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AUGUST 3, 2017

If helping reps improve is your favorite part of the job, you love to train and call coach, and you agree that inside sales is harder than field sales…read on! Our current team of Advisors are Inside Sales experts with backgrounds of 15 or more years at the Director or VP level. Seriously, this is big.

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Hiring Inside Sales Ideal Customer Profile Energy 39

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Sales Development. Sales Growth. Sales Enablement. Enterprise Sales. Sales Operations. Sales Technology. Training & Coaching. VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. [link]. Director of North America Sales. The Bridge Group, Inc. Digital Sales and Development Manager.

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Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 121

ROI4Sales

APRIL 17, 2017

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Sound familiar?

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Training Hiring Journal Education 71

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech.

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Inside Sales Training Hiring Outsourcing Services 78

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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Ideal Customer Profile Salary Hiring Lead Rank 111

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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Channels Video Training Hiring 111

Pipeliner

MAY 18, 2019

If your sales training investment is not achieving the outcomes you expected, you are in good company. The problem probably isn’t the training program you chose. You probably made one (or more) of five common faulty assumptions about your sales training initiative. Who all are you training?

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Training Nonprofit Government Coaching 64

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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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. Qualia, a real estate company, uses software that allows sales managers to listen in and “whisper” feedback. .

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Lead Rank Quota Face-to-face Hiring 339

SalesLoft

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sales blogs to go to for insight in every sales role, from sales professionals to sales managers to sales leaders — aside from Salesloft.com, of course! For Sales Professionals: The Sales Blog (Anthony Iannarino) | Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, author, and sales leader.

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Lead Rank Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring Inside Sales 52

Score More Sales

JUNE 27, 2014

Those of us in and around hundreds of sales teams know that it is not just about more women applying for sales positions – it is about the culture of the company, how interviewing is done, what job descriptions look like, and whether first line sales managers are trained in gender neutral communication, among other things.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without further ado, here are some of the female movers-and-shakers who are creating powerful ripple effects and paving the path for the next generation of women sales leaders. Amy Appleyard – SVP Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. Brooke Bachesta – SDR Manager at Outreach.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 25, 2012

“The growth in sales jobs, and therefore one would think, in sales training is in inside sales. Although there is a migration to inside selling, most sales training is based on the assumption that sales calls will be face to face. Never has a diagnostic approach been more critical.

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Inside Sales PointClear Face-to-face Outside Sales 43

Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . We suggest there is one additional often under used yet effective and affordable strategy – get serious about freeing up the sales team so they have more time for selling.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Funnel Inside Sales 112

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. And companies are starting to recognize that modern sales teams need to replace legacy classroom-style training with solutions that include digital, on-demand training. Field Sales vs. Inside Sales.

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Distribution Selling Skills Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“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. Playbook is an apt description for The Smart Sales Manager.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

They help manage the entire life-cycle of employees for you. Assessment Tool: Objective Management Group Sales Candidate Assessment. OMG’s products are backed by years of research and in working with hundreds of thousands of sales reps.

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Hiring How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring 229

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. You may need to increase the size of inside sales.

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

Score More Sales

MAY 6, 2013

Go now to Top Sales Academy and if you are a sales leader or aspire to be one, and join in on the first group of ten sessions about Sales Management and Leadership. Then join me for the Internal (Inside) Sales Series. May 7th is the date of the first session. Our first class starts on July 10th.

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Education Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 194

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

I spoke this week to a group of sales professionals at the new monthly Sales Accelerators event at Hubspot in Cambridge, MA. It is a new event here in the Boston area for sales reps to network, meet and mingle with others. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Hubspot Twitter Inside Sales Objections 206

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. I’ve got bills to pay! Thanks for the input. Don’t do it.

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Motivation Incentives Incentive Lead Rank 191

Score More Sales

JULY 17, 2013

Video for sales training and coaching is a given. Nothing fully replaces in-person interaction with prospects, clients, or in-house training, yet video can work as a close second in augmenting in-person meetings. Devon McDonald – Director of Sales & Marketing Support at OpenView Partners.

