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What is Inside Sales? The Definition of Modern-Day Selling

OutboundView

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps. Short History.

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How to Optimize Your Cold Calling Strategy

Janek Performance Group

A sales manager recently asked, “Is cold calling effective?” My answer was not an attempt to be glib or elusive, but rather a factual observation from working with hundreds of sales teams. There are sales teams who find cold calling effective, while there are others who think it is useless. I replied, “Sometimes.”

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Direct Dials: More than Meets the Eye

DiscoverOrg Sales

A lot of people don’t dig very deep into the possibilities of direct contact information – but in today’s whiteboard session, you’ll see the real impact on your sales team. Well, our team had a lot of success – so much so that the founder was able to sell the business to investor partners.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

PandaDoc

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.

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How to Transition from SMB to Enterprise: Tips from 3 Experts

Sales Hacker

What happens when a Global Head of Sales, an Inside Sales Director, and an Account Executive walk into a bar? They sit around a table and share actionable insights about their company’s transition from SMB to enterprise sales. . Why they restructured their B2B sales team into three key verticals. Mid-market.

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Inbound or outbound sales—which one should you focus on?

Close.io

Wondering what the right sales approach for your company is? Should you build an inbound sales machine, set up an outbound sales team, or take a hybrid approach? Inbound sales is famous for being able to attract customers to any business, be cost effective, and scale really well. Need to jump ahead?

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The 3 Mistakes Every Company Makes Building the Outbound Sales Model

Openview

Salesforce was one of the first out of the gate with an inside model. Marc Benioff and his team demonstrated a consistent ability to scale with an outbound sales team in those early years. And with that, modern inside sales was born. We can sell to anyone. We don’t want to turn people away”.