Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

I’ve helped sales managers and business owners interview hundreds of potential sales reps over the years, and I’ve identified 3 top mistakes that virtually eliminate sales candidates on the spot! appeared first on Mr. Inside Sales. Less is more. This seems like a no brainer, right?

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Hiring Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 241

Velocify

APRIL 22, 2013

We’ve blogged recently about the importance of leveraging the skills of your inside sales team and playing to each reps strengths like a good coach. In fact, our research shows that after implementing a skill-based routing program, skilled sales reps more than double their conversion.

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Inside Sales Leads360 Lead Scoring Lead Rank 103

Velocify

APRIL 24, 2013

Leads360’s new calculator provides a lead assignment recommendation per sales rep, per day in order to boost revenue and profits. Though inside sales is undeniably becoming more and more complex, at the end of the day, it is really a numbers game.

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Inside Sales Leads360 Cost per Lead Distribution 95

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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

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2012

My VP of Sales wants me to research trends in inside sales and conduct account segmentation. The sales managers are yelling for updated dashboards and territories. Oh, and Marketing wants to discuss sales enablement improvements. You don’t have HR and Sales Managers yelling at you!”

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Sales Operations Compensation Territories Segment 303

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. The Inside Sales Superhero to the Rescue. They’re social.

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Inside Sales Cold Calling Face-to-face Sports 203

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. Sign up for SBI''s free onsite research session here. By doing so, you will receive: A copy of a Sales Strategy Blueprint. You may need more partners.

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Compensation Social Media Incentive Incentives 325

Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible. SaaS B2B Sales. You can improve the quality and speed of the following processes with this solution: Customer Relationship Management ; Marketing Automation and Sales Increase; Audience Segmentation; Leads Qualification; Social Media Management.

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Inside Sales B2B Tools Top of Funnel 98

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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Inside Sales Tools Sales Qualified Lead Strategy 96

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

Sales Gravy

APRIL 2, 2025

Research shows that simply sending people to training without one-on-one follow-up leads to a big dip in retention and performance. Sales Leadership and Coaching Priorities Leaders who prioritized weekly one-on-ones, real-time one-to-one coaching, and rigorous sales pipeline reviews consistently deliver better results and productivity.

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Coaching Pivotal Guarantee Territories 68

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Sales author Anne Miller gives us some examples: Hit? Researchers conducted an experiment in which groups of people were shown a picture of an automobile accident. Determination, persistence and energy–everything a sales manager wants in a new hire, expressed metaphorically to win a job. 2 more resources.

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Hiring Lead Scoring Lead Rank Inside Sales 229

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2019

Conducts little to no research on a prospect before a call. HubSpot and InsideSales.com have created this quarterly sales rep review and coaching template to help managers measure and coach their inside sales reps to consistently improve performance each quarter. The key activities/skills of top sales reps.

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Sales Management Quota Margin Hubspot 144

SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Research the Market: Brutus starts by researching the market. He leverages 3 rd party research companies like Kennedy Research, Gartner, Forrester, and others to understand the external view of the marketplace, the competitors, and the trends. He validates his findings with quick 5-min calls to sales managers and reps.

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Infusion Data Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 244

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Time is vitally important to the success of a salesperson—time to research prospects, time to hone the sales pitch, and time to communicate with potential clients. Chris said he still has a lot to learn, and sitting in while a sales rep speaks to prospects is a two-way educational street. Meetings can keep reps from their jobs”.

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Twitter Inside Sales Video Motivation 189

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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Inside Sales Data Lead Rank Hiring 102

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Guard your time – a bit of advice given to me years ago by a wise sales manager that I’ve always worked to remember. Because of everything you do in your sales career, time is the one thing you cannot recoup. Time you spent doing “research” because you really are reluctant to get on the phone.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

OMG’s products are backed by years of research and in working with hundreds of thousands of sales reps. Book: Hire Right, Higher Profits – The Executive’s Guide to Building a World-Class Sales Force by Lee B. What tools do you or your company use to improve your success in hiring sales reps?

