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2017’s Top 4 Sales Trends

Sales and Marketing Management

Surely you heard some variation of that directive during 2017 sales kickoff season. Through constant innovation, companies test, shift and change their approaches to sales, with the ongoing mission of accomplishing those twin goals. There’s a huge opportunity to increase efficiency for the sales organization in 2017.

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What is Inside Sales? A Complete Overview

Mindtickle

Meeting buyer expectations and preferences While in-person sales were once the default, many B2B buyers prefer to engage with sellers remotely. Consider that in 2017, 20% of industrial companies preferred digital interactions and purchases. In other words, an inside sales strategy positions you to grow sales while decreasing costs.

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B2B ABM: Seven Sales & Marketing Tips for 2017 - Tip #5: Should You Buy Real Leads or Appearances?

Pointclear

The reality is, few of your field sales people are great cold-call presenters and when put in this situation, they’re not being utilized effectively. If they prepare the audience right, their visit is like a discussion with a new friend. If they have to go in cold, all of the focus is on the presentation.

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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

Simply put, highly effective frontline sales managers drive growth; ineffective managers hinder growth. Unfortunately, in many organizations frontline sales management leans more toward the “ineffective” side of the scale. More than four in 10 sales managers lack the data/metrics to manage their sales reps effectively. .

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

Hubspot Sales

It depends on what stage of development your company is in and what sales model you’re using. InsideSales.com analysis shows large organizations (revenue > $500M) are currently dominated by field sales reps (71.2%). However, we expect this number to decrease as more organizations adopt a hybrid or inside sales model.

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Slack Bots, Artificial Intelligence

Pipeliner

So will you lose your job in 2017? Not if you master the following whiz-bang platforms: Man the photon torpedos and tune your dilithium crystals because sales 3.0 AI is steadily creeping into sales assistants that loop into Slack Bots to sync to Salesforce like Troops.ai. What we need is some good old-fashioned sales training.