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Your Customers Are Telling You to Reconsider Inside Sales

SBI Growth

Many companies investigated Inside Sales a few years ago and decided their product or service was too complicated or specialized to sell without an expensive direct sales force. Here’s why: In almost 75% of sales situations, your Customer would prefer not to spend time meeting face to face. Your competitors are.

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Stitch the Sales and Marketing Organization Together

SBI Growth

The importance of Marketing has drastically increased with the rise of inbound marketing and Lead Generation. Field Sales has seen a resource shift from outside to inside sales. Sales relies more than ever on marketing to engage the buyer early in the process. Are we optimized to collect feedback from customers? -

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

Pointclear

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire.

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Change With Your Customers, Not The Competition

SBI Growth

They captured new leads using 97% outbound cold calling. These LDRs were well trained and capable of qualifying true prospects. Problem : Suddenly the lead pipeline slowed to a trickle. Wrong Solution : The VP of Sales, desperate to provide more leads, doubled the outbound calling staff. Leads stayed the same.

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Artificial Intelligence AI & Sales Automation Software Tools Platforms

Mr. Inside Sales

AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now. How Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sales Automation Software Tools Platforms are Affecting Inside and Outbound Sales. Quick: Can you tell me, in three sentences or less, exactly what AI is and how it is going to impact your sales career or company?

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B2B Marketing & Sales Insights from Lori Wizdo of Forrester Research

Pointclear

Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. In our discussion, Lori shared key insights into the B2B buyer's journey as well as marketing and sales alignment. Twenty years ago, people would just buy a list and call it leads.

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