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Inside vs. Outside Sales: How to Structure a Sales Team for Success

Hubspot Sales

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. What's the difference between inside and outside sales?

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. Sales processes that were easy to instrument were already trending toward being more data-driven.

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TSE 1303: How to Network Your Way into Value

Sales Evangelist

Curt Tueffert is the Vice President of sales development for a large industrial distributor in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1908 is now a multinational publicly traded company with over 200 outside sales. Greg is the person you talk to in the organization and he’s in purchasing, maintenance or the engineer.

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What Is the Real ROI of a Customer?

SugarCRM

And while word-of-mouth marketing isn’t a new concept, it has a much more significant impact in the age of social media. Imagine the influencers in your industry, the people with a successful blog and an extensive social media following. They improve recruiting efforts, public relations and even serve as outside sales reps.

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The New Era Of The Cold Call

Jonathan Farrington

4 Inbound marketing techniques such as strategic search engine optimization, blogging to build thought leadership positioning and the prolific use?of of social media tools allow sales executives to target relevant prospects who can learn about products and services on their terms.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Social Media (2543). Sales Process (1775). Media (2930). Engineering (791). MORE >> THE SALES INSIDER AUGUST 13, 2013 What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics and Shakespeare have more in common than you think.

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Quantifying Sales & Marketing Maturity

OutboundView

Vanity metrics such as number of social media followers, total pipeline, and random conversion ratios are regularly referenced – but without salesother types of surrounding data those metrics are pretty irrelevant. For example, you may have a lot of social media followers but what if there is little to no engagement?