Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

For nearly 20 years, Trish and The Bridge Group have helped over 320+ companies build, expand and optimize their Inside Sales practices including building pipeline, generating revenue and redefining the image of the profession. In fact, her latest book, The Sales Development Playbook , was an Amazon #1 bestseller!

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2020

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. Replace Sales Cadence Stress with Simplicity. It was the ultimate cadence: volume.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling. According to Richard Ruff, co-founder of Sales Horizon, sales managers should demonstrate or model sales skills to reps.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 10, 2019

? ? ? ? ? ? ?. In this podcast, I talk to Natalie Bering of ServiceNow on how to support frontline managers by coaching them to think big, maximizing their 1-on-1 time with staff, and focusing on professional development. RELATED: Sales Organization Structure For Optimal Performance. In this article: What Are Frontline Managers?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively. Account Management.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Table of Contents The Benefits of AI for Business Development How to Use AI for Business Development Testing It Out The Benefits of AI for Business Development A sales mentor once told me that a key to succeeding in sales is to find ways to maximize the time you spend meeting with prospects, building relationships, and moving opportunities forward.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

You call on those companies who are “more probable” to buy from you than those who are “less probable” to maximize reps’ time. Conduct assessments to find reps consistent to what it takes to succeed in sales at your company. Train and coach frontline sales leaders. Keep it Tasty – your offers to prospects must be enticing.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And to make this manageable, we break these subsystems down, further, to make be able to meet those goals. Within sales, we are very familiar with the subsystems. We have SDR/Pre/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineers, Specialists, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement, Channel Development, and so forth.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Several years ago, I was leading the sales team of a major tire manufacturer. One of the inside sales reps was frustrated that he wasn’t getting anywhere with the VP of operations at one the world’s largest shipping companies. Some deals can take up to a year from prep to pitch.

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Velocify

MARCH 19, 2013

Great coaches can coax peak performance out of their athletes and so can sales managers when they use Leads360’s sales Performance-Based Distribution feature. And with the stakes so high, the coaches need to play to the strengths of each of their players, optimizing for peak sales performance.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 9, 2022

There’s a statistic floating around the internet that says the average inside sales rep only spends 33% of their time actively selling. I’m not sure if I agree with that figure but time management is an undervalued skill among sales reps. The best sales reps have done the math and have calculated what their time is worth.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Inside Sales Rep. In an increasingly digital world, inside salespeople are the go-to for prospecting, nurturing, and converting leads remotely. They rely on email, phone calls, videos, and virtual meetings—instead of face-to-face interaction—to build relationships and move people through the sales funnel. Image Source.

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Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As a result, the traditional field sales model is giving way to a more flexible, hybrid approach. In medical device digital sales, manufacturers are combining digital outreach, inside sales, and self-service platforms to offer buyers more ways to engage. Ensure your sales team has the skills to succeed.

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ExecVision

APRIL 23, 2018

Further exacerbating this problem, many of the booth jockeys and inside sales reps aren’t used to meeting people face-to-face, and then are left to man the table alone, without a mentor in sight. The platform allows sales leaders to see what’s actually happening on calls and enables sales managers to coach reps efficiently at scale.

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InsideSales.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn how to use predictive analytics and big data to improve your team’s inside sales skills. Follow these sales best practices to improve your sales reps’ selling skills and turn regular salespeople into sales superstars. 7 Sales Best Practices. Managing workstyle.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

They assigned each field sales person to the 10-15 largest potential accounts in their territory, shifting all other accounts to inside sales or web sales. It’s important to understand the impact your solutions can have on the customers and that you organize to maximize the impact you can have.

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Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This article is written with field sales teams in mind. However, if you run an inside sales team exclusively, don’t despair, you may still find a nugget or two of helpful information as well. An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear]. Source: com].

