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. Februrary 19 2015. Don't get me wrong. April 29 2013.

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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

Score More Sales

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is a new year and a fresh start for many in the B2B sales world. Having had a monthly or a quarterly sales quota over the course of 15 years or so, I know that good feeling of have a blank slate – but it also can be a tough feeling to start back at zero. This is a sales lesson for everyone. Increase Opportunities.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There’s a saying in B2B sales that people buy with emotion and justify with fact. Sales AI doesn’t have the same advantage. You’ve probably heard the “expert” predictions that technology will render salespeople obsolete, and sales AI will soon replace us. But will sales AI actually replace us? Not so fast.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”. The growth of VoIP.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. Josiane heads up TeleSmart Communications , and is leading practice and thought leader in the area of inside sales and management. How can that be?

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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. However as I consider the general area of sales we see several trends.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Midsize business owners (and their c-level execs) are optimistic and have put dollars into their 2015 budgets to invest in: Technology (85%). The businesses who participated all have annual sales revenues between $10M and $1B. Others are predicting a strong 2015 for business as well. Operations (87%). New products (76%).

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How different would it be to begin 2015 with some solid appointments and opportunities rather than a blank slate? Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. The post Sales Prospecting in Beast Mode appeared first on Score More Sales. Increase Opportunities.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 9, 2015

In sales, time is money. With the spirit of working to ADD value in your sales career, or to help sales leaders with their teams, I wanted to share to extremely valuable webinars that are happening on 1/12 and on 1/15. Join hundreds of others who have already signed up for 5 Productive Strategies to Crush Quotas in 2015.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. Here are three reasons you should work to improve your digital presence right now: Your Sales Reps Want Meetings with Executives. This gives you MORE sales opportunities than if you did not optimize.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the THE 12 SALES METRICS THAT MATTER MOST.     Sales is both an art and a science. Below, you will find twelve of these key sales metrics that benchmark sales organization performance, structure, and effectiveness.

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Score More Sales

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. Close More Deals.

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Webinar Metrics B2B Decision Maker Compensation 214

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Use the steps and your own terminology within your sales process to help your SDRs and BDRs enter clean, verified data.]. This is not so much a clean data issue but is so critical in moving your sales opportunities forward that it needs to be mentioned. Bad leads slow down your sales force. Increase Opportunities.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2014

What used to be a one-way road – a sales person “telling” potential buyers what to buy, is now a two-way, busy street where buyers find their own information and need us in sales to offer specific insights and stories – and paint a vision of the future – to help them know if the information they have is right for their scenario.

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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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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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Score More Sales

JANUARY 8, 2015

This is the time of year that if you haven’t had your sales offsite for your sales team, you are probably working to pull it together quickly and simply. Key takeaway about having a sales offsite is that it MUST be valuable to the participants. A survey was done by our friends at Vorsight about sales kickoff meetings.

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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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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Learn How to: How RevOps fits into today’s overall sales strategy. Which sales technology tools and solutions can arm RevOps with everything they need for success. Tom Pisello, Mediafly Tom Pisello is a thought leader and author on sales and marketing effectiveness, as well as a serial entrepreneur.

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

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It is enticing to play the role of a manager in a sales team. Along with your own quota, you even need to ensure that your sales team performs well and achieves its sales quota. The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Holger Schulze is an experienced B2B tech marketer and advisor for SaaS, marketing / sales automation and cybersecurity vendors. Recently, DiscoverOrg sat down with Schulze to uncover the momentum sales technology has gained over the past 12 months. We want to see how sales technology is evolving and what the trends are.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

Sales will never be the same. This may sound extreme on the surface – but in reality, sales will never return to the way it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is a good thing. Many of the needed sales process changes were forced upon us as we adjusted to selling from home. Inside Sales Teams are Already Digital.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Pivotal Incentive 98

Score More Sales

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. A well-meaning sales rep can ruin an opportunity by blurting out – trumpeting – all that you do and why you’d be great for them.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With this in mind, it wasn’t a surprise to me to learn that top sales reps use data to drive their strategies and choices. Do you feel that your sales strategy could benefit from an injection of data? Here’s how to use these statistics to your advantage in the context of a sales outreach campaign. (Thanks, science!).

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Data Prospecting Top of Funnel Lead Rank 95

SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” Don’t confuse CRM with sales process… process is bigger than that. The “7 Best Practices for Effective Sales Process Design” by @funnelholic @topohq.

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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. Is this just another step towards the “Death of the B2B Sales Rep” or a temporary blip?

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2014

This cloud-based service could help your team sort through the layers of data your company has compiled from marketing, sales, HR, and elsewhere. Think of the questions sales and marketing needs to get answers to in order to better serve buyers in 2015 and beyond. There is a premium version for bigger capabilities.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

  Here’s a great event you don’t want to miss… I’m excited to be participating in the ELEVATE VIRTUAL SALES KICKOFF MEETING!   Velocify, the leading sales acceleration platform provider announced its inaugural virtual sales kickoff,  ELEVATE , co-sponsored by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP).

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Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most successful sales reps have a wealth of experience with cold calling. You can revisit the fundamentals of selling, acquire a new soft skill that will enable you to close more deals, or simply leisurely read some sales and business literature. We’ve already introduced you to amazing sales books. Jump to category: ?

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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. This event was unique because it only focused on sales development.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

Last week, I was making it rain opportunities through networking and education with over 1,000 sales professionals at SalesLoft’s Rainmaker 2019 conference. 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. Message matters.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Anyone who has to cold call as part of their sales career knows how hard it can be. Many sales reps cringe as they dial a number and wait for the receptionist to answer: “Who’s calling?”. 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.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 11, 2015

Sales teams. Ask most sales management whether they have ever used some form of competition as a management technique and most will answer – “yes – and if I must say so it worked great.”. Stories abound about how competition can be used effectively inside a sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. .

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