SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

B2B sales can be complex and confusing with many different processes, practices and models it’s made up of. Inside sales is one such model. With more than 50% of new B2B sales jobs being inside sales roles, it’s no longer a niche operating model. What is Inside Sales? Sales cycle times.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2020

Darryl will guide us through a tour of the “fundamental pillars” of running Inside Sales and Engagement practices! To what extent do CRMs and Marketing Automation tools help in achieving the results?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

Top-tier firms around the world are quickly adopting sales enablement best practices to ensure that performance standards are not only maintained but improve beyond when training was limited to the classroom. Let’s explore some crucial components you can keep in mind when constructing your own sales enablement strategy.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2013

It seems that no matter what data services your company subscribes to, it is still difficult to find those leads you know could become more probable prospective customers. What I love about SalesLoft is that they are solely focused on helping those of us on the front line of sales prospecting. Try these out and see what you think.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

We get calls from companies every week who want us to evaluate or use their sales tool. In some manner it helps salespeople because of something – like mining data, or tracking sales opportunities, or helping sales teams with Gamification, or CRM – all things that I write about and consult with midmarket companies about.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 11, 2011

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. No longer will the Inside Sales Rep be a “jack of all trades” Roles will be clearly defined and measured based on specific desired outcomes. Data will become an integral component for predicting the likelihood of Inside Sales success.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In this post, we’re sharing three inside sales job descriptions that you can steal and personalize for your business in order to attract the right sales talent in 2020! Job description template: junior inside sales professional. ? Job description template: inside sales leader. ? Let’s get going.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Software Advice surveyed nearly 2000 sales professionals who use a mobile version of a CRM tool and found the following: Nearly all salespeople using mobile CRM (82 percent) say that accessing their system on smartphones and tablets greatly or moderately improves the quality of their CRM data. Increase Opportunities.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2018

What does the future hold for the inside sales jobs role for a salesperson and will its job description come to mean anything more than facilitating a customer’s purchase. What will the inside sales jobs role look like in three-to-five years? The inside sales role will evolve in line with technology.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sales make the business world go ’round, but data is the gravity that holds everything together to be cohesive and coherent. Data teaches us the most important lessons: what went right or wrong, what can be improved, and what path forward we should take. Why is a data-first approach so important? Data As A Sales Tool.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

With digital selling taking over traditional sales methodologies, there has never been a more exciting time to be in sales. Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. Great @GoModernSelling ep.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The issue – dirty data. Dirty data is old data. It is wrong data – double entered and triple entered. It is bad data. How do you cleanse the data? Sample Data Policy: A new record must have the prospect’s first and last name, company, and e-mail address at a minimum. Contact person got promoted.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sales Training Programs Online. Sales training programs online could become the preferred delivery channel over the next few years. Online sales training has both advantages, disadvantages, and parity with the more traditional approach to upskilling salespeople. Sales Training Programs – Online.

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OutboundView

MARCH 31, 2021

Inside sales is a dominant sales model in high-value SaaS, tech, and B2B industries. It involves handling sales remotely where reps mostly work inside an office or in a shared office environment, unlike outside sales reps who are traditional field reps that travel to meet clients.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A variety of industries use inside sales as a popular high-growth sales model. According to Harvard Business Review , 46 percent of high-growth tech companies are expanding through inside sales, as compared to 21 percent growing through outside sales teams. Growth Carries Challenges.

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OutboundView

MAY 13, 2020

Interview With David Dulany of Tenbound About Outsourcing Inside Sales. I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Dulany of Tenbound, an absolute expert in everything inside sales. When Does Outsourcing Inside Sales Make Sense? But when should you actually consider outsourcing inside sales?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Getting virtual sales right involves far more than using digital tools.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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LevelEleven

JUNE 18, 2018

If you’re like many sales leaders, you’ve experienced the challenge of having too much data in too many places. A combination of Salesforce reports, dashboards, spreadsheets, as well as other sales software programs can make it nearly impossible to extract the critical information necessary to take action.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. Access to high-quality contact data, market trends, and emerging predictive analytics tools allow for rapid segmentation of high-quality accounts and prospects. The fifth TiLT module, helps inside sales teams build trust using the “3 Yes Method”.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When you explain how AI allows sales managers to review more calls and provide more precise feedback that directly benefits each individual seller and allows them to close more deals, they’ll understand the why. Foster a data-driven mindset. Sales leaders can influence their teams to be data-driven in a number of ways.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech.

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ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Sound familiar?

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Women Sales Pros

APRIL 19, 2019

Trend 1 – Smart Hiring The typical churn year over year in a sales organization is 25%. If you had the data on what that revolving door is costing your company, you’d likely feel a bit sick. Bad hires are the number one reason for the failure of sales organizations. It’s not your bad sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Inside sales reps are tasked with nurturing leads and converting them into customers. Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

As an early adopter of cloud-based CRM, we were storing data in the cloud ten years ago – 12 years ago. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers. So are you more productive? Increase Opportunities.

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Allego

JANUARY 12, 2022

Scrolling through LinkedIn recently, I saw several sales leaders sharing their goals. One common theme: They want to empower their sales teams to succeed. Here’s a look at some more sales leader resolutions, plus advice on how to achieve them: Improve Virtual Selling. Plus, we discovered customers like virtual sales.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Data’s essential role in letting RevOps know what’s working (and not) and how to adapt for continual improvement. Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Mediafly acquired his company Alinean, a pioneer in value messaging and interactive sales tools.

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ExecVision

MAY 18, 2018

Remote teams are nothing new in the sales world–field reps have been closing deals outside of the office since practically the beginning of time. Working remotely is however, a newer development in inside sales. Here are ten steps for building a remote inside sales team that smashes quota and remains engaged: 1.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ensuring that goals and sales targets are ambitious but reachable, taking broad business growth goals and distilling them down to a sales quota for every rep of every level, and mentoring and coaching sales reps throughout their tenure with your company are all just part of the job. It takes time to become a star sales rep.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Last month, IBM announced IBM ® Watson™ Analytics , a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. This cloud-based service could help your team sort through the layers of data your company has compiled from marketing, sales, HR, and elsewhere.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To answer this question, let’s start with some data: According to the latest HubSpot Research Study , we found that 40% of businesses will miss revenue targets this year. Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core. Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model.

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SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

” It includes a downloadable tool to assess your readiness for successful implementation. Sales leaders regularly face the daunting task of delivering revenue and margin growth. Here’s what could happen: Inside Sales: Field sales reps continue to serve customers who could purchase on-line.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With better web-accessible software platforms and data tools, pricing managers no longer need to be tethered to the office to get real time data. Data analysts are jumping on new collaboration tools such as Slack or workflow management. Working from home can even help pricing mangers adapt better to market changes.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

Whether you’re taking up a new hobby or developing on-the-job skills in a sales role, it’s true what they say: Practice makes perfect. There’s only so much that a seller can digest through sales onboarding and training content — and in order for a rep to truly hone their skills, they must practice. 8 Types of Sales Role-Play.

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