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What is Inside Sales? A Complete Overview

Mindtickle

Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of B2B sales interactions will occur via digital channels. How is it different from outside sales?

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The 33 Best Sales Training Video Channels on YouTube

Hubspot Sales

Whether you and your team need some bite-sized instruction, a full course correction or just a bit of motivation, there’s a wide variety of YouTube sales training channels that can help you. You'll find a short description of each channel as well as a few examples of especially informative or entertaining videos from each.

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Are your Customers Outpacing your Sales Team?

SBI Growth

Right now buyer behavior is outpacing sales organizations. On the other hand, B2C organizations have been driving this change among consumers. They bring their B2C experiences to their jobs. This is true whether your organization is comprised mainly of outside or inside sales. Amazon, Netflix, EBay.

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Is It Time for B2B Sales Teams to Ignore Speed-to-Lead?

Chili Piper

This matters because B2B companies and products (especially SaaS) typically have bigger differentiators between their competitors compared to B2C, which means B2C customers can more easily and quickly find a viable solution somewhere else if not called soon enough.

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Buying Happens In The Absence Of Selling

Partners in Excellence

It’s easy to understand–think of all the ecommerce sites (both B2C and B2B), think of rich electronic trading networks, or even the simple “re-order/re-stock” transactions that happen every day. Likewise, we know the data about how much of customer buying cycles are completed before sales is engaged.

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PODCAST 12: Navigating a Career from a Unicorn to a Public Company

Sales Hacker

Zendesk is a support and ticketing platform primarily used B2C and B2B internal use cases. From consulting to sales engineering. Jaimie Buss: When I first joined Inktomi, I was brought in under the IT organization to help bridge a gap between sales and IT on the applications that sales needed. Inside Sales at VMware.

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Your New 3-Part Framework for Cold Calling with Jason Bay

Sales Hacker

B2B and B2C companies I consulted with didn’t have good inside sales teams. On day one of that sequence, I call the person, I email and I hit them up on a social channel like LinkedIn. If you’re selling to marketers and sales leaders, LinkedIn’s a good channel. Phone and email all the way.