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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. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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How To Become An Agile Inside Sales Rep

InsideSales.com

A great inside sales representative can deliver many wins for a sales team. What Is Inside Sales? What Are Agile Inside Sales Professionals? The Importance of Having Agile Inside Sales Reps. The Importance of Having Agile Inside Sales Reps. What Is Inside Sales? .

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The Data Will Bring Us Together: Relationship Therapy with Sales and Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate.

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The Different Inside Sales Roles Explained

Factor 8

Let’s dig in – starting with the top of the sales funnel or beginning of the buying process. Also called the business development rep, lead generation, sales development rep, appointment setter, marketing development rep, entry-level selling, cold caller, data cleanser, and sadly, the empty seat. Let’s move on. .

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“Empathy is a superpower in marketing and sales”: A Q&A with Brian Carroll of Markempa

Nutshell

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now. We simply helped people get whatever it was done.

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PowerViews with Michael Brenner: The Battle for Customer Attention

Pointclear

My guest today is Michael Brenner, Vice President of Marketing and Content Strategy at SAP and Managing Editor for the SAP Business Innovation site. At SAP, Michael’s challenge is to transform social business and content marketing to reduce cost-per-acquisition of new customers. Sales is Still Important.

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Solving the SDR Debate: Sales or Marketing?

Openview

It’s an age-old question: should SDRs report to sales or marketing ? Ask five people, and you’ll get five different answers based on individual experience and factors ranging from company stage to the SDR career path to the individual personalities and preferences of a company’s heads of sales and marketing.