Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity.

Outside Sales

Pointclear

AUGUST 6, 2013

Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing over 30 influential B2B sales and marketing leaders. It has been a pleasure to interview each of them and share perspectives on topics ranging from B2B lead generation and inside sales to social media trends and personal branding.

Inside sales

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Ken Murray is a 30 year veteran of the Inside Sales space. He has designed and built inside sales campaigns for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His sales teams have sold over 168,000 products annually and produced north of 700 million dollars in annual sales. If it is working, don’t change it.

Appointment

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. Instead, it lists the tactics our clients use at Veloxy. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month.

Outside Sales

SalesHandy

JUNE 26, 2017

Inside Sales over traditional sales is the way to go nowadays and it’s the future of Sales. Being an Inside Sales Rep implies you’re not on your feet, up and running to increase your company’s sales but instead you have to manage everything from your office space without meeting your possible clients in-person.

Inside sales

SalesHandy

JUNE 26, 2017

Inside Sales over traditional sales is the way to go nowadays and it’s the future of Sales. Being an Inside Sales Rep implies you’re not on your feet, up and running to increase your company’s sales but instead you have to manage everything from your office space without meeting your possible clients in-person.

Inside sales

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of my clients set three appointments on Friday because he shifted his mind from “everyone’s gone” to “I wonder who I can reach today?” How different would it be to begin 2015 with some solid appointments and opportunities rather than a blank slate? There is no in-between here.

Prospecting

SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Job Description: Respond immediately to all inbound leads and schedule demonstrations on sales executive’s calendars. This role is measured by “Marketing-Qualified Appointments,” or MQA (someone who has used the free version, thinks they could get value from the premium edition and is willing to explore more).

Inside sales

Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Keep it Fresh – the best ingredients are fresh ones, and so are the fresh insights your sales team needs to have with potential buyers and existing clients. They need to track their buyers and clients through social platforms or by aggregated content specific to their industry niche, geographic territory, or through named accounts.

Territory

Women Sales Pros

MARCH 1, 2019

You can’t achieve your revenue sales goal without monitoring interim sales and marketing metrics. Most business owners focus only on the end goals: closed sales and net new clients. You have to look at how you’re doing all along the way to the closed sale. Now the question is, what to watch?

Cold Call

VanillaSoft

JULY 28, 2021

One of the most challenging parts of an inside sales call is overcoming the many objections that the prospect may come up with to dodge your sales pitch. Look at these sales objections , not with dread, but as an opportunity to close the deal. And you definitely should not start out with a sales pitch.

Appointment

Hubspot

AUGUST 15, 2013

Some awesome recent posts: 5 Retail Sales Mistakes That Cost You Business. Inside Sales Experts, by The Bridge Group. Some awesome recent posts: Does Grit Matter in Sales? [an Rethinking Sales Territories. Some awesome recent posts: Ten Ways to Increase a Sales Rep’s Productivity. an experiment].

Elevator Speech

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Before you set out for the client’s office, you carefully made sure you had everything you needed. But the recent spike in inside sales means that more and more meetings are taking place virtually via web conferencing -- and this dramatically changes a salesperson’s pre-demo checklist. Prepared contract?

Contract

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

12 Interviews With Inside Sales Gurus. The Gist: The title of this sales podcasts program pretty much is the gist. Its episodes are geared towards those in sales leadership roles and take a look at how to grow revenue, land big positions, and otherwise rock an entire sales department. Best 3 Episodes: .

Sales

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 28, 2022

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. Everything’s done by appointment at start.

Pipeline

VanillaSoft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CybSafe CRO Mike Simmons says customer experience should be at the forefront of any sales process, and that the “handoff” between SDR and AE is the lynchpin of the customer’s buying experience. As a sales professional, you live and breathe the process. Sometimes we hear sales development reps called “glorified appointment setters.”

Process

Cience

JANUARY 6, 2020

Experienced lead generation companies ask their clients for a detailed description of their buyer persona before they begin data enrichment. At CIENCE, we have a specific questionnaire called “Ideal Customer Profile” for our client companies to complete. To set an appointment, you need a conversation.

Lead generation

Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Her straight-forward approach and laser focus make her the go-to resource for both her clients and colleagues. An expert at developing strategic initiatives and tactical implementation plans, Laurie ensures the delivery of high quality, results-driven solutions to each of The Bridge Group’s clients. See more about The Bridge Group.

