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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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Reduce the Risks of Hiring Sales Managers

SBI Growth

Role – Can the candidate meet the challenges of the specific open position? In the case of a sales manager, these include: pipeline management, negotiating and coaching. Building a new sales team is very different from managing an established team. Inside sales is different from field 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. positive or negative,” he writes. Take any trend?—?social,

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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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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. positive or negative,” he writes. Take any trend?—?social,

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How HR Stops the Exit of Top Sales Talent Now and for the Future

SBI Growth

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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What is ‘line of sight’ and why is it important to sales leaders?

Pipeliner

Effective strategy execution in sales occurs when there is clarity between the functional roles that employees play in the organization and the organization’s strategy. It is about translating the strategy into what it means to each sales function involved in delivering it. What specifically should inside sales do differently?