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Your Customers Are Telling You to Reconsider Inside Sales

SBI Growth

Many companies investigated Inside Sales a few years ago and decided their product or service was too complicated or specialized to sell without an expensive direct sales force. Here’s why: In almost 75% of sales situations, your Customer would prefer not to spend time meeting face to face. Change invites disruption.

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Is This an Example of Succeeding or Failing at Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

The salesperson was from Oracle and wanted to know if I was aware of and had seen their CRM software demonstrated. His response was that he was from inside sales. In other words, "I''m not supposed to figure out what you''re trying to explain to me - I''m an inside salesperson!". and he thanked me for his time.

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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? The following trends indicate that field sales teams are becoming extinct. Here’s why: Inside sales teams continue to grow at 15% each year. Good question.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up on Leads?

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Inside Sales Power Tip 113 – Energy

Score More Sales

Too much is when someone sounds hyped up on more caffeine than a human should be allowed. It comes through when you follow-up, and when you summarize the conversation – sending them notes in an email after talking. Lucy works for a software-as-a-service company. Energy is follow-up. Gee, thanks.

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Edgy Conversations for Inside Sales – Interview with Dan Waldschmidt

Score More Sales

I had the pleasure to interview international business expert Dan Waldschmidt about his new book and about the idea of being edgy as opposed to what I was told to be growing up. ” Having people like Dan in my life help counteract that little voice that pops up for me regularly. Just go with the flow.” Expand Your Pipeline.

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Change With Your Customers, Not The Competition

SBI Growth

Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. They follow the new products. Consider the following two scenarios. Both are cases where the VP of Sales was blindsided by an evolving customer landscape. They used a field sales force model with 10 Field Reps and 3 Solutions Engineers. Each “Win” took 2.4