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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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How Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Last week I led our annual Sales Leadership intensive and hosted the best group of sales leaders to ever attend the event. Chad Burmeister , who is well known throughout the inside sales community, was one of the attendees. That''s code for how old the OMG partner is!

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Sales Skill Development vs. Sales Process Improvement – Which Is Right For Your Business?

Janek Performance Group

Organizations were forced to change their sales process to accommodate their prospect’s new buying journey or suffer the consequences. Traditional sales organizations with outside sales reps had to quickly pivot to new virtual processes. The new sales process required the salespeople to learn new skill sets.

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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

Another part of the process would be adopting the aforementioned inside-out sales function or another hybrid inside-outside sales model. Finding an initial middle ground between field and outside sales will be central to that process. A successful transition won't be abrupt.

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Top 7 Utopian & Dystopian Shocking Sales Predictions

Tony Hughes

Search engines like Wolfram Alpha become so smart they can fully educate the prospect so they go 100% of the way through the sales process before ever needing to talk to a human. It's unclear if ERP firms even understand ERP and it's 2015. Specialization of sales functions transformed it into a bonafide 'profession.'

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Sales dashboard templates, examples & KPIs for high-performing teams

Close.io

Is it used to see real-time information, track trends, or forecast future sales ? Will it be used by outside sales teams who might need a mobile version, or an inside sales team that wants something more personalized and in-depth? Will you display values over a period of time, or among items or groups?