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Local Presence enables inside sales reps to automatically dial prospects using local area codes. Local presence dialers can lift call connection rates by up to 400%, because prospects tend to be far more likely to answer unknown calls from local numbers, rather than toll-free or long-distance phone numbers.  Revenue.io’s Local Presence empowers your sales team […]

Updated June 2025: You can now head to RevU to watch the interactive demo version of this tutorial and see how to leave high-performing custom voicemails using the RingDNA Dialer. As a savvy salesperson, you know sales are built on relationships, and a key part in building relationships is tailoring your sales approach to your […]

What’s the difference between an SDR, BDR, AE and CSM?  Sometimes it seems like the sales industry is full of more acronyms than the U.S. government. So if you’re confused about the differences between these roles, it’s understandable. To further confuse matters, if you go to two different companies, they might call the same inside […]

Over the last few years, there has been an unbelievable expansion in tech. Continued investment from venture capital and private equity, open-source code, infrastructure gains, and APIs have all created a “Cheesecake factory menu” of options in your software solutions. Take MarTech as an example – in 2016 there were nearly 4,000 MarTech solutions in […]

Selling is hard and is only getting more challenging. 93% of revenue leaders expect buyer objections to increase and many companies are reporting longer sales cycles. During those crucial initial discovery meetings, sellers routinely fail to meet buyers’ high expectations. As a result, 72% of sales leaders don’t expect their teams to hit quota. Many […]

Understanding how to attract, retain and expand customer relationships has become increasingly crucial as customer acquisition costs soar and conversion rates decline. In response to this pressing need, a movement called Revenue Operations (RevOps) has emerged in recent years. RevOps aims to unify marketing, sales, and customer service into a cohesive strategy and organization, helping […]

There’s more pressure on revenue teams today than ever before. To keep up with growing demands, teams are relying more and more on outbound sales. And with this growing reliance on outbound sales, new tools and technologies appear to make connecting with buyers easier.  But we wouldn’t be good data-driven revenue professionals if we didn’t […]

ringDNA has evolved immensely since we came up with the original concept.  The idea was conceived as a solution to problems we’d faced in my previous companies:  Buying experiences are notoriously bad, so how do we use science, technology, and the information we have about our buyers and customers to provide a better experience for […]

The fact that we have different conversations with different people is an accepted fact. The way you talk to your kids is different from the way you talk to your coworkers, which is also different from how you would talk to your barista at the local coffee shop. The amount of time that we talk, […]

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What does inbound sales mean in 2025? You may get five different answers if you ask five different companies how they define inbound sales. That’s because sales processes vary wildly from organization to organization. Some companies split salespeople into dedicated inbound and outbound sales development teams, while others task reps with prospecting and responding to […]

“I’m sorry.” As a child, were you ever told to tell someone that? I guess that you were. Do you remember how it felt? You probably didn’t mean it, so it didn’t feel genuine. See, telling someone exactly what to say never works how we’d like. It comes off as stale and feels constraining for […]