SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2025

In SaaS, its easy to assume that virtual selling has completely taken over. Hyrid and work-from-home made it the default paradigm for many in B2B sales. Splunk is very enterprise and its CRO also sees 3x the conversions when they show up in person. After all, Zoom is efficient, email is scalable. Slice does much of the same.

Conversion

SaaStr

JULY 23, 2025

In B2B, it’s easy to assume that virtual selling has completely taken over. Hyrid and work-from-home made it the default paradigm for many in B2B sales. Splunk is very enterprise and its CRO also sees 3x the conversions when they show up in person. In fact, it almost always increases the conversion rates of deals.

Conversion

Salesmate

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies have started to build a workforce that finds prospects inside four walls. With inside sales, businesses are putting more effort than just selling their products. The same time when inside sales kicked its way up, the importance of customer support also grew humongous. What is inside sales?

Inside sales

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Eventually, most antiquated models are replaced by more up-to-date, efficient, and sometimes exciting models. Outside sales is being replaced by inside sales but not in the way that most people think. Let''s quickly compare inside sales to outside sales.

Inside sales

Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

Outside Sales

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

Sales Hacker

JULY 1, 2020

Sellers who typically meet with clients and customers face-to-face have been forced to sell remotely. Fortunately, by leveraging a few inside sales best practices, outside sales reps can successfully pivot to remote sales. For inside sales, this often includes calling, texting, emailing, or using social media.

Inside sales

Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

Product or service confidence means that the salesperson honestly believes that what they are selling can make life better somehow…even if just in a small way. A personable salesperson is respectful, patient, easy to talk to, and picks up on social queues (just to name a few). Here are 9 sales statistics just on following up: .

Referrals

SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

B2B sales can be complex and confusing with many different processes, practices and models it’s made up of. Inside sales is one such model. It has rapidly evolved and is among the most popular ways to sell to businesses online. So what does Inside Sales mean and what’s the big deal about it?

Inside sales

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In sales it is all about execution – the art of making things happen. Instead of rewriting your pitch or re-organizing your list of who to contact, pick up the phone and reach out to have conversations. Pick up the phone. I know inside sales professionals who go a day or two not connecting to anyone by phone.

Inside sales

Score More Sales

AUGUST 12, 2013

The three other customers in the aviation space using the tools your company sells and why they won’t ever give them up. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute ” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

Inside sales

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

One way you can be more successful in remote selling – that is, selling when you are not in front of your prospective buyer in person, is to have more impact with your messaging. If you have gone on with several sentences about you and your company as you start out a message, change that up. Do or Do not. There is no try.

Inside sales

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

doesn’t follow-up more than a couple of times (actually he’s glad, because they won’t waste his time). He regularly receives 200-300 emails in a day and cannot be bothered with most sales “pitches” Like other C-level executives I speak with, he says that sales people can seem lazy and are not persistent.

Inside sales

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

As the sales landscape evolves and buyers grow more independent, it can be tricky for sales teams to figure out how to build trust and connect with their prospects. Create Trust and Stand Out in Sales. You can spend time looking up their company, their role and determine what problems they are looking to solve.

Inside sales

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

How else would you follow-up other than the way you do now (or don’t)? One single idea helped Victor – he always said the same old pitch – the same messaging – to prospects but stopped long enough so that we could look at and hear what it is that he’s saying day in and day out. Increase Opportunities.

Inside sales

Hubspot

JANUARY 5, 2024

So here we are — a little over a year after OpenAI changed the landscape of what can be sped up or fully automated for anyone using the internet. I’ve been in contact with sales experts about how AI has helped them. How are sales experts using the power of AI in ways that others might not be yet? But progress never stops.

Inside sales

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. Come up with new, fresh ideas – add some inbound strategies, blog more, and develop Sales Influencers within your team.

Inside sales

Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Helping You Sell Faster, Easier, and Smarter. Sales Managers are constantly under pressure to hit BIG numbers. While sales acceleration spent 2021 as a powerful, yet underutilized solution across the B2B landscape, the software market is expected to enjoy explosive growth in 2022. Sales managers are paying close attention.

Non-Profits

Sales Hacker

JULY 10, 2019

As the CEO of an On-Demand Inside Sales Coaching Company, I review literally hundreds of hours of recorded discovery and demo calls. As you might guess, my team and I have picked up on the subtle and surprising patterns followed by successful inside sales reps. Wrap it up like a pro. And so is your prospect.

