. Call that… “Just add AI.” I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2012

Last week I was working with a group, we were looking at more effective prospecting, when we got around to discussing referrals, I got back some familiar comments. The specific comment was that the rep was reluctant to ask prospects/clients for referrals “because what if the person or company they refer are out of my territory?”

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

Momentum in sales and sports is a strange phenomenon. For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But one thing sales and RevOps leaders all have in common is that they collectively struggle to set realistic, motivating sales quotas. If quota setting is critical to forecasting, goal setting, and sales capacity planning , how is it that so many organizations still miss the mark? In fact, with only 24.3%

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

SPS — Sales Prevention Syndrome — is the great killer of salespeople. Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. You think your sales manager is stupid.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Throughout our history with the company, we performed multiple projects- Sales Process, Sales Structure, and Channel Management. Coaching consisted of corrections and pats on the back. Register here for a copy of our Inside Sales talent management scorecard to see how Inside Sales Reps should be evaluated.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

For most organizations, the answer is to gain visibility into the activities of individual sales reps. Nor can they make smart investments in improving sales capability. In the past decade, attention has shifted from seller activity to sales manager activity as a key driver of performance. And their lackluster sales managers.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 13, 2023

In January, Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce, and it was the sales team that faced heavy losses. These bootstrapped sales teams are faced with a unique problem: an outsized pressure to produce more with fewer resources. For downsized sales teams, this means being ruthless about chasing the right accounts.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2012

My VP of Sales wants me to research trends in inside sales and conduct account segmentation. The sales managers are yelling for updated dashboards and territories. HR is on my back about finalizing the updated compensation plan. Oh, and Marketing wants to discuss sales enablement improvements.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

Unfortunately, it’s all too common for sales teams to be hamstrung by incomplete routing systems and low-quality data. To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been an SDR , an SDR director, and now run a sales team at a startup. Typically, SDRs work from one of two territory models: Static territories based on geography or vertical or business segment. A Wild West-style free-for-all where reps prospect into an addressable market wherever they’d like.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Listening To the Market. Many of the answers to a sales leader’s execution problems are in the market. This post is focused on how listening to the market accelerates field execution. This post is focused on how listening to the market accelerates field execution. Listening to the market has many connotations.

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

Empathy in elephants, the idea that “emotions are contagious,” is backed by science. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business: • Set Aside Time to Prospect: Prospecting is an easy thing to neglect; like doing the laundry, it piles up.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Meet Exceed sales goals. Pick any (or all) of the above, and you have the reason sales playbooks exist. A sales playbook serves as a guide or a model for capturing best practices for each and every potential sales situation. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: . Sales enablement materials. Team processes.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2019

Not much new in that, sales people have always preferred almost any other sales activity to prospecting. Specifically, direct prospecting , not indirect, not merely answering an inbound call generated by marketing. I remember a rep about two years in the territory, telling me he has earned the right not to prospect.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

Definition: Lead distribution is the process of strategically assigning leads to specific sales reps. And you may have also heard of lead nurturing, which is where you continue marketing to leads until they’re ready to buy. Lead distribution is the process of matching up specific leads with certain sales reps at your company.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 23, 2012

Sales people are tasked with some of the biggest challenges in the working world. Rejection comes with the territory and simply cannot be a deterrent for future attempts. A great sales person sells things, but also combines an air of expertise with a genuine feeling of concern for the client. Guest Post – Megan Totka.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. If you’re thinking about a career in sales, you probably want to hear the cold, hard truths about sales and what it entails.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. Typically dispersed across territories far and wide, and always on the go, face-to-face communication is often overridden by email, voicemail and text. Create a plan.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2020

Do cold calls work? How can you find more success with cold calling? We often discuss how to make a cold call, but rarely the next step after your cold call fails to get picked up. Most other sales development representatives could say something similar. First, do Cold Sales Voicemails Work? A lot, right?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 31, 2017

Does cold calling and cold voicemail work? While voicemail alone does not yield callbacks, it has the ability to increase response rates by over 11% when paired properly with targeted emails, according to TOPO’s Sales Best Practices: Voicemail Builder report. Cold-call voicemail script templates. The short answer?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Not all “A” Player sales reps were meant to be managers. If you’ve been in sales long enough, you’ve seen this mistake unfold. He neglects his skill development and sales initiatives. Before the year is over, he’s back in the field or on the street. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Sales managers want to give their sellers more time to sell. Automation gives you back time to help you achieve your sales goals. Continue reading to learn how top sales teams are incorporating automations into the sales process to give sellers more time to do what they do best. Make the Most Out of Your CRM .

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The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

I remember when I first started working for a company back in the early 1990’s (before we had web mail), the company had two main product lines, and had the usual territories across the continent, primarily driven by geography. They stepped back, reformulated their action plan and then marched forward as if nothing had changed.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Eventually, most antiquated models are replaced by more up-to-date, efficient, and sometimes exciting models. Outside sales is being replaced by inside sales but not in the way that most people think. The people in outside sales aren''t being replaced by the people in inside sales.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Prospects aren’t responding to phone calls. And Sales Leaders are handed their 2013 goals by the CEO. At SBI, our findings indicate that over 65% of Sales Goals are driven by Executive and Corparate expectations. The CEO pulled back on expectations, but it was too late. This is where we found the highest market potential.

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Crunchbase

JULY 27, 2022

If you own a business, lead a sales team, or are otherwise interested in how best to create a solid sales ecosystem within your organization that is conducive to growth, this article on sales operations (sales ops) is for you. What is sales operations? Sales operations vs. sales enablement.

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