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10 Inside Sales Ideas From Ken Krogue

Score More Sales

Last week I had the pleasure of spending a day with Ken Krogue, co-founder of InsideSales.com , inside sales pioneer, and Forbes columnist It was great. A specialization model in inside sales yields a 7 point higher close rate – do you have specialists? In inside sales, leading indicators are effort and results.

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Tricks and Tips for Building and Running a High Performance #InsideSales Team

SBI

Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. By the end of 2013 there will be 2.3 Customer 2.0

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2 Simple Solutions to Improve Your Outbound Sales Cadence

Sales Hacker

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. Replace Sales Cadence Stress with Simplicity. Outbound Sales Cadence Example #1.

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TSE 1172: Should I Start Off With Inside Sales or Outside Sales?

Sales Evangelist

Should I Start Off With Inside Sales or Outside Sales? Are you new to sales and asking yourself the universal sales question, “Should I start off with inside sales or outside sales?” An inside sales rep who’s also doing outbound tasks has a lot of work.

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Sales Team Gamification and the Virtual #SalesSummit

SBI

I enjoyed being one of the presenters for last week’s InsideSales Virtual Summit. The event was deemed the world’s largest virtual sales trade show with a record setting, 15,000 registered participants. Inside Sales” Brooks , and Mark Organ. SPIFs are an example of using contests to change behavior.

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Why Sales People Don’t Follow Up Sales Leads

Klozers

. Surely when sales people are under pressure to hit targets, then logic would dictate following up on sales leads would be a priority. Why then, is there such a disconnect between Sales and Following Up? According to The Annuitas Group, nurtured leads make 47% larger purchases than non-nurtured Sales Leads.

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Predictive Sales Analytics: The New Normal?

SBI

One benefit of sales analytics technology is that it can facilitate the alignment of sales and marketing (another age-old problem) and fulfill the promise of Sales Enablement. For example, Highspot offers what they call Content Genomics™ a proprietary technology that analyzes the DNA of sales content across the organization.