Posts Tagged ‘Best Practices’
How to Start a Successful Inside Sales Career (Part 2)
Now that you’ve gotten a job as a sales professional (as discussed in this previous blog in the series) it’s important to know how to be as successful as you can as an inside sales rep. You’ve completed the onboarding process, you passed all the tests with flying colors, and you’ve got a headset, a…
Read MoreWhy Being an Inside Sales Professional is a Great Career Choice (Part 1)
You just graduated and the moment of truth has come. You need to find a job. Not only any job, but one with benefits, good pay, advancement – in other words, one you can build a real and lasting career on. Looking at a career in any field takes time. It’s important to think over…
Read MoreHootSuite, Buffer and TweetDeck: How Sales Reps can Use Social Media Automation
Social media is a powerful tool, but sometimes it’s a little overwhelming. Even the automation tools that are supposed to help often seem even more confusing than the social platforms they help automate. If you’ve found yourself dabbling in the social-automation world, the most important rule to keep in mind is to not abuse and overuse the…
Read MoreON24’s Webinars that Rocked in 2012 Features Inside Sales – We Made It!
ON24, the cloud-based webinar and online conference technology company, has announced their final broadcast of 2012 will be “Webinars that Rocked in 2012” on December 5th. XANT is excited to announce it will be featured as one of the top five. Every year, ON24 supports thousands of webinars including international companies, and for their last…
Read MoreNew eBook – Inside Sales Cold Calling Best Practices and Tips
Within the inside sales industry, most sales reps spend at least part of their day cold calling prospects from purchased lists or names gathered from LinkedIn. Often times, these calls return no leads and rarely move these prospects further through the sales process. To help provide some best practices and tips regarding cold calling, Ken…
Read MoreFaxing: A Sales Reps’ Secret Weapon
Do young sales reps even remember what a fax machine is? More importantly, do you know how to use one? Well guess what? As a tool, faxing can still be very relevant as a communications channel. With all the different ways of communication available, people have become more leery of the most common communication practices.…
Read MoreHow Inside Sales Reps Can Use PR to Help Drive Leads
Have you noticed something with remote sales? It’s becoming more social. As social media has taken a greater hold on our everyday routines, it makes sense that it has blended into the professional part of people’s lives too. For sales reps, knowing how to use social media for promotion and generating good content for leads…
Read MoreThe #1 Way to Increase Sales Revenue – Sales Reps Take Note
I’m a marketer at www.insidesales.com and I’m hijacking the sales blog today. I’m writing on behalf of marketers everywhere, and I’m calling out sales professionals. The Goal of Inbound Marketers First, let me say that I like my job and I take it seriously. I strongly feel the need to produce more leads for sales.…
Read MoreWhy You Should Purchase Lists – The Benefits Outweigh The Cost!
Stop resisting and avoiding the inevitable! It’s a proven fact that if you want to grow, and wring the most value out of your sales reps’ time, you need to be purchasing lists. It is the fastest, most efficient way to get more leads. Chances are you already know the negatives for buying a list…
Read MoreIndependent Dream Dinners Franchise Experiences 15% Yearly Revenue Increase with PowerDialer
Dream Dinners, Inc. was created with the purpose for customers to create ready-made, frozen meals for their families. Customers follow color coded recipes at set up stations, saving on time and helping with convince. Dream Dinners tries to bring back the quality time around the table. Sounds like a pretty cool concept, right? The problem…
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