Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 10, 2014

Inside sales. Recently we published a blog on the emerging importance of inside sales in the B2B market. We came across an interesting research study by Software Advice that examined the performance of their inside sales team – analyzing data collected from over 6,000,000 visitors to their web site.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

But now that countless sales professionals are forced to make the transition for the first time, many face an entirely new set of challenges. There probably isn’t a more directly impacted area than the field sales rep. Selling software is a highly collaborative process. Working remotely doesn’t have to kill your quota.

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InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A great inside sales representative can deliver many wins for a sales team. What Is Inside Sales? What Are Agile Inside Sales Professionals? The Importance of Having Agile Inside Sales Reps. The Importance of Having Agile Inside Sales Reps. What Is Inside Sales? .

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Close.io

MAY 30, 2018

So you’re looking to build out your inside sales team and you’ve lined up a full day of interviews with potential new hires. To make sure you don’t waste time and money on a bad hire who doesn’t fit the culture, there are some questions you absolutely need to be asking in your interviews with prospective inside sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 1, 2020

Fortunately, by leveraging a few inside sales best practices, outside sales reps can successfully pivot to remote sales. Reshaping Your Sales Process. Ready to reshape your sales process, implement a few proven remote sales techniques, and become a remote sales expert? Repeatedly.

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Pivotal Inside Sales Strategy Face-to-face 85

SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Inside sales reps who engage prospects with a personalized pitch see better open rates, have longer conversations, and book more meetings. But migrating from a traditional cold calling model to one that requires a high-level of customization can be challenging, even for the most sophisticated inside sales environments.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you. Table of Contents Sales Career and Salary Stats The Buyer’s Journey Lead Generation Stats Sales Software Stats Sales Careers and Salary Stats Practically every business in every industry needs salespeople.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

With effective sales pipeline management , you’ll be able to predict how much revenue your team brings in each week, month, quarter or any given period of time. Here are 5 tips to create a profitable sales pipeline: Reverse engineer the number of opportunities your reps need to hit quota.

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Pipeline Inside Sales Top of Funnel Sales Management 92

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

What is inside sales? Let’s kick things off with a definition of inside sales. The inside sales model is built around the idea of sales reps working from their desks, without leaving the office. This means the inside sales process relies on digital communication, as well as phone calls.

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ExecVision

JULY 15, 2018

The idea of inside sales motivation is a bit of an oxymoron. As an inside sales leader, part of your job is creating an environment conducive to success for individual reps and teams alike. By helping your inside sales reps create their own habit loops with rewarding behaviors. So how do you do it?

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Should I Start Off With Inside Sales or Outside Sales? Are you new to sales and asking yourself the universal sales question, “Should I start off with inside sales or outside sales?” An inside sales rep who’s also doing outbound tasks has a lot of work.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Government Inbound 40

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Sales leaders are — and should be — slaves to the (quota) scoreboard. Sales is no longer an individual sport. As we’ll dive into later, sales teams are built differently in the digital age. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or Considerations for Inside vs Field Sales Reps.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article will cover inside vs. outside sales CRMs; the biggest challenges for outside sales reps, their leaders, and managers; time management; quota attainment; and outside sales technology. Keep reading to find outside sales statistics and details on what our survey revealed. Outside sales reps.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

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HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, Cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. million and software was $3.2

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CRM, or customer relationship management, is a strategy companies use to track customer relationships from pre- to post-sale. A CRM system is software that stores information on client and prospect interactions with employees. Sales reporting. Accurate sales forecasting. 5 Benefits of CRMs Customer data management.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2013

Sales leaders hire Mike to fix revenue shortfalls before they happen. For example, Sales VPs at HP, Phillips 66, and Dow Jones have relied on Mike’s advice to make their quotas. He wrote the book on sales benchmarking before most had heard the term. 75% quota attainment is positive enough. He is usually right.

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B2B Hiring Quota Social Selling 308

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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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

ExecVision

MAY 18, 2018

Remote teams are nothing new in the sales world–field reps have been closing deals outside of the office since practically the beginning of time. Working remotely is however, a newer development in inside sales. Here are ten steps for building a remote inside sales team that smashes quota and remains engaged: 1.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Benchmark an employee test results against the test results from the super stars inside companies who have already made it through the industry shift. Examples: An enterprise software company’s industry segment was being disrupted by software-as-a-service competitors. Want to see an example?

