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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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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?

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How to Build a B2B Sales Team Structure

Zoominfo

It’s not rocket science, it’s basic logic: overtime, sales staff gain unique experience, including intricate knowledge related to both overlooked and recurring problems that stall deals, navigating specific personas and accounts, industries, business relationships, and the overall market at-large. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or

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