What Forrest Gump said about chocolates can also be applied to inbound leads – you never know what you’re going to get. This week on INSIDE Inside Sales, Darryl welcomes one of the world’s foremost authorities on all things sales, the brilliant Tony J. Hughes. Darryl and Tony discuss strategies to convert your inbound leads, such as finding the proper context for outreach, and doing enough pragmatic research so you can personalize content. They also share valuable advice on using inbound leads to get access to key people and quality information, as well as ways to win deals by understanding your buyer. Don’t miss the all-important 3 questions to improve engagement through inbound leads on this episode of INSIDE Inside Sales!
About Darryl's Guest: Tony is an international keynote speaker, best-selling author, leading professional selling educator, award-winning blogger and the most read LinkedIn Author globally on the topic of sales leadership. As an experienced CEO and company director with 35 years of sales and business leadership experience, he is ranked by Top Sales Magazine as the most influential person in professional selling in Asia-Pacific.Tony has served as Director of Sales for public corporations and as the Asia-pacific Managing Director for a number of tier-one global technology companies, and teaches 'modernized selling' within the MBA program at the University of Technology, Sydney. Tony also sits on a number of advisory boards, with clients including Schneider Electric, New Zealand Government, Salesforce, TAL Life, Zip Water, Findex, BAE Systems, Flight Centre Travel Group, Red Hat, Agilyx, NEXTDC, and UBT with their 4,000 member companies globally.
INSIDE Inside Sales is hosted by Darryl Praill, CMO of VanillaSoft which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel. VanillaSoft is the sponsor for INSIDE Inside Sales.
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