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Are Inside Sales and Consultative Selling Mutually Exclusive?

Understanding the Sales Force

It''s important to separate inside sales into its 5 most common forms: As a replacement for traditional outside sales. They are quota carrying salespeople responsible for the entire sales cycle but doing it from the comfort of a desk. Inside salespeople have been trained to do one thing well, not multiple things.

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Inside sales – it is a new dawn and sales training needs to shine

Sales Training Connection

Inside salespeople are no longer just engaged in small commodity type sales or as backup for completing the secondary tasks of the outside sales group. As Steve Martin pointed out in an HBR blog companies are increasingly creating inside sales groups who are independently handling accounts in the mid-market.

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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 Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Last week I led our annual Sales Leadership intensive and hosted the best group of sales leaders to ever attend the event. Chad Burmeister , who is well known throughout the inside sales community, was one of the attendees. Today, that has increased by 150%.

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Creating the Ideal Performance Culture

SBI Growth

80% of its sales team was outside sales reps. The Sales Operations team moved to reorganize the group. Continually develop and train on new strategies. The following insights are a primer for this in depth conversation. Resource Allocation. An electronics manufacturer was seeing declining revenue per head.

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The State of Field Sales in 2020 (Plus Outside Sales Statistics)

Sales Hacker

Today, companies of all shapes and sizes still lack the technology needed to support their outside sales teams effectively. This article will cover inside vs. outside sales CRMs; the biggest challenges for outside sales reps, their leaders, and managers; time management; quota attainment; and outside sales technology.

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Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

Score More Sales

If you are in outside sales, the number of targeted events you attend (events where your customers and prospects are). These examples stand out because if you do some of these things above, you will work toward finding and closing qualified sales opportunities. So, what are your activity goals for you or your group?