Pitch

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Here is the list of our Outside Sales Gurus’ Top 25 Secrets ( NOTE : We’ll be using field sales and outside sales interchangeably): Don’t forget: Read the largest outside sales guide on the planet! It’s also why an outside sales salary is typically much higher than their inside sales counterparts.

Outside Sales

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Of Value Propositions and Elevator Pitches for B2B. Too many sales managers assume that their reps are all on the same page, when in fact many are sharing fractured pieces of the value their company brings. Think of it more as a quarterly tune-up, not an overhaul. Consulting.

Pitch

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2024

Here’s my experience directly and indirectly for inside sales AE, from about $1m to $50m in ARR or so. (In In the very early days it will be different): Generally, almost 0% of time on cold calls and cold emails once the engine is running, especially for inside sales reps. Putting together a pitch.

Cold Call

SalesHandy

JULY 7, 2021

Figuring out how to generate sales for SaaS products might seem like a pretty daunting task. Selling software products might seem very lucrative, but it’s really challenging to generate leads and close them. . What SaaS sales is all about, and how do you go about selling your SaaS to qualified leads? What is SaaS?

Process

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Opportunistic side bets by signing up some commission-only sales agents. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing). When Does it Make Sense to Outsource Sales? Introducing a new product/service that requires different sales skills. 2) Building a repeatable sales model.

B2B

Partners in Excellence

MAY 22, 2014

In my post, Principles Of Sales, Part 1, Interactions Between People , Brian MacIver (@Palayo) made a brilliant observation–frankly something that I hadn’t paid much attention to. We tend to think Buying and Selling go hand in hand. Look at a lot of the Sales 2.0 tools, anything that is a “freemium.”

Sell

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

In between the Zoom all-hands screenshots and kids-as-coworkers posts, I’ve seen plenty of actionable tips from sales leaders on how to manage remote teams , how to address COVID-19 in your selling and more. And one of them is sales and marketing having to hit the proverbial pause button on B2B events. Include an open-ended CTA.

Lead generation

Openview

MARCH 16, 2018

Marc Benioff and his team demonstrated a consistent ability to scale with an outbound sales team in those early years. And with that, modern inside sales was born. Building an outbound sales motion is not new, and yet almost every company makes the same three mistakes in the first months of getting up and running.

Pitch

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. Can they afford what you’re selling?

Appointment

Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2020

Quick Pitch. I can recall starting out in inside sales and hearing sales reps around me become short or rude with the person answering the phone on the other end. Quick Pitch. The second part of a successful cold call is the quick sales pitch. Quick pitches are important. Introduction.

Cold Call

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2019

Last year, we started a new Sales Hacker tradition: the Top 50 Awards. Most other sales awards end up going to the most popular influencer. The Sales Hacker Top 50 is different. It’s been heartwarming to see how eagerly people in sales have lifted up their peers, mentors, and employees. Sales Leadership.

Sales

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.

Cold Call

Score More Sales

APRIL 21, 2014

It started innocently enough when I replied to my industry colleague and social selling advocate Jill Rowley via Twitter to something she asked me. It is underutilized among many sellers who think no one will pick up or will listen to their message. It made me feel like the phone – the conventional phone, is being misaligned.

Inside sales

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

This includes teaching them how to best engage with prospects, build relationships with customers, close deals, upsell and cross-sell, and much more. Why Sales Training Is Important. We could take paragraphs to discuss the importance of sales training. The Different Types of Sales Training Programs. or a 353% ROI.

Technique

Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2014

You think this just comes up naturally in your thought process? Show up at your desk ready to go because you’ve thought through these questions in advance, and have a game plan in place. Stop being haphazard about sales. read the related post “The Power of Trusts in B2B Selling” here ). It doesn’t!

Strategize

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Because people who sell are all different and our buyers are also people who are all different. Roles vary in companies – what I say to an executive in the c-suite is different than what I say to the IT director or to the user of the services I could sell to a company. Listen Up & Learn. The Shocking Value Statement.

Sell

Score More Sales

JULY 22, 2014

Midmarket companies and larger SMBs seem to fall into three camps: the ones who understand the power of social sales and actively work to build a plan of action, the ones who are coming around to this idea but not doing much yet, and those who are turning a blind eye and are missing a great window of opportunity. Keep Track of Your Buyers.

Territory

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Looking for a shortcut to success as a field sales professional? What is field sales? Field sales, also known as outside sales , is a method of selling that involves sales representatives who engage with potential customers in person, typically outside of an office setting. Schedule your free workshop NOW!

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