Category Archives: inside sales

The Moment of Truth for Sales

The moment of truth arrives when a prospect is engaged in a meaningful interaction with your organization. For B2B marketers that key point is the response generated from a marketing effort through direct, online or social media marketing. For sales, it is the sales conversation: that defining moment when a prospect is engaged, qualified and profiled through a dynamic dialog. [...]

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Selling to the Digital B2B Buyer

The digital world is bringing great change to how buyers wish to interact with B2B sales teams.

Today’s B2B buyer prefers online communication for a variety of reasons explained in this post.

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Sales on the Outbound

This is the third in a series of posts discussing the role of outbound lead generation in the marketing mix. In my first post, I described five buyer types that are best reached through outbound sales and marketing. Then I reviewed the benefits that accrue to marketing from outbound marketing: ROI, market insight and a [...]

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