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Lead Rank Industry Lead Scoring Scale 288

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The problem is that many sales managers were raised in Sales 1.0 They don’t have the skills or tools for success in a Sales 3.0 According to CSO Insights, only 55.8

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 21, 2013

Armed with Marketing Automation Software, CMOs are tracing new customers back to their campaigns. Smart, nimble companies will be building Inside Sales departments capable of developing and closing opportunities. Last month, I sat in on four software demonstrations for a client. Today, marketing has dramatically changed.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

Sales organizations are restructuring themselves to reflect the growing trend of buyers doing their own research before connecting with sellers. Our research showed the ideal sales organization structure includes an equal mix of inside sales representatives and outside sales professionals (50/50). Presentations.

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Direct Mail Industry Salary Compensation 105

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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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Poor clarity for expectations and goals Sales leaders are — and should be — slaves to the (quota) scoreboard. Sales is no longer an individual sport. As we’ll dive into later, sales teams are built differently in the digital age. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or

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B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 100

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Activity Sales Metrics. These sales metrics show what salespeople are doing on a daily basis. Activity metrics are “manageable,” meaning sales managers can directly influence them. Imagine one of your reps isn’t hitting her quota. Sales Productivity Metrics.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 23, 2012

As 2011 meandered to an uneventful close, with no sign of a significant upturn in global economic conditions, we reflected on a year of flat-line results, during which 54% of frontline sales professionals missed quota. Today’s breed of inside sales professional is bright, qualified, and well rewarded. Not anymore.

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Retail Inside Sales Outside Sales Video 215

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without further ado, here are some of the female movers-and-shakers who are creating powerful ripple effects and paving the path for the next generation of women sales leaders. Amy Appleyard – SVP Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. Andrea Austin – VP at Nokia Software | Published Author.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 12, 2017

SaaS stands for software as a service. It is a type of software hosted, secured, and managed by a single provider. Software as a service, or SaaS, is software that’s accessed, managed, and used on the internet. Software as a service, or SaaS, is software that’s accessed, managed, and used on the internet.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Salary 121

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. Sales Solutions Blog. The Best Blogs for Sales Leaders and Executives. OpenView Labs (Sales Category).

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Top of Funnel Hiring Cold Calling Social Selling 145

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Phase 2 - Develop Go To Market Plan - Many sales VPs don’t know the best route to market. You may need to increase the size of inside sales. Phase 3 - Sales Force Design - How many reps and what type? Territory design, quotas and compensation plans. Steve asked us to stress test his 2014 sales plan.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2018

Chatbots, AI, machine learning -- sales, like other industries, is changing rapidly, thanks to technology. But, at the end of the day, you still need to nurture prospects, close deals, and hit your quota. AI, machine learning, and automation will greatly assist the sales force. Sales has split. Here are their answers.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 144

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Once the SDR has determined the prospect is ready to be contacted by the sales team, they send the person over to a closing rep. This process means SDRs typically aren't held to traditional quotas but to the number of calls they make or qualified leads they gather. Inside Sales Rep. Sales Operations Manager.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Managing a sales team is a lot of work, too. Ensuring that goals and sales targets are ambitious but reachable, taking broad business growth goals and distilling them down to a sales quota for every rep of every level, and mentoring and coaching sales reps throughout their tenure with your company are all just part of the job.

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Hubspot Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Call-back 98

Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) refers to any cloud software product that a company hosts and makes available to customers over the Internet, rather than offering it as a download onto their computers or mobile devices. By the end, you should have a clear roadmap for reaching your or your company’s sales goals. What Is SaaS Sales?

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Paid Content Lead Rank Commission Lead Scoring 127

Close.io

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The first step toward actionable sales benchmarking is identifying the metrics that matter most to your organization. Over the years, we've seen the following metrics stand out as key performance indicators for inside sales teams: sales cycle , quota attainment, average deal size, bookings, win rate.

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