Showpad

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic had upended the sales industry. Even veteran field sellers had pivoted to inside sales. But even though the landscape changed, sales was still a relationship game. Simply put, today’s B2B buyers want communication on their terms: their channel, their schedule, and their purpose. Video is in.

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Channels Video Pivotal Scale 72

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 10, 2014

Instead, I suggested some completely different models–perhaps leveraging channel partners, or moving much more of the sales function inside. He said, “Dave, I understand inside sales very well–but they are much more suited for transactional business, standardized, commoditized products.

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Inside Sales Face-to-face Field Sales Channels 95

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Whether you and your team need some bite-sized instruction, a full course correction or just a bit of motivation, there’s a wide variety of YouTube sales training channels that can help you. You'll find a short description of each channel as well as a few examples of especially informative or entertaining videos from each.

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Channels Video Training Hiring 111

OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

Jeb carries his sales wisdom over to all his social media channels and spreads his expertise to the masses. Through Twitter and Facebook, followers can access videos, articles, and even podcasts filled with practical advice for becoming better sales professionals. Trish Bertuzzi ( @bridgegroupinc ). Twitter Followers: 22.9k.

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Influencer B2B Social Media Twitter 188

SalesHandy

JULY 5, 2021

The idea of engaging a lead over traditional channels like email and phone is quickly going stale as most salespeople have crowded towards them. Apart from this – working professionals, who make up for B2B buyers and users, tend to spend less time on these channels. All by focusing on one social channel of your choice.

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Social Media Social Selling Media Sales Qualified Lead 98

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Trends that are here to stay.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

His most recent book is Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling (Harvard Business Review Press), which was cited as, “the best sales book of the year” ( Strategy + Business ), “a must read” ( Gartner Group) , and “perhaps the best sales book ever” ( Forbes ).

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Channels Marketing Retail How To 42

InsideSales.com

APRIL 15, 2020

Working remote has been an interesting change for me as an inside sales leader who, for the last decade, has been running insides sales teams that sell digitally to now selling with a 100% remote sales team. These types of regular touch points help to keep the culture of the group healthy and engaged.

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Hiring Training How To Inside Sales 93

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to McKinsey , hybrid sales generate deeper relationships that drive up to 50 percent more revenue. With the rise of hybrid, sales organizations must consider the following: Changing workplace dynamics Additional channels Customer preference COVID marked a shift in how employees feel about work.

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Trends Top of Funnel Social Media Lead Rank 62

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Within our organization, we may break them down into functions, business groups, or divisions. For example, we have engineering/product development, manufacturing/service delivery, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, HR, operations, and so forth. Within sales, we are very familiar with the subsystems.

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System Engineering Tools Groups 97

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Director of North America Sales. The Bridge Group, Inc. Digital Sales and Development Manager. VP Europe Sales, Presales and Marketing. Vice President, Sales. The Santa Fe Group. Executive Vice President & Group CEO – Verizon Business. General Manager, Worldwide Partner Sales.

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Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 121

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. This may involve conducting A/B testing and monitoring response times.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

Score More Sales

JULY 27, 2013

Below are some of my fantastic and amazing social selling colleagues – all of us, like Score More Sales, are LinkedIn Sales Solutions Channel Partners. What is a LinkedIn Sales Solutions Channel Partner? Trish Bertuzzi – the Bridge Group Inc – B2B inside sales experts.

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Social Selling Maximizer Resources LinkedIn 189

SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

As a result, we’ve developed a case study format where SDRs, AE’s, CSM’s, inside sales, field sales, customer success, and channel partners can all work together to come up with solutions that best target a particular account or a group of accounts. Account executives (your quarterbacks).

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Pipeline Case Study Top of Funnel Territories 93

SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2018

John: Our purchase intent data platform is called Priority Engine because it enables sales people to better prioritize their call plans, their coverage within accounts, their outreach actions and their messaging. We’ve got more information on the products, lots of detail from our User Group, webinar replays, videos, whitepapers etc.

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Intent Data Intent Data Enterprise 139

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

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. A common theme with delegates in these research groups was that they never ask for funding for CRM because ‘CRM as a dirty word’.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself. She quite literally wrote the book on it.

Social Media 205

Social Media Influencer Media Hiring 205

Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

This might include adding technical experts to the sales team or establishing an inside sales group to handle lead identification or augmenting the administrative sales support. Adding Channels. Increasingly companies are moving to multiple channels. Becoming a Filter not a Funnel.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Funnel Inside Sales 112

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 24, 2020

The landscape of sales has shifted radically over the past decade or so. While phone calls, meetings, and other familiar sales staples still have a place in the field, digital sales tactics — techniques conducted through virtual channels — have emerged and started taking up some serious space. Leverage social media.