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We tended to think of inside sales as those people sitting in the office, waiting for the phone to ring, just focused on small deals, doing very high volumes. In those ancient times, inside sales started changing a lot, primarily with new phone and computer technology. We field sales guys were, honestly, relieved.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Also gone are the days when ideal customers from your target companies are knocking at your sales team’s doors in droves. Although cold calling, inbound marketing, inside sales and field sales still have a place in the sales planning of many companies, the modern B2B buyer is looking for a different type of interaction with B2B sellers.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 25, 2019

So, what do the teams’ playbooks cover to help maximize the likelihood for each side of achieving successful outcomes? First, for some context, consider the six categories of sales playbooks: Reference – Everything a sales rep needs to know to get their job done.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 11, 2024

What is B2B sales, and what strategies can you use to maximize your success? Whether you’re a B2B-native startup or an established direct-to-consumer company pivoting to B2B sales, this guide will walk you through everything you need to know about B2B. Inside sales professionals still need exceptional communication skills.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Database management. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Return on marketing and sales investment. Revenue performance management. Sales lead management. Sales management. Customer acquisition. Demand creation. Lead generation. Marketing automation.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

He then performs ride-alongs with multiple sales representatives to observe the buyers in action. He validates his findings with quick 5-min calls to sales managers and reps. Build Bold Sales Strategy Recommendations: In the case of Brutus he made two bold recommendations. This is world-class sales operations.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 28, 2019

For many companies, the ramp-up time for new sales professionals typically is 6 months or more, but inside sales has changed. Sales automation tools like email and dialing technology have turned SDRs into revenue-generating machines. As a Sales Manager, you need to be actively involved with training new SDRs.

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SBI

MAY 11, 2015

You can even measure the progress of front line sales and sales management against critical success factors. CallidusCloud helps you optimize productivity and performance across your entire sales organization from lead, to revenue and that’s why we’ve name it one of our Top Sales Tools of 2015.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 15, 2020

Lars Nilsson, Founder & CEO at SalesSource, has over 25 years of sales and operations experience in the technology sector. Prior to SalesSource, Lars was Vice President of Global Inside Sales for Cloudera, the company that transformed enterprise data management. Becc Holland Head of Sales Development at Chorus.ai.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Improve Lead Qualification and Prioritization The sales development playbook provides criteria to identify high-value leads and referrals, ensuring SDRs focus on opportunities with the highest potential. This targeted approach maximizes the use of resources and increases the chances of closing valuable deals.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 19, 2024

Interested in understanding how a sales manager directs a successful sales team? This article offers essential strategies for leading a high-performing sales team, including establishing clear roles and putting efficient processes into place. You’re in the right place!

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 29, 2019

XANT studies have shown that leadership activities like coaching and mentoring positively impact the growth and retention of top performers, maximizing investment in people and processes. We asked sales managers what skills make a great salesperson, and here’s what we found out: 1. Continue to work on them both.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Maximizer (636). Brian, CMO of Lattice Engines, recently presented a session on predictive analytics at the Inside Sales Virtual Summit. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2012

How they buy shapes our sales deployment model–Do we have a field sales model, inside sales, channel, retail, eCommerce, or some combination? Layers 3 and 2 are primarily focused everything having to do with the tactical execution of the sales strategy. Layer 3: First line sales management.

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Velocify

MARCH 7, 2013

So we put our resident sales scientists to the test, mining millions of sales calls to build out a formula for one of the most common questions we get asked from sales managers. How many leads should I be assigning to my sales reps each day and when do I need to hire more sales reps based on my lead flow?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Much of the analysis makes sense if we are managing large numbers of people and are looking at how we allocate our time to those large numbers of people. But the reality is, spans of control are decreasing in field sales. In inside sales, they appear to be a little larger, but not huge.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 31, 2018

In the 21st century, this dogma extends beyond face-to-face conversations and into the virtual communication that comprises inside sales. I’m one of the sales managers here. Today I want to talk to you about the importance of discovery calls for the sales team, particularly as the discovery pertains to pain.

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Tenfold

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social selling expert, Neal Schaffer , has teamed up with Rutgers Business School Executive Education to create an eight week executive course dedicated to training organizations and professionals how to maximize social selling efforts and calculate ROI of those programs. Schaffer is one of the World’s best social media strategists.

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