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The Rush to Get Inside

Pointclear

As 2011 meandered to an uneventful close, with no sign of a significant upturn in global economic conditions, we reflected on a year of flat-line results, during which 54% of frontline sales professionals missed quota. equipment, software, financial products, motor vehicles, clothes, food, etc.

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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. And StorySlab is an end-to-end solution for outside selling.

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Six Key Principles To Managing Remote Sales Teams

Crunchbase

The solution required a distributed and remote sales force, with reps living in central locations so they could cover multiple countries and languages. Tactically, our team was composed of both inside and outside sales reps and, more strategically, we made sure we stayed close as a team, connecting virtually on an almost daily basis. .

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Jonathan Farrington's Blog ? In Sales? Best Get Inside Before it.

Jonathan Farrington

This week we have been examining the current state of play within the sales space – well at least I have - and hopefully you have been reading the words and understanding the philosophy! (Do 2 Responses to “In Sales? ” # Dave Stein on 18 Jan 2012 at 4:27 pm. They moved their outside reps inside.

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Coming Next – The Almost Indecent Haste to Get Inside

Jonathan Farrington

Next year, I anticipate we will see a reduction in external sales positions of around 20%: 10% will be lost for good, and the other 10% will move inside. Why do we need an expensive outside sales force, with all of the huge financial investment that is required, when the task can be handled far more efficiently – and more profitably?”.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Sales Management (2614). Software (1035). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). 2012 (9049). Marketing (6398). Training (4995). Prospecting (4539). Tools (2872). Customer Service (995). Channels (799). Advertising (694). Selling Skills (528). Incentives (379). Demand Generation (181). Customer (6670).

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Everything you ever wanted to know about MEDDIC & MEDDPICC and never dared ask.

MEDDIC

Steve : This is Outside Sales Talk, the best podcast for Outside Salespeople. I’m your host, Steve Benson, and we’re here to chat with the world’s top sales experts so that you can get their best sales tactics to level up your game. Welcome back to Outside Sales Talk today.