Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. Brian: Why I Started My Business.

Prospecting 97

Prospecting Cold Calling Pivotal Incentives 97

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In a recent episode of the Expert Insight Interview, host John Golden sat down with Glenn Sandifer , the Senior Director of Securitas Technology US, to discuss the evolving landscape of inside sales. Understanding Inside Sales John Golden begins the conversation by asking Glenn Sandifer to define what an inside sales team is.

Inside Sales 52

Inside Sales Video Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sales for Life. LinkedIn Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. Sales Benchmark Index. Inside Sales Experts Blog. Sales Source. The Sales Leader. The Center for Sales Strategy Blog. But the real question is: Can you afford not to read sales blogs? The Best Blogs for Sales Reps.

Top of Funnel 145

Top of Funnel Hiring Cold Calling Social Selling 145

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Video prospecting. And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. 1) Video prospecting. Video prospecting” is a buzzword, but at HubSpot, we’ve seen great results. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …).

Hubspot 145

Hubspot Lead Rank Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 145

Women Sales Pros

APRIL 19, 2019

And clarity regarding role, expectations and decision authority levels enable inside sales, outside sales, account management and enablement to work more collaboratively and communicate much more effectively. Use a sales-specific assessment tool to vet candidates based on role definition. Inside sales is an example.

Trends 129

Trends Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Churn 129

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For sales teams, access to customer information is essential to do their job. Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. Today, this traditional sales structure is undergoing a drastic change. Automate and analyze tasks.

Industry 98

Industry Data Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 98

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 1, 2018

Time Management Skills for Sales Professionals. Be prepared to pivot. Allotting time to one prospect over another could be the difference between closing a million dollar deal and having the door closed on you. Be prepared to pivot. This tactic also applies to inside sales. Eliminate administrative tasks.

Call-back 112

Call-back Pivotal Follow-up Maximizer 112

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Prospects and customers either answered the phone (or pager) or their PA did. Today the business manager and the purchasing manager’s roles have been elevated and are considered pivotal senior management roles. Contact was relatively simple. There was no email, voicemail, texting, social or InMail.

Telemarketing 150

Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Vengreso

JULY 2, 2020

The sales landscape has changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Sales leaders’ priorities shifted and sales prospecting strategies pivoted. That’s the topic of conversation in this episode of the Modern Selling Podcast with John Barrows, CEO of JBarrows Sales Training. What is the solution?

Ideal Customer Profile 70

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Buyer Persona 70

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

Conversion rate by sales funnel stage (by team and by individual). Lead Generation Sales Metrics. How well are your salespeople prospecting? Email Sales Metrics. Phone Sales Metrics. Percentage of prospects who agree to a conversation. Percentage of prospects who move to the next step. Call-backs.

Cost per Acquisition 145

Cost per Acquisition Lead Rank Churn Webinar Metrics 145

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

2) Building a repeatable sales model. Sell directly to customers or through various sales channels? Inside sales or field sales? There are sales specialists who help you with that in a non-consulting, first-hand, prospect-facing manner. This is the most outsourced sales function.

Outsourcing Services 87

Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Ideal Customer Profile B2B 87

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Prospecting (4539). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). 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.

Lead Rank 99

Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

John Barrows

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Prospecting into new accounts, following up, doing his best to exceed his number and get his team to do the same. He’s got a killer podcast, a great personal brand and has an interesting story of how he found his true passion in an inside sales job, after working in retail sales. But he saw me and he saw my energy.

Wireless 105

Wireless Inside Sales Retail Social Media 105

Showpad

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic had upended the sales industry. Even veteran field sellers had pivoted to inside sales. But even though the landscape changed, sales was still a relationship game. Our customers told us that they were looking for new ways to stand out in a remote world and engage with their prospects.

Channels 72

Channels Video Pivotal Scale 72

Sales Hacker

APRIL 20, 2020

As a result, B2B sales and marketing teams are yanked towards inside sales strategies like account-based marketing and remote selling. Sales and marketing must banish silos and band together during this turbulent time. Working with marketing, sales reps rep can contribute to content that solves buyer-specific problems.

Account Based Marketing 89

Account Based Marketing Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing 89

Chorus.ai

MAY 15, 2020

They discussed the next evolution of inside sales, especially over the next eight weeks as we look towards reopening the economy. Like everyone else, inside sales has had to transition to remote work seemingly overnight. While it wasn’t entirely seamless, the inside sales structure was more equipped to adapt quickly.

Face-to-face 62

Face-to-face Travel Inside Sales Pivotal 62

Openview

MARCH 16, 2018

Salesforce was one of the first out of the gate with an inside model. Marc Benioff and his team demonstrated a consistent ability to scale with an outbound sales team in those early years. And with that, modern inside sales was born. You don’t run experiments, you pivot. The most common one I see?

Outbound 89

Outbound Lead Rank Company Scale 89

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

What happens when a Global Head of Sales, an Inside Sales Director, and an Account Executive walk into a bar? They sit around a table and share actionable insights about their company’s transition from SMB to enterprise sales. . Do they get a few rounds of tequila? Do they start playing hackysack?

Enterprise 89

Enterprise Enterprise Penetration How To 89

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training is the process of developing and fine-tuning the skills of sales professionals and managers by increasing their understanding of their buyers, modernizing their approach to the sales process, and equipping them with strategies, techniques, and technology that top performers use to achieve sales success.

