SBI

MARCH 1, 2021

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. We talk about building to a spec called “automagical” and that’s how we want reps to see it.

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Sales Hacker Training

JUNE 17, 2020

As someone who has hired sales professionals for over 15 years — both as a sales leader/hiring manager, as well as a consultant helping start-ups with their early-stage sales hires — I made the decision a while back to stop asking candidates about their quota attainment in prior roles. How does the candidate learn?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 12, 2014

That’s why I resonated with the wake-up-call from this week’s guest blogger, Art Sobczak. He challenges sales professionals to ditch the rote responses, get real, and face buyer objections as soon as possible. While preparing for a recent client training session, I listened in on some of the sales team’s calls.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 6, 2019

Because it was a startup , I didn’t have enough orders to place the people I was interviewing, and I was directed to call companies to ask them for a meeting and see if I could help them get the people they needed to run their business. Because I was failing, I went back to what was already working for me.

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SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

What is Inside Sales? Inside sales is the process of prospecting, qualifying, nurturing and closing sales deals remotely. In a way, it’s the exact opposite of field sales or outside sales. Field sales deals in communicating with and closing the prospects on the field, face-to-face. Sales cycle times.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Face-to-face meetings have been replaced by video conferencing, and many sales leaders are scrambling to train their sales teams on how to sell remotely. A 2020 study by the RAIN Group found that pre-pandemic, only 27% of respondents reported conducting more than half of their sales activities virtually. Call-to-Action.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 11, 2014

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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Vengreso

JULY 17, 2020

We are living now in what many people call the “new normal”. Sales leaders and sales teams have been forced to adapt quickly to shifting priorities and budgets, including working from home mandates and remote selling. But, what does the future of sales look like? Blurring the line between sales and technical sales.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

You've come to the right place to learn what it's like to have a career in sales, and it's about much more than the close. Sales seems like a fast-paced, hardball kind of career. There's the hustle to find leads, the hundreds of calls, and the high of delivering a flawless pitch. What's a typical sales career path?

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

To find out more, I sat down with Allego’s Sales Enablement Director Mary Charles. Mary specializes in leveraging modern learning techniques and tools to enable and train global software sales teams to achieve revenue objectives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. I had a series of roles in outside selling.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Process Definition: Gartner defines the sales process as a systematic, multistep approach that enables a sales force to close more deals and increase margins. An effective sales process is built back from a customer buying journey. The new sales process required the salespeople to learn new skill sets.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 17, 2014

Which bothers me, because I can recall seeing a bar graph a while back that had similar numbers but not exact and for the life of me I can’t find it. Needless to say, this is a devastating blow to the sales training and consulting world. This information has been used to support cold calling scripts and cadences.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We will teach you all about sales hiring: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it done. Sales #hiring is a #keytopic for #salesleadership today, know how you can #hire the right people out of the gate for maximum sales #success? Need to improve your company sales cycle. Want to upgrade your sales organization.

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

We will teach you all about sales hiring: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it done. Sales #hiring is a #keytopic for #salesleadership today, know how you can #hire the right people out of the gate for maximum sales #success? Need to improve your company sales cycle. Want to upgrade your sales organization.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

According to Harvard Business Review , 46 percent of high-growth tech companies are expanding through inside sales, as compared to 21 percent growing through outside sales teams. The reasons for inside sales (SDR/BDR) team growth vary, but one fact is clear: buyers seem to be fine with alternatives to face-to-face meetings.

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

My first job in sales was cold calling for a national charity when I was fifteen years old. When I was eighteen, I joined my family’s business and was required to sell B2B with no training, and with hair past my shoulders. You can read about the company you’re calling on, so you are familiar with what they do.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 31, 2020

#SalesGoals SDRs and BDRs A BDR is a business development rep and an SDR is a sales development rep. Prior to predictable revenue, their job was to qualify and set appointments for outside sales reps; however, over the past 20 years, the definitions have evolved. This is where The Sales Evangelist comes in.

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Sales Evangelist

JUNE 14, 2020

Curt Tueffert is the Vice President of sales development for a large industrial distributor in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1908 is now a multinational publicly traded company with over 200 outside sales. Sales is hard but just know this is still a people business. This is beckoning to your network.

