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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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Lead Generation and Appointment Setting—Know When to Pull the Trigger and Outsource

Pointclear

Ken Murray is a 30 year veteran of the Inside Sales space. He has designed and built inside sales campaigns for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His sales teams have sold over 168,000 products annually and produced north of 700 million dollars in annual sales. To be blunt, they simply sucked at selling.

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Understanding Sales: A Total and Comprehensive Guide to Unlocking Success

Vengreso

How to Get Into a Sales Role? To get into a sales role, one must have the right skills, experience, and attitude. However, the same requirement doesn’t usually apply to direct sales roles or for outside sales representatives for product companies (i.e. How are Sales Representatives Paid?

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Best Practices of Top-Performing Sales Teams

Velocify

To rise to the top, look for a more comprehensive solution that provides all the major features and integrations you need to support your contact strategy and sales goals. For example, solutions like Velocify offer lead management, calling, email marketing, SMS text messaging, and analytics all within a single fully integrated system.

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Inbound or outbound sales—which one should you focus on?

Close.io

Well Robert Frost would be deeply frustrated with my answer, because when these two marketing strategies diverge in the woods, I pick both. It all depends on your goals and the type of business you run. Inbound sales strategy: When is inbound the right choice? So who wins the battle? Need to jump ahead?

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The ultimate guide to sales development

Close.io

Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. They spent their time focusing only on the most interested parties they felt they could close, leaving most of those leads completely ignored. Enter sales development.

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Best 150+ Sales Tools: The Complete List for 2023 (Updated)

Sales Hacker Training

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. You need empathy, grit, and drive.