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The Difference Between Inside and Outside Sales, Explained 

Crunchbase

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is outside sales?

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How to transition from outside sales to inside sales

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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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Build a Bold, Data Infused Sales Strategy for 2013

SBI Growth

“Freedom lies in being Bold” – Robert Frost Are you consistently bringing bold sales strategy ideas to the VP of Sales? To be a world class Sales Operations leader, pick up the pace. Quantifying the potential impact for their sales leader. We have a lot of opportunities at software companies right now.

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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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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

Josiane Feigon is President of TeleSmart Communications and author of the business bestseller, Smart Selling on the Phone and Online. To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. We''ve been hearing more and more that inside sales is growing while outside sales dwindles.

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Top 4 Questions, 2 Words of Advice about Sales CRM

Understanding the Sales Force

It''s not so much that we need to teach AE''s how to sell as much as we want to teach them what their role is in the sales process and how to stay out of the way until their expertise is required. Keep the software updated. Get a sales expert in there - we''ll know what to recommend. Back to the Senior IT leaders.

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How to Build a B2B Sales Team Structure

Zoominfo

Yet, so is detail; inside sales practitioners are tasked with creating relationships without face-to-face interaction, thus often aim to give support to potential and current customers throughout the sales process, focusing on the volume of deals (rather than their size). And it’s preferable that they have location-specific knowledge.

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