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The Difference Between Inside and Outside Sales, Explained 

Crunchbase

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

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13 Signs Your Sales Turnover May Get Worse

SBI Growth

Increasing number of vacant Sales Rep positions. This means some territories are not producing to expected or potential revenues. If the virtual bench quality has gotten worse, the reputation may be out - a reputation that your company’s sales organization is dying. Sales cost is not growing. This one is obvious.

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Optimizing Part Of The Selling Function, Sub-Optimizing The Whole

Partners in Excellence

I read an article in which the position was put forth, “Inside sales does not have the responsibility for creating pipeline, only the responsibility for selling. Enter the realm of account management/territory. Organizations solve this by creating hybrid/overlay sales organizations.

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The Ins & Outs of Variable Pay Compensation Structure for Sales Teams

Sales Hacker

of the company should be the sum of their parts (organic + sales + account management + marketing), and everything should add up. The sales leader’s goal should be the sum of all the AEs’ goals (less sum buffer for potential attrition or hiring challenges). Deals qualified – good for inside reps passing deals.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? How does the structure of the sales team change with the move?

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Whale Hunting Part I - The Rate of Decay

Tony Hughes

I've opined ad nauseam about the power of content marketing to create an octopus's garden to attract whales and that's an ongoing Challenge endeavor that Marketing and B2B salespeople should undertake together but that does not forego, the proactive whale hunting mentality each day. Reinvigorated by this article? I certainly am.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Metrics: What to Track, How to Track It, & Why

Hubspot Sales

Sales leaders can’t use their intuition to guide their decisions — not only are they dealing with a huge amount of information, but the risk of failure is high. That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Sales Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).