Pointclear

JULY 17, 2013

Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales? Or just go with inside sales? When you step out in the year 2015, and the landscape may look quite different. The following trends indicate that field sales teams are becoming extinct. Good question.

Field Sales 245

Field Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 245

Nutshell

AUGUST 24, 2018

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. That number is naturally higher for those in inside sales.

Outside Sales 91

Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 91

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

Field sales has been dying for years. The modern salesperson still feels that the field is their rightful place of battle. 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. Inside Sales.

Inside Sales 117

Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 117

HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Average New Deal Size The average new deal size reported for field sales was $166,000 and new deal size for inside sales was $19,000. Twenty-four percent of inside sales cycles and twenty-three percent of outside sales cycles were between sixty-one and ninety days in length.   12.

Telecommunications 126

Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

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.”.

Outside Sales 147

Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

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.”

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Cold Calling 130

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

Sales drones are an amusing but eerie concept to me. Robots could suddenly be everywhere eliminating field sales. Search engines like Wolfram Alpha become so smart they can fully educate the prospect so they go 100% of the way through the sales process before ever needing to talk to a human. No humans needed???!!!

Hiring 68

Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68