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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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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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, we have engineering/product development, manufacturing/service delivery, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, HR, operations, and so forth. Within sales, we are very familiar with the subsystems. They are powerful tools to help us understand the interdependencies in our organizations.

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JULY 22, 2014

I can remember the first day I heard about the search engine – it was early 1999 and it seemed like a nice, helpful tool – not a world game-changer as it has become. The search engine changed everything, and so has the company. How Many Sales Research Tools Are There? Use a social monitoring tool for efficiency.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Instead of building content optimized for search engine queries, Acme relied on their reputation. They used a field sales force model with 10 Field Reps and 3 Solutions Engineers. This ramped up the sales cycle considerably. Also, he thought the sales reps could prospect locally for more leads. Each “Win” took 2.4

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Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Most of the good sales people do not dream of becoming technical experts.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That technology permanently shifted the way sales teams operated. More than 20 years later, sales professionals are on the verge of another groundshift, this time to sales automation tools. No-growth firms are much more likely to have little or no automation strategy and few tools at their disposal.”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

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. What I don’t see is cohesiveness, and maximizing time through better management of all of the tools. Increase Opportunities.

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Vengreso

JULY 17, 2020

Hang develops and delivers a strategic framework for consistently onboarding new sellers, continuous talent nurture, and implementation of best practices in sales programs and tools. Hang is a global speaker on sales, leadership, and a passionate advocate for women in the workplace. What Will Sales Look Like in 2021?

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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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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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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur. Mediafly acquired his company Alinean, a pioneer in value messaging and interactive sales tools.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

I’m the kind of person who gets into an airplane and am still amazed how they always take off and land hundreds or thousands of miles away (at least all of my flights have, and nearly all flights do) To see the advances in marketing tools and sales tools – it’s really phenomenal what software can now do.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

She is IBM’s most prolific female inventor and a mobile software engineer. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Also go to IBM.com/TED to see all of the speakers.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 25, 2013

Ray Kurzweil, author, inventor, futurist and Director of Engineering at Google. Life as a sales rep is no exception. They’re also elaborated on in the Top 10 ‘A’ Player Competency Tool. Many industries are trending towards inside sales. Will you be able to keep the freedom and autonomy of outside sales?

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

They are having search engines find insight about you. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. What is your plan to grow and improve your presence in 2015? Close More Deals.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not only will those in sales be able to manage their territories this way but also sales leaders will have incredible access to data and insights – even being able to reinforce learning. 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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JULY 30, 2014

There are hundreds of strategies for success incorporating some social tools into your business. In the last 10, B2B companies we have worked with, I found that this tool combination has worked with 9 of them. In this case, the social tool helped me find someone, connect to someone, and ALSO gave me confidence.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

I did an unscientific survey of webinar tool sites as if I was evaluating and making a purchase from my smart phone. For this experiment I looked up webinar tools and webinar platforms. In my search I looked for “webinar platform” and “webinar tool” to get dozens of choices. It could have been any B2B product or service.

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SBI

JUNE 17, 2019

SalesTech Video Review: TechTarget’s Priority Engine. TechTarget’s Priority Engine tells you which prospect has the highest probability of needing what you have to offer and the greatest likelihood of buying now. With Priority Engine Sales can find the best people to call on right now. Lead Engagement.

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MARCH 25, 2014

I am very humbled, and quite honored, since it seems that quite a process was put into place and many different tools to measure reach was used to take a list of 500 influencers down to the top 30. LinkedIn is certainly a social selling tool and Koka the perfect representative of how adding insight to help potential buyers builds your brand.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. Outside or inside sales? It’s all sales.

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JULY 31, 2014

Now there are bigger and better ways – from tools like GageIn to data tools like Avention we can track new contacts at our prospective customer companies – a key way to grow opportunities. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The tide has turned at IBM for the “S” in SMB and the “M” in midmarket – if anyone can further level the playing fields for smaller business, it is the technologists and innovators working on tools like these with big budgets. Stay tuned as we uncover more use cases and stories of real companies doing big things with these tools.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. What are you waiting for?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

With all of the technology, tools, methodology and sales process in place you’d think there was no real simple way to help with your sales messaging. Newer sales reps need to feel comfortable with what it is that they are saying and to whom. That’s why my best tool for doing this is…….drum drum roll…….your

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

Selling to HR and have an inside sales function or are considering an inside sales function? When they’re working, it’s an amazing engine bringing new talent into the organizations and deals into the sales pipeline. Budgets that were once available for inside sales teams have diminished.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I trust their research and know of many ways they have embraced social into their inside sales teams and into their business plan. For example, right now I am getting messages from a tool called Signals which shows me when someone is on our website, is opening an email I sent, or is clicking on a link within an email I sent.

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JUNE 30, 2014

How does your recipe for success work for your sales team? This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Increase Opportunities.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is where a comprehensive sales development playbook is essential to success for startups and established organizations. 6 Benefits of a Sales Development Playbook The sales development playbook isn’t just a tool; it’s a game changer for SDRs and sales leaders.

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JULY 11, 2013

If you would like more on this, visit our recent Inside Sales Power Tip on Listening. This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Image credit: peshkova / 123RF Stock Photo.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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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. Sam Jacobs: Hi, everybody and welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast! From consulting to sales engineering. After this came a Sales Engineering role at Inktomi.

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

What can you put in place in 2015 to help sales reps be more effective in starting with the best data possible? This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2014

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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