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Capture your invisible pipeline of sales leads

Intercom, Inc.

The most common way to think about leads is to put them in two buckets: inbound and outbound. And unlike your visible pipeline of inbound and outbound leads, your invisible leads can’t be called or emailed. The first is owned by marketing and the second by sales. Where does the invisible sales pipeline come from?

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Reps will be in inbound, lead-taking mode for two hour blocks throughout the day and they’ll take them through qualification all the way through to close. Using data to drive outbound sales. This meant that when Jeanne wanted to get an outbound sales program off the ground, she had to get creative.

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What is conversational AI?

Intercom, Inc.

These bots can communicate in outbound efforts, or they can reply to inbound conversations. In some cases, conversational AI solutions can be trained on FAQs or knowledge base articles to resolve customer issues, and can even be programmed to give instant responses using the brand’s preferred voice and tone.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

There were a lot of tough decisions we had to make and tough lessons learned in building out our virtual assistance teams and making sure that, from a cultural standpoint, people were well-trained and actually understood what they were doing. Is it transitioning from inbound to outbound sales? Are you doing outbound?

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What is a call center?

Intercom, Inc.

Call centers have historically been a popular way to offer that support by employing customer service representatives to assist both inbound and outbound queries from existing and potential customers over the phone. How do call centers work?

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. Historically sales training has been a pretty low priority for most entrepreneurs. For many B2B SaaS companies, inbound marketing represents a cornerstone of all marketing activity.

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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

When you’re a rep, you could be thinking about outbounding to prospects, building pipeline, or moving forward the opportunities already in play. As a manager, the tasks competing for your attention only multiplies – coaching , training, interviewing, forecasting , planning, and more.