Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

If you hear "ABC" and "Always be closing" pops into your mind, a sales career may be the perfect match for you. You've come to the right place to learn what it's like to have a career in sales, and it's about much more than the close. Sales seems like a fast-paced, hardball kind of career. What's a typical sales career path?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you.

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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? It’s all sales.

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JULY 22, 2014

Midmarket companies and larger SMBs seem to fall into three camps: the ones who understand the power of social sales and actively work to build a plan of action, the ones who are coming around to this idea but not doing much yet, and those who are turning a blind eye and are missing a great window of opportunity. Are there any new executives?

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Factor 8

AUGUST 3, 2017

Factor 8 is hiring bad-ass sales coaches! If helping reps improve is your favorite part of the job, you love to train and call coach, and you agree that inside sales is harder than field sales…read on! Our current team of Advisors are Inside Sales experts with backgrounds of 15 or more years at the Director or VP level.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Many of the same ideas are rehashed daily within sales and customer service – and in accounting and operations. If you have an open environment where ideas can be shared your company has a good chance of using collaboration for sales growth. In sales and business building – execution is where it is at. Blurred Lines.

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JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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JUNE 27, 2014

This week, LinkedIn shared some statistics in its study women in sales. They searched for female vs. male names and parsed the data to see how many LinkedIn members were female and in sales vs. male and in sales by industry. A future post will contain an interview with some of the top women in sales at IBM.

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JULY 31, 2014

We have written about social sales relationship building and social sales research. Ultimately you will want to do more than listening, but even if you just listened to look for new opportunities, your sales team’s revenues would grow. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 25, 2013

As a sales rep, every so often you must ask yourself the question: Are you aiming for the bull’s-eye…or wearing it? Life as a sales rep is no exception. Improve your ‘A’ Player characteristics to: Increase sales. Reduce sales effort. Improve career mobility (flexibility towards other industries). It wasn’t magic.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As the VP of Sales, you’re pulled in 15 directions. You’re coaching and mentoring Sales Directors and Managers. Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. They know their rivals’ compensation plans. This ramped up the sales cycle considerably.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Many who work for companies – especially mid-sized ones selling to other businesses – get stuck in doing the same old things year after year to build sales. to help entrepreneurs grow sales to ultimately grow their businesses. Ken truly is a leader in inside selling strategies. What Are You Waiting For?

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APRIL 30, 2014

A startling fact, presented over and over in b2b studies shows that most sales reps do not follow up enough – despite the few we know of who seem to overcall – or follow up too many times with unqualified opportunities. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

With all of the technology, tools, methodology and sales process in place you’d think there was no real simple way to help with your sales messaging. Based on geography and industry, buyers vary as well. Newer sales reps need to feel comfortable with what it is that they are saying and to whom. What Helps Most?

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Women Sales Pros

MARCH 1, 2019

You can’t achieve your revenue sales goal without monitoring interim sales and marketing metrics. Most business owners focus only on the end goals: closed sales and net new clients. You have to look at how you’re doing all along the way to the closed sale. But focusing only on the end goal won’t ensure you’ll achieve it.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2012

The most important function an HR leader can perform to support Sales is to help attract and retain top sales talent. Based upon our research interviews conducted with VPs of Human Resources, it is clear that most don’t really understand how to help Sales attract top talent. Is this opportunity limited to just Sales?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 4, 2020

Sales is people-oriented. It's harder to be disarming via cold outreach, so you have to compensate with utility when networking remotely. Actively maintain a blog with content relevant to your industry as a whole. Stay active on industry-relevant forums and social media hubs. It's a brutally honest analogy.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

The SaaS industry has different selling techniques , key metrics , and sales process activities compared to the ones you’d encouter while selling a tangible physical product or a more traditional service like a marketing consultation package. By the end, you should have a clear roadmap for reaching your or your company’s sales goals.

