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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

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.”.

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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

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.”

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How to transition from outside sales to inside sales

Nutshell

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.

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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

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.

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How Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

I dug deeper and learned that the likelihood of an account being for an outside sales role was in direct proportion to the number of years that our OMG Parter/Sales Expert has been with OMG. The September, Week 4 Issue of Top Sales Magazine is available here. That''s code for how old the OMG partner is!

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Building a Customer-Focused Sales Strategy with Erik Frank (S1:E14)

Alice Heiman

In August of 2021, he became CEO and President after serving as an outside sales consultant for the past three years. He started his sales career back in 1986 with Dun & Bradstreet and served in sales and sales leadership roles for 30 years, both domestically and internationally.

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12 Sales Metrics that Matter Most-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

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.