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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.

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Why Sales People Don’t Follow Up Sales Leads

Klozers

Sales Leads continue to be followed up ineffectively by sales people despite surveys showing most B2B Sales Reps are struggling to hit sales targets. Surely when sales people are under pressure to hit targets, then logic would dictate following up on sales leads would be a priority.

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Top 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14

SBI

Whether or not you’ll be attending, you’ll want to keep up on the latest and to help you with that mission, we’re naming the top 20 Twitter handles to follow at Dreamforce. Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. InsideSales.

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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. They are savvy and cynical about sales techniques. Sales Effectiveness'

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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. It sets you and your team up for failure.

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How sales automation software separates the amateurs from the pros

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Looking up prospects’ phone numbers before a call and writing up call notes afterwards. For sales managers, common non-selling activities could include things like assigning leads to their reps or training new reps on the team’s sales process. What Is Sales Automation? 6) Lead management automation.

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What Sales Tools do You Use to Fuel Your Revenue?

SBI

Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. InsideSales. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Marketing automation. Mobile Selling.