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Why Inbound and Inside Sales Experts Think Sales Process is Dead Too

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Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." That search turned up these articles on the first page of results: So who wrote all of these articles? The Death of All Selling Forever April 25 2014.

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Is There a Lack of Clarity on the Current State of Selling?

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Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote this article questioning the Death of SPIN Selling. Over the years I have questioned the impending death of other important areas like cold-calling, selling, sales process, salespeople and more. Others are from the big new inside sales industry.

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One Thing Missing from The New Way of Selling - Part 2

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Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I read an article that was very consistent with what I was complaining about last week when I wrote The One Thing Missing From the New Way of Selling. I have tremendous respect for the article''s author, Mark Roberge , who has built a great sales force over at Hubspot.

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Midsize Business Optimistic

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Expand market niche (70%). So says the study done by The Hartford, in September of this year, called the 2014 Midsize Business Monitor. When it comes to innovation (one of my interests within growing companies), it was interesting to see these statistics among the participant mid-market companies: 53% use cloud computing.

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How Is Cloud Computing Helping Productivity

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Forbes ran an article about selecting cloud computing vendors – it helps explain more about the questions you need to know to get the computing you require. ( [link] ). There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. So are you more productive?

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Global Warming, Social Selling and The Sales Force of Tomorrow

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For example, you only need to read this article and the links within it to get a sense for how strong the opinions are and how much passion is driving those opinions. Social selling experts use data from the marketing, inbound and inside sales groups with whom they work. In my opinion, the challenge is the data iself.

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Sales productivity – it’s the time, stupid

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They purchase CRM systems and commit time to working with Marketing to achieve better coordination. We suggest there is one additional often under used yet effective and affordable strategy – get serious about freeing up the sales team so they have more time for selling. ©2014 Sales Momentum LLC. . Adding Channels.