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AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now

Mr. Inside Sales

Today, technology is much more accepted, and technology and sales are inseparable. I mean, can you imagine doing your job without a CRM system? Will you have reached out to them through more channels like email, voice mail, text, social media, video emails, etc.? Welcome to that moment again, only different.

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Better Together: IoT and CRM for the Manufacturing Industry

SugarCRM

IoT and CRM: Better Together IoT is the connection of devices via the internet, while CRM is the collection of customer data through data mining with the purpose of providing useful insight into customer behavior for marketing and sales purposes. Since we know that CRM requires data, combining it with IoT is a perfect match.

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CRM Hijacks Customer Experience Strategy

Tony Hughes

In the last few days I have been facilitating focus groups for a research study in Australia being conducted by The Eventful Group who are running a big CRM conference in Melbourne in July 2015. So far we’ve done half-day workshops in three cities with approximately 80 people ranging from senior business leaders to IT system managers.

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Why Marketing Should Own Inside Sales (and why they shouldn’t)

A Sales Guy

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Little/no sales management experience.

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How to Measure Sales Fitness

Sales and Marketing Management

On the flip side, if the salesperson showed up to the meeting fully prepared having read his previous colleague’s CRM notes, the decision-maker would be happy to have a meeting. In these three channels is where sales performance can be enhanced. Measuring Sales Fitness. Recipe for High-Performance Selling.

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Hiring a Sales Manager - External or Internal?

SBI Growth

Description: How the sales team is tasked on reaching the target market. For example, is it all direct sales? Maybe the team is leveraging channel partners, or inside sales. An SM for a direct model may not need to know Channel Management principles. He/she can bring some new practices to the sales force.

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What is the Secret to Successful Sales Effectiveness Initiatives?

SBI Growth

Here are 3 examples that we frequently see sales and marketing leaders implementing to make a quantum leap forward: Inside Sales: Create a new Inside Sales function to serve an ever-increasing segment of customers who prefer to purchase on-line. Forecast: The data in the CRM system is not kept up to date.

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