Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Author: TIM RIESTERER, CHIEF STRATEGY AND RESEARCH OFFICER, CORPORATE VISIONS In our last column in this space, we recalled the Bell phone system’s catchy commercial slogan, “Long distance. million sales professionals in the country, more than 47 percent were inside salespeople. What there isn’t much of is research?—?until

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

By 2025 0 % of B2B sales interactions will happen via digital channels When it comes to inside sales, you may have questions like: What is inside sales? How is it different from outside sales? What is inside sales? There’s no doubt you’ve heard the term “inside sales.” What do these teams do?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Salespeople say that a change in the sales field that has had the biggest impact on their role is that selling has become more focused on presenting a solution than pitching a product or service. They prefer to gather information themselves before speaking to a human when researching a brand or product. Why the change?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2020

Considering their increasing prevalence and tremendous utility, B2B inside sales are certainly worth understanding and exploring. Here, I'll offer some general context on the concept and take some time to distinguish it from its more traditional counterpart — B2B outside sales. B2B Inside Sales.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

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 outside sales?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Research the Market: Brutus starts by researching the market. He leverages 3 rd party research companies like Kennedy Research, Gartner, Forrester, and others to understand the external view of the marketplace, the competitors, and the trends. How does he do it? 2 – Build a Lead Generation Team. Make Bold Recommendations.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about inside sales, from team structures and salaries right through to inside sales processes and models.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2021

Sales development reps (also known as business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first step in the sales funnel: bringing in qualified leads. They conduct research to find prospective customers, reach out to gauge people's interest in the offering, and decide whether or not the lead is ready to move down the funnel.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This will transform the messaging, content and interactions driven by your marketing department and challenge companies to shift their expectations for when something converts to a sales lead. Recent research shows this can actually backfire when it comes to keeping and growing existing business. All selling is inside selling.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Sometimes fitting in just means shifting circumstances — and that principle applies to different brands of sales. Sometimes sales professionals currently working outside sales aren't cut out for it. Outside sales is a different game, so you need to embrace some different rules if you want to make a seamless transition.

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SalesHandy

MAY 6, 2021

What is Inside Sales? Inside sales is the process of prospecting, qualifying, nurturing and closing sales deals remotely. In a way, it’s the exact opposite of field sales or outside sales. Field sales deals in communicating with and closing the prospects on the field, face-to-face.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To answer this question, let’s start with some data: According to the latest HubSpot Research Study , we found that 40% of businesses will miss revenue targets this year. That has led to a progressive trend for sales models: next year, 68% of sales leaders say they plan to keep or implement a hybrid or fully remote sales model.

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SBI

JUNE 13, 2019

The purpose of this report is to better understand the unique challenges field sales reps and managers are facing in today’s selling climate and how companies are responding. Through a 3rd-party research firm, SPOTIO conducted a sales survey to provide sales leaders and reps key insights to uncover inefficiencies in their sales process.

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Repsly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Research shows that a face-to-face request is 34 times more effective than one made via email. Field sales representatives understand the value of in-person interactions, as they spend most of their workdays on the road meeting with clients and prospects. This article orginally appeared on the OpenView blog.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sales Operations is responsible for creating that winning environment. Performance culture is studied in depth in our 2014 Research Tour. 80% of its sales team was outside sales reps. Sign up for the Research Tour for a more in depth conversation on this topic. Resource Allocation. Hire slow and fire fast.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The rise of remote selling has blurred the line between inside sales and outside sales. This model is more cost-effective and scalable than outside sales. . What Is Outside Sales? Outside reps also attend industry events to present live demonstrations and connect with potential prospects.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

Research shows the quality of the creative is a distant #2 in influencing outcome. This strategy also extended to outside sales. We encouraged the sales reps to flood the industry with the competitors offer (a Gartner white paper). Click metrics are presented by the marketing team without much dialogue about the Offer.

