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What is Inside Sales? A Complete Overview

Mindtickle

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. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of B2B sales interactions will occur via digital channels. How is it different from outside sales?

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16 Top Sales Conferences You Should Attend in 2017 & 2018

Hubspot Sales

So we’ve compiled a list (in chronological order) of the top sales conferences you should attend in 2017 and 2018. The Best Sales Conferences. Digital Sales Engine. Sales Acceleration Technology Summit. AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. Sandler Sales & Leadership Summit. TOPO Sales Summit.

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Sales Events to Look Forward to in 2017

SalesLoft

From new advances in product and technology, to exciting sales events on the horizon, 2017 is sure to be abuzz with innovation, collaboration, and thought-leadership across the board. Here are the some of the sales events where you can find us in the new year: SaaStr. – Lars Nilsson, VP Global Inside Sales at Cloudera.

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Why Sales AI Won’t Replace Reps Anytime Soon

No More Cold Calling

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.”. Because sales AI doesn’t have human emotions.

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15 best cold calling books to take your sales team to new levels

Close.io

Whether you’re a sales professional that likes reading or doesn’t, you’ll find fresh frameworks and tons of insights in the book. Who should read this : Inside sales reps will find a lot of high-value advice for smarter cold calling and actionable techniques for tackling specific sales challenges. Author : David J.P.

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4 Pieces of Advice From Modern Sales Leaders

LevelEleven

Joy Spellman is a Field Sales Development Manager at Hewlett-Packard where she has worked since 2012. She started as an Inside Sales Account Manager, moving on to the Inside Sales District Manager before she got to where she is today. Dan Miller-Smith is the Vice President of Sales at Procore Technologies.

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Is It Time for B2B Sales Teams to Ignore Speed-to-Lead?

Chili Piper

Facebook was still your favorite social network (unless you were cool and an early adopter of Instagram) and no one knew who Evan Spiegel was. In a study of the top 100 SaaS companies , Drift discovered the number of mandatory fields are rising on demo request forms “from an average of 6 mandatory fields in 2017 to an average of 7 in 2018.”.