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Inside vs. Outside Sales: How to Structure a Sales Team for Success

Hubspot Sales

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. What's the difference between inside and outside sales?

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What is Inside Sales? A Complete Overview

Mindtickle

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. What do these teams do?

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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

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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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Six

The Spiff Blog

Rachel is an experienced content writer/marketer, specializing exclusively in B2B SaaS for the past 4 years. She’s also an unapologetic B2B content nerd who *strongly* disagrees that B2C should have all the fun — one of her favorite pieces she got to write was a lead nurture guide styled after an IKEA manual.

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Best Sales Podcasts: An Ultimate List of 100+ Must-Listens

LeadFuze

The site is well-organized with an alphabetical topics list with dozens of tags from B2B sales to time management. 8 Outside Sales Talk. The Outside Sales Talk sales podcasts interviews sales experts, thought leaders, authors, speakers, and trainers. 30 B2B Revenue Leadership.

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Remote Selling Made Simple: 5 Practical Tips for a Successful Organization

Vengreso

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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22 Things We Learned About the Sales Industry in 2017

Hubspot Sales

Our research showed the ideal sales organization structure includes an equal mix of inside sales representatives and outside sales professionals (50/50). Inside Sales Is an Unstoppable Trend. Forty-seven percent of sales professionals were outbound sales professionals in 2017, with 43 percent doing inbound sales.