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The Key Differences Between Inside Sales vs Outside Sales

Closer's Coffee

Here’s What You Need To Know About The Inside Sales and Outside Sales Roles. In soccer, the outfield players are positioned outside the goal area. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take. Inside sales vs. outside sales?”.

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Inside Sales Guide: Steps, Strategies & Benefits

SalesHandy

What is Inside Sales? Inside sales is the process of prospecting, qualifying, nurturing and closing sales deals remotely. In a way, it’s the exact opposite of field sales or outside sales. Field sales deals in communicating with and closing the prospects on the field, face-to-face. Sales cycle times.

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The Difference Between Inside and Outside Sales, Explained 

Crunchbase

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is outside sales?

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

Hubspot Sales

There are typically four steps a sales development rep takes to be successful: Identify the correct leads, contact prospects, qualify them, and pass the opportunity to the account executive. We found sales development reps did an average of 93.8 social media touches (8.2%). The average tenure of a sales development rep is 2.7

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Quantifying Sales & Marketing Maturity

OutboundView

Vanity metrics such as number of social media followers, total pipeline, and random conversion ratios are regularly referenced – but without salesother types of surrounding data those metrics are pretty irrelevant. For example, you may have a lot of social media followers but what if there is little to no engagement?

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Inbound or outbound sales—which one should you focus on?

Close.io

The prospect initiates the contact, and that could be as simple as submitting their email for a free ebook, and then later an inbound sales person might email or call them. With outbound, it’s the salesperson cold calling , cold emailing, or even cold texting the prospect, and the company putting up advertisements or posting on social media.