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APRIL 29, 2014

The final step to succeed against your huge industry counterparts is to follow-up more than they do. If you do these three things , you will be heads above your very large industry counterparts and have a very good chance to win more business. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

In fact, look up your company’s website as well as your industry counterparts and competitors. I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. It could have been any B2B product or service.

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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. Listen for prospective buyers who are asking about which products / brands are best in your industry niche. Listen for Prospective Buyers.

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APRIL 30, 2014

A startling fact, presented over and over in b2b studies shows that most sales reps do not follow up enough – despite the few we know of who seem to overcall – or follow up too many times with unqualified opportunities. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer.

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APRIL 26, 2013

Moderator and CRM / Social Industry leader Paul Gillin asked fantastic questions including: What are best practices for broader adoption of CRM? Not enough employees with CRM seats – companies will selectively give certain individuals seats, such as all sales but no marketing, or inside sales but not outside sales (or vice versa).

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

“Freedom lies in being Bold” – Robert Frost Are you consistently bringing bold sales strategy ideas to the VP of Sales? To be a world class Sales Operations leader, pick up the pace. Quantifying the potential impact for their sales leader. Sales Operations Success = Insight + Execution.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It’s equal parts party, celebration, inspiration, philanthrophy and industry trade-show. More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Fantasy Sales Team. Act-On ToolSkool.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

One sales expert I know recently went on a rant about how social selling has not affected KPIs in any of the companies they have talked with. They went so far as to say that many of us “other sales experts” don’t know what we are talking about when it comes to understanding business improvement and revenue increases.

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CloserIQ

JANUARY 24, 2019

But the truth is that some boards are more useful than others when it comes to sales jobs. All 200,000+ jobs posted to the site offer $80,000 a year or more in compensation, with most in the six-figures range. Users can search for openings, post their resume, and find resources for career development in inside sales.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2020

The state of business and sales today is uncertain. What we’re not talking about as much is the aftereffect of this crisis and prepping for what this will mean for sales. Repositioning your products and sales outreach in reaction to current conditions is critical. 4-Step Product Repositioning to Modernize Sales Outreach.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Join our free webinar to hear industry experts break down the evolving definition of RevOps, what it looks like today, and how to get the most out of this position when your teams aren’t always meeting face to face. Learn How to: How RevOps fits into today’s overall sales strategy.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Setbacks of using a 2-Stage inside sales organization. CASE IN POINT: In the late 90s, SkyStream followed Cisco’s footsteps in infrastructure sales. 2) Web sales. 3) Online sales. 1) Across regions.

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Gong.io

APRIL 14, 2021

Since our debut, we’ve had conversations with 49 revenue thought leaders across all industries and have explored how they use revenue intelligence – a new way of operating based on data instead of opinions – to win the market. Shep Maher, Betterworks’ EVP of Global Sales. Scott Leese, Previous SVP Sales at Qualia.

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APRIL 28, 2014

The final step to succeed against your huge industry counterparts is to follow-up more than they do. If you do these three things , you will be heads above your very large industry counterparts and have a very good chance to win more business. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Sales Outsourcing Guide With 6 Dos & Donts for Choosing the Right Outsourced Sales Professionals. There are many ways that a sales leader or organization can gain scale, accelerate revenue, drive cost savings and augment their outsource sales team. Will your outsource sales team really affect the top and bottom line?

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OutboundView

JULY 15, 2019

On top of the base fee, sales development representatives will have some type of commission structure in place for number of appointments set. Many B2B businesses will look to outsource their inside sales teams , if they don’t have enough resources to build a team themselves. That’s not how inside sales works.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last week we explored gender bias in sales. Today, we’re continuing the conversation by celebrating a group of incredible women from a variety of sales organizations who have made their mark in the world of sales. In doing so, we hope to show the next generation of women that sales is a viable career path for women.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Winning by Design Blueprint Series provides a step-by-step go to market plan for every part of the sales process, including developing a go to market strategy. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. Who have more than 10 employees. Spanning markets.

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