Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 17, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I was in the office, preparing for the today''s formal introduction of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) award-winning, new and improved, fourth generation, Sales Candidate Assessment ( View the 25-minute Webinar here ) when the phone rang and I answered. It''s a must read.

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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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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2019

As a sales trainer, there’s always a balance between research and just picking up the phone and dialing out. How much research do you do before just picking up the phone and dialing? Too little, and you sound like a cold call , and you’ll get disconnected. Introducing: 90-Second Pre-Call Planning.

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Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, Vision Critical, Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. Click to start video at this point —The young people entering the sales force are changing the dynamic between managers and their reps. Young people have grown up in an era of instantaneous, real time feedback, Nick said, so they expect to get answers immediately.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This was a tip I learned from one of the most favorite of my 21 sales managers over my selling career – a former IBM top sales rep and leader who would say this so regularly that it was ingrained in my 20-something brain and has been there ever since. That means that old-fashioned cold calling is not effective.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Sales Tool of the Week: eBook on Cold Calling Scripts & Testimonial Tool + Congrats, Sales Stars! Sales e-book on Creating Scripts. I’m pretty much a skeptic when I hear about tools, books, and resources to help anyone who is doing cold calling or who are calling a list of prospective customers.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 12, 2013

If you spend part of your day calling prospective buyers, you must find a way to connect with them on some level in order to earn ten or fifteen more minutes of their time. The three other customers in the aviation space using the tools your company sells and why they won’t ever give them up. Building trust takes time.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2024

How much of it is prospecting, cold emails or cold calls, reaching out through network, giving demos, trying to close deals, etc.? Here’s my experience directly and indirectly for inside sales AE, from about $1m to $50m in ARR or so. (In But 90% of SaaS sales reps aren’t that.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Low-touch sales. Inside Sales.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 2, 2012

We are adamant that if you are in inside sales (or outbound sales) you must STOP these practices immediately. If your sales leader thinks they are OK or that they work, please send them our way. Stop calling people without a quick scan of their website. Lying is never appropriate – it’s just wrong.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 25, 2012

Sales Articles. Selling a Price Increase. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Debunking the Myth of “Inside Sales” Jan 26, 2012. When somebody tells me they do inside sales, I want to choke. cold calling.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Here are just some of the metrics: Cold calls have dropped 20% overall. There has been a pick-up in activity in the hardest-hit markets like NYC, Chicago and San Francisco. . Leadership has gotten more involved on both the buying and selling side for several reasons,” said Benton. “On

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Account Executives doing cold calling). What sales outsourcing should NOT be: Indirect sales channels like resellers, solution partners, etc. Opportunistic side bets by signing up some commission-only sales agents. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing).

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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. Sign up for an AA-ISP membership.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A lot has changed in the sales world in the last 13 years. Inside sales, inbound, outbound, Account Based Marketing, lead generation, buyers journey, etc. are just a few of the new terms that have penetrated our sales vernacular. Tim has written the book for large, complex selling. Go get it. people on average.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 31, 2018

I’ve been selling for over 30 years, and it’s been a blast. I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. Cold calling.

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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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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

REV2020 , SalesLoft’s industry conference about where sales is going , is shaping up to be a truly transformational event. Speaker : Kevin Dorsey, VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop. Objections come with the territory when making cold calls. Moderator: Ralph Barsi, VP Global Inside Sales at Tray.io.

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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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Hubspot

APRIL 5, 2023

Inside sales reps are tasked with nurturing leads and converting them into customers. Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products.

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Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

In fact, it makes the whole sales pipeline sick. High-performing reps avoiding inbound lead follow-up; and 3. The percent of sales accepted leads decreasing while lead quotas increase.”. Next up: Kyle Porter , CEO of SalesLoft : "Less qualified leads in the pipeline! It''s time to change how we talk about sales leads.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

As someone who has hired sales professionals for over 15 years — both as a sales leader/hiring manager, as well as a consultant helping start-ups with their early-stage sales hires — I made the decision a while back to stop asking candidates about their quota attainment in prior roles. Where Hiring Managers Get Off-Base.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 28, 2020

Next in the best sales influencers list, we have the Co-CEO of Predictable Revenue – Aaron Ross. He is also the co-author of two best-selling sales books. Aaron shares the best sales tips and techniques on Twitter and LinkedIn. He has talked about cold calling 2.0 and inbound sales methodologies.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. I was averse to it.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 9, 2012

It’s primarily because I am a visual learner, and because I love the art and science of business-to-business selling. 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.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

What happens when a Global Head of Sales, an Inside Sales Director, and an Account Executive walk into a bar? They sit around a table and share actionable insights about their company’s transition from SMB to enterprise sales. . Why they restructured their B2B sales team into three key verticals. “Our

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Thanks to Sales AI, sellers are also streamlining their workday and receiving automated and actionable customer intelligence. This turns a sales rep who spends too much time on non-selling activity into a trusted advisor that spends the majority of their time on customer engagement. What is Sales AI?

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SalesHandy

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not just us, 55% of sales professionals agreed on using outbound sales as their primary sales technique. Outbound sales is the evergreen sales technique that is being followed and improvised every now and then. Outbound and Inbound sales are two different roads towards the same destination.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 28, 2019

Whether they are SDR hire #1 or #20, you need to get them up and running quickly and efficiently. For many companies, the ramp-up time for new sales professionals typically is 6 months or more, but inside sales has changed. Here are some simple ways to ramp up SDRs to see those results as soon as possible.

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Outreach

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Here are some quick tips to help you improve your value prop and spice up your sales life! You might be really stoked on the latest product updates , but a feature dump on a cold call will only overwhelm people. In other words, you’re not going to spell out the functionality up front. video game.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 9, 2020

Post by Shawn Fowler, Vice President of Sales Enablement at SalesLoft, where he teaches salespeople to sell sales software to other salespeople. . SalesLoft customers, colleagues on LinkedIn, and our sales reps reached out to me to try to get a handle on how to do their jobs as the reality of the global pandemic set in.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 20, 2014

Whether you are ending your week, starting your week or somewhere in between you can put these 7 tips to score more sales into play at any time. Sales is such a mental game, and being able to tackle your day with an edge will assist you in big ways. FOCUS: A professional sales position is typically entrepreneurial.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

Steli Efti is mainly known for his selling skills and his attitude of never giving up on a prospect. which is a platform that helps you track all your sales activity & the communication between your salesperson & the prospect. President, Heinz Marketing Inc, Keynote speaker, Author, Host of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

So this week, we’re sharing some of the runners-up: the folks who didn’t get a billion nominations, but who clearly crushed it in 2018. We searched through all of the reasons for nominations we received and picked out the stories about people in sales who do the hard work of elevating the sales profession.

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Xant

MARCH 10, 2021

We spoke with hundreds of customers and prospects, looked at trends, met with analysts, and came up with 3 categories into which we could invest product dev cycles to further up-level our customers: Effectiveness – How do you get more from your effort? Problem: Slow lead follow-up. Problem: Ineffective cold-calling.

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