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5 Sales Management Myths Debunked

SBI Growth

I should spend most of my coaching time with the worst performers.": Consistent underperformers usually receive the majority of the coaching. Despite this, two VPs told me they planned to increase telemarketing headcount. The office telephone is a dying demand generation tool. This is the wrong approach.

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8 Cold Calling Tips for Sellers and Sales LeadersĀ 

Mindtickle

For example, businesses may need to adhere to laws governing telemarketing practices, such as obtaining prior consent from recipients or respecting “Do Not Call” registries. Tip #1 for sellers Use keyword research, LinkedIn posts, search engines, social profiles, and account intelligence tools to gather relevant information.

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Beyond Words: How Your Voice Can Make or Break Sales Success

Janek Performance Group

The voice is a primary tool for salespeople to convey their message, build rapport, and persuade their audience; especially in todayā€™s remote selling environment. If you’ve ever talked to a telemarketer, who read a script in a monotone voice, you know how uninspiring that is.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. and withstood the emergence of high-powered tech tools that promise to put so many aspects of engaging customers on automatic pilot. But where to begin?

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How to Build Your LinkedIn Center. Social Selling 3.0

Tony Hughes

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). I recommend building a ā€˜skunk-worksā€™ team and begin to experiment if you want to lead and avoid being left behind in a Social 3.0

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What is Inside Sales? The Definition of Modern-Day Selling

OutboundView

The genesis of inside sales has its roots in telemarketing. Telemarketers would cold-call all day long, often rudely interrupting a prospectā€™s day or dinner to ask them if they wanted to buy a random product. Do you have the ability and the talent to coach and manage a team to a perfect hand-off process with account executives?

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

It’s a model from 20 years ago that people are still running today, despite changes in how buyers are buying and technology and marketing and sales know-how and all the tools that we have and everything like that. The model is basically two things. One it’s a marketing thing, and the second thing is a sales thing. We value you.