DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 12, 2016

So, we recently published a blog entitled, “ What You Won’t Learn from Books About Sales ,” and now here we are sharing our favorite books and blogs that can make your better at inside sales. Yes, best performing salespeople learn from experience and develop “grit” without the help of sales books. 5) Sales Hacker.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 26, 2020

Good sales reps know that connecting and selling to the C-suite reaps the best rewards, so it’s essential to understand what C-suite executives really think when they are contacted by inside sales employees. Not all inside sales reps include an ROI metric in their pitches, though this is precisely what the C-suite wants to see.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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SBI

APRIL 24, 2012

Tweet AA-ISP Inside Sales Summit. Four hundred Inside Sales leaders attended the 2-day American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Summit last week in Dallas. The Summit is the only conference dedicated exclusively to Inside Sales Leadership. Commit to continued learning.

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Factor 8

MAY 4, 2017

We’re thrilled to announce that Factor 8 took home four industry awards at the Annual AA-ISP Inside Sales Leadership Summit on April 20. The prestigious honors included the 2017 “Inside Sales […].

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

Leading off our list is sales consultant and coach, Jeb Blount. For those unfamiliar, Jeb is the CEO of Sales Gravy, a sales training organization known by many as THE sales acceleration company. In fact, her latest book, The Sales Development Playbook , was an Amazon #1 bestseller! Twitter Followers: 124k.

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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. Score More Sales. Sales Gravy.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 27, 2012

Sales Leadership: Focus on Focus. The company has been growing, not at an aggressive pace but slowly and the sales organization was in chaos, working opportunistically on various sales deals and randomly in the marketplace. This particular client has not had a sales training program for over 5 years.

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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. Score More Sales. Sales Gravy.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The demographics of who is entering the sales industry is quickly changing, which is making it clear that a one-size-fits all approach to sales training won’t work. Her innovative inside sales training tactics and proven approach gets her clients results every time. What should sales leaders be doing today?

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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. Balancing personalization with digital efficiency.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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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. by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 2013-2018.

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SalesforLife

MARCH 9, 2018

This week I was in New Delhi, India working with the sales leadership team at Microsoft’s inside sales digital center. The team was eager to learn new skills, and frankly surprised me with all the sales methodologies, books, podcasts, etc. that they consume on the regular basis.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This is the time of year to reflect on great things happening to help move the needle for more women in sales (#womeninsales) and sales leadership in B2B companies with “male majority” sales teams and male sales leadership. I joined Barb for a segment on How to Make a Difference in Your Sales Career.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author of “The Sales Development Playbook,” Trish Bertuzzi has been a major player in the sales game for the past two decades. Trish is also President and Chief Strategist at The Bridge Group, a company that specializes in helping teams with inside sales. She quite literally wrote the book on it.

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The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

Dictionary.com , defines a paraprofessional as “a person trained to assist a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or other professional, but not licensed to practice in the profession.” Sales Process Tibor Shanto' By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The fifth TiLT module, helps inside sales teams build trust using the “3 Yes Method”. Based on work by Robert Cialdini, this strategy helps create rapport based on shared mutual beliefs that you affirm as part of the rapport building process, which happens early in the sales cycle. Trust – The Crux of the Issue.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When Forrester conducted the same research two years later, in 2017 , they predicted that “upskilled inside sales will play an even greater role in all phases of SMB and enterprise sales than initially predicted in 2015.”. Because sales AI doesn’t have human emotions. Read the rest of the article on Entrepreneur.com.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 27, 2014

Those of us in and around hundreds of sales teams know that it is not just about more women applying for sales positions – it is about the culture of the company, how interviewing is done, what job descriptions look like, and whether first line sales managers are trained in gender neutral communication, among other things.

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Score More Sales

JULY 24, 2014

When many professional women in sales I know attend professional conferences about selling, we want to meet, see, and hear successful women speaking on ways to grow revenues in companies large and small in addition to the great men we are proud to call our peers. Come visit and there is an e-book for you with sales tips and ideas to download.