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Hiring B2B Video Lead Rank 192

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Furthermore, the playbook aligns sales activities with broader business goals. It harmonizes sales and marketing to ensure focus on unified business targets. Streamline the Sales Process The sales development playbook provides a clear roadmap for handling leads, reducing guesswork, and ensuring consistency.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools. The adoption was led by Inside Sales Manager, Matthew Johnson, who has been with the Kings organization for nine years. This diversity made ensuring consistent messaging in the sales process critical.

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Sports Coaching Call-back Inside Sales 62

Costello

APRIL 2, 2018

Richard Harris, owner of The Harris Consulting Group , got his start in sales back in the mid 1980’s when he landed his first sales job at the GAP during high school. Ever since, Richard has always held positions in sales. Richard’s Sales Qualification Methodology.

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How To Call-back Inside Sales Face-to-face 106

Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2023

A sales manager recently asked, “Is cold calling effective?” My answer was not an attempt to be glib or elusive, but rather a factual observation from working with hundreds of sales teams. There are sales teams who find cold calling effective, while there are others who think it is useless. I replied, “Sometimes.”

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Cold Calling Scale Hiring Strategy 62

Score More Sales

OCTOBER 6, 2014

On the other hand it is fun to put people in boxes and it seems easier if we can just group and label everyone. A couple of years ago, a sales manager I was coaching had labeled one of the sales reps on his team as “incapable of closing a deal”. Isn’t that more efficient? But It Does Not Work.

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Opportunity Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 194

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

Customer success: If your customers need training, onboarding, implementation support, and service, partnering with vendors who offer these services lets you focus on closing new business without sacrificing your existing users. You’re not simply rolling out a change to one group -- you’re asking multiple external groups to adapt.

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Channels Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 96

SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

which is a platform that helps you track all your sales activity & the communication between your salesperson & the prospect. He actively writes blogs about cold calling, sales, inside sales & everything related to sales. Jill is a sales force you need in your LinkedIn feed. Tom Hopkins.

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Influencer LinkedIn Social Media Demand Generation Agencies 76

Keith Rosen

MAY 4, 2020

Jamie, you initially reached out to have me deliver my sales leadership coach training course for your sales management team. How many managers would be attending in total?” And I want all of my front line sales managers attending this program.” ” “Thanks, Keith.

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Coaching Course Retention Engineering 77

Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Top companies like InsightSquared have reps share challenges they want to solve with the group during weekly sales team meetings or best practices that they turn into playbooks. Here are some of our favorite sales coaching organizations: Winning By Design offers assessments, strategy/process design, training and coaching.

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Outsourcing Services Coaching Scale Sales Outsourcing 48

SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

which is a platform that helps you track all your sales activity & the communication between your salesperson & the prospect. He actively writes blogs about cold calling, sales, inside sales & everything related to sales. Jill is a sales force you need in your LinkedIn feed. Tom Hopkins.

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Influencer LinkedIn Social Media Demand Generation Agencies 52

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

In the last blog in this series we discussed lead nurturing , and how an advanced lead generation program that includes nurturing can triple your sales. Set sales straight—it’s a win win. Helping them understand actual vs. assumed buyer behavior in B2B sales environments helps alter their behavior—and helps them be more successful.

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Follow-up Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 154

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Bloomfire gives your team fingertip-access to all the sales training they need to spike sales fast videos, presentations, spreadsheets, and more.Sales reps can ask questions – and get answers… from product managers, sales managers and each other. SAVO Group. SAVO Group ToolSkool. CallidusCloud.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Some sales organizations likely would exceed their blown sales budget in the first quarter. A SaaS technology provider with a ten person inside sales team had an average closing rate of 30 percent. The company considered this sales rep their superstar and felt lucky to have him. Don’t attend sales training.

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Referrals Exercises Discount Study 62

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

We also want to express a special thank you to the members of the sales community who spoke up, and volunteered their time to help us as we not only reissue this list, but also think about even more ways we can shine a light on underrepresented groups within sales going forward. Founder and CEO of The Bridge Group.

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