When you’re leading an inside sales team, you need to know what is and isn’t working as early in the process as possible. If a rep isn’t giving the right pitch, you need to apply more training ASAP. If a particular lead generation stream is generating killer leads, you need to make marketing aware right away so they […]

Artificial intelligence is already being used by sales organizations of all sizes to provide salespeople and managers with real-time guidance, increase productivity, prioritize leads and a variety of other critical sales functions. While some salespeople might be apprehensive about AI, fearing that it’s a “job replacer,” AI has the potential to be used as a […]

Enabling reps to have hyper-contextualized sales conversations 42% of sales reps feel they don’t have enough information before calling a prospect. And when they try to locate it, they have to search and toggle between multiple applications and windows, including Salesforce. This means reps are unprepared to have quality sales conversations without the right information […]

In today’s fast-growth B2B sales environments, sales and technology are one and the same. And Sales Hacker’s CEO Max Altschuler is no stranger to sales technology. Max and the Sales Hacker team are gearing up to host Sales Stack 2015, a B2B tech-focused sales conference, this November. Gearing up for Sales Stack, we recently sat […]

Cold Emails are Essential To Sales Cold emails and sales go together like peanut butter and jelly. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to have one without the other. Cold emails serve as an excellent starting point for any sales process, and can make a great introduction that gets any deal started in the right direction. […]

The most powerful tool a sales manager can have is data, but it is often their biggest liability. Quality sales data allows managers to accurately predict, forecast, and develop sales strategies to ensure reps are successful and meet their goals. The problem is the information is often not trustworthy because salespeople do not have the […]

What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? This is the question Entrepreneur on Fire – or EOFire, as it’s known to fans – seeks to answer in its ongoing series of interviews with business leaders. Past guests have included marketing guru Seth Godin, Nimble’s Jon Ferrara and Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran. In the most […]

Building a good sales cadence or sales sequence by following strong sales cadence examples can make your sales team more productive and enforce the use of best practices in your team’s selling efforts. 42% of sales reps find prospecting to be the most challenging part of the sales process, according to HubSpot. With a strong […]

In sales, the discovery phase involves smart questions and active listening skills. Any sales training will mention both. However, it is possible to ask questions and use sales listening skills without real empathy. Consider the data from a HubSpot Research study of B2B buyers and sellers: The #1 buyer expectation (69%) is a sales rep […]

Most inside sales managers know when reps are underperforming. But being a great sales manager requires being able to address why certain reps are or aren’t hitting their numbers. In our experience, the most successful managers are those that are able to gain visibility into how individual reps’ activities impact downstream revenue. Here are some metrics […]

It’s difficult to keep pace with the whirlwind changes that are transforming sales processes each year. New sales acceleration tools and controversial selling methodologies (The Challenger Sale comes to mind) have made the sales profession radically different from when I took my first inside sales job seven years ago. Back then I didn’t even have a CRM […]

Here at Revenue.io, we can’t overstate the importance of managing sales teams to metrics. By tracking the right metrics, inside sales managers can glean far more insight than who did and didn’t achieve quota. Tracking the right metrics gives you visibility into how your reps’ activities impact every stage of your pipeline. We know that tracking […]