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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”.

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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”

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8 Data-Backed Ways to Boost Performance in a Sales Development Team

Hubspot Sales

census data from 2017 shows the estimated number of professional salespeople in the U.S. million, and about 677,479 of those are sales development reps. This means there’s a ratio of about one sales development rep for every three account executives. Best Tools For a Sales Development Rep. Inbound or Outbound SDR’s?

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Appointment Setting: To Build or to Outsource, That is the Question

OutboundView

Even experienced inside sales reps need sales training, support and coaching , and that includes someone actively managing the team. We regularly see a VP of Sales trying to manage inside sales while also managing a team of outside sales reps. Sales Technology. That rarely works.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. – Lars Nilsson , VP of Global Inside Sales, Cloudera.

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