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What is Inside Sales? A Complete Overview

Mindtickle

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. 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. What is inside sales?

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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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CPQ Perspectives: Sales Management

Cincom Smart Selling

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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4 Ways Companies Are Shifting Their Selling Strategies in the Wake of COVID-19

Showpad

In this way, the company’s sales representatives may receive training no matter where they are while sales managers are able to assess team performance through quizzes, tests and surveys that help identify learning gaps and highlight potential team weaknesses. Pursuing Digital Insights. Supporting Remote Selling.

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How to turn sales analytics data into actionable insights for your sales team

Close.io

The first step toward actionable sales benchmarking is identifying the metrics that matter most to your organization. Over the years, we've seen the following metrics stand out as key performance indicators for inside sales teams: sales cycle , quota attainment, average deal size, bookings, win rate. Wrapping this up.

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The 7 Sales Processes You Desperately Need

Hubspot Sales

We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively. Having clear definitions for your sales process matters a lot.