Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." One article was written by a sales expert discussing the concept of following the buyer's purchasing process. The Death of All Selling Forever April 25 2014. April 29 2013.

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Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. Because of this, CRM Radio and the sister program SLMA Radio, have been interviewing executives on the subjects of the marketing and sales uses of Artificial Intelligence. About CRM Radio Guest Mike Plante, Chief Marketing Officer.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Last year I predicted that 2013 would be the year of hiring, that sales people would be on the move, freed from the downturn in the economy and feeling safe, I predicted sales people would start looking for new opportunities. I saw a lot of organizations trim their dead weight and build new and improved sales organizations.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 10, 2014

Inside sales. Recently we published a blog on the emerging importance of inside sales in the B2B market. We came across an interesting research study by Software Advice that examined the performance of their inside sales team – analyzing data collected from over 6,000,000 visitors to their web site.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2014

Great post for sales managers from two great people. I’ve come to learn that having a pipeline of candidates and making good sales hires is a critical part of a sales managers job. ZipRecruiter’s VP of Inside Sales, Kevin Gaither , was tasked with hiring 25 inside sales reps in just three months.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2014

How are B2B sales leaders planning for their teams in 2015? Top 20 sales experts weigh in on this, including me. I was pleased to be a part of this e-book (download here) created by Velocify which addresses a number of issues that are on the minds of sales leaders everywhere. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. Outside or inside sales? increase from 2014.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

There is no argument among sales leaders that finding, hiring, and retaining good sales reps is the biggest challenge in leading an organization to higher profits. But how to hire the right sales reps? Assessment Tool: Objective Management Group Sales Candidate Assessment. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. If you’re in sales, do yourself the favor. InsideSales.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When you are working predominantly with inside sales reps and their immediate sales leaders, it is easy to only think about being in the office and not ever going out at all. If you are an individual contributor in an inside sales role, is there one big event each year you could somehow get to? Close More Deals.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote this article questioning the Death of SPIN Selling. Over the years I have questioned the impending death of other important areas like cold-calling, selling, sales process, salespeople and more. Others are from the big new inside sales industry.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For sales teams, access to customer information is essential to do their job. Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. As sales leaders gather this information, it can help teams become more aligned. Identify the right customers.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

So says the study done by The Hartford, in September of this year, called the 2014 Midsize Business Monitor. The businesses who participated all have annual sales revenues between $10M and $1B. 85% of these companies hired employees in 2014 with 40% of those who replied saying they hired fewer than desired this past year.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 10, 2014

If you are a sales leader or sales executive, you do not want to miss the Sales Acceleration Summit 2014 on Thursday, March 13th. My presentation is about the Sales Pipeline Success Puzzle. The post Sales Acceleration Summit – Join Me and 79 Other Business Experts appeared first on Score More Sales.

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Score More Sales

JULY 24, 2014

I met world-renowned sales expert Jill Konrath virtually back in 2005 or so, after she had written her first best-selling sales book, Selling to Big Companies. Her book came out, I read it, and I wrote a review for my fledgling B2B sales blog. Jill created Sales Shebang(R) in 2007 online and as a conference for women in sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 8, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Global Warming is a trend. Social selling experts use data from the marketing, inbound and inside sales groups with whom they work. If every other ratio remains the same, then more opportunities will translate to more sales and greater revenue. They already work there!

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SBI

OCTOBER 7, 2014

If you’re interested in sales and marketing solutions, we’ve done the pre-planning for you. Save to your mobile device.Simply follow the walking trail stopping at the noted sign-posts and you’ll be sure to see and learn about the top sales and marketing solutions before you head back home.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s a framework aimed at getting you access, setting up those oh-so-important initial sales meetings. I first created this framework from stressing out about the lousy results my inside sales team was getting cold calling. Given that this is now 2014, Sweetspot is an iPad first (and only at the moment) tool.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Michael Haylon spoke about sales at a recent event and pointed out that the best way to get better is by deliberately practicing your skills. Let’s figure out the 7 secret sales email to expedite deals. There is no data to support what works and what doesn’t in B2B sales emails. Over 500,000 secret sales emails.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

Every year at InsideSales.com Labs, we dig through thousands of data points to identify how the world of sales has changed. Sales Org Structures Are Changing. Sales organizations are restructuring themselves to reflect the growing trend of buyers doing their own research before connecting with sellers. This amount increased 22.0%

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In 2014, she was named one of Network World’s 50 Most Fascinating People in the World of Technology. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I read an article that was very consistent with what I was complaining about last week when I wrote The One Thing Missing From the New Way of Selling. I have tremendous respect for the article''s author, Mark Roberge , who has built a great sales force over at Hubspot.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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. How do you measure that?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 14, 2013

It’s getting harder for your sales reps to get at bats these days. As a result, your sales team is missing out on revenue opportunities. Competitors are beating your sales team consistently. Think about the last 3 meetings you took with a sales rep. Your sales team needs the ability to sell this way.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Sales experts show up en masse. Keep Changing Things Up – Dreamforce 2014 had a new configuration for how things were set up this time around – keeps everyone on their toes. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This week thousands of content creators are getting together in Boston to hear about how inbound marketing has developed over the past year in a big event called INBOUND 2014. Initially for customers of Hubspot, the INBOUND event now attracts thousands of marketers, sales leaders, and business builders from around the world.

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Score More Sales

MAY 15, 2014

I had a chance to catch up with best-selling author and modern marketing expert Jay Baer who has been the host of the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2014 Tampa this week. LR: Do you believe sales professionals can be online influencers, or is that role better for the face of a company – a C level leader? (in

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

Increasing sales productivity. Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . The authors noted that top performing sales companies have about the same number of people in sales roles as low performing companies.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Funnel Inside Sales 112

Score More Sales

APRIL 29, 2014

It is unbelievable that in 2014, there are still big brand companies with poor response to people who are looking to buy their products and services. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Click here to download the study. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

The author, Andy Hoar, outlines the following as major contributors to this demise: B2B buyer preferences have fundamentally shifted from speaking with a sales rep 1-on-1 to a self-education ecommerce type model for purchasing. Ecommerce systems will eliminate 1 million B2B sales jobs by 2020 due to the shift to self-service platforms.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? Although I’m not sure selling, per se, has changed! But the drawer is empty today.

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SBI

MAY 6, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. 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.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Those of us who use the phone to successfully generate sales leads have picked up an essential trade secret. The PointClear team would like to hear from you about your sales lead generation best practices. Jim Hall joined PointClear in 2014 with over 20 years of experience in consulting, sales, and business growth.

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SBI

MAY 6, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. 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.

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Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 50

SBI

MAY 7, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. If you’re in sales, do yourself the favor. InsideSales.

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SBI

APRIL 12, 2015

Get to know your sales tools in just 2 minutes a week. This week, Nancy profiles Velocify , a sales acceleration tool that improves performance and conversion rates of both inbound and outbound calling. Sales ToolSkool Video Transcript: Velocify Helps Sales Teams Accelerate Performance. Go to Velocify.com to learn more.

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