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12 Sales Metrics that Matter Most-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

Sales Cycle Length Seventy percent reported an average sales cycle length of sixty days or less for inside sales while fifty-four percent reported an average sales cycle length of ninety days or more for outside sales.   CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL SALES ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY REPORT.

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2014 The Year of Execution and Strategy – Why Most Sales Organizations will be Chewed Up and Spit Out

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Last year I predicted that 2013 would be the year of hiring, that sales people would be on the move, freed from the downturn in the economy and feeling safe, I predicted sales people would start looking for new opportunities. Insides sales is growing like mad. I think I was half right. You need to know now.

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Delicious Sales

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