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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. Your competitors are.

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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. Step into my time machine.

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Are your Customers Outpacing your Sales Team?

SBI Growth

This is true whether your organization is comprised mainly of outside or inside sales. Agile Sales – embrace the agile movement. They are increasing the size of their centralized inside sales force. They are also embracing the fact that outside resources spend most of their time inside.

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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

Pointclear

Concluding Thoughts: Consumerized B2B Software & the Resurgence of Field Sales. He again mentions Box and Zendesk that are creating essentially consumerized enterprise software by first building an install base of individual users, and then bringing in the sales team. Craig’s Blog: www.funnelholic.com. Stay Tuned.

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Stitch the Sales and Marketing Organization Together

SBI Growth

Field Sales has seen a resource shift from outside to inside sales. Sales relies more than ever on marketing to engage the buyer early in the process. All this requires seamless coordination between sales and marketing leadership, field sales, and strategy.

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Inside Sales Growth Beyond CRM

Velocify

According to a 2012 Bridge Group study [1] , from 2009-2011 the number of inside sales jobs grew 124% in the U.S. This evolution means an increasingly mature buying market that is driving new CRM-related needs for sales and marketing teams. The bottom line, process is critical for inside sales teams. Productivity.

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The 11th Question to Ask Before Buying a Marketing Automation Solution

Pointclear

on the Marketing Automation Software Guide blog. Lauren’s article is based on her survey of marketing automation users that sought—knowing what they know now—the questions they would ask vendors if they were going back and buying their software all over again.