SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2013

A field Sales Rep should be spending around 64% of those available hours selling. The statistics I share below are from SBI’s 2012 Sales & Marketing Research. You will have access to guides, templates and tools. These tools will help you excel in your current and future sales positions.

Lead Rank 324

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Referrals Trade Show 324

SBI Growth

MARCH 19, 2013

The sales team deserved a training program as aggressive as this year’s budget. Onboarding is a topic the markets have been screaming to get for quite some time. ” In a recent post , I urged Sales Ops leaders to take responsibility for training and development. This sales leader agrees. The market is shifting.

Revenue 288

Revenue Hiring Face-to-face Social Media 288

SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2012

As a quota carrying sales rep, you have a number to hit. Are you going to rely too much on marketing to provide high quality leads to hit the number? Let’s be honest, the majority of reps would be out on the street if they had to rely solely on marketing for Lead Generation What can you do about it? The year is well under way.

Social Media 290

Social Media Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Networking 290

Pointclear

APRIL 16, 2018

It’s referred to as the sales pipeline and it’s owned by sales people, right? With the advent of new marketing automation capabilities, AI apps and other technology, marketing is inserting itself deeper in the pipeline at almost every level. Traditionally few would contest who owns the pipeline in any organization.

Pipeline 150

Pipeline PointClear Marketing Top of Funnel 150

SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2013

At first, it may not seem like an HR leader would be involved in shaping sales force structure. The opportunity to deliver value to Sales is wider than many HR leaders think. This post includes one tool to think more strategically about a part of the business. There are many more opportunities beyond sales force structure.

Compensation 292

Compensation Retention Ideal Customer Profile Territories 292

SBI

JANUARY 15, 2013

Chances are your company implemented at least one new sales tool in the recent past. Whether or not you like the tool, use it, and consider it to be a success, depends on who you are. This inescapable truth offers one clue as to why sales tools fail. Before tools are implemented. John Lubbock. Not likely.

Sales Tools 127

Sales Tools Tools Forecasting Field Sales 127

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Revenue operations leaders are confronting complex challenges on two fronts: designing smarter territories for expansion, and maximizing productivity for frontline go-to-market (GTM) teams. Blind spots in your addressable market and missed opportunities from good-fit prospects. The result?

Territories 130

Territories Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 130

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re managing inside or field sales, gut instinct needs to take a back seat to data-driven insights. In today’s crowded and highly competitive sales environment, your reps need all the insight they can get if they’re going to close sales, meet quota and grow the business. They need data. Lots of data.

Data 240

Data B2B Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 240

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

A few indications your sales strategy is not working for you: Missing the # - Your reps are trying to be all things to all people. They lack focus on your target market. A must-have if you are to properly allocate your sales resources. You can market to customers who are best suited to purchase your products.

Strategy 317

Strategy Hiring Top of Funnel Margin 317

SBI Growth

JULY 2, 2013

When we ask “B” Leaders why they have a talent issue, here are the top responses: My compensation program isn’t competitive with the market. Our training and onboarding programs haven’t provided the tools and skills to be successful. We’ve been out of alignment with our field sales activities. We can’t hire the best.

Hiring 310

Hiring Compensation Salary Policies 310

Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

With digital selling taking over traditional sales methodologies, there has never been a more exciting time to be in sales. Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. Great @GoModernSelling ep.

Tools 124

Tools Prospecting Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 124

Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2011

How does it relate to B2B marketing? And I was treated accordingly, no doubt thanks to some nifty lead scoring algorithms that have become de rigueur for B2B marketers. And what do you know, just recently an industry colleague asked me for advice on similar tools, and I was only too happy to share my buying experience privately.

Lead Rank 185

Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Prospecting 185

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

Outsourcing Services 279

Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

SBI Growth

JANUARY 27, 2013

This advantage will give her a long tenure serving sales. HR and Sales leaders who need better collaboration must read this post. It includes a tool: a profile of the Sales leader (Hanna’s advantage!) Can’t promote a sales manager to a director. Sales’ mantra is speed to results. HR wants to help.

Hiring 308

Hiring Compensation Commence Sales Talent 308

Vengreso

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Leveraging technology, social selling , and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone pursuing a career in sales. Buyer behavior and selling motion are completely in sync and it is through correct B2B prospecting that we can succeed in this always-evolving field. What is Sales Prospecting?

Tools 124

Tools Prospecting Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 124

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

The compensation calculator offered here will help you make smarter decisions about the economics behind motivating a critical component of your sales force. Overlay specialists can play an important role in supplementing the skills of the field sales force. Market Specialist – penetrates new or divergent vertical markets.

Compensation 257

Compensation Penetration Incentives Incentive 257

SBI

JULY 29, 2014

This post is part of a series of Executive Interviews of top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? It’s an easy to use product that doesn’t require too much IT involvement, so the Sales Department can run the whole solution themselves if required.

Up-Sell 135

Up-Sell Closing Field Sales Revenue 135

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Popular to contrary belief, sales teams can not only survive in the age of buyer empowerment, but use buying behavior to their advantage — so long as processes and prospecting tools that help engage the right buyer, at the right time, with the right message. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or Today, we review.

B2B 200

B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 200

Pointclear

AUGUST 6, 2013

Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing over 30 influential B2B sales and marketing leaders. It has been a pleasure to interview each of them and share perspectives on topics ranging from B2B lead generation and inside sales to social media trends and personal branding. Connections.

