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Youth, Lead Quality, Social Selling, Inside Sales and Outbound Marketing

Pointclear

The interviews are available on our blog and YouTube channel. Nick Stein, Vision Critical, Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. Dave Stein, ES Research Group, How Much Social Selling Should Sales Reps be Doing? Click to start video at this point —Are you a sales rep in the high-tech industry?

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Are your Customers Outpacing your Sales Team?

SBI Growth

Agile sales is an approach that can help you keep pace with your customers. A few months back I wrote a post about becoming an Agile Sales Leader. Now it is time to make the entire sales organization agile. Let’s start with the definition of agile sales. Right now buyer behavior is outpacing sales organizations.

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PowerViews with Michael Brenner: The Battle for Customer Attention

Pointclear

At SAP, Michael’s challenge is to transform social business and content marketing to reduce cost-per-acquisition of new customers. Michael is also the author of B2BMarketingInsider.com , where he discusses content marketing, demand generation, mobile strategy, and sales alignment to name a few. The Battle for Customer Attention.

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Hiring a Sales Manager - External or Internal?

SBI Growth

Description: How the sales team is tasked on reaching the target market. For example, is it all direct sales? Maybe the team is leveraging channel partners, or inside sales. An SM for a direct model may not need to know Channel Management principles. It might be a hybrid combining multiple approaches.

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Inside Sales Is Only Great For Transactional Commoditized Products!

Partners in Excellence

Instead, I suggested some completely different models–perhaps leveraging channel partners, or moving much more of the sales function inside. He said, “Dave, I understand inside sales very well–but they are much more suited for transactional business, standardized, commoditized products.

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Author #Interview – Josiane Chriqui Feigon – Smart Sales Manager

The Pipeline

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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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade.