Pointclear

JANUARY 11, 2011

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. No longer will the Inside Sales Rep be a “jack of all trades” Roles will be clearly defined and measured based on specific desired outcomes. Data will become an integral component for predicting the likelihood of Inside Sales success.

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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. If it encourages one woman to go for a sales leadership position – all the better!

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APRIL 18, 2014

If you are in Inside sales – send a follow up email to assure a potential buyer that you have their back, even if they are not going to buy today. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. The quickest way to accomplish success is through giving. Increase Opportunities.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Even the craftiest sellers must re-word and re-tool their messaging as time goes on. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile. Increase Opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

If you do this, then at the end of the day, and the end of the week, you can evaluate how focused you are at working on growing sales at your company. You may have metrics being generated within your CRM tool, such as in Salesforce.com. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile. Increase Opportunities.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Here are a few ideas on how: Create a group within LinkedIn where you can create content that helps your market niche. Let’s say you sell cloud-based compensation tools. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Sometimes I accept a connect request on LinkedIn with people I don’t know but others in my network do. Unlike some on LinkedIn, I don’t connect to just anyone , and know most of the people I’m connected to or have talked with them since we connected. Often it begins, “Thanks SO much for connecting!”

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AUGUST 5, 2013

It is a bit easier today with more and better tools to help determine when to reach out, and with newer strategies like using InMail – LinkedIn’s version of email which receives a better response than traditional email. The post Inside Sales Power Tip 126 – Stop Calling High appeared first on Score More Sales.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Quit wasting your time and damaging your company’s brand – re-tool your sales messaging. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling. email lori@scoremoresales.com | View My LinkedIn Profile.

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APRIL 2, 2012

We are adamant that if you are in inside sales (or outbound sales) you must STOP these practices immediately. If your sales leader thinks they are OK or that they work, please send them our way. This is a 1999 sales tactic and it needs to stop. Instead, work to build relationships in LinkedIn.

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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.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

Software Advice surveyed nearly 2000 sales professionals who use a mobile version of a CRM tool and found the following: Nearly all salespeople using mobile CRM (82 percent) say that accessing their system on smartphones and tablets greatly or moderately improves the quality of their CRM data. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

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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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JULY 27, 2013

No doubt you are busy in your sales career working to identify prospective customers, connect with them, nurture that relationship and ultimately help them to a buying decision potentially with your products and services. Have you made time to learn how to leverage LinkedIn and other social selling strategies to help you grow your visibility?

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Field sales is flat while inside sales is up 20 percent in the last few years. Knowing the new science of sales is what will help a salesperson to consistently meet expectations, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Chad Burmeister, vice president of corporate sales at ConnectandSell. Sales is Getting Scientific.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 9, 2020

In fact, the only tool you have at your disposal is a toothpick. Similarly, your business's inside sales team needs the right technology to be as productive and impactful as possible. The good news is there are a plethora of inside sales technologies in existence today. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Tools.

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Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

I first created this framework from stressing out about the lousy results my inside sales team was getting cold calling. Given that this is now 2014, Sweetspot is an iPad first (and only at the moment) tool. Obviously this makes plenty of sense given many sales people are on the move all the time. Prospecting Sales 2.0

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 14, 2013

Modernizing Your Sales Process. The New ‘A’ Player Sales Rep. Sign up for our research tour and get a free tool: 5 Traits of Social Sellers. The tool will help you identify, hire and develop social sellers in your organization. The number 1 platform for B2B social selling is LinkedIn. What is Social Selling?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

This post helps HR and Sales decide if it’s time to fix the underlying cause. Get the Turnover Trouble Tool for help with the 13 leading indicators to watch. She is the HR business partner to sales. Checking quality of the bench almost certainly happens through discussions with sales. New Sales roles. All is well.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 2, 2018

If you’re a manager, can you do your reporting and metrics measurement without the host of intelligence tools measuring call times, funnel stage reviews, etc.? Remember when “Sales 2.0” Your manager told you to spend 5 minutes on LinkedIn and then pick up the phone and make a cold call…. How about access to social media?

