B2B Lead Blog - Inside Sales

JULY 14, 2014

In inside sales, it’s not just about what you “ask” prospects; it’s about when you ask them. This is where a lot of sales development reps get it wrong. As a consequence, how you arrange the story in your marketing efforts will make the difference between delivering information of true value, or just another frustrating sales pitch prospects don’t want to hear. Inside Sales Cold calling sales development reps

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InsideSales.com

MAY 27, 2020

When it comes to increasing sales productivity, the simplest answers are still the best. Template Emails. AI-Driven Sales Engagement. There are constantly new innovations to sales tools. Template emails.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For years, sales and marketing teams have been spending money to buy lead generation tools and contact data to grow their email marketing database. Who has more accurate data for outbound email campaigns? We had 9 out of 200 emails sent, which is a 4.5%

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 11, 2017

Startups and challengers—even those with disruptive offerings—faced a significant uphill battle to win new business at scale and steal market share from industry leaders, because they had limited visibility and access to buyers. From high-growth companies MongoDB, Cloudera, Birst, Actifio, and DiscoverOrg, come first-hand insights on finding success through high-quality sales and marketing intelligence.

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Tom Hopkins

MAY 27, 2014

And despite all your phone calls, emails, etc., Is there really an email guaranteed […]. The post One Email Guaranteed to Get a Response appeared first on How to Selling Skills. Related posts: Using Phone and Email for Sales Conversions.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

Or at least that’s what a recent report by Forrester Research, an independent and leading research company in the marketing and technology space, has predicted. Ecommerce systems will eliminate 1 million B2B sales jobs by 2020 due to the shift to self-service platforms.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 29, 2020

The difference between a good and great sales development rep (SDR) is the skills they grasp. Email. A Sales Development Representative, or SDR, is one of the primary roles within a sales and marketing team. Email. All steps use sales and CRM software.

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B2B Lead Blog - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. You should use sales development use a call guide.

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Velocify

MAY 16, 2013

There are sales strategies from the email era that remain as effective today, and new selling insights that make email even more effective. helped drive rapid adoption of email. Email was new, it was exciting and it was a game changer.

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InsideSales.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the beginning stages of structuring a sales team , a new hire will get the chance to work alongside a seasoned rep and soak in the sale process, as well as how to best prospect leads. Sales team pre-training: Assess your team’s strengths and weaknesses.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 3, 2019

RELATED: How to Transform Customer Service into a Sales Machine. A loyal customer will buy from you even if you’re not on sale. This builds up your company’s image even without spending more on marketing. Personalizing emails for better customer retention.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Best-in-class sales organizations consistently exceed expectations and outperform the competition. While each organization has its own unique structure, goals, and KPIs, top-performing sales teams commonly employ a few key strategies in their quest for success.

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Velocify

JULY 21, 2017

We recently caught up with long-time client, Guaranteed Rate, to chat about their challenges and successes over the past decade and how Velocify has helped them rise to the top in an ever-evolving mortgage market. Nurture Borrowers throughout the Sales Cycle.

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B2B Lead Blog - Inside Sales

MARCH 31, 2014

Lead generation teleprospecting is the art of acquiring sales-ready leads for a sales staff. After all, the knowledge you acquire can be applied to several facets of your marketing efforts, including what you emphasize online. Inside Sales customer-centric

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A new study from Process Street in partnership with sales email tool PersistIQ reveals the inside sales outreach of the world’s 281 top SaaS companies, and how they respond when a high-ticket lead (in this case, we used Vodafone) signs up for a free trial or demo. Sales

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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. Location data (Marketing loves).

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I subscribe to several newsletters written by medical doctors who practice natural medicine. I read most of the other sales blogs too. And the misinformation is killing sales forces. Marketing can''t do it.

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Fill the Funnel

JULY 2, 2013

Sales and marketing leaders should open a line of communication with these small businesses to learn what is working to help them grow their revenue and customer base. 1 Biggest change in how you do business today – use, or use more, online marketing tools.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The last reaction salespeople want from their sales prospecting efforts is to ignore the requests of a sales lead. This week I received this unsolicited email: Credit www.gtatisography.com. Please remove this email address from your database.

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OutboundView

JULY 14, 2019

EBQ By Appointment Only Strategic Sales & Marketing. Vsynergize Salesify Ecoast Marketing Cience SalesPro Leads. Extended Presence B2B Only Appointment Setters Pereus Marketing. You can outsource your entire sales, marketing, or customer service department to EBQ.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 31, 2018

CRM, or customer relationship management, is a strategy companies use to track customer relationships from pre- to post-sale. At many companies, knowledge about customers is stored in many places -- the CEO’s brain, a sales rep’s inbox, an accountant’s records, or even a spreadsheet.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wondering what the right sales approach for your company is? Should you build an inbound sales machine, set up an outbound sales team, or take a hybrid approach? Inbound sales is famous for being able to attract customers to any business, be cost effective, and scale really well.

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Green Lead's B2B

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Inbound Marketing is all the rage these days, and why shouldn't it be? Inbound Marketing's goal is to pull potential customers in by all different methods, whether it's compelling content, savvy SEO execution or community interaction via social media. While inbound strategies are effective, augmenting them with outbound marketing strategies can add to that success. Be it appointment setting , lead qualification, or email marketing, where's all the goodness at?

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 27, 2019

Looking at the reply rates of a campaign is the gold standard for measuring email effectiveness. Jeremey and Wes discuss where sales engagement is at today, tips for measuring effectiveness, and how he sees artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) changing the future of sales.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles. Mendix is currently hiring across a range of sales positions.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This list of sales statistics to boost selling results can also be used to shape your sales strategy implementation. Sales statistics and data are factors now important in defining any selling activity or investment from social selling to inbound sales.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s talk about the unicorns of sales development: high-quality sales leads. High-quality sales leads are the heart of our business at CIENCE — the very best we give our clients. What is a Sales Lead? There are many sales leads out there. Sales Lead Quantity.

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Nudge.ai

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Going into the New Year as a B2B sales professional, you’ll likely have some software subscriptions coming up for renewal, so we wanted to prepare you for those decisions. We sifted through B2B sales tools on Capterra , G2 Crowd , Gartner and more to pull out our top 126 picks for everything from new-age social selling tools to B2B sales automation software. Base: Next-generation CRM software for leading B2B sales teams. Streak: CRM inside Gmail.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ve seen quite a bit about sales productivity in the last few weeks. And for good reason—sales productivity is the theme of our 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit! 6 Outdated Sales Techniques That Hurt Your Productivity. Sales productivity.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s talk about the unicorns of sales development: high-quality sales leads. High-quality sales leads are the heart of our business at CIENCE — the very best we give our clients. What is a Sales Lead? There are many sales leads out there. Sales Lead Quantity.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors!

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