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The Many Different Selling Roles and How They Differ - Part 1

Understanding the Sales Force

We can name them: Account Executive, Territory Manager, Business Development Rep, Sales Development Rep, Account Manager, Key Account Manager, National Account Manager, Channel Manager, Application Engineer, Sales Consultant, Inside Sales, Outside Sales, and more.

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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade.

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Hiring a Sales Manager - External or Internal?

SBI Growth

Description: How the sales team is tasked on reaching the target market. For example, is it all direct sales? Maybe the team is leveraging channel partners, or inside sales. An SM for a direct model may not need to know Channel Management principles. It might be a hybrid combining multiple approaches.

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Inside Sales Is Only Great For Transactional Commoditized Products!

Partners in Excellence

Instead, I suggested some completely different models–perhaps leveraging channel partners, or moving much more of the sales function inside. He said, “Dave, I understand inside sales very well–but they are much more suited for transactional business, standardized, commoditized products.

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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

It’s time to face this new reality and reengineer our sales environments to exploit the spoils of it! Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. Sales used to be something that happened "out there" — in the field. Fifty years ago, when the modern sales function evolved, customers were "out there."

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Prospect Development Program Jumpstarts Manufacturer’s Channel Sales

Pointclear

But we advise companies we talk to that it’s an important consideration in setting up their inside sales organizations, assessing current operations, or evaluating an outsourced solution. The end result: 350 sales opportunities generated within the first 6 months of the program’s start.

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Inside sales guide: challenges, strategies, tips, and tools

Salesmate

Companies have started to build a workforce that finds prospects inside four walls. With inside sales, businesses are putting more effort than just selling their products. The same time when inside sales kicked its way up, the importance of customer support also grew humongous. So what exactly is inside sales?