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Hiring a Sales Manager - External or Internal?

SBI Growth

"Should we hire an external Sales Manager or promote from within?". Open Sales Management positions are bad for sales organizations. Having the wrong Sales Manager (SM) is worse. This post helps you decide between hiring an internal or external Sales Manager. It depends. Next Steps.

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Youth, Lead Quality, Social Selling, Inside Sales and Outbound Marketing

Pointclear

The interviews are available on our blog and YouTube channel. Nick Stein, Vision Critical, Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. Dave, a former sales rep, sales manager, VP of sales, competitive sales strategist, consultant, and sales trainer, has worked in 26 countries—with companies from the Fortune 10 to start-ups.

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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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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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Why Marketing Should Own Inside Sales (and why they shouldn’t)

A Sales Guy

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Little/no sales management experience.

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The Ultimate Guide to Channel Sales

Hubspot Sales

What is channel sales? In a channel sales model, a company sells through third partners -- affiliate partners (who get commission on each purchase), resellers, value-added providers (who typically bundle your product with their own), or another entity that doesn't work for it directly. The Definition of Channel Sales.

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Are You Solving The Wrong Problem?

SBI Growth

Should I replace my bottom 2 Managers? Should I invest more in Inside Sales because they are less expensive or will my customers reject the notion of a virtual resource? Sequencing is defined here as applying order to sales improvement initiatives. If I promote two A player reps what does that do to my field productivity?

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