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How to run a successful inside sales onboarding effort (step by step)

Close.io

If your hiring strategy involves bringing in fresh talent, you can’t expect these new inside sales professionals to be confident and successful, without a strong onboarding effort. What’s inside sales onboarding, you ask? A strong inside sales onboarding program is one of the best things you can do.

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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

It’s time to face this new reality and reengineer our sales environments to exploit the spoils of it! Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. Sales used to be something that happened "out there" — in the field. Fifty years ago, when the modern sales function evolved, customers were "out there."

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Using the Exploratory Process in Inside Sales

Carew International

Last month in MFTM, we wrote about the importance of responsiveness in inside sales. If you’re familiar with Carew’s Dimensions of Professional Selling ® program, you know that the Exploratory Process is the most important part of the sales cycle. What are the right open-ended questions to ask?

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

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. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels.

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The Complete Guide to Effective Sales Voicemail (Plus Scripts and Example Recordings)

Sales Hacker

My friend Tom at Bottomline Technologies was running a sales team making thousands of phone calls a week. Despite all their best efforts, his sales reps were only connecting with prospects 3% of the time. If you don’t leave voicemails on any calls, you send the message that the prospect isn’t important.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Customer business challenges/opportunities: Issues that customers face or opportunities to improve the way they do things that can motivate prospects to engage. This isn’t simply about describing the different target segments, it’s about sharing those snippets of intel that help salespeople focus on the right prospects early on.

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How the Hell Do I Prospect Right Now? Part 1

Factor 8

Start by asking how this global trend would affect your prospect and develop 1-3 key benefits for them right now (not features, benefits). Now the very top of our prospect list are companies who traditionally sell face to face and who have no idea how to engage digitally. The post How the Hell Do I Prospect Right Now?