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Women Sales Pros

APRIL 19, 2019

And clarity regarding role, expectations and decision authority levels enable inside sales, outside sales, account management and enablement to work more collaboratively and communicate much more effectively. Use a sales-specific assessment tool to vet candidates based on role definition. Inside sales is an example.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 1, 2019

Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales. So, how do sales teams sell? Some use an inside sales approach, where their sales team works remotely from an office -- their processes tend to be leaner and more automated. Marketing and Sales. So, where can salespeople source leads and prospects?

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Researchers acknowledge that organic growth is hard to come by, so rewarding reps for consistent, month-over-month growth can be a tremendous challenge. For an outside route-sales-driver, that might be three to six weeks. For an outside sales rep, it might be three months.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 4, 2013

If you are in outside sales, the number of targeted events you attend (events where your customers and prospects are). These examples stand out because if you do some of these things above, you will work toward finding and closing qualified sales opportunities.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 6, 2021

In this Expert Insight Interview, David Dulany discusses his book The Sales Development Framework: How to Build and Scale a Highly Productive Sales Development Program. David Dulany is the founder of Tenbound, a research and advisory firm 100% focused on and dedicated to sales development. Finding the Right Person.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 27, 2013

What greater alignment is needed between Sales and Marketing? How should we structure for a multi-national/multi-cultural sales force? Do we even need an outside sales force? What impacts would dropping field sales have? What components of sales, if improved, will drive the greatest success? (Or

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Score More Sales

APRIL 11, 2014

The state of the profession known as Inside Sales – or Remote Professional Selling – is thriving. While outside sales positions are on the decline, Inside Sales positions are growing at a phenomenal rate.

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SBI

MARCH 1, 2021

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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The Brooks Group

MAY 5, 2020

A recent Harvard Business Review article cited four things that sales organizations will need to do in the short term to adapt to the crisis. Sellers, say the Harvard researchers, should meet this uncertainty with a flexible posture — helping with extended payment terms and contingency plans if necessary.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 19, 2018

Whether it’s inside or outside sales reps, one thing is clear: virtual sales calls are a big deal. There are many opinions, but not much actual research—until now. Our new report , produced in partnership with InsideSales.com , covers that research and all its implications for your virtual conversations.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 1, 2019

And clarity regarding role, expectations and decision authority levels enable inside sales, outside sales, account management and enablement to work more collaboratively and communicate much more effectively. Use a sales-specific assessment tool to vet candidates based on role definition. Inside sales is an example.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If the current sales reps have only received product training without formal sales training, bringing in an outside sales trainer with a proven track record and experience is a valid option. Another reason to partner with a sales training company is when your team is scaling and you need to get reps up to speed quickly.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2022

Tyre says, "He researched everything to explicit detail. He says, "When I previously worked in outside sales, I had a target account I had been working with for a while, and after getting to know the main POC, I learned they had quite the sweet tooth and enjoyed donuts.". "I personally set up equipment at a client's house.".

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Crunchbase

JUNE 30, 2021

A successful sales process needs to be clearly defined, measurable, adaptable, and customer-centric. When sales reps make contact with a prospect, they have done their research on the company’s background. In the 1990s and early 2000s, door-to-door sales and outside sales representatives dominated the industry.

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OutboundView

MARCH 31, 2021

Inside sales is a dominant sales model in high-value SaaS, tech, and B2B industries. It involves handling sales remotely where reps mostly work inside an office or in a shared office environment, unlike outside sales reps who are traditional field reps that travel to meet clients.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2018

Email and social selling have become popular methods of sales communication, however successful SDR’s don’t discount phone calls as an effective way to reach targets. This research shows using the phone is slightly more popular than using email (37.2 SDRs viewed LinkedIn as a research tool more than anything else (64%).

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Nonetheless, the data shows, it’s nowhere pervasively and in my opinion, there is no turning back the clock now as the way of the future for sales organizations. Experts, however, predict that even after COVID, the future of sales will be different. Sales professionals won’t be working from home all the time.

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Gong.io

MARCH 19, 2020

Prospects use the first few minutes of a sales presentation to decide whether to pay attention or not. Our research shows successful demos are most commonly conducted in an “upside down pyramid” manner from most important to least important. #2 Bob Spina, VP of Sales, Strategic Accounts at Gong. #3 Don’t always ask for an hour.

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