DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 12, 2016

So, we recently published a blog entitled, “ What You Won’t Learn from Books About Sales ,” and now here we are sharing our favorite books and blogs that can make your better at inside sales. Yes, best performing salespeople learn from experience and develop “grit” without the help of sales books. 5) Sales Hacker.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

First up, the Sales Leadership and Strategy Track brings a concentration of actionable insights and expert guidance from proven sales leaders. Avoid Landmines: The 3 Mistakes Every Company Makes Building Their Outbound Sales Model. The Changing Face of Inside Sales: How To Lead A Team of Strategic Sellers.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dionne Mejer is the Founder & CEO of Inside Sales by Design and author of the highly anticipated book, The Stepped Approach: Onboard Better, Systemize Smarter, and Bring Out the Best in Your Sales Team. Her innovative inside sales training tactics and proven approach gets her clients results every time.

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Costello

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Dionne Mischler, CEO & Founder, Inside Sales by Design. With more than 20 years of sales experience, Dionne Mischler has made a name for herself in the field. She runs Inside Sales By Design , a sales consultancy she launched in 2014, where she helps mid-sized companies establish and grow their inside sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Amy Appleyard , the recently appointed SVP of Global Inside Sales at CarbonBlack. . Amy walks us through her background from being an SMB entrepreneur to leading large sales teams and why sales emerged as her true calling. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This is the time of year to reflect on great things happening to help move the needle for more women in sales (#womeninsales) and sales leadership in B2B companies with “male majority” sales teams and male sales leadership. It covers hiring, promotion, speaking up, and double standards for women in sales.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you’re in sales and haven’t heard of this guy, crawl out from under your rock right now and start watching his videos and listening to his podcasts immediately. supply and demand is about to be a common conversation — Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) February 14, 2021. She quite literally wrote the book on it.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 24, 2013

Field Sales has seen a resource shift from outside to inside sales. Sales relies more than ever on marketing to engage the buyer early in the process. All this requires seamless coordination between sales and marketing leadership, field sales, and strategy. Give Leadership What They Want.

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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.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 27, 2014

Those of us in and around hundreds of sales teams know that it is not just about more women applying for sales positions – it is about the culture of the company, how interviewing is done, what job descriptions look like, and whether first line sales managers are trained in gender neutral communication, among other things.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

At an AA-ISP's Inside Sales Leadership Summit, Mike Scher, CEO of Frontline Selling, shared a three-step process proven to increase the chances of an appointment. "We If they're skeptical, carry on with the conversation, but don't push too hard for an appointment. Back to square one. Give them a choice.

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Vengreso

JULY 17, 2020

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? Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and a passionate advocate for women in the workplace.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

JUNE 27, 2018

In this episode the focus of our conversation was all about developing confidence in selling. We started by asking Lauren how she got into a career in sales and why she became a supporter of women in sales. Enjoy the conversation! Our guest is Lauren Bailey, President and Founder of Factor8. You cannot do it all alone.

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Outsourcing Services Microsoft SAP Hiring 56

Igniting Sales Transformation

MAY 11, 2018

In this Conversations with Women in Sales interview, I talked with Jen Sieger, Director Inside Sales Specialist Team at Microsoft about Digital Sales Best Practices. The tools that the Inside Sales team members are leveraging to better connect with customers. Here are the key points we covered.

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SBI

JUNE 25, 2020

For companies’ sales and marketing teams, this could mean changing messaging, altering their inside sales strategy, or re-thinking the kinds of businesses they’re targeting. Ed brings 20+ years of sales leadership experience from ADP, Thomson Financial, S&P and EMC to Seismic. Linkedin.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Gary Vaynerchuk If you’re in sales and haven’t heard of this guy, crawl out from under your rock right now and start watching his videos and listening to his podcasts immediately. Trish Bertuzzi Author of “The Sales Development Playbook,” Trish Bertuzzi has been a major player in the sales game for the past two decades.

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Social Media Influencer Media Hiring 100

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Before technology, sales was primarily based on outside field salespeople making face-to-face sales meetings with prospective and current customers. In turn, they were supported by inside sales representatives focusing on helping them complete their daily tasks.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This was a really exciting conversation for a lot of reasons. Perhaps the biggest reason is that my guest, Debbie Dunnam , Corporate Vice President of Inside Sales at Microsoft, walks her talk. Her passion, enthusiasm, leadership, and authenticity shines through. Digital sales transformation requires a shift in mindset.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 11, 2015

If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. Technorati Tags: competition inside sales teams , sales leadership , sales management.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Boost Sales Performance The playbook empowers SDRs to effectively overcome challenges and get the most out of opportunities. When they are equipped with tools and resources to do their job, the business will experience increased conversion rates, higher revenue, and more successful sales outcomes.

