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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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What is Inside Sales (And Why Do You Need It?)

DialSource

At this point, there is no more discussion about inside sales vs outside sales and which is more optimal in terms of a company’s growth strategy. . Based on the 2020 pandemic and corresponding lockdown measures, overnight, everyone was transformed into an inside sales or digital selling role.

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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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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.

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Bubble in the Funnel

Pointclear

These air bubbles can travel to your brain, heart, or lungs and cause a heart attack, stroke, or respiratory failure. 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. 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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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Brewing your coffee at home, which was the norm in 1971, costs (in 2017 dollars) about $0.08/cup2 Scott Jeffrey, PhD, was in graduate school at the University of Chicago when he decided to figure out how academic studies applied to real sales reps in the field. At the top of the list of what motivates is travel. Register here.