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…

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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.…

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You and I have heard, many times, the old adage “Knowledge is Power!” We can’t argue with the truth inherent in this statement. Education is key to personal and financial growth. There are those who, lacking a college education or degree, have earned comfortable livings and even amassed wealth. However, these people also tout ongoing…

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(Louie Bernstein is Chief Sales Officer (CSO) for Izenda, an XANT client, a serial entrepreneur, and a consummate, award winning salesman.) Too many sales reps are afraid of asking the tough questions because they worry they will hear the word “no.”  What these sales people fail to realize is that they are either delaying the inevitable or they…

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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…

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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.…

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Bob Farrell is well-known for founding Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlors. For the past three decades, he has offered corporate seminars and provided motivational speaking on the topic of customer service. He famously recounts a letter he received after he sold his chain of ice cream parlors to the Marriott Corporation from a long-time customer. In…

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