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Nutshell

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re a salesperson, this working arrangement has probably been a tough transition—making sales calls from your kitchen table while the kids fight over the remote in the living room isn’t what we’d call an ideal work environment. Or use Nutshell’s click-to-call to make unlimited sales calls on the job.).

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Instead, I enrolled at Pasadena City College (PCC or, as we liked to call it … The University of Colorado Boulevard) to at least get my required courses out of the way. I never even went back to cancel my classes. It was back to PCC where, in one year, I secured another AA in Retail Merchandise Management. Why history?

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

So, as a sales leader or manager, what do you do? I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist. Ensure that your sales team has a close plan that the client agrees to. Don’t forget Q1 in terms of your go-forward sales plan.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 25, 2012

“The growth in sales jobs, and therefore one would think, in sales training is in inside sales. Although there is a migration to inside selling, most sales training is based on the assumption that sales calls will be face to face. Never has a diagnostic approach been more critical.

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Groove.co

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS Interest in sales engagement is spreading like a virus “We Are All Inside Sales Now” might not ever become a huge rallying cry within the B2B sales industry, but the grounding of outside sales reps is real. Before you dial, make sure you know the three P’s Making phone calls is hard.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

Customer success: If your customers need training, onboarding, implementation support, and service, partnering with vendors who offer these services lets you focus on closing new business without sacrificing your existing users. Wondering if channel sales is right for your organization? Here are six things to consider.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Lead Generation Sales Metrics. Sales Outreach Metrics. Primary Conversion Sales Metrics. Channel Sales Metrics. Sales Productivity Metrics. Sales Process, Tool, and Training Adoption Metrics. Pick a sales dashboard provider. Sales Dashboard Examples. Sales Leaderboard.

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OutboundView

JUNE 17, 2019

You are reaching out to people who most likely don’t know you or your company, so they might be reluctant to take the call. Just to give you a ballpark, SiriusDecisions research shows that it takes 8 to 12 calls to reach a prospect. Don’t assume you can just hire an inside sales rep and they will just figure it out.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 20, 2013

It’s a safe assumption that any salesperson would rather follow up with a qualified prospect they recently met rather than make a cold call. To do so, she found an outside sales position selling a line of self-care products. Cindy called me one morning and shared her situation with me. Chances are, not many.

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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. Sales Operations Tools: Outreach , Drift.

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Showpad

AUGUST 31, 2018

Training before, during and after the initial kickoff helps to teach, assess and reinforce knowledge. Research shows that within 90 days, over 80 percent of knowledge gained with training is lost without ongoing reinforcement. Who you choose is up to you; another department head or outside sales trainer are always good options.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Gone are the days when B2B sales were about making a hundred cold calls a day or visiting clients in person. Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. We’re going to help you also understand the B2B sales processes, strategies, and more.

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Jonathan Farrington

JANUARY 12, 2012

Why do we need an expensive outside sales force, with all of the huge financial investment that is required, when the task can be handled far more efficiently – and more profitably? ” It’s been a great first week of the year, and I’d like to say that I have eased my way back in gently, but I would be lying!

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The Sales Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Salespeople – Thank you for challenging my thinking and not backing down and being a ‘yes’ person. To date I have accumulated more than eight years in the sales industry beginning in Business to Business and Business to Customer sales and extending into direct, inside, and outside sales.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Others, like outside sales, are on the decline. Sales compensation ranges from zero-commission (retail salespeople, for example) to pure commission (your salary is completely determined by performance.) Outside Salesperson. Sales Engineer. Sales Manager. Director of Sales. VP of Sales.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 15, 2022

When I was fifteen years old, I started making cold calls for a nonprofit. When the $4 billion company I worked for decided to train me, they taught me to ask my prospective clients for a single order. After the exercise, I was taken into another room and told that I would no longer be allowed to participate in the training.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Steve : This is Outside Sales Talk, the best podcast for Outside Salespeople. I’m your host, Steve Benson, and we’re here to chat with the world’s top sales experts so that you can get their best sales tactics to level up your game. Welcome back to Outside Sales Talk today.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

Digging into her activity metrics, you discover she isn’t sending enough emails to generate the number of calls she needs. Activity metrics include: Number of calls made. Outreach Sales Metrics. Email Sales Metrics. Phone Sales Metrics. Call-backs. Sales Productivity Metrics. Response rate.

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