No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 28, 2018

For those of us who sell solutions, our jobs will increase by 10 percent, according to a 2015 report by Forrester. When Forrester conducted the same research two years later, in 2017 , they predicted that “upskilled inside sales will play an even greater role in all phases of SMB and enterprise sales than initially predicted in 2015.”.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inside Sales Enterprise 232

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JANUARY 5, 2015

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. The post 3 Ways to Grow Sales in 2015 appeared first on Score More Sales. Increase Opportunities.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank Referrals 120

HeavyHitter Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2014

    The team at RingDNA just released their list of the top seven B2B sales books you should read in 2015. Sales Strategy: Competitive Insights from Interviews with 1,000+ Key Information Technology Decision Makers and Top Technology Salespeople was at the top of their list.  Sales Strategy.

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B2B Decision Maker Social Media eBook 96

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Februrary 19 2015. There is some truth to what inbound marketing experts and inside sales experts are saying relative to the context of who they work with. Are Top Salespeople Challengers? April 29 2013. The Death of All Selling Forever April 25 2014. How Dramatically Has Selling Changed?

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Inbound Inside Sales Sales Process Top of Funnel 120

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

It’s time to face this new reality and reengineer our sales environments to exploit the spoils of it! Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. Sales used to be something that happened "out there" — in the field. Fifty years ago, when the modern sales function evolved, customers were "out there."

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Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 126

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. What is your plan to grow and improve your presence in 2015? Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Trade Show Company Engineering Compensation 215

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AUGUST 28, 2014

We are about to go into 2015 and smart marketers and sellers are positioning for predominantly mobile viewing of their site, offers, and ways to connect. It is an evolution, and now is clearly the time to be thinking about this and planning for Q4 into 2015. The time is NOW to build for the future with your website.

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Webinar Metrics B2B Decision Maker Compensation 214

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

How different would it be to begin 2015 with some solid appointments and opportunities rather than a blank slate? ” 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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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Twitter 262

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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. 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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DECEMBER 23, 2014

Sales organizations need to take advantage of this scenario and leverage it in 2015. If it is true that sales reps do a better job with their CRM using a mobile app, then they should be encouraged by you and your company to do so. Here is another post written this year about how mobile helps sales reps sell.

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Tools Lead Scoring Lead Rank CRM 214

Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. Among B2B companies, the use of inside sales reps has exploded in popularity.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 91

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of the best first steps you can put into place (aside from hiring an expert to help you put a full plan in place to get your sales and marketing ready for 2015) is to focus on listening. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Where are you?

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Social Selling Company Ideal Customer Profile Twitter 223

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Think of the questions sales and marketing needs to get answers to in order to better serve buyers in 2015 and beyond. 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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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

What can you put in place in 2015 to help sales reps be more effective in starting with the best data possible? 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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HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Average New Deal Size The average new deal size reported for field sales was $166,000 and new deal size for inside sales was $19,000. Twenty-four percent of inside sales cycles and twenty-three percent of outside sales cycles were between sixty-one and ninety days in length.      '

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Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

Score More Sales

JANUARY 9, 2015

THEN, come to a focused session on becoming MORE productive with your time as sales leader (for your reps) or for sales professionals everywhere 4 days later. Join hundreds of others who have already signed up for 5 Productive Strategies to Crush Quotas in 2015. If you see a mention on Twitter about it, please re-share.

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Webinar Metrics Twitter Inside Sales Google 120

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

B2B companies must respond by implementing digitally-enabled selling models and they must think beyond the front line of sales representatives and create solutions for call center agents, inside sales reps, and the rest of the sales engine network. Source: [link] ).