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 2, 2018

AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now. How Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sales Automation Software Tools Platforms are Affecting Inside and Outbound Sales. Quick: Can you tell me, in three sentences or less, exactly what AI is and how it is going to impact your sales career or company?

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

[Listen here and react accordingly. ] “ , briefly, I’m calling because we do XYZ, and after reviewing your website (or LinkedIn page), I have a quick question for you: How do you get involved with that there at your company?” Unlimited License: One to 100 reps can attend for one low price!

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Koka Sexton , Leader of #SocialSelling Movement , LinkedIn. Nancy Nardin , Expert on Sales Productivity Tools & Strategies , Smart Selling Tools. I predict we’ll see the use of more video tools for messaging and video integrated into websites like never before. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 4, 2020

Not only has personal social media usage been on the rise, but professional social media usage has become more prevalent as well — and the field of sales is no exception. With so many teams now focusing on inside sales, using strategies such as social selling to connect and win over customers are more important than ever.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Inside sales jobs are growing at a staggering rate, and it’s not hard to see why. Most companies offer uncapped commissions for their inside sales positions. Almost any lifestyle you can imagine for yourself is possible with an inside sales role. First, let’s look at what inside sales is.

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MARCH 25, 2014

I am very humbled, and quite honored, since it seems that quite a process was put into place and many different tools to measure reach was used to take a list of 500 influencers down to the top 30. LinkedIn is certainly a social selling tool and Koka the perfect representative of how adding insight to help potential buyers builds your brand.

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JULY 30, 2014

LinkedIn, Twitter, and content creation / blogging are the three ways we attract new eyes to our website and to my world. There are hundreds of strategies for success incorporating some social tools into your business. In the last 10, B2B companies we have worked with, I found that this tool combination has worked with 9 of them.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Here are three mistakes I see every week that I hope you can work to avoid if you are a serious inside sales person working to build your pipeline of prospective buyers: YOU DON’T ARRIVE AT YOUR DESK WITH A PLAN: . As a rep, I invested in tools and professional development and you should too. That means call activity.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

They have some level of success, but by not using other means of prospecting tools they are certainly leaving money on the table. In fact it was the topic I chose as part of the Sales Acceleration Summit sponsored by Inside Sales earlier this year. It took ONE LinkedIn message, not months of communication.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

The first tip in email productivity I’d share is to use a tool like Sidekick , Yesware , Toutapp or Vision. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. email lori@scoremoresales.com | My LinkedIn Profile | twitter | Visit us on google+. It feels unprofessional and lame.

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JUNE 2, 2014

In Ken Krogue’s full day session on Business Development – inside sales tips, strategies, tools, and methodology, this acronym was one of the highlights of his session because it brings everything you need in sales together. Ken has identified over 27 types of inside sales campaigns.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers. What I don’t see is cohesiveness, and maximizing time through better management of all of the tools. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Every sales leader is told, “buy this sales enablement tool – it will help you so much.” It is true that never before have we had access to technology, metrics, and science to assist us in doing our sales roles better than ever. But sometimes these tools hinder our success. Increase Opportunities.

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SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

” It includes a downloadable tool to assess your readiness for successful implementation. Sales leaders regularly face the daunting task of delivering revenue and margin growth. Here’s what could happen: Inside Sales: Field sales reps continue to serve customers who could purchase on-line.

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Sage Lead Rank Forecasting Inside Sales 267

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Seems it has stirred up a discussion in one the LinkedIn groups, one I did not belong to, (since joined). Whenever I do a piece on effective voice mail techniques, three things happen: It get a lot more hits than most other posts – telling me that this continues to be a challenge and hot button for sales people. THAT’S IT!

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Fill the Funnel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

OFunnel works like Google Alerts within your LinkedIn network. OFunnel highlights new relationship opportunities that you have never been able to track this easily before by leveraging the reach of your LinkedIn connections. OFunnel constantly monitors LinkedIn as your network expands and emails you results each day.

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