SBI Growth

APRIL 18, 2013

“How can I be sure I''m hiring the right sales leader?”. This post is for those who are recruiting and hiring sales leaders. It provides an overview of how to conduct a competency assessment specifically for Sales. But they are lacking in 3 ways: Not specific to Sales. 3 Dimensions of Sales Leadership Competency.

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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. of leads will close.

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Inside Sales Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 122

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JANUARY 18, 2018

As a champion for more women in sales and sales leadership, I could not have been more pleased to see this article written by Microsoft Inside Sales Chief of Staff and Microsoft Women Board Co-Chair Rahki Voria aptly titled Why We Need More Women in Sales.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 24, 2013

Speed, it is the most commonly used word among Sales and Marketing leaders today. It is now a critical attribute of successful B2B sales and marketing organizations. Because Sales and Marketing organizations are adjusting to the new B2B buyer behavior. Field Sales has seen a resource shift from outside to inside sales.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Little/no sales management experience.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Let’s get some sales activity going! 21 Cold Calling Secrets From the Sales Masters. 14 Actionable Cold Calling Tips and Techniques – Sales Hacker. 14 Actionable Cold Calling Tips and Techniques – Sales Hacker. Lori helps She speaks at CEO groups on topics of sales growth and the importance and value of diversity.

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The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

Seems some sales organizations are taking a page from other paraprofessional playbook, some effectively, others, maybe not. I have seen organizations who will hire a couple of “not ready for prime time” sales reps, because they can get two for the price of one fully qualified and proven sales rep.

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Hiring Licensing Health Care Sales Talent 267

Engage Selling

AUGUST 19, 2022

??????????? What’s the right outside and inside sales team structure? I recently had a conversation with an exceptional sales leader I work with. The post The Right Outside and Inside Sales Team Structure | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Engage Selling

JUNE 24, 2022

One of the shifts we’re noticing in today’s marketplace involves the move to inside sales. Field sales reps are doing more inside sales than ever before. The post The Move to Inside Sales | Sales Strategies first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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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. Sound interesting?

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Inside Sales Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Account Based Marketing 120

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Sales teams are getting their 2013 numbers. For the Sales Leaders who learned how to set quotas at the SBI Make the Number tour ( register now! ), the results will be quite different. 2013 results will uncover some long-hidden flaws in the sales force. This blog is NOT about how to correctly set your sales quotas.

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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?

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

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JUNE 27, 2014

This week, LinkedIn shared some statistics in its study women in sales. They searched for female vs. male names and parsed the data to see how many LinkedIn members were female and in sales vs. male and in sales by industry. A future post will contain an interview with some of the top women in sales at IBM.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a busy sales rep, you don’t have a ton of time to spend perusing blog posts. But, what if we told you a quick reading break might actually increase your sales productivity? Here are 25 of our favorite sales blogs. Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 206

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AUGUST 9, 2012

I like good infographics about sales and marketing. So it did not go unnoticed that the Game of Sales , a clever Infographic created by Inside View has been viewed and shared thousands of times since it just debuted hours ago. In technology sales. Infographic: Game of Sales InsideView. I got one yesterday.

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InsideView Cold Calling Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics 214

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This is second installment detailing DiscoverOrg’s TiLT Sales Development Challenge and it’s 10 core learning modules. Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. You Say “Tomatoes”.

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MAY 23, 2014

Brilliant sales ideas are overlooked every day. Sales professionals often tend to over think things – so the combination of missing a simple idea and then over thinking can equal lost revenues. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

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Follow-up Strategy Hiring Decision Maker 215

Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

The B2B sales arena has a few social celebs of its own. In today’s post, we’ve compiled a list of the top sales influencers on our radar. Leading off our list is sales consultant and coach, Jeb Blount. Jeb carries his sales wisdom over to all his social media channels and spreads his expertise to the masses.

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JUNE 6, 2014

If you consider yourself a lifelong learner, you are searching on the web for any piece of valuable advice to help you grow sales that you can find, right? These are all no cost, virtual sales education sessions. Anyone in sales or sales leadership welcome - Register Here. Where do you start? What do you read?

