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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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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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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Trends that are here to stay.

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29 Critical Sales Compensation Benchmarks & Statistics for 2022

The Spiff Blog

And The Bridge Group, an inside sales consulting firm, calculated the average base salary for a SaaS inside sales rep to be $60,000 — with on-target earnings of $118,000 ( source ). 64% of organizations reported correct quota setting as the major challenge for their sales compensation program in 2017 ( source ).

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Bubble in the Funnel

Pointclear

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. No more support in 2017. They’ll miss their numbers again in 2017. The #1 sales execution issue reported by sales execs is the lack of highly qualified sales leads. Their “reward”?

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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. Outside or inside sales? It’s all sales.

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Responding to the Dig?tal Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Trends that are here to stay.