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For LinkedIn holdouts – 30 Day Action Challenge

Score More Sales

Your profile can serve as inbound marketing for you – in other words, the key words and phrases you use in your profile are all searchable. It is a simple way to learn more about your target markets and about specific individuals in those markets. Top Mistakes Using LinkedIn for Sales. set up advanced searches.

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Inside sales – it is a new dawn and sales training needs to shine

Sales Training Connection

Inside salespeople are no longer just engaged in small commodity type sales or as backup for completing the secondary tasks of the outside sales group. As Steve Martin pointed out in an HBR blog companies are increasingly creating inside sales groups who are independently handling accounts in the mid-market.

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12 Sales Metrics that Matter Most-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

Sales Cycle Length Seventy percent reported an average sales cycle length of sixty days or less for inside sales while fifty-four percent reported an average sales cycle length of ninety days or more for outside sales.

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Top 4 Questions, 2 Words of Advice about Sales CRM

Understanding the Sales Force

At first glance, you might not think that IT has much of an impact on sales and you would be correct. Let''s take a stutter step and use Application Engineers as an example. When AE''s are introduced into the sales process, many of them want to take over. EO AUSTIN TX - How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Close More Sales.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? An example might be an analysis or testing process.

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Why is Selling Going Inside?

Jonathan Farrington

Trend data reveal that sales organizations are shifting resources from outside to inside sales. Inside sales growth is 30% faster than their outside sales counterparts. The number of Inside Sales departments is projected to grow from 800,000, in 2009, to over 2 million in 2013.”.

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Coming Next – The Almost Indecent Haste to Get Inside

Jonathan Farrington

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?”. The remaining 10-20% external sales professionals that are left will become far more sophisticated – they will have to in order to survive.