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Education Webinar Metrics Google Ideal Customer Profile 180

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JULY 24, 2014

I met world-renowned sales expert Jill Konrath virtually back in 2005 or so, after she had written her first best-selling sales book, Selling to Big Companies. Her book came out, I read it, and I wrote a review for my fledgling B2B sales blog. Jill created Sales Shebang(R) in 2007 online and as a conference for women in sales.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JULY 17, 2014

There’s only one trick to social selling, and very few sales pros get it right. If you want to boost your sales by tapping into the tremendous power of LinkedIn, then join me on July 22nd at 8:00 a.m. Message to Management]: Why Great Sales Leaders Listen. Read “ [Message to Management]: Why Great Sales Leaders Listen.”).

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LinkedIn Networking Webinar Metrics Cold Calling 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a busy sales rep, you don’t have a ton of time to spend perusing blog posts. But, what if we told you a quick reading break might actually increase your sales productivity? Here are 25 of our favorite sales blogs. Top 25 Sales Blogs for all Sales Professionals. 1. Factor8: Your Inside Sales Advisor.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 170

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There’s a saying in B2B sales that people buy with emotion and justify with fact. Sales AI doesn’t have the same advantage. You’ve probably heard the “expert” predictions that technology will render salespeople obsolete, and sales AI will soon replace us. But will sales AI actually replace us? Not so fast.

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Referrals Cold Calling Inside Sales Enterprise 232

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I recently published, Increase in Social Selling Yields No Improvement in KPI''s. Among the things being debated are: The migration from outside to inside sales - yes it''s happening and it''s good; but it won''t happen in every company, to every salesperson or necessarily soon.

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Inbound Survey Lead Rank Lead Scoring 218

Women Sales Pros

MARCH 8, 2019

Today we give a tip of the hat to the top women B2B sales experts of Women Sales Pros. Many work virtually Some have web-based programs Some do blended in-person and virtual programs Some help inside sales teams Others help field sales teams Some have industry specialties and niches They are Millennials, Gen X’s, and Baby Boomers.

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B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring Inside Sales 134

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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JULY 17, 2013

That happened for me on Monday at the Sales 2.0 Conference Boston – a gathering of sales experts, practitioners, sales leaders and sellers all coming together to talk about what is the latest in professional selling. Lots of sales leaders say this – and I have heard it for years.

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Hiring B2B Video Lead Rank 192

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 28, 2018

I’m here this week presenting at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) Leadership Summit. If you’re in sales leadership or in a direct sales management role, you’ll learn a ton of useful strategies and tools to help your team produce more and be more confident.

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Sales Management Decision Maker Top of Funnel Gatekeeper 120

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

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Initially for customers of Hubspot, the INBOUND event now attracts thousands of marketers, sales leaders, and business builders from around the world. I attend because even though I’m a business owner and sales focused speaker, blogger, trainer and consultant, what I really am above and beyond all else now is A PUBLISHER.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Days turn into weeks into months when you are in a growing company in sales or sales leadership. Post your thoughts – it will give others in sales ideas – sometimes a dose of creativity is just what we are missing when scrambling to hit end of year numbers! You are busy. Suddenly the holiday season is upon us.

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Ideal Customer Profile Twitter Inside Sales Google 216

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Best Sales Blogs: Sales Hacker. Jill Konrath's Fresh Sales Strategies. HubSpot Sales Blog. Sales Solutions Blog. Sales Gravy. Marc Wayshak's Sales Blog. Sales for Life. LinkedIn Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. Sales Benchmark Index. Sales Source.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Cold Calling Social Selling 145

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. It covers hiring, promotion, speaking up, and double standards for women in sales.

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Hiring SAP Microsoft Sales Leadership 105

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In this interview, I talked with Mandy Bynum McLaughlin, Director of Sales Development – Enterprise and Commercial at New Relic. For those women just starting out in sales or for those women who’ve not considered a career in selling, I started off by asking Mandy how she got started in a career in sales.

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Sales Leadership Microsoft Margin Face-to-face 86