RingDNA

JULY 1, 2025

It can also help accelerate sales ramp up time. The Best Sales Playbook Examples in 2025 Every business will have to consider unique factors when crafting a sales playbook. We created a best practices guide that features nine of our favorite sequences from our own sales playbook. It’s the best of both worlds.

Cross-sell

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Ron explains: “Wehire mostly technical backgrounds, but as our customers get larger and larger, you start to get global account managers, and they’re going to have much more business strategic account management experience. Similar to most structures of a technical sales team. They set up meetings with Fortune 500 CIOs.

Technical Sales

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. Would you show up to an important meeting wearing shorts and a Panama hat? Source: Gartner ​.

Closing

RingDNA

JUNE 10, 2025

Warm calling is an outbound sales strategy that focuses on dialing, connecting with, and having sales conversations on the phone with sales leads who have been “warmed up” with some kind of prior activity. Ideally, they can meet these leads in-person to generate as much recognition as possible from the start.

Cold Call

Highspot

JULY 7, 2025

Key Takeaways Executing 1:1 and 1:few account-based selling strategies geared toward high-value target accounts is how leading enterprise sales teams drive sustainable revenue growth. Guide: What Good Client Engagement Looks Like Download free guide What is account-based selling?

Sell

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2025

Building Top-Performing Sales Orgs: Hard-Won Lessons from Scaling 4 Unicorns (Including OpenAI’s Hypergrowth from 10 to 500 People) Maggie Hott has spent 15 years building go-to-market teams at four unicorns that collectively represent over $500B in market value. Every person had to learn the opposite product they weren’t selling.

GTM

RingDNA

MARCH 24, 2025

They ask highly targeted, open-ended sales discovery questions and get prospects to open up about budget, authority, timeline, needs, etc. The discovery call sets the tone for the entire sales process. It’s your chance to ask the right questions, uncover real problems, and build trust from the start.

Technique

RingDNA

APRIL 25, 2025

To find out, we launched a major study, analyzing call data from millions of sales calls to uncover the ideal times of day for key sales activities, including the best time to make cold calls. But far more importantly, we have some new findings fresh that just might shake up when you go after your best leads.

Cold Call

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

Hubspot

JUNE 18, 2025

In my experience, flattery in sales will at least earn you 20 more seconds of a prospect’s time — and that may be just the opening you need. Salespeople love to talk about whatever product or service they’re selling. He had such high praise that I immediately signed up for your [product] beta launch notification. He was right!

Pitch

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

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This isn’t just theory – it’s showing up in the public filings. But here’s the real kicker: PLG isn’t just another sales motion. The “Golf Course Era” – Selling to CIOs over lunch GTM 2.0: The “SaaS Era” – Online trials, SEM/SEO, inside sales GTM 3.0:

GTM

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around. 13:26 The speed dating hack that landed Coffee’s first sales leader. 17:36 What Doug learned running Sales Cloud at Salesforce — and why he left. 24:37 Why sales tech stacks are bloated — and how AI-native CRMs solve it.

GTM

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

As any business will attest, there’s no greater feeling than when your company grows and reaches a point where you need to expand your inside sales team. Naturally, more salespeople means more sales which translates to more revenue. So, what causes a low-performing sales team? Guide to Building an Inside Sales Team.

Inside sales

Veloxy

MARCH 28, 2022

After nearly two years of a global pandemic, where nearly all of the workforce worked remotely , things are starting to return to business as usual. While it might be a slow return in some places, you are probably starting to consider again how you want your sales force to work for your business. What Is Inside Sales?

Outside Sales

Sales Pop!

AUGUST 20, 2021

The sales process in B2B is not self-sufficient. In addition to the sales team’s efforts, certain tools are also required to achieve the main goal. These can be a unique selling proposition, recommendations, business launch questions, success stories, demonstrations, and presentations. SaaS B2B Sales. You betcha!

Inside sales

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.

Inside sales

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 19, 2020

She’s up to her eyeballs in pivots, working around the clock with her team and peers to change strategy, redeploy resources, all in real time. And a young sales development representative (SDR) won’t stop calling her to get “15 minutes of her time” to show off their latest platform release.

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

Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

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. Make sure you print this out and share it with both your inside and field sales teams. So, what makes a great salesperson? What Makes a Good Salesperson? Personability.

Referrals

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. And while many cities are starting to relax their self-quarantine mandates, things won’t be completely normal again for quite some time. For inside sales, this often includes calling, texting, emailing, or using social media.

Inside sales

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

That doesn't mean they can't be effective salespeople — it just means they need to change things up. If you find yourself in a position like that, you might want to consider transitioning from outside to inside sales. According to her, "[She] needed to skill up in digital." Be the change you want to be. Really care.

Inside sales

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.

Inside sales

Veloxy

MARCH 16, 2022

Why Field Sales is still number one for earning and growth! Did you know that more than 50% of college graduates will start their career in sales? While graduates with business majors have even higher sales placements post graduation, the aforementioned covers all majors. Entry Level Pharmaceutical Sales Jobs.

Pharmaceutical

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. Today I’m going to start by telling you a little bit about me, a little bit about Duo, and then the secrets to building a killer inside sales org.

Inside sales

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2022

An emerging strategy that organizations are adopting to grow revenue more efficiently is inside sales. Inside sales refer to the practice of selling from office premises via phone, email, or video calls. Benefits of inside sales. The first benefit of inside sales is its cost-effectiveness.

Inside sales

Hubspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Table of Contents What is inside sales training?

Inside sales

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

Veloxy

MAY 30, 2022

Salesforce knows this, which is why they offer more than 3,400 apps in their AppExchange marketplace for such things as email tracking, geolocation, and sales intelligence. Did you know that salespeople, on average, spend over 500 hours every year performing manual non-selling activity tied to their email and Salesforce instance?

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

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Kevin Dorsey, the VP of Inside Sales at PatientPop , shares insight on what it takes to achieve your most important sales objectives while fostering genuine relationships with your buyers. Create Trust and Stand Out in Sales. If you would not buy from the way you’re selling, that tells you everything.

Inside sales

Veloxy

JULY 28, 2022

As a salesperson, every single day you have to find the proper balance between selling activity and non-selling activity. With Sales AI, salespeople are able to spend more time on the activities that produce revenue, such as prospecting and meeting customers in person, rather than the activities that cost time and resources.

Up-sell

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

60% of customers will shake their head NO to a sale up to 4 times before they actually say YES to it. Sadly, many sales reps miss their opportunity to get the YES when 48% of them don’t do the necessary follow-up. Yet, how it can shape selling for your company can be revolutionary for you. Lead Scoring.

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

Closer's Coffee

APRIL 23, 2020

Here’s What You Need To Know About The Inside Sales and Outside Sales Roles. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take. Inside Sales Reps.

Outside Sales

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. Compare that to long days on the road stuck in traffic, in the air, or on your feet, trudging through the rain going from door to door, and you start to understand the appeal. What is inside sales? . Inside sales vs. outside sales .

Inside sales