Social Media 124

Social Media Webinar Metrics Case Study How To 124

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

Both the RAIN Group and Brevit says it takes eight cold call attempts to reach a prospect. That means sales reps spend a lot of time on the phone, getting absolutely nowhere. Worse yet, Inside Sales reports that sales reps can spend up to 40 percent of their time just looking for somebody to cold call.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

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.

Top of Funnel 111

Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

A Sales Guy

APRIL 16, 2012

The cost of sales is an extremely important metric. Unfortunately, it’s not one I see on sales leader’s dashboards too often. Do you know what your least expensive sale is? Is it the channel, the farmers, inside sales, the hunters, who? What’s your most expensive sale?

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Inside Sales Compensation Channels Outside Sales 117

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Trends that are here to stay.

Demand Generation Targets 120

Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Score More Sales

JULY 30, 2014

For some of us it is easy to be social in sales, for others it is an effort, and for a third group, a confusing idea. I have been meeting more and more leaders in mid-market companies who are simply confused about the value of having their sales reps focused on social selling because they don’t see the payoff.

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How To Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Twitter 230

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

This will likely involve training in multi or omnichannel sales, as businesses now have to embrace social media, live chat, email, texting, video chat, phone calls, and more to reach leads and customers. Courses are tailored to inside sales, field sales, and call center sales teams, and several are designed specifically for managers.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Perhaps the biggest reason is that my guest, Debbie Dunnam , Corporate Vice President of Inside Sales at Microsoft, walks her talk. Debbie then transitioned into technology sales with the help of a friend in the early days of the technology revolution. Digital sales transformation requires a shift in mindset. Google Play.

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Microsoft Lead Rank Meeting Inside Sales 62

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face. Given the tremendous potential of tradeshows to produce high quality sales leads, let’s highlight what a day in the life of a tradeshow sales lead should look like to deliver ROI. .

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Capture 192

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

A company was not satisfied with the success of their inside sales team, so they tested a 2-stage model. put together a sales go to market plan with clear objectives. Step 4: Decide which channels to reach your target customers. Other channels include door-to-door salesmen or direct partners. Where do they buy?

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Strategy Lead Rank Outsourcing Services Marketing 52

Sales Lead Management Association

JUNE 20, 2019

9 am - INSIDE Inside Sales by VanillaSoft hosted by Darryl Praill Trish Bertuzzi, Author, Founder - The Bridge Group An Interview with a Legend 9:30 am - Revenue Optimization Radio by Altify hosted by Patrik Morrissey Listen live at 9:30 am Pacific 10 am - WVU Marketing Communications Today.

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel VanillaSoft Funnel Inside Sales 48

The Brooks Group

MAY 5, 2020

Here at The Brooks Group, we have conducted a Sales Leader survey each week since mid-March, when many businesses were forced to close and workers who could do so, set up shop from home. But eliminating sales roles across the board can be a recipe for disaster since these roles represent the key to future revenue.

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Face-to-face Survey Cancellation Trends 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2020

Not only are businesses scrambling right now to move their sales and marketing budgets from offline channels to webinars and virtual events and more digital advertising — but they’re struggling to reposition their messaging and value for seemingly new buyers or niche markets. Step 4: Modernize your outbound strategy.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Outbound 93

Allego

JANUARY 24, 2019

Speakers Include : Rakhi Voria (Chief of Staff, Inside Sales, Microsoft), Keith Hartley (SVP Sales, Americas, ServiceMax), Cynthia Barnes (Founder, National Association of Women Sales Professionals), Shari Levitin (Owner and CEO, Shari Levitin Group). Unleash 2019. SiriusDecisions Summit.

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Account Based Marketing Face-to-face Conference Microsoft 54

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

We also want to express a special thank you to the members of the sales community who spoke up, and volunteered their time to help us as we not only reissue this list, but also think about even more ways we can shine a light on underrepresented groups within sales going forward. Founder and CEO of The Bridge Group.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

SugarCRM

APRIL 1, 2020

That’s because, at a time when seemingly everyone is doing inbound marketing, channels like search and social media are becoming extremely noisy. Inside Sales (aka Sales/Business/Market Development). Increased lead and opportunity generation. However, in today’s crowded online world, inbound marketing alone isn’t enough.

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Inbound Marketing Outbound Webinar Metrics 48

SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

which is a platform that helps you track all your sales activity & the communication between your salesperson & the prospect. He actively writes blogs about cold calling, sales, inside sales & everything related to sales. He has over 15 years of experience in Marketing, Business Development, and Sales.

Influencer 76

Influencer LinkedIn Social Media Demand Generation Agencies 76

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself. She quite literally wrote the book on it.

Social Media 100

Social Media Influencer Media Hiring 100