Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. A closer look at a sales training incentive program. Why is this a trending incentive initiative?

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Whether you ask three times or ten times, persistently asking “why” helps you move past the flawed assumption that your sales team is underperforming because they are lazy or unskilled. Inside Sales” Mike Brooks put it , “you can’t close an unqualified lead.” Have a formal system for qualifying leads.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Follow-up 94

Nutshell

APRIL 28, 2020

Last year, remote work was a growing trend. If you’re a salesperson, this working arrangement has probably been a tough transition—making sales calls from your kitchen table while the kids fight over the remote in the living room isn’t what we’d call an ideal work environment. In 2020, it’s the new normal.

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Skype Webinar Metrics How To Call-back 121

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Exact (1159). Brian, CMO of Lattice Engines, recently presented a session on predictive analytics at the Inside Sales Virtual Summit. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments.

Lead Rank 99

Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

Ideal Customer Profile 50

Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Outsourcing Services Inside Sales 50

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I’ll get to dive into sales and talk about my sales career. QuotaPath is a little bit bucking the trend for me, in that I built the product and engineering team first and wanted to make sure that the end-user saw value in the product, imagine that, before going and building up a bad-ass B2B sales team.

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Call-back Scale Compensation Ideal Customer Profile 76

Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

You're going to need to get your Sales and Marketing teams in the same room every week. Build one-pagers, white papers, brand collateral and an array of enticing sales material. Do not release the same exact material as them. But change is hard and change management can take time and aligning incentives is a must.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63