Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These roles equipped me with excellent resources for managing my “book of business” in my assigned industry and territory. But if I had had access to the AI sales, marketing, and workflow optimization tools we’ll explore in this article? Well, those sales experiences would have produced far better results for all involved.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. Territory & Account Planning. Mobile Selling.

Sales Tools 139

Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 139

OutboundView

AUGUST 16, 2019

You’ll have sales leaders helping close deals. You’ll have outside salespeople prospecting or inside sales people helping close deals. Inside sales and outside sales roles have very different responsibilities. Inside sales and outside sales roles have very different responsibilities.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Salary Hiring 31

SBI Growth

MAY 15, 2013

"Should we hire an external Sales Manager or promote from within?". Open Sales Management positions are bad for sales organizations. Having the wrong Sales Manager (SM) is worse. This post helps you decide between hiring an internal or external Sales Manager. For example, is it all direct sales? It depends.

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Hiring Sales Management Forecasting Inside Sales 300

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. Outside or inside sales? It’s all sales.

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Outside Sales Hiring Face-to-face Inside Sales 137

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2012

42% is the average amount of time a sales person spends engaging with a customer. We all know improving selling time should increase sales. And what is the value I should receive by actually improving a sales person’s selling time in front of a customer? The rep’s territory potential starts to max out.

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Hiring Travel Territories Face-to-face 310

Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

If you’re growing or starting up a team, you’re wise to spend time researching the type of rep that will best suit your sales process, talent pool, and customer preferences. And if you’re researching roles in sales, even better. Let’s dig in – starting with the top of the sales funnel or beginning of the buying process.

Inside Sales 31

Inside Sales Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 31

OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps. Short History.

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Telemarketing Salary 31

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you ask most executives if they have a sales process , they’ll immediately say yes. But when you ask them to describe their sales process, their descriptions vary wildly. To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. Having clear definitions for your sales process matters a lot.

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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 131

The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

Seems some sales organizations are taking a page from other paraprofessional playbook, some effectively, others, maybe not. The flip side of this movement is not so good, where organizations either by intent or ignorance, choose to trust their entire revenue generation to people who can at best be described as parasales reps.

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Hiring Licensing Health Care Sales Talent 267

Score More Sales

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. In a world of distractions, sound bytes, lists of important things to accomplish, and “noise” — you need to focus on activities that lead to revenue before you do anything else. Carl Sandburg.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As if the looming year end wasn’t pressure enough for a sales leader trying to meet sales quota, will the loss of top sales reps pile on? The HR Leader can take some concrete steps to stop the exit of sales reps and therefore the loss of revenue. Immediate Help for Sales. But how do you know?

Sales Talent 288

Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

SBI

MAY 6, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. Territory & Account Planning. Marketing automation.

Sales Tools 57

Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 57

SBI Growth

JUNE 2, 2013

“Do we have a sales turnover problem that needs to be fixed now?". HR is busy filling open Sales Rep positions. This post helps HR and Sales decide if it’s time to fix the underlying cause. She is the HR business partner to sales. She does great work in recruiting and hiring of Sales Reps. Hanna is good.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Commission 312

SBI

MAY 6, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. Territory & Account Planning. Marketing automation.

Sales Tools 50

Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 50

SBI

MAY 7, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. Territory & Account Planning. Mobile Selling.

Sales Tools 50

Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 50

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

Demand Generation Agencies 121

Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 121

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Your Sales Strategy. It is one thing to have a sales strategy. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. This is flawed.

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m often amazed looking at the pipeline profiles of a lot of enterprise focused sales organizations. Each of these organizations had reasonably performing sales people. As we reviewed what the sales people were doing, we found the same thing their managers had found. The client changed territory assignments.

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Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation Account 91

Vengreso

JULY 25, 2024

Incorporating external sales experts through outsourced sales can lead to cost savings, access to premier talent, and rapid scaling capabilities for your business. By leveraging the expertise of seasoned sales professionals, companies can benefit from specialized skills that might not be available in-house.

Outsourcing Services 68

Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Webinar Metrics Strategy 68

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Reporting structure/org charts (Sales loves).