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Score More Sales

JULY 17, 2013

Sometimes the first conversations you hear at an event stay with you the whole time. That happened for me on Monday at the Sales 2.0 Conference Boston – a gathering of sales experts, practitioners, sales leaders and sellers all coming together to talk about what is the latest in professional selling.

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HeavyHitter Sales

MAY 25, 2017

A recent research project involving more than 1,000 sales professionals I conducted to determine The Personas of Top Salespeople provides the answer to this question ( You can read more on the findings from this first-of-its-kind sales research on the attributes, attitudes, and actions of top salespeople here ).

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Sales Management Field Sales Inside Sales Research 74

Pipeliner

MAY 4, 2021

Effective strategy execution in sales occurs when there is clarity between the functional roles that employees play in the organization and the organization’s strategy. It is about translating the strategy into what it means to each sales function involved in delivering it. What specifically should inside sales do differently?

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Being able to have conversations that are not about our products is a huge shift that many salespeople from a few years ago are finding difficult to adapt, and therefore finding themselves completely out of sync and also relevance. Today though, our buyers know more than us in many cases, and they now come to the table holding the cards.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . 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.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Funnel Inside Sales 112

SalesLoft

MARCH 16, 2020

For Sales Managers . Use Live Call Studio for Coaching & Conversation Intelligence for Call Review. Valuable coaching opportunities aren’t limited to the sales floor. Join an ongoing call yourself, seamlessly entering the conversation. However, what likely must change is your sales process. Join the call.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 11, 2021

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Joe Venuti, VP of Inside Sales at Sendoso, on how to maintain a healthy work culture in a remote environment and why direct mail is effective in the digital world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Who sales development should report to [22:16].

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

You can tell by the name of the program that it is designed to help to get a hold of and have conversations with qualified prospects. Some are mindset-driven, others are interviews, and then there are some with direct sales tips. 12 Interviews With Inside Sales Gurus. 16 Sales Funnel Mastery. 7 Get In The Door.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Twitter Lead Scoring 98

SBI

MAY 7, 2015

And a lot more… The Goal of this Guide is to Enable Modern Sales Leadership. There’s no better place to learn how you can get more leads, motivate your sales reps, get deals signed faster, hold better conversations, convert more leads into opportunities, strategize, collaborate, forecast, follow-up, engage, AND close.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2018

They empower sales and support teams to ace every call with a phone system specifically built for their favorite business tools. With Aircall you can now make every conversation count! Sam Jacobs: Hi, everybody and welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast! Welcome, Jaimie to the Sales Hacker podcast! Inside Sales at VMware.

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 2, 2021

The 20 Best Sales Podcasts for 2021. Insight, Advice, and Guidance into Sales, Leadership, and Life. We recently reached out via LinkedIn to ask what sales podcasts helped people do just that throughout 2020 and into 2021. The theme is about overcoming adversity and mental toughness in sales. Brodi Carter 9.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

AUGUST 8, 2018

My guest in this Conversations with Women in Sales interview is Melissa Lui, Sales Development Manager at ServiceTitan. Melissa started as an SDR and within in a short period of time, she had demonstrated her ability to make the next move into sales leadership. Listen HERE. About Melissa.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Microsoft Leads 51

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Inside Sales Rep. In an increasingly digital world, inside salespeople are the go-to for prospecting, nurturing, and converting leads remotely. They rely on email, phone calls, videos, and virtual meetings—instead of face-to-face interaction—to build relationships and move people through the sales funnel. Image Source.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

In other words, effective sales training boosts your bottom line and helps you reach your company’s quarterly and annual sales goals by turning average sales reps into top performers. Now that more sales teams are working remotely, more sales conversations are happening online via video chat, email, and social media.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

How has your sales leadership style changed this year? As companies are facing uncertainty with their ability to operate and sell their products, effective leadership may have a whole new set of requirements. It’s time to rewrite the sales leadership rulebook. Use remote work to your advantage.

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Hiring Promotion Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 102

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

Wes started his career at Sisense, becoming head of enterprise business development and ultimately director of inside sales for North America. As of January 2019, he moved on to leading the US sales team at Red Points. Qualities that lead to success in sales [8:25]. Unexpected realities of sales leadership [11:06].

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Hiring Lead Rank Call-back Lead Scoring 118

Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The trend for inside sales is not coming — it has arrived and is sitting at our doorstep. Fuel and labor costs have soared and, because of intense competition, the prices of our products and solutions have largely flat-lined — as have sales achievement levels. Natural selection is now at work in sales teams everywhere.

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