Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

When viewed from afar, sales—or the ability to perform as a salesperson —may seem as inaccessible to the average person as climbing Mount Everest. Below you will find 12 characteristics that seem to resonate with top sales reps and 8 statistics to start you on your path to sales success. Informed Sales. Resilience.

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Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

Staying current on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be daunting, especially in the the digital space. PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Jason Bay , Chief Prospecting Officer at Blissful Prospecting , a company he built to coach B2B reps in outbound sales. Join us for a high-energy, people-focused conversation about doing a complete 180 with your outbound sales framework. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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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. Not so long ago, managers and their sales team were in one centralized location. That has pros and cons, Nick said.

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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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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. Too little, and you sound like a cold call , and you’ll get disconnected. What you need is a quick and easy way to do some pre-call planning — so you have a successful call without having to invest too much prep time.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2020

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. Replace Sales Cadence Stress with Simplicity. DAY 3: CALL/NO VOICEMAIL. DAY 5: EMAIL #3.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Sales Tool of the Week: eBook on Cold Calling Scripts & Testimonial Tool + Congrats, Sales Stars! Sales e-book on Creating Scripts. Inside Sales” – and he knows his stuff. Consulting. by Lori Richardson on September 26, 2011.

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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. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute ” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling. Increase Opportunities.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What Does a Typical Day Look Like for a SaaS Sales Rep? 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

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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. Inside sales. Low-touch sales.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 2, 2012

In sales we know how to push the envelope a bit – how to be bold and how to find ways to stand out. 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. Do better, people.

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RingDNA

MARCH 26, 2025

How to Use LinkedIn to Find and Engage B2B Sales Prospects While the cold call has hardly disappeared from inside sales, social media tools such as LinkedIn give you the ability to warm up cold calls with research. But what about calls? I’ve found that prospects seem quite receptive to InMail.

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SalesPop

MAY 21, 2025

Tony is the Chief Sales Officer at his company. He has worked in sales for 19 years. Tony shares what hes learned about growing strong sales teams. From Salesperson to Leader Tonys Early Days Tony started with cold calls and learning how to talk to customers. This helped him understand sales from the bottom up.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 25, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Debunking the Myth of “Inside Sales” Jan 26, 2012. Copyright 2012, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Veloxy

APRIL 25, 2022

Cold emailing has never been more effective. Thanks in part to the popularity of inside sales and remote work, and the improvement in sales engagement and sales analytics software, cold email metrics have been skyrocketing like never before. Most B2B emails that reach your inbox every day are cold emails.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Sales is near the the top of that list. The question now becomes, how does Sales Artificial Intelligence fit into all this? Does it really play a vital role in sales? Well, there are numerous ways that AI for sales can benefit a sales team. Well, there are numerous ways that AI for sales can benefit a sales team.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A few years ago I created a list of the best books sales people should read to become a badass. What made that list so special was the surprising number of books that WEREN’T sales books. This list is all sales books. A lot has changed in the sales world in the last 13 years. You can see the list here.

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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

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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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. But focusing only on the end goal won’t ensure you’ll achieve it.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Account Executives doing cold calling).

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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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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Keep in mind that Conversation Intelligence is the fastest-growing segment in sales technology, with much traction in the enterprise. Here are just some of the metrics: Cold calls have dropped 20% overall. Is there any value in transcribing inside sales calls to sales people?

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Veloxy

AUGUST 4, 2022

Salesforce dialers use your CRM data to automatically and systematically execute your outbound calls to prospects, leads, and customers. Although they’re commonly known for making the lives of inside sales reps easier, dialers also help your outside sales reps improve their daily sales efficiency (which I can completely attest to) .

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Hubspot

JANUARY 31, 2018

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. 18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Kick to the Curb in 2018. Cold calling.

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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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Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

In January I wrote the blog: How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline , which was published by DemandGen Report. In the article I assert: "A healthy, driven inbound marketing department is great, but over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I call ''inbounditis'') negatively affects the revenue backbone of any company.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 28, 2020

Especially in sales, you need to know everything best and worst of the industry, from news to new sales techniques. That’s why we have handpicked 19 best sales influencers from the business community. Some of them are serial entrepreneurs, some of them are investors, and some of them are sales leaders of successful businesses.

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Hubspot

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many things to consider if you are interested in starting your career in sales. You’ll also need a thorough knowledge of sales trends and stats to succeed. With a modest, go-get-'em attitude, you can learn the stats you need to know to anticipate what a career in sales has in store for you.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 2, 2012

What is the ideal daily talk time for an inside sales person? "Talk Meaning, if you have a proven sales process to follow and are tracking real sales calls (not calls to your mom, girlfriend etc as well as no "Talk time is a great metric if used properly.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue , only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations. 6 Key Fit Factors When Hiring for Sales. Is the role primarily an outbound or cold-calling role? Not so fast.

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Score More Sales

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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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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SalesHandy

MAY 22, 2020

Outbound sales is the most commonly used sales strategy used across various industries. 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.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 15, 2013

So naturally, we''ve written about some of the best inbound marketing blogs on the internet (on our blog), but we hadn''t taken the time to find some of the best sales blogs out there. So, we scoured the internet looking for the best writers and thought leaders in sales. Who Couldn’t Use An Extra $10 Million In Sales?

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