Training 92

Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92

Showpad

MARCH 19, 2020

As economic uncertainty, remote workforces and other obstacles caused by COVID-19 transform day-to-day operations, organizations are learning they must pivot their sales strategies – and quickly – to confront the challenge. Companies around the world are forced to face a rapidly changing business landscape. Embracing Virtual Coaching.

Company 71

Company Strategy Face-to-face SalesForce 71

Pipeliner

APRIL 1, 2019

And clarity regarding role, expectations and decision authority levels enable inside sales, outside sales, account management and enablement to work more collaboratively and communicate much more effectively. Use a sales-specific assessment tool to vet candidates based on role definition. Inside sales is an example.

Trends 75

Trends Hiring Churn Inside Sales 75

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And in this day and age of cutthroat competition, the War for Talent, and fast-evolving B2B sales and marketing environments, you need the best B2B sales and marketing professionals serving on your behalf. Hiring for Your B2B Sales Team. Segmenting Your B2B Sales Team. The best place to start looking for new hires?

Inbound 77

Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank B2B 77

InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

Helping companies get there is a core part of what Vertical Relevance helps large-scale sales organizations achieve.”. Inside Sales Teams are Already Digital. We’ve known digital transformation was coming for a long time; many have already transformed their sales development and inside sales teams.

Face-to-face 94

Face-to-face Travel Call-back Infor 94

Factor 8

APRIL 23, 2020

A quick pivot into exploring for sales opportunities starts to smell. In the wise words of my friend Colleen Stanley , author of Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership : Ask yourself if your prospecting effort demonstrates that you get their world right now. How are sales? Want to build the fastest rapport?

Prospecting 41

Prospecting Hiring Call-back Lead Rank 41

Pipeliner

AUGUST 25, 2019

One of the Fox Sports broadcast crews which consisted of ex-players dissected a pivotal corner kick from the standpoint of the playbooks of both the offense and the defense. Messaging – How to effectively prepare for and conduct sales conversations. Coaching – How sales managers execute critical processes to motivate high performance.

Sports 73

Sports Guidelines Face-to-face Campaigns 73

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Six Sense account engagement platform uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale, identifying prospects who are in the market for your solution, and providing salespeople like you with the insight to create highly relevant messaging. We were the inside sales teams for tech companies. Never before possible.

Outsourcing Services 89

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Pivotal Enterprise 89

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. Retrain or coach SDRs about their prospects.

Webinar Metrics 52

Webinar Metrics Tourism Enterprise Enterprise 52

Corporate Visions

JULY 19, 2018

It made me wonder if that jingle still ring true today when it comes to how inside sales reps—and increasingly outside ones—are spending more time connecting with prospects and customers remotely versus face-to-face. View the report: The Next Best Thing to Being There.

Report 40

Report Face-to-face Journal How To 40

Vengreso

JULY 25, 2024

These skilled outside reps excel at initiating contact with prospective clients and nurturing those opportunities until they are ready for business engagement. Types of Sales Outsourcing Engaging in sales outsourcing can provide varied frameworks designed to accommodate specific business needs and streamline their selling strategies.

Outsourcing Services 67

Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Webinar Metrics Strategy 67

Vengreso

AUGUST 19, 2024

Properly structuring sales compensation to incentivize and motivate the sales team, tailoring incentives to each role, and tying a portion of sales compensation to revenue targets drives sales increases and aligns the team’s goals with the company’s revenue objectives.

Lead Rank 67

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Strategy 67

Sales Hacker

MAY 11, 2021

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Joe Venuti, VP of Inside Sales at Sendoso, on how to maintain a healthy work culture in a remote environment and why direct mail is effective in the digital world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Who sales development should report to [22:16].

Direct Mail 60

Direct Mail Hiring Account Based Marketing Proposal 60

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

Wes started his career at Sisense, becoming head of enterprise business development and ultimately director of inside sales for North America. As of January 2019, he moved on to leading the US sales team at Red Points. After four years, he didn’t like being stuck behind a desk, so he moved into SaaS. What was it?

Hiring 126

Hiring Lead Rank Call-back Lead Scoring 126

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. Utilize B2B sales metrics to track success and improve your sales strategy.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel B2B Examples 52

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Choosing one prospect over another might mean the difference between closing a million-dollar contract and being turned down. Instead of driving back to the office or cooling your heels at a coffee shop until the next appointment, you can quickly regroup and connect with other nearby prospects to get a new meeting.

Webinar Metrics 52

Webinar Metrics Strategy Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 52

Chorus.ai

MAY 19, 2020

We had to pivot to figure out how we can offer a rich onboarding experience while fully remote.” What isn’t part of our DNA is that our inside sales team now offers our 30-day boot camp onboarding completely remote. It wasn’t Shelter in Place that changed our hiring pace, it was hiring remotely. Don't Miss Another Episode.

Hiring 62

Hiring Infusion Face-to-face Scale 62

Chorus.ai

MARCH 19, 2019

A trick I used a lot earlier in my career, and still do from time to time, is asking the prospect for feedback at that critical juncture (the part where they hang up on you). Scott Barker, Head of Partnerships, Sales Hacker and Evangelist, Outreach.io. Head of Partnerships, Sales Hacker and Evangelist, Outreach.io. Scott Barker.

Cold Calling 67

Cold Calling Face-to-face Call-back Lead Rank 67

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Jim Donovan, the vice president of global sales from PandaDoc. A fantastic guest and really great guy, Jim’s a 20-year veteran of the sales industry. That was a pivotal moment in his life and when he decided to embark on a career in sales. Now, we get to chat with him.

Hiring 80

Hiring Inbound Outbound Lead Rank 80