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Remote working has become standard across many companies. Learn the toughest challenges of managing remote teams and how to solve them. Read on.

We hired employee #1 at Teamflow in October 2020 and shipped in January 2021 — going from first line written to shipping in 3 months, with Christmas in the middle.

A great place to start cultivating a culture that is mindful and respectful of each other’s personal and professional time is by changing the way meetings are planned and run.

Many situations call for a 1 on 1 meeting with a manager, coworker, or employee. But when some or all of your company works on a remote basis, you need to consider some additional factors. Read on for your guide to remote 1-on-1s.

This month our team of engineers released several product updates including one of our most requested features: Full screen mode. In addition, we released a Google calendar add-on, opening of apps with QR codes and entering and exiting rooms is now lightning fast!

Onboarding employees has been a challenge for many organizations that have transitioned to being remote or hybrid. Learn some tips for how to make this process easier. Read on.

With working remotely, all-hands meetings have been transformed. Learn how to plan an all-hands meeting virtually that will make a lasting impression. Read on.

Virtual meetings are here to stay. And regardless of the format — in-person or virtual — making the most out of a meeting is business critical.

We sat down with Rafael Sanches, the Co-Founder at Anycart, one of the biggest grocery shopping engines in the U.S., to see how his team uses Teamflow as their virtual workspace.

This months’ feature releases and updates include Speaker Circles, ability to share and watch videos together on YouTube, and big mobile layout improvements.

There was a time not too long ago when remote working was reserved for the few. Maybe you had a friend who freelanced, maybe you’d heard a rumour that someone in accounts had discovered a loophole in their contract, maybe you’d done it once when you’d had a bit too much fun the night before. Naming no names.

We’re thrilled to announce our $35 million Series B investment led by Coatue’s Lucas Swisher, with existing investors Menlo Ventures’ Naomi Ionita and Grace Ge, and Battery Ventures’ Neeraj Agrawal and Brandon Gleklen also participating in the round. This round brings our total amount raised to $50 million in the year since our founding.

Collaboration drives workplace success, and there’s no better way to collaborate than with a whiteboarding session. Here are our tips for remote teams.

Virtual gatherings have become more popular due to the pandemic. Read our article about 12 virtual hangout ideas for your next get-together.

Successful team building is about more than just throwing the right group of people together and hoping for the best. Fostering teamwork, group cohesion, and strong team dynamics requires deliberate guidance, effective leadership, and good communication — whether you are building your team virtually or in person.

Here are five ways remote teams use Teamflow to feel more connected, work more productively, and make remote work much more fun.

The lack of a physical office and human interaction can impact people's productivity and happiness at work. Learn how to boost morale at work with these tips.

As companies adapt to the hybrid work model and other models, the question of how to manage virtual teams has become more pressing.

COVID-19 has accelerated changes to the workplace that were already in process, and the emerging hybrid work model is a response to that.

While some businesses have made hybrid and remote work permanent, a recent survey by SHRM found that 72% of supervisors prefer their employees to be back in the office. Meanwhile, 55% of employees would like to work remotely at least some of the time. But the divergence across industries and income levels means that remote work is unevenly distributed by geography.

Remote work has thrown a wrench in company culture. Read our article about how you can build your organization's culture remotely.

So, what’s the deal with remote work? Does it make us more productive and more collaborative? Or are we more stressed, less engaged and more likely to quit? We pulled our own numbers on remote meetings to better understand how employees and companies are working — or not — remotely.

‍We’re excited to announce Teamflow’s $11M Series A led by Neeraj Agrawal at Battery Ventures. We will use the funds to keep building the future of remote work.

Teamflow is a virtual office for remote teams. It recreates the casual, unplanned chats and the seamless collaboration that people miss from physical offices. Here's how it works.

The workplace has suffered due to a virtual shift. Learn how to promote a lively company culture with these virtual happy hour ideas.

The team at SafetyWing wanted a solution that allowed them to strike the right balance between flexible, focused work and time to collaborate and socialize in a way that feels natural and connected — and Teamflow helped them do just that.

As collaborative online workspaces go, Spatial Chat gets a lot of attention. But it’s only one of many similar tools. Here is a round up of some of the best alternatives for effective online communication.

Choosing the right remote collaboration tools can be complicated. That's why it's important to establish an evaluation process. We've laid out six steps to keep in mind as you shop around.

In this new remote-centric world, co-workers increasingly are separated by hundreds or thousands of miles. The following platforms go a long way toward closing that distance.

We've laid out the top features of virtual collaboration tools to ensure your team is equipped to communicate efficiently while working remotely.

If you work remote or hybrid, you can't escape virtual meetings. But they don't have to be necessary evils thanks to a number of interactive virtual tools that keep teams engaged. Read on to see which ones made the list.

