LeadIQ

JULY 5, 2018

It doesn’t matter what you call the role: the sales development rep (SDR), the business development rep (BDR) or the inside sales rep (ISR). In the world of B2B sales, prospecting is often defined as the art and science of contacting leads or target accounts in hopes of creating opportunities for account executives.

Lead Rank 49

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Salary Comparison 49

Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

Interview your top-performing sales reps and account executives to truly understand their daily responsibilities and what skills/tasks are required in their position. Incorporate their feedback into the description as required skills and actual daily responsibilities like the example below. Learn from best-in-class examples.

Hiring 77

Hiring How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 77

LeadIQ

JULY 5, 2018

It doesn’t matter what you call the role: the sales development rep (SDR), the business development rep (BDR) or the inside sales rep (ISR). In the world of B2B sales, prospecting is often defined as the art and science of contacting leads or target accounts in hopes of creating opportunities for account executives.

Lead Rank 40

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Salary Comparison 40

Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales Manager 3.0: Manages sales reps. Ensures execution of account and territory strategies. Helping sales reps create business. Here are four steps to transform your sales managers. Sales management is rarely a one-size-fits-all role. Leverage technology to enable your sales managers.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 52

Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales Manager 3.0: Manages sales reps. Ensures execution of account and territory strategies. Helping sales reps create business. Here are four steps to transform your sales managers. Sales management is rarely a one-size-fits-all role. Leverage technology to enable your sales managers.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 52

Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Lars Nilsson, CEO of SalesSource has participated in this first hand while leading inside sales teams at HP, ArcSight and others. ” In my own experience in a day to day sales role, I paid for and used three key tools that gave me significant advantages over my competition.

Jigsaw 101

Jigsaw InsideView Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 101

ExecVision

AUGUST 31, 2018

Did you know the average win rate for an Inside Sales Team is only 22% ? Yet elite, best-in-class sales teams win 50% of their deals. Sales leaders that achieve this see: Increased sales without hiring additional reps. I had to manage a CRM build, distribute leads, assign territories and more.

Hiring 40

Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Journal Inside Sales 40

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

When sales leaders provide consistent support to their sales managers through clear expectations and constant communication, the entire team benefits. While those who worked in inside sales may have had a smoother transition, there is plenty of opportunity for those who worked in the field to successfully sell remotely as well.

Hiring 102

Hiring Promotion Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 102

Don on Selling

OCTOBER 26, 2018

of the best-earning sales representatives spent 4 hours or more doing activities related to sales. These activities included sales meetings, prospecting, follow-ups, and referrals. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are what drive this issue today. – Providing the sales pipeline with more opportunities.

Hiring 58

Hiring Survey Promotion Study 58

InsightSquared

JANUARY 16, 2019

As an example, let’s look at what happens after three rounds of hiring, with five people in each intake. Show them how they are supposed to generate leads and prepare them for AEs according to different sales and marketing strategies. If you’re an inside sales team then you probably have named accounts. CRM proficiency.

Hiring 70

Hiring How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 70

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For insides sales roles these should pretty much exclusively be monthly. For example, you could start inside roles at 80/20 and then increase up to 50/50 as you get to Enterprise. Splits / Territories / Geographies. The payout structure should is a combination of: Pay periods. Base/Variable Split. Accelerators.

Compensation 79

Compensation Hiring Incentives Incentive 79

Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

Outside Sales 97

Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 97

Xactly

APRIL 30, 2018

Outside sales representatives often travel to meet clients at their location of preference, whether it be at their company conference room or for a lunch meeting. These face-to-face interactions usually involve higher-dollar sales for the employer. Defining Inside Sales. The inside sales role is similar to virtual sales.

Outside Sales 41

Outside Sales Inside Sales Travel Hiring 41

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 108

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 71

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

What is inside sales? Let’s kick things off with a definition of inside sales. The inside sales model is built around the idea of sales reps working from their desks, without leaving the office. This means the inside sales process relies on digital communication, as well as phone calls.

Outside Sales 52

Outside Sales Inside Sales Scale Lead Rank 52

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Revenue by territory. Activity Sales Metrics. These sales metrics show what salespeople are doing on a daily basis. Activity metrics are “manageable,” meaning sales managers can directly influence them. Outreach Sales Metrics. Percentage of reps using the CRM.

Cost per Acquisition 130

Cost per Acquisition Lead Rank Churn Webinar Metrics 130

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Automatically track and organize every sales attempt. Enter contact and company data into your CRM automatically. Tools, like the free HubSpot CRM , allow you to monitor how and when your leads interact with your website. It speeds up their sales process and nothing gets lost in translation. Schedule email responses.

Prospecting 101

Prospecting Top of Funnel Social Media Hubspot 101

InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

It helps you understand the real flow of their sales process in a structured manner. Through this, leaders can then identify gaps and other challenges in their sales performance. Sales territory mapping can also help organizations establish their sales methodology and improve sales process steps.

Sales Process 65

Sales Process Sales Methodology Lead Rank Government 65

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Our Sales Cycle Needs to be Shortened – It is taking too long to close deals now – an average of XX days/ weeks / months. New Sales Reps Need More Guidance on a Process and Methodology – We brought on a new sales rep (or created an inside sales team) and nothing is documented – everyone around here seems to do something different.

Lead Rank 155

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Process B2B 155

Close.io

AUGUST 19, 2019

Salespeople were so territorial that they wouldn’t make introductions on behalf of their colleagues even when they had a connection to a prospect’s company. One thing sales leaders should explore is how to highlight effort and improvement of their reps who may not be the top performer in any given category. Real-time feedback.

Hiring 57

Hiring Competition Motivation Journal 57

Close.io

AUGUST 28, 2018

Never before (in any CRM) has predictive dialing been available built-in. This largely confined sales reps to owning specific geographic areas, or territories that they could personally visit and cultivate relationships within over time. Companies began experimenting with staffing entire sales teams who never left the office.

Outsourcing Services 91

Outsourcing Services Hiring Call-back Lead Rank 91

Pipeliner

JANUARY 3, 2018

Obtain a ticket to a key city within your territory. One of the people I am mentoring is achieving amazing sales results and in my view it’s because he has gained the trust of his own CEO to the point where he is leveraging the CEO’s LinkedIn account. Pipeliner CRM empowers any bold move for sales.

Hiring 45

Hiring Conference Lead Rank Commence 45

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. Just a couple of examples.

Scale 81

Scale Enterprise Enterprise Oracle 81