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In-House vs. Outsourced Sales: A Case for NOT Hiring SDRs

Sales Hacker

The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. As a high-growth SMB, your number-one focus is consistent sales. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation. Let’s use the Sales Development Rep (SDR) role as an example. Software costs.

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6 key lessons on how B2B SaaS startups can succeed in hyper-competitive markets

Close.io

Even worse, they were sold to upper management who had very different needs than the actual sales reps who would be using them (such as forecasting and reporting). Up until that point we had been running an outsourced sales team for startups and Close.io was our internal tool. was our internal tool. When Close.io

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The Ultimate List of Tasks and Projects for Outsourcing

Hubspot Sales

Because of that, outsourcing is an increasingly relied upon tool for small or overworked teams who need help with tasks like booking meetings, replying to emails, and arranging travel. Think you might need to outsource some projects? This list of best sales tools for small businesses can help too. Meeting minutes.