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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

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. Sales used to be something that happened "out there" — in the field. Fifty years ago, when the modern sales function evolved, customers were "out there."

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Why Sales AI Won’t Replace Reps Anytime Soon

No More Cold Calling

For those of us who sell solutions, our jobs will increase by 10 percent, according to a 2015 report by Forrester. When Forrester conducted the same research two years later, in 2017 , they predicted that “upskilled inside sales will play an even greater role in all phases of SMB and enterprise sales than initially predicted in 2015.”.

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12 Sales Metrics that Matter Most-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

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.

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Blast Off of the Sales Tech Stack: An Interview with Holger Schulze

DiscoverOrg Sales

Check out the results of the 2015 B2B Lead Generation Trends Report, which was produced by Holger Schulze’s B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn. How do you see Sales Tech changing as an industry? Sales has been a late adopter of this automation trend; however, that’s changing and fast.

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Discovery, Demo, or Disconnect?

DiscoverOrg Sales

The Theory: A robust client pain profile, combined with one or more trigger events, may lead to an increase in close rates, and higher retention rates, than an incomplete discovery and generic or rushed demo. Due to increased use of automated outbound solicitations, building trust is emerging as a key differentiator for inside sales.

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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

I spent 13 years in massage therapy, which included running my own business, before I moved to sales. Ashleigh Early focuses on helping companies and sales professionals achieve sustainable growth by emphasizing empathy and humanity through science. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? Alicia Berruti.

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