Remote work is here to stay. In this blog, we lay out six guidelines to follow for making remote work as effective as, or even more effective than, in-person work.

With the remote work revolution, internal collaboration is more important than ever. Do you have the right tools in place? Here are some tools to consider for maximum team collaboration.

We all know about Teams, Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace and the like, but what about some of the alternatives for remote team collaboration? Read on for our roundup of some of the best team communication tools to consider.

Sales reps have never been chained to their desks. They’re in the office or at home one day, out in the field the next. But SDRs are a different breed: until the last few years, they generally worked together in close physical proximity, learning from each other’s calls and celebrating each other’s wins while developing qualified leads to push through the pipeline. 

The outbound power hour is every remote SDR manager’s secret weapon. Here’s how to hold one that’s super efficient and highly effective.

There’s a hard fact of sales that most people don’t learn until their first commission check: Quotas are designed to be unattainable. Your best bet for getting 100 percent to quota (and 100 percent of your on-target earnings) — is building “deep pipeline.”

What is a virtual sales floor, you ask? Ok, you didn’t ask, but we’re gonna tell: It’s essentially a physical sales floor gone digital.

When it comes to upping your team's SDR game, these four things are absolutely essential.

Leave a voicemail on the first cold call. It’s that simple.‍ Except it’s not really that simple.‍ Americans get billions of invasive and annoying robocalls each year — an estimated 2,700 every second. That’s an average of 28 robocalls (and texts) per person per month, at least 40 percent of which are scams. 

News of cold calling’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. For SDRs, it’s still an incredibly powerful first step toward building lasting and quota-crushing relationships with prospective leads.

New SDRs are typically young and inexperienced, which means they need a lot of guidance. But it doesn’t all have to come from their manager.

Being an SDR manager comes with lots of challenges and responsibilities. Many of your reps are probably young and inexperienced — maybe even just out of school. They need a ton of guidance. Even the more seasoned ones hit quota snags, get burned out and need coaching about life and work.

As an SDR, your primary job is to have meaningful conversations with prospects that build relationships and ultimately create opportunities.

A consistently poor-performing SDR who continues to perform poorly isn’t in a slump; they’re just no good at the job. But when typically well-performing SDRs hit the wall after several quota-crushing quarters — that’s a slump. Getting out of it, though, can be tricky — and it requires managerial guidance.

Hitting quota is tough, partly because most quotas are set to be just out of reach. To make things even more challenging, leads often don’t pan out and deals fall through at the last minute. That’s why you need a secret weapon to minimize your risk and plug gaps. We’re talking about a deep pipeline. Here’s how to build a killer one.

On a recent episode of the popular “Predictable Revenue” podcast, Teamflow’s Head of Revenue, Josh Garrison, talked SDR management with host Collin Stewart. Their insightful conversation ran the full gamut, from hiring and team-building to coaching and firing.

Virtual sales floors are basically digitalized online versions of physical sales floors where reps and managers can call, coach and collaborate in real time. And the benefits are many. Here’s a rundown of the main ones:

Coaching software optimizes sales performance with real-time audio and video, AI assistance, data-based insights, pipeline transparency, quicker ramp times and many other features that ultimately help sales professionals close more deals and make more money.

Sales development reps (SDRs) are the often unsung heroes of sales. They're tasked with prospecting, qualifying and closing big deals. But it's not easy: they have to make hundreds of calls per week while working within tight budgets and on a tight deadline. The good news is that there are plenty of high-tech tools available to simplify and amplify this process.

Building a top-notch virtual sales team can be difficult, but it's certainly not impossible. It requires finding ways to keep your team motivated, focused, happy and productive. That starts with understanding each member’s working style.

Sales enablement is about helping salespeople do their jobs better. Sales enablement tools include training, coaching and other solutions that allow your team members to leverage things like automation, collaboration platforms, data insights and marketing automation

Selling is about much more than just closing deals. It's about building relationships with customers and teammates alike. It's about being able to recognize the needs of others, so that you can meet them in an effective way. And it's about learning how to adapt your pitch and presentation techniques over time as people change their mindsets, worldviews and life circumstances. That’s where sales training comes in.

According to LinkedIn’s most recent State of Sales report, buyers are more enthusiastic than ever about conducting business virtually. That’s great news for virtual salespeople.

More than half of SDRs consistently fail to hit quota. You don’t have to be one of them. Follow these guidelines to greatly increase your chances of success. 

One of the hardest parts of being an SDR Manager is learning how to build an incredible team — which involves both hiring great people and recognizing when someone isn’t going to work out.Former sales rep and Teamflow’s current Head of Revenue, Josh Garrison, has worked with SDRs for years and done plenty of hiring as well as some firing. Here are his guidelines for doing both as effectively and efficiently as possible.