Pointclear

JULY 17, 2013

Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales? Or just go with inside sales? When you step out in the year 2015, and the landscape may look quite different. The following trends indicate that field sales teams are becoming extinct. Good question. Step into my time machine.

Field Sales 245

Field Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 245

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”.

Outside Sales 147

Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Cold Calling 130

Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. Among B2B companies, the use of inside sales reps has exploded in popularity.

Outside Sales 91

Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 91

HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Sales Cycle Length Seventy percent reported an average sales cycle length of sixty days or less for inside sales while fifty-four percent reported an average sales cycle length of ninety days or more for outside sales.

Telecommunications 126

Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That’s the subject of my latest Sales Talk for CEOs podcast, where Erik Frank – CEO and President of Tristate Amature and Electrical Works – shares the details on the major overhauls that are happening in his 101-year-old business. Is the #customer at the center of your #sales operations?

Hiring 87

Hiring Strategy Customer Government 87

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

Since almost all of your marketing and sales activity is performed by an inside team, you don’t need regional sales offices, layers of management, and a team of operations people to process expense reports and adjudicate border skirmishes between over-caffeinated commissioned salespeople. And that’s nice.

Inside Sales 126

Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 126