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Sales Hacker Training

JUNE 17, 2020

How does the candidate’s sales methodology align with the vision of sales leadership? Does the candidate subscribe to, or have they been trained in, any specific sales methodologies? Their sales style should fit with the culture and vision your sales leadership is trying to instill.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 6, 2014

Wed, 6/11 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET Sales Shebang has a virtual class on Social Selling that I am moderating – with Barbara Giamanco, Alice Heiman, Celina Guerrero, and Lynn Hidy as our panel. Anyone in sales or sales leadership welcome - Register Here. Get the scoop here.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. Sandler Sales & Leadership Summit. TOPO Sales Summit. SiriusDecisions Sales Leadership Exchange. CEB Sales and Marketing Summit. Sales Conferences 2017. Sales Conferences 2018. 5) AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. 10) TOPO Sales Summit.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 12, 2014

Senior sales leadership spends a great deal of time thinking about how to improve sales productivity. They invest in sales training . This might include adding technical experts to the sales team or establishing an inside sales group to handle lead identification or augmenting the administrative sales support.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Even if you have nothing yet published – or just dabble in content creation – you are now in the publishing world in your business or the business you represent through a sales or sales leadership position. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sales Gravy. Sandler Training Blog. Marc Wayshak's Sales Blog. Sales for Life. LinkedIn Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. Sales Benchmark Index. Inside Sales Experts Blog. Sales Source. Must-read post: 3 Steps for Salespeople to Remain Accountable for Sales Goals. OpenView Labs.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2023

Over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern among inside sales teams. As a sales leader, when you take the time to analyze the data, you often find opportunities for improvement. It could be better contact data, improved automation, better training, or improved call coaching. This document will be more than a training manual.

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Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 11, 2013

If you missed that post, do please scroll down as it will provide you with an insight and some background for today’s post, which looks at the essential of management and also offers you the opportunity to take the “Sales Leadership Health Check” – if you dare! Training/Coaching.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MAY 11, 2018

In this Conversations with Women in Sales interview, I talked with Jen Sieger, Director Inside Sales Specialist Team at Microsoft about Digital Sales Best Practices. Jen and I talked about how to train your salespeople to leverage Digital Selling Best practices to better connect with customers and exceed sales quotas.

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

This is the third of a six article series on the future of sales that I wrote for the Adobe Document Cloud Blog. You can check it out there along with content from other great authors… So far in this … Read More »

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2019

It’s been heartwarming to see how eagerly people in sales have lifted up their peers, mentors, and employees. The Sales Hacker Top 50 Award Categories for 2019 Are: Sales Development. Sales Operations & Enablement. Account Executive/Inside Sales. Sales Leadership. Sales Development.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Furthermore, the playbook aligns sales activities with broader business goals. It harmonizes sales and marketing to ensure focus on unified business targets. Streamline the Sales Process The sales development playbook provides a clear roadmap for handling leads, reducing guesswork, and ensuring consistency.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

JUNE 27, 2018

Lauren shared her thoughts about why it is so important for women in sales to have role models, which is sometimes tough given that there is high percentage of men versus women in sales and sales leadership roles. Who can women look too if that is the case? And are our role models only women? You cannot do it all alone.

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Women Sales Pros

JANUARY 24, 2019

Typical attendees might include: Direct sales (Global sales team, mid-market sales team, small account sales team) Inside sales Channel sales partners SME’s (Sales Analysts, other subject matter experts) Sales Operations Sales leadership And the list could go on.

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Score More Sales

MAY 23, 2014

If you need help getting started, and are in B2B sales or sales leadership – contact us for a brief strategy session – you won’t regret it. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Increase Opportunities.

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Don on Selling

JUNE 27, 2021

At the same time, you are also eliminating bad practices or behaviors that could hurt the salesperson’s ability to reach or exceed his sales goals. Some people mistake coaching with training. Coaching is an ongoing process, while training is a one-time activity. Use different methods of training. That’s a mistake.

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