Inside Sales 176

Inside Sales SAP Trends Sales Qualified Lead 176

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 24, 2025

And, we saw the metrics most critical for the RevOps VP, Enablement VP, Product Specialist VP, Marketing, Field Managers, and so on. ” Customer service will have their 5, marketing theirs, rev op/enablement theirs, inside sales/BDRs theirs, field sales theirs, account managers theirs.

Forecasting 109

Forecasting Fashion Conversion Call-back 109

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Approaching a task armed with the tools, systems, and knowledge you need just feels better than walking in unprepared. This is especially important for sales professionals — and sales organizations are making greater strides to ensure their reps are successful on the job. Best for: Optimizing your sales pipeline.

Sales Enablement 109

Sales Enablement Tools Top of Funnel Collateral 109

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Between prospecting, sales calls, data entry, quote preparation, and follow-ups, it’s very easy for teams to mismanage data and trip over themselves on the way to the finish line. That’s why sales collaboration tools are an essential part of the modern sales lifecycle. Let’s jump right in! 5 Capterra Rating: 4.4/5

Tools 98

Tools InsideSales Top of Funnel SalesForce 98

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2011

—noted the Dreamforce announcement of Salesforce.com’s support for Kenandy , a cloud-based manufacturing solution that incorporates the social tool, Chatter. Another major benefit is that our prospect development services provide thorough market coverage, a requirement that few companies are able to address successfully.

Outsourcing Services 189

Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear 189

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams. Partner with other key functions such as marketing, product management, internal communications and human resources to create the best programs and tools to meet your sales teams communication and training needs. Create a plan. Empower your salespeople.

Face-to-face 197

Face-to-face Automotive Webinar Metrics Conference 197

Sales 2.0

JUNE 19, 2023

AI will bring benefits to field reps too In field sales settings, salespeople can use mobile apps to record conversations and upload the recordings to the cloud for AI to process. ” Sign up for the Sales 2.0 e-newsletter to follow how AI and other advanced tools can help take your sales to the next level.

CRM 195

CRM Call-back Lead Generation Analysis 195

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Some suggest secondary issues such as poor targeting, ineffective technology or gaps in the sales model – all of which seem to make sense. On the surface, the logical solution to a sales problem is to fix sellers or to fix the tools and processes around those sellers.

Sales Management 218

Sales Management Hiring Compensation Scale 218

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 5, 2017

Author: Kate Kirby, Content Strategist and Marketer at Conga “Sell more. Surely you heard some variation of that directive during 2017 sales kickoff season. Through constant innovation, companies test, shift and change their approaches to sales, with the ongoing mission of accomplishing those twin goals. Sell faster.”

Trends 166

Trends SalesForce Enterprise Enterprise 166

Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

Britton Manasco is a principal with Manasco Marketing Partners. His new firm, which specializes in strategic positioning and provocative sales messaging, is called Visible Impact. So I attended this event expecting to find out more about how and when resources would be flowing to inside sales teams. Are we playing hunger games?

Inside Sales 162

Inside Sales Hiring Conference Field Sales 162

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. So how do you get the much needed sales tool adoption to occur in 20012. Is there a way to get sales to overcome this status-quo bias?

Sales Tools 80

Sales Tools Tools Incentives Incentive 80

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, what caused pain points at the end of the program: reps changing territories mid-program, sales that were booked but not invoiced, clients who made verbal commitments but didn’t sign contracts, field sales managers that vouched for sales that didn’t get logged into the system on time, etc.?

Incentive 201

Incentive Incentives Quota Territories 201

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 10, 2014

They had traditionally, had a large field sales organization. Sales people were just overworked, stretched very thin. The needs for recruiting and bringing more sales people on board were skyrocketing. The needs for recruiting and bringing more sales people on board were skyrocketing.

Inside Sales 118

Inside Sales Face-to-face Field Sales Channels 118

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

Because Kate has something that Tom doesn’t have: Data — and the tools to wield it. The Old World vs. New World of Sales. They became more efficient and brought in clients that outside sales teams would then be able to grow. Caption: Throughout the 2000s, interest in “inside sales” eclipsed searches related to “field sales.”.

Lead Rank 147

Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Inside Sales Outside Sales 147

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”. What is Outside Sales? Outside Sales is sometimes called “field sales.” It revolutionized Inside Sales by lowering costs, widening the addressable market, and introducing automated dialing to the cold-calling process.

Outside Sales 147

Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2020

Sales territory maps serve as the game boards for outside sales, which makes field sales reps the game board pieces. Though it can be tedious, sales territory mapping provides a framework for strategic planning — ensuring that sales reps don’t go into meetings blind. Who’s your ideal customer ?

Territories 130

Territories Field Sales Outside Sales Forecasting 130

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

But, in today’s market, the two roles are blending -- and both have become a vital part of sales organization structure. Inside sales offers a leaner, more automated approach, while outside sales capitalizes on the in-person interaction and power of face-to-face communication. So, which go-to-market should you choose?

Outside Sales 145

Outside Sales Hiring Face-to-face Inside Sales 145

SBI

JULY 14, 2019

If you have a large team of field sellers and resellers, you know how difficult it can be to consistently disseminate up to date, brand compliant materials that make an impact. Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling Tools. Field Sales. Sales Enablement. Sales Asset Management. Field Sales. Field Sales.

Video 93

Video Case Study eBook Field Sales 93

Outside Sales Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Brandon has over 20 years of experience in SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise sales. In 2018 he became a strategic SAAS seller, selling over $50 million in new business for an AI company to some of the world’s leading brands.

Outside Sales 52

Outside Sales Enterprise Enterprise Field Sales 52