Appointment

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I appreciate the manner in which each has clearly presented B2B marketing and sales challenges, solutions (in the form of best-practice strategies and tactics), and results in areas like the following: Content marketing. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Customer acquisition. Demand creation.

Lead generation

SalesLoft

MARCH 21, 2013

More than ever, companies are starting to reboot their sales organizations to become high-powered inside sales engines. In fact, the majority of sales is now conducted remotely. Through the use of data and sales intelligence , it’s also being done with greater sincerity and efficacy. Build a hot list.

Process

SalesHandy

MAY 22, 2020

Types of outbound sales reps Importance of outbound sales Types of outbound sales Outbound sales process Outbound sales techniques Outbound sales best practices Best outbound sales tools. What is outbound sales? The sales team is delegated to perform this task and to bring in revenue.

Cold Call

Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

c) Rise in Leads The same business review from Harvard shows that sales teams that adopted AI increased their leads and appointments by as much as 50%. d) Increased Personal Touch Here’s one of the more covert impacts of AI in sales. According to research, call times have actually dropped by as much as 70% thanks to AI.

Sales

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 6, 2023

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. Matt: Talking today on Sales Pipeline Radio with Rishi Dave.

Pipeline

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

ABSD is making waves because companies are starting to learn quality of appointments are more important than quantity. If you give marketers goals to produce leads for your sales development team, for instance, they will work to hit those numbers at all costs. MYTH #3: Keep fishing for that ideal client profile.

Conversion

SalesLoft

JUNE 13, 2016

, Craig Elias and Tibor Shanto encourage reps to, instead, practice regular won-sales analysis. For outside and inside sales reps alike, studying wins can be quite complex. First, he realized that his ideal customer profile (ICP) were clients in the VP of Sales role, particularly within six months of being hired.

Appointment

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 9, 2020

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. Paul: Well, they’re driving to their next appointment. Matt: Okay.

Pipeline

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2018

I’ve been working with a fascinating new client. As is usually, the case, the volume of inbound leads is never enough, it usually provides about 50% of what sales people need. Sales people have to add to that by a lot of outbound prospecting. This client takes a dramatically different approach to prospecting.

Prospecting

SBI

JUNE 25, 2013

Inside Sales” Brooks , and Mark Organ. Let me give you an example using LevelEleven which is a really great contest tool that runs inside Salesforce CRM. One of LevelEleven’s clients, Agility Communications, found that their Salespeople weren’t using Salesforce Chatter. Suppose you have the same issue that Comcast had.

Commission

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Use the most effective sales tools. Speak your client’s language. Sales coaching tips and hacks for sales leaders and sales managers. The new normal: Is remote sale affecting sales efficiency? Takeaway on time management for sales professionals . Speak your client’s language.

Sales

Hubspot

MAY 13, 2013

Let me you give you a real-life scenario: A three-person marketing team for a large technology company is struggling to supply inside sales reps with good leads. In addition, a lot of the work to hand leads to sales is very manual, due to a lack of integration with their email provider and CRM.

Tradeshows

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

The first step in success with SMB clients is to recognize that it’s not a one size fits all scenario. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. .: We split our sales organization into four different teams.

Appointment

The Lost Book of Sales

APRIL 26, 2020

Needless to say the case ground to a halt and was eventually set as a "Closed Lost" Understand this before writing During your sales meetings if you don't do this already, make sure to take notes. For me it wasn't until my most recent inside sales role until I truly mastered this skill. Best, Santeri.

Follow-up

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Examples include: Have the SDR playbook plan approved by sales leaders by the end of Q1 Finalize ideal customer profiles (ICP), lead generation, and appointment scheduling sections by mid-Q2 Initiate the playbook release by the end of Q3 Gather at least 75% of the SDR team for the playbook release session Host a refresher by the end of the year 2.

Growth

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

The first step in success with SMB clients is to recognize that it’s not a one size fits all scenario. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. .: We split our sales organization into four different teams.

Appointment

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Sometimes, this leads to a future appointment, often it neutralizes their attitude and allows me to continue. We also know that recognizing and responding to tone can increase the presentation rate on behalf of our clients. If the person I’m calling answers in a seemingly hostile way, it may be because of things happening around them.

Lead generation

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2018

We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. We have a third party team we’ve used, called Inside Sales Team, that sets appointments for us, and we track their performance, relative to our own internal performance.

Pipeline

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 19, 2018

Yet another great episode of Sales Pipeline Radio in the books. Weekly, we cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. So Outreach gets you about 30% meetings lift for any sales or organizations that uses Outreach.

Pipeline