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Inside vs. Outside Sales: How to Structure a Sales Team for Success

Hubspot Sales

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. What's the difference between inside and outside sales?

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The Secret Sauce to Quota Setting

SBI Growth

Introducing the Bottoms-Up Workload Analysis. The answer to quota setting is to conduct a bottoms-up workload analysis. In best-in-class sales organizations, outside sales reps spend about 70% of their time selling. Increase the average sales price to $100K. There are about 1850 work hours in a year.

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Build a Bold, Data Infused Sales Strategy for 2013

SBI Growth

Let’s first look at a how an average Sales Operations leader, Average Joe, identifies and quantifies market opportunities. Average Joe’s Analysis of Market Opportunities. Joe starts by running a sales report and analyzing the data looking for themes. He validates his findings with quick 5-min calls to sales managers and reps.

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5 Traits You Need to Be an ‘A’ Player in 2013

SBI Growth

An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. Many industries are trending towards inside sales. Will you be able to keep the freedom and autonomy of outside sales? This adage has been true enough in generations past.

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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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How to Optimize Inside Sales Territories

SBI Growth

Each organization just transferred what they were doing for their outside sales team to their inside sales force. (Or Well guess what, inside sales is not and should not be approached in the same way as outside sales. Key Takeaway: Monitor lead flow to maximize inside sales selling time.

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Is Your Lead Generation Data Leading You Astray?

No More Cold Calling

Whether you’re inside or outside sales, a sales rep, a sales leader, or a business owner, it’s getting tougher and tougher to reach decision-makers, bypass the gatekeeper , and differentiate your organization from the competition. If an analysis doesn’t feel right, it’s probably not. And therein lies the problem.