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Cold Calling 130

Pointclear

JANUARY 13, 2015

Ardath Albee’s new book Digital Relevance: Developing Market ing Content and Strategies that Drive Results was published by Palgrave Macmillan (January 6, 2015). There is a great example in the book about an inside sales rep pushing content that is not relevant to the buyer—simply because the campaign says so.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Becoming “brilliant in sales execution” during each stage is critical. This is a new trend that will evolve quickly in 2015-16.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

For more detail and data, check out the Annual Sales Kickoff Meeting Research e-book. Contact us if we can offer more ideas to help you make 2015 the year that sales really take off. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Last year, new research from Forrester boldly predicted the Death of the B2B Sales Rep, making some stark forecasts: Much of B2B buying will not need sales reps anymore, and will move to lower cost self-service or inside sales reps. Over 1 million B2B salespeople would go the way of the dodo by 2020.

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Trends B2B Decision Maker Forecasting 80

Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Derrick Williams, Tenbound Derrick has been scaling high-performance Inside Sales & Sales Development teams for more than 10-years for hyper-growth startups and Enterprise companies such as Verizon and Dell. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Scale Webinar Metrics 132

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Unfortunately, if you’re in sales, you know that cold calling is NOT dead and you have to do it day in and day out to keep your pipeline full. By attending this free webinar: “The 5 Secrets to Effective Cold Calling,” held on Wednesday, November 18th 2015 at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific, Register Now.

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Cold Calling How To Webinar Metrics Gatekeeper 120

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Check out the results of the 2015 B2B Lead Generation Trends Report, which was produced by Holger Schulze’s B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn. How do you see Sales Tech changing as an industry? Sales technology as a category in its own right is still fairly new, despite CRM platforms having been around for many years.

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Scale B2B Trends Lead Rank 120

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Here is how to turn this around: “At Safeco International – a leader in the cloud computing space – I was an upper tier producer out of an inside sales team of fifteen reps. Here are some other examples for you: “AWARD WINNING INSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE WITH A HISTORY OF GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT IS EXPECTED.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. Simply put, the root cause of the problem in 2015 was that reps were forced to find their own leads—or had poor-quality “leads” dumped on them—most of which they ignored. Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 100

Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

If you want to learn about the latest ideas in sales you need to be a student of learning. I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. I can’t wait for 2016.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Lead Rank Nonprofit 120

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Brian: Why I Started My Business I was in corporate life from the time I graduated college in 2000, all the way up until 2020, and the last four jobs that I had in the corporate world were inside sales and customer service. Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Pivotal Incentives 98

Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

As I was putting this post together, I hopped into my time machine and zipped back to 2015 when I first attended Rainmaker and wrote about my experience that year. What I realized in reading that 2015 blog post was that the more things change, the more they actually stay the same.

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Conference InsideView Cold Calling Scale 101

Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

This is the final installment of a three-part series in response to the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Tactically this can be easier to do within functional groups (inside sales, paid media, etc.).

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In the last few days I have been facilitating focus groups for a research study in Australia being conducted by The Eventful Group who are running a big CRM conference in Melbourne in July 2015. So far we’ve done half-day workshops in three cities with approximately 80 people ranging from senior business leaders to IT system managers.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” CRM is there to help you implement, manage and enforce sales process: These ‘7 Best Practices’ outline the plan, how to sell, and how to win deals – NOT how to click!

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Top of Funnel Sales Process Webinar Metrics CRM 52

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I invest some time reading some best sales management books and getting actionable takeaways to amp up your sales team’s performance. Here are some of the best sales management books that you should consider reading: 1. Sales management simplified. Published – October 2015. Author – Mike Weinberg.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Quota Coaching 116

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Whether you’re a sales professional that likes reading or doesn’t, you’ll find fresh frameworks and tons of insights in the book. Who should read this : Inside sales reps will find a lot of high-value advice for smarter cold calling and actionable techniques for tackling specific sales challenges. Fanatical Prospecting.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The data says: 80% of sales require five follow-up phone calls after the meeting, according to The Marketing Donut. Inside Sales found that web leads followed up within five minutes are nine times more likely to convert. In the likely event we don’t hear back from a prospect immediately, the key is to send a follow up note.

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