Ideal Customer Profile 202

Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Amy Appleyard , the recently appointed SVP of Global Inside Sales at CarbonBlack. . Amy walks us through her background from being an SMB entrepreneur to leading large sales teams and why sales emerged as her true calling. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Company 53

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

When you love being a sales rep, or a business development rep, or a regional account rep, or a national account rep, you know it. First of all, you know that sales is admirable and regardless of the noise about how you should stop selling and start helping, or stop selling and start serving – you have been helping and serving for years.

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How To Territories Call-back Buyer 120

Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. To date in 2016, these same territory reps have exceeded their numbers. Snatching support away from these territories will cause what I call a ‘bubble in the funnel.’ Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 100

InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

For a Sales Representative, climbing the corporate ladder begins with a promotion to Sales Manager. Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. In This Article: What is a Sales Manager? In This Article: What is a Sales Manager? How Sales Manager Succeed. People Management.

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Sales Management Ideal Customer Profile Territories Promotion 58

HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the  Why Sales Organizations Fail.           What prevents a sales organization from achieving success? Every sales organization can be classified based upon whether it is in a “Build,” “Compete,” “Maintain,” “Extend,” or “Cull” stage.

Hiring 108

Hiring Scale Territories Penetration 108

SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. They are savvy and cynical about sales techniques.

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InsideSales Hiring Inside Sales Webinar Metrics 129

Mindtickle

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this 25 minute podcast Steve explains: What makes a great sales team. How sales enablement needs differ within sales teams and how technology can help address this. How Kaizen can be applied to sales teams to improve their productivity. Steve began his career in software sales and has worked for IBM, HP, and Google.

Hiring 52

Hiring Sales Enablement Territories Inside Sales 52

Mindtickle

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this 25 minute podcast Steve explains: What makes a great sales team. How sales enablement needs differ within sales teams and how technology can help address this. How Kaizen can be applied to sales teams to improve their productivity. Steve began his career in software sales and has worked for IBM, HP, and Google.

Hiring 52

Hiring Sales Enablement Territories Inside Sales 52

SBI

MAY 11, 2015

Get to know your sales tools in just 2 minutes a week. This week, Nancy profiles CallidusCloud , a suite of cloud solutions that accelerate sales all the way from lead, to money. . Sales ToolSkool Video Transcript: This week’s topic is how to optimize the entire sales process from lead to revenue.

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Hiring Territories Compensation Distribution 50

A Sales Guy

JULY 24, 2012

When quotas are not perceived as achievable, sales people just give up and don’t even try. The sales team freaks out. Management doesn’t budge arguing the sales team is sandbagging, and the quotas are more than achievable. Middle managers then try to “sell” the sales teams on the quotas.

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Quota Analysis Government Distribution 113

SBI

MAY 7, 2015

If you’re seeking smart tools to drive sales performance, I’ve got great news for you. We’ve just released our 3rd annual Top Sales Tools of the Year Guide. Find the best sales tools to: Help salespeople convert more calls into appointments. See which tools we chose for: Mobile Sales Enablement.

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Tools Territories Compensation Inside Sales 50

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

How has your sales leadership style changed this year? HubSpot recently surveyed over 500 sales leaders and found 40% of them have missed revenue targets this year — a significant trend that can’t continue if their businesses are going to survive. It’s time to rewrite the sales leadership rulebook.

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Hiring Promotion Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 103

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 5, 2012

For sales leaders, this means identifying and executing on a new set of sales strategies to make our new number. Unfortunately, for most sales organizations there is very little strategy and a whole lot of goals. If you’re head of sales and you’re responsible for growth goals you need strategies NOT just goals.

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Strategy Hiring Penetration Churn 116

Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

Writing a sales job description is the first step in your hiring process. And that can determine whether you hit your targets and generate revenue. In this article, we’ll start by going over job description basics and then look at descriptions for two common sales positions: Sales development rep (entry-level sales role).

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Hiring How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 77

SugarCRM

JUNE 22, 2023

IoT and CRM: Better Together IoT is the connection of devices via the internet, while CRM is the collection of customer data through data mining with the purpose of providing useful insight into customer behavior for marketing and sales purposes. Since we know that CRM requires data, combining it with IoT is a perfect match.

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CRM Industry SugarCRM Webinar Metrics 26

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: On today’s show, we’re talking to a friend, an insightful author and leader, and an expert on sales, Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Outsourcing Services 79

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Pivotal Enterprise 79