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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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3 Key Insights Management Can Learn from an Inside Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Teaser: In my 20-plus years of managing inside sales teams, I am still amazed at the amount of critical information they can provide to management. Managers who understand the value of the up-to-date information that inside sales teams can provide are often rewarded with professional success and significant incentive payouts.

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How to Optimize Inside Sales Territories

SBI Growth

96% of organizations are increasing or maintaining their investment in inside sales last year. It is a good bet your SVP of Sales is implementing, expanding or considering an inside sales team right now. Are you prepared to optimize the investment in inside sales? (To Identify Market Opportunity.

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B2B Inside Sales Vs Outside Sales | With Pros and Cons

SendBuzz

Are you unsure which sales team to focus on to drive your business’s sales? B2B Inside sales? Or Outside sales? Well, deciding between inside sales and outside sales can be tricky for businesses. So, read on to discover which sales strategy is the most suitable for your company’s growth.

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AI and Inside Sales: 3 Things You Need to Know Now

Mr. Inside Sales

Here’s a quote from Lynne Zaledonis – SVP, Product Marketing, Sales Cloud, Salesforce: “When you sell into a company, you have to go back and read through all of the past deals that were lost or won — and there are typically a lot of them. AI helps you to have any or all of that information at your fingertips — and to analyze it.

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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

It’s time to face this new reality and reengineer our sales environments to exploit the spoils of it! Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. Sales used to be something that happened "out there" — in the field. Fifty years ago, when the modern sales function evolved, customers were "out there."

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Inside Sales Guide: Steps, Strategies & Benefits

SalesHandy

B2B sales can be complex and confusing with many different processes, practices and models it’s made up of. Inside sales is one such model. With more than 50% of new B2B sales jobs being inside sales roles, it’s no longer a niche operating model. What is Inside Sales? Sales cycle times.