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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. Number of qualified appointments or demos that you set up.

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The Silver Bullet for Sales Ops to Drive Revenue and Lower Costs

SBI Growth

That’s because these examples represent sales processes that are typically more complex. If you think your products or services are too complex for Inside Sales, think again. Inside Sales within the US has grown 24% since 2011. 71% of all companies surveyed in 2012 stated they will expand inside sales in the next year.

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The Rush to Get Inside

Pointclear

As 2011 meandered to an uneventful close, with no sign of a significant upturn in global economic conditions, we reflected on a year of flat-line results, during which 54% of frontline sales professionals missed quota. I appreciate that takes in so many products that in the past have been sold traditionally, for example, I.T.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. Sales processes that were easy to instrument were already trending toward being more data-driven.

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The Importance Of “Cross Training” For Sales

Partners in Excellence

The Euro 2012 Finals in Soccer, Wimbledon, the Tour de France, and the summer Olympics–just to mention a few. Top sales professionals cross train. For example if they sell within the financial services industry, they train and learn about banking, brokerage, securities, insurance. They train in business concepts.

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Coming Next – The Almost Indecent Haste to Get Inside

Jonathan Farrington

Next year, I anticipate we will see a reduction in external sales positions of around 20%: 10% will be lost for good, and the other 10% will move inside. Why do we need an expensive outside sales force, with all of the huge financial investment that is required, when the task can be handled far more efficiently – and more profitably?”.

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Jonathan Farrington's Blog ? Selling Is Going Inside ? Isn't It? Time.

Jonathan Farrington

Trend data reveal that sales organizations are shifting resources from outside to inside sales. Inside sales growth is 30% faster than their outside sales counterparts. The number of Inside Sales departments is projected to grow from 800,000, in 2009, to over 2 million in 2013.”. Time for a Debate!