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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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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. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

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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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Sales Training is a “Process” not an Event

ROI4Sales

We don’t say that reps are “sales trained” – for all you English majors – we use the present participle form and refer to it as “sales training.” And for a good reason: sales training must be a continuous process if you are going to be successful in today’s B2B sales environment. Sound familiar?

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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. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?

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Study: Is Your Team Prepared for the Coming Wave of Sales Tech Innovation?

Velocify

A wave of new sales technologies is providing businesses unprecedented choice in building out their ideal sales stack. As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Or you might be new to sales management and you want to be the cool leader by collaborating with your new reports. Brewing your coffee at home, which was the norm in 1971, costs (in 2017 dollars) about $0.08/cup2