Score More Sales

APRIL 10, 2013

It was a full day at Day 1 of the AA-ISP (American Association of Inside Sales Professionals) 5th Annual Leadership Summit in Chicago. I’m here with 450 others who live in the world of professional sales, and I feel like a kid in a candy store. Bob shared research from their 2013 Inside Sales study.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When you’re engaging with buyers who expect a superior customer experience from the sales process (as most do and should), it often presents several challenges for the field sales warrior: How many hours a day should I invest in my sales technology stack without sacrificing customer satisfaction and engagement?

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

Opening a cold call with “Did I catch you at a bad time?” The success rate for cold calls that opened with this line? Instead, try this: Sales Stat #4: DO ask “How’ve you been?”. Open up your next cold call with the following question: . Note: This is for the first (cold!) How have you been?”.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

What is inside sales? Let’s kick things off with a definition of inside sales. The inside sales model is built around the idea of sales reps working from their desks, without leaving the office. This means the inside sales process relies on digital communication, as well as phone calls.

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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.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The common prospecting channels include: SMS Cold calls and emails LinkedIn Walk-ins Video Physical mail Insights from The State of Sales Development survey reveal notable preferences among SDR teams: 42% find email as their top channel, 18% favor LinkedIn, while 35% view cold calling as the least effective.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. 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.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They focus on cold calls, outreach sequencing, and guiding leads through the sales funnel for effective pipeline navigation. The ‘Sales Enablement Podcast with Andy Paul’ discusses topics such as solution selling and forming high-velocity inside sales teams, featuring industry leaders in tech sales.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 28, 2023

Mastering the Art of Lead Identification In this sales role, reps must be lead detectives. Whether it’s referrals or cold calling, they know how to spot promising leads. Differentiating between Outside and Inside Sales Roles Sales reps , also known as field warriors, spend their days meeting potential clients face-to-face.

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Xant

MARCH 10, 2021

COVID), operate with more fluidity, reevaluate positions and objectives and take practical measures in face of the present, not the ideal. In sales, this looks like figuring out what really works, what’s really worth your time, and scaling that, instead of just scaling—doing more of what works, rather than just more of the same.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 28, 2023

Heck, even salespeople hate receiving cold calls from other inside sales and field sales reps. As you can see, the main aim of redirect is to gather additional information that will help you tailor your presentation on the fly. Especially not on strangers trying to hawk one thing or another.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

How to Accelerate Sales: 7 Best Tactics. While the strategy of sales acceleration is clear-cut, some of its tactics can be evasive or too numerous to sift through. Furthemore, some tactics work better for inside sales teams than outside sales teams , and some are more market-specific than others.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Clicking mindlessly through an agonizingly slow video presentation or sitting in a hot, stuffy conference room with dozens of other people listening to a presenter drone on about things you already know. Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. Sales Training : Practical Sales Techniques.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

Heck, even salespeople hate receiving cold calls from other inside sales and field sales reps. As you can see, the main aim of redirect is to gather additional information that will help you tailor your presentation on the fly. Especially not on strangers trying to hawk one thing or another.

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SalesHandy

JULY 5, 2021

In fact, a lot of inside sales teams today partly rely on LinkedIn social selling to enrich their lead data. Suffice to say – if you’re running an inside sales process in 2021, leveraging social media is no longer a “nice to have”. This in turn helps them engage leads more effectively. Join such groups early on.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Sales Blazers by Mark Cook. Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount. The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi. Your Cheat Sheet to the Top Sales Books.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2014

To many, the future of selling is social; to another large segment it’s inside sales; to some it’s the channel. Many declare cold calling is dead, still a small number declare selling is dead (I suppose to be replaced by ????) So the future is social if you are selling social tools and services.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 2, 2023

The Role of a Tech Sales Representative A tech sales rep is the superhero of any SaaS company. They swoop in to demonstrate the value of their product or service to potential clients, using mind-blowing presentations and demos. Critical Thinking: Get inside your customers’ heads and figure out what they really want.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 13, 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. She is the founder of No More Cold Calling.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 24, 2020

It's hard to do that via more traditional sales techniques. It would be tough to conduct a string of cold calls, telling everyone how much some person they've never met enjoys your company, and see success. When done properly, an event like a webinar is one of the most effective digital sales techniques you can leverage.

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. Here are the best sales blogs in Slideshare form, or below the presentation are all the individual sales blogs with a little more detail. Sales Hacker. The Gist: Tackling topics that shape the next generation of sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2014

I read most of the other sales blogs too. Some of them are from companies within the Inside Sales community which, in an attempt to sell their services, are also publishing misinformation. And the misinformation is killing sales forces. Demos and presentations don''t change minds either.

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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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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Episode 159: Presentation Management – James Ontra. Listeners receive actionable advice on how they can become more successful in outside sales and how to develop their sales skills. Episode 42: Anatomy of a Lousy Pitch: Worst Presentation Habits & How to Avoid Them – with Tim Wackel. Link to the Podcast Page.).

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Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

Inside Sales Rep. In an increasingly digital world, inside salespeople are the go-to for prospecting, nurturing, and converting leads remotely. They rely on email, phone calls, videos, and virtual meetings—instead of face-to-face interaction—to build relationships and move people through the sales funnel.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 20, 2014

Sales is such a mental game, and being able to tackle your day with an edge will assist you in big ways. This week Hoopla invited me to present on a webinar about this topic and below is a synopsis of what I shared. There is an industry average I just saw on the AA-ISP website for inside sales professionals.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Sales training participants can also benefit from the advice and stories of the most successful reps at various points in the pipeline. This includes those who are good at cold calling, objection-handling, closing and cross-selling. Use sales enablement tools to utilize and improve sales training in the future.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 19, 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. They got that meeting, they got the right folks in the room. It’s tough.

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SBI

AUGUST 13, 2013

“Inside Sales now generates more than 50% of company revenue and is being tasked with more responsibilities and expectations—to grow territories, form partnerships, and generate new business. In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. They won’t abide PowerPoint presentations. Customer 2.0

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

They felt as though their time could be better spent elsewhere, such as cold calling. What sales outsourcing should NOT be: In order to reach more customers, I began hiring resellers and solution partners. In an effort to make a little extra money, I signed up some commission-only outsource sales team agents.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 7, 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. All of our episodes, I think we’re at episode 325 of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Predictive Sales AI, for example, constantly analyzes the sales activity of individual salespeople, proactively guiding the sales process and signaling the best time to perform outreach. They can also use AI to turn cold calls into hot ones by opening source data and identifying buying signals.

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SBI

JUNE 25, 2013

I enjoyed being one of the presenters for last week’s InsideSales Virtual Summit. The event was deemed the world’s largest virtual sales trade show with a record setting, 15,000 registered participants. There were more than 60 amazing presentations by the likes of Guy Kawasaki , James Rogers , and Jill Konrath.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2020

” It was hospitality, selling POS terminals to restaurants and I did both outside door to door sales and I did inside sales, and of the two, fell in love with inside sales. And if I could prospect at night and cold call people at night I would. Personally I find that I do my best work at night.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Salespeople, often called sales representatives or sales reps, do everything involved in closing a sale: finding and attracting a prospective buyer, educating and nurturing that buyer so they’re interested in a purchase, and closing a deal. Prospects for inside sales come from a variety of sources.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s just 30 minutes long, 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. One is new “ Sales Simplified ”. He has two books out. Matt Heinz: I love that.

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