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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.

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Our Favorite Sales Blog Posts From 2018

CloserIQ

Tara Fung of Commonbond shares tips to advance in your sales career, regardless of your experience. 2) Video in Sales Emails Increases Reply Rate 26%. And receiving an email that is noticeably system-generated already lowers the chance of a response. 3) Common Sales Hire Traits That Are Overvalued.

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Predictive Sales Analytics: The New Normal?

SBI

National Cash Register, Westinghouse Electric and others created large, organized sales forces and with them, standardized sales and sales management techniques. It was innovation in technology that drove innovation in sales. 4) Sales Performance Monitoring. History is now repeating itself. 5) Pricing.

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Best Sales Podcasts: An Ultimate List of 100+ Must-Listens

LeadFuze

Episode 016: Why You Need a Clearly Defined Sales Process. Episode 027: The Anatomy of a Sales Slump (and How to Dig Yourself Out). Podcaster Blurb: Jim Brown coaches tech companies and reps in the Sandler Selling System. Disrupt Sales with Marketing Automation that Feels Human. 35 The Sales Evangelist.

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SDR Onboarding Best Practices

LevelEleven

According to a 2018 report by InsideSales , sales development representatives (SDRs) ramp time has increased by 5.8% Track these goals with a Performance Management System such as LevelEleven to take the manual reporting out of the equation. from 2017… going from an average of 4 months to 4.2

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

PandaDoc

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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Inside vs. outside sales: Which suits you best?

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Improved teamwork Due to the more connected nature of inside sales, sales managers tend to work closely with their teams. This means that the whole team is responsible for getting sales closed and an individualistic mindset simply won’t cut it. Generally speaking, inside sales have a shorter sales cycle.