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Hiring How To Lead Scoring Lead Rank 229

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor. According to the Factor 8 website, Factor 8 is an award-winning inside sales training and consulting firm catering only to inside sales. How could we not include our own sales blog on this list?

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Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 206

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JUNE 27, 2014

This week, LinkedIn shared some statistics in its study women in sales. It’s pretty simple for them to do accurate research – they have all the data of 275 million (or more) business professionals in their system. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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Study LinkedIn Hiring Conference 231

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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Influencer B2B Social Media Twitter 188

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

But, they are also crucial for long-term sales success and for bigger, more lucrative deals. Many reps avoid C-level sales and many others do not approach it correctly. Consider these findings from Forrester Research: Eight out of 10 executives say sales meetings are a waste of time. Selling Up.

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Social Media How To Face-to-face Coaching 196

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Structure problems - field Reps were overpaid for work that should be done by lower-cost resources (aka Inside Sales). Sales coaching. Guide the Sales Managers on how to effectively coach C players. For one thing, coaching of C players should NOT be more than 10% of a Sales Manager’s time.

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Quota Compensation Commission Margin 257

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor. According to the Factor 8 website, Factor 8 is an award-winning inside sales training and consulting firm catering only to inside sales. How could we not include our own sales blog on this list?

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Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 170

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

.” As a modern digital magazine, Sales POP! Our content is aimed at empowering sales leaders, sales management, sales professionals and entrepreneurs to achieve new heights of success. Because every sale starts with a connection. Sales Management Blog. Sales Gravy. Connect2Sell.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Hiring Lead Scoring 98

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. What is inside sales? . Inside sales vs. outside sales .

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 62

Increase Sales

AUGUST 3, 2012

Yet, we know they are selling and their meager attempts to showcase they are not in sales are quite laughable. Imagine what would happen if any company or organization accepted this axiom: Everyone in this company is in sales! “Sales is the transference of feelings.” Purchasing fights with accounts payable.

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Competition Infusion Small Business Small Business 156

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

The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2018

What does the future hold for the inside sales jobs role for a salesperson and will its job description come to mean anything more than facilitating a customer’s purchase. What will the inside sales jobs role look like in three-to-five years? The inside sales role will evolve in line with technology.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 49

HeavyHitter Sales

MAY 25, 2017

If the sales organization truly a mentor-based environment, what percentage of salesmen and saleswomen have had sales mentors? The only exception was for male inside sales reps, who were 11 percent below their counterparts. Naturally, sales leadership will seek to imprint themselves on their organization.

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Sales Management Field Sales Inside Sales Research 74

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.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead InsideSales 141

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JULY 17, 2013

Jim Crisera of The TAS Group spoke next and really caught my attention because of the great statistics he shared based on their research: Only half of sales reps can access key players at a prospect company – 54% to be exact. Devon McDonald – Director of Sales & Marketing Support at OpenView Partners.

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Hiring B2B Video Lead Scoring 192

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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Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing VanillaSoft 169

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What Is Inside Sales? Inside sales refers to the practice of remote selling, wherein inside sales representatives solely use technology to conduct sales activities. The rise of remote selling has blurred the line between inside sales and outside sales. What Is Outside Sales?

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Face-to-face Sales Cycle 52

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To answer this question, let’s start with some data: According to the latest HubSpot Research Study , we found that 40% of businesses will miss revenue targets this year. Sales leaders in charge of new revenue growth have felt this change in their core. Teams that traditionally sold in person had to pivot to an inside sales model.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Opportunity Face-to-face 126

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Time is vitally important to the success of a salesperson—time to research prospects, time to hone the sales pitch, and time to communicate with potential clients. Chris said he still has a lot to learn, and sitting in while a sales rep speaks to prospects is a two-way educational street. Meetings can keep reps from their jobs”.

Twitter 124

Twitter Inside Sales Video Motivation 124

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. I’ve got bills to pay! Thanks for the input. Don’t do it.

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Motivation Incentive Incentives Lead Rank 191