Samir Sampat

The Internet is a great resource to tap when you’re looking for free training and educational resources for your sales team. You can find a lot of different sources of information, from informal videos and articles to formal training programs and continuing education that’s designed to help your team stay on top of their professional certifications. In today’s Internet, though, what you can get for free is a lot more valuable than ever before.

Lead follow-up is a daunting task for any business. Doing it via email can seem even more insurmountable in the day and age of never-ending spam emails and even spam texts! It’s no wonder your business needs a better way. Fortunately, you can still deliver the right message when you know what to say and how to say it.

Hiring is no simple task. You can’t just go out and decide to get another salesperson someday without putting some thought into it. You have to plan for a budget, make sure that you find the right person for the job, etc. It’s a process, and it’s one that you need to take seriously to ensure that you get the right solutions for your business.

Performance tracking is an integral part of any salesperson’s career. And yet, several companies find a way to drop the ball somehow, tracking the wrong elements or perhaps not tracking much at all. Worse yet, some businesses invest in all the right tools and then never actually follow up by reading the reports or checking the metrics they’ve been monitoring. In any case, it's time to make a change and pay attention to what matters.

Outsourcing your sales efforts is a great way to free up your time and make better use of your resources. Of course, you can’t just run out and hire the first company that you find (and that goes for anything). You need to take the time to assess your options and determine exactly what you need. In doing that, there are some questions and concerns that will be more pressing than others.

Outsourcing is changing the way that businesses get things done. Companies today don’t even have to handle their own selling if they don’t want to, or perhaps just don’t have the time and resources. Outsourcing allows you to get a full team of sales agents with a custom solution to develop your sales and increase your business growth. Plus, it gives you that at a fraction of the cost of hiring a sales team as part of your company.

Salespeople are an asset to any business, but only when the time is right and the need is there. Thanks to technology, companies today have a lot more options when it comes to getting help. If you’re considering hiring your first sales employee, you might want to do your homework first. Here are 20 statistics that will change the way you think about hiring your first employee, and probably the rest that come after that, too.

Metrics are a critical part of business. Tracking calls is one way to measure the success of various marketing campaigns. Of course, there’s a lot more you can do with call tracking when you use it properly. The first thing that you need to do is to learn more about call tracking software and how you can use it to get more out of your phone sales efforts.

Call centers are not all created equally. These facilities are set up by different companies to field and make calls related to sales, support, and other issues. At one point or another, your business may realize that it needs more phone support than you can provide on your own. If this is the case, a call center could be an option. However, you’ll want to make sure that you find the best one for your needs.

Although it’s not new, the way outsourcing is used to help companies has changed over the years. Sales outsourcing is all about improving your sales by leveraging the resources that you have. Of course, you do have to make sure that you can afford them in the first place.