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Inside sales training: What is it? Why it matters? How to do it right.

Close.io

I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to inside side sales training, you’re going to spend less time reading and more time interacting with people. Investing in an effective inside sales training system within your company can pay amazing dividends. What is inside sales? Let’s start from the top.

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How to transition from outside sales to inside sales

Nutshell

Inside sales refers to any form of selling that isn’t done face-to-face. Unlike outside sales (or field sales ) reps, inside sales reps connect with potential customers remotely through phone, email , and web conferencing. Among B2B companies, the use of inside sales reps has exploded in popularity.

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Study: Is Your Team Prepared for the Coming Wave of Sales Tech Innovation?

Velocify

A wave of new sales technologies is providing businