RingDNA

MARCH 26, 2025

How to Use LinkedIn to Find and Engage B2B Sales Prospects While the cold call has hardly disappeared from inside sales, social media tools such as LinkedIn give you the ability to warm up cold calls with research. Even if they aren’t in your industry, they might know someone very important who is. Source: Gartner ​.

Paid Content 62

Paid Content LinkedIn Social Selling Top of Funnel 62

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 20, 2025

Introduction Meet John, a sales manager at a manufacturing company that produces customized industrial generators. In the era where speed and accuracy are the two critical components of success, businesses leveraging CPQ software not only accelerates their sales cycles but also enhances customer satisfaction and drive revenue growth.

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B2B Closing Scale Discount 48

SalesFuel

APRIL 9, 2025

Challenge: Raising brand awareness without the help of an all-digital roofing campaign Jennifer Brinck, an inside sales rep for HomePros , has been selling media for six years, but had only used AdMall for ten months when she approached a local business with the hope of closing an all-digital roofing ad campaign.

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Campaigns Closing Hiring Advertising 59

RingDNA

MARCH 24, 2025

marketing managers typically worry about implementation timeline). Do you have any success stories with other companies in their industry? It’s important to know which industry your target company plays in as well as how to best sell to companies in that industry. marketing, sales operations, IT, etc.)?

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Case Study Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Follow-up 62

SugarCRM

JANUARY 30, 2025

Sugar helps thousands of businesses to empower sales, service, and marketing teams do more with less, which is resulting in customer lifecycle growth, market share expansion, reduction in churn and productivity gains through automation and consolidation. Book Demo 3.

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CRM Benefit SugarCRM Churn 26

RingDNA

APRIL 25, 2025

We are still going to share those results with you, since they reflect a larger study across numerous industries. Why Prospecting in the Late Afternoon Makes Sense In B2B Sales it’s crucial to remember that your prospects have a job to do as well. But as sales teams become increasingly data-driven, intuition alone won’t suffice.

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Cold Calling Call-back Data Prospecting 62

LinkedFusion

JUNE 21, 2025

This guide will help you unlock the power of LinkedIn Sales Navigator filters so you can find leads on LinkedIn faster, smarter, and with higher conversion potential. Whether you’re in sales and marketing, part of a fast-moving sales team, or simply looking to scale your LinkedIn lead generation, this blog walks you through every step.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead LinkedIn Top of Funnel 40

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 18, 2025

Table of Contents How I Tested Out Flattery in Sales Using Flattery in Sales: 12 Templates to Try How Our Flattery Sales Templates Performed Tips for Using Flattery in Sales Emails How I Tested Out Flattery in Sales I recently had the opportunity to help a sales team transform their old prospecting templates.

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Face-to-face Scale Influencer Campaigns 105

Sales Hacker Training

JULY 8, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Doug Camplejohn is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with extensive experience in B2B SaaS and go-to-market strategies. 06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around.

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Hiring SalesForce Top of Funnel Scale 98

SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2014

Leading a large sales organization is becoming more challenging each year. Your market and buyers are changing rapidly. With all of these changes, it complicates how you organize your sales resources. Hiring people with industry experience. In the form of inside sales. 5 Reasons to Consider Inside Sales.

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Inside Sales Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Field Sales 288

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 8, 2012

96% of organizations are increasing or maintaining their investment in inside sales last year. It is a good bet your SVP of Sales is implementing, expanding or considering an inside sales team right now. Are you prepared to optimize the investment in inside sales? (To Identify Market Opportunity.

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Territories Inside Sales Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 257

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Many industries are shifting. The definition of an industry shift is perhaps best understood by looking at a few examples. Here are three: Here is a New York Times article discussing how the trade show industry is getting flipped on its head. The CEO is responsible for keeping his company relevant during an industry shift.

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Lead Rank Industry Lead Scoring Scale 288

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Businesses need a strategy for building a strong, remote sales culture that is encouraging and supportive, even when your inside sales team is scattered across the country or around the world. We tend to think of inside sales reps as being reasonably autonomous. 6 Elements of Sales Culture for Inside Sales.

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Inside Sales Revenue Lead Rank How To 348

Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing, The Quality of Sales Leads is Abysmal. Marketers and sales people need to be working towards the same goals.

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Inside Sales Social Selling Outbound Lead Rank 235

SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2012

SBI conducted over 12,500 Buyer Surveys last year across 19 different industries. This research yields compelling insights into how Buyers want to engage with your sales force. Here’s why: In almost 75% of sales situations, your Customer would prefer not to spend time meeting face to face. Your competitors are.

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Inside Sales Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Customer 276

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Eventually, most antiquated models are replaced by more up-to-date, efficient, and sometimes exciting models. Outside sales is being replaced by inside sales but not in the way that most people think. Let''s quickly compare inside sales to outside sales.

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Inside Sales Outside Sales Telemarketing Travel 269

Score More Sales

MAY 27, 2013

If you haven’t already had amazing things happen by being online, you will see how you can be blown away by the prospects, former customers, and soon-to-be-strategic partners just waiting for you to define yourself, your market niche, and the value you add to doing business with others. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Inside Sales Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Telecommunications 230

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

There are usually a few events each year where this happens and in this case, it was Boston this week for the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ( AA-ISP ). Linda Connly, Sr VP, Global Inside Sales / Midmarket at EMC gave a keynote talk. ”- R. .”- ”- R.

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Inside Sales InsideView Lead Rank Lead Scoring 217

Score More Sales

APRIL 14, 2014

When it comes to selling, you must have these things in place: Understanding of exactly who your target market is – where you and your company do their best work. Contacts and connections in that target market. Strategic partners in that industry or geography who can refer multiple people your way. Increase Opportunities.

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Inside Sales Hiring Referrals Twitter 199

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 31, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Growing Power of Inside Sales appeared on the Harvard Business Review Blog on July 29. or "We must follow because these industry leaders are doing it.". or "We must follow because these industry leaders are doing it.". By product or service.

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Inside Sales SAP Sales Talent Lead Rank 222

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

What would be much more effective for me is to go to industry events that represent who my buyers are. It could be an annual event that comes to my city, or I may go once a year to a big event where all of my buyers’ industry counterparts meet up. If you don’t want to leave your desk, you can do this virtually too.

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Networking Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring 215

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JUNE 25, 2014

It is critical to get products to market in a timely manner – which currently means sooner than ever before launched. If you have an open environment where ideas can be shared your company has a good chance of using collaboration for sales growth. Think airline industry after 9/11. How can this impact sales?

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Marketing Airlines Ideal Customer Profile Construction 217

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If you find yourself in a position like that, you might want to consider transitioning from outside to inside sales. And to help your case, we reached out to HubSpot experts who made that jump for their input on what mastering inside sales entails. By her account, inside reps should "always be present.I

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Inside Sales Hubspot Outside Sales Scale 136

Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Of course, that’s still nowhere near what a sales person would consider a lead.

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Research B2B Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 253

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. They even track their peers’ marketing and competitive messaging. Whether your industry is mature or rapidly evolving, you must remember: Change with your customers, not your competition. Both are cases where the VP of Sales was blindsided by an evolving customer landscape.

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Competition Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 323

Salesmate

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies have started to build a workforce that finds prospects inside four walls. With inside sales, businesses are putting more effort than just selling their products. The same time when inside sales kicked its way up, the importance of customer support also grew humongous. So what exactly is inside sales?

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Inside Sales Tools Strategy Outside Sales 111

The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing lead generation tools follow this suit. March 2008.

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Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You hear it all the time: “I/we can’t do anything now because the (fill in the blank with market or economy, or company, or industry, or budget, etc.) And the crazy thing is that sales reps actually buy into that objection! and that’s exactly why other companies are meeting with us to see how we can do just that for them.

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Objections Industry Marketing Face-to-face 120

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 12, 2016

So, we recently published a blog entitled, “ What You Won’t Learn from Books About Sales ,” and now here we are sharing our favorite books and blogs that can make your better at inside sales. Yes, best performing salespeople learn from experience and develop “grit” without the help of sales books. 5) Sales Hacker.

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Inside Sales Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Account Based Marketing 120

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate.

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

Talent – industry experience and tenure are not as valuable. Agile Sales Talent – reps possess the competencies of the new A player. These competencies show that a sales rep has acquired new capabilities. They have kept up with the market. Agile Sales – embrace the agile movement. Old habits are hard to break.

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Customer B2C Decision Maker Inside Sales 328

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’ve been given the task of setting up your company’s sales and marketing database, you’re probably not overly excited … especially if it’s something you’ve got to build from scratch. But setting up a sales and marketing database from scratch is not as difficult as you may think. How big is your overall market?

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Inbound 200

SBI Growth

AUGUST 14, 2013

Competitors are beating your sales team consistently. Your industry has shifted. Think about the last 3 meetings you took with a sales rep. 1-3% - cold calling appointment rate (source: American Association for Inside Sales Professionals). Ask yourself what you did the last time you entered the market with a need.

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Social Selling Decision Maker Cold Calling Hiring 330

Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

In order to find the right buyers and interact with them you need to firmly understand the market niche that you are going after and who your buyers are. Understanding Your Target Market . If they represent an untapped market niche, you could certainly look for more companies like them in the same industry / niche.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 254

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Jill Konrath is THE top name in B2B sales thought leadership today due to a 2nd best-seller, SNAP Selling – and her talented writing and videos regularly produced to a worldwide audience. Trish Bertuzzi has set a standard in research and factual study of B2B Inside Sales, and is top thought leader for it.

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How To B2B Intent Inside Sales 284

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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. the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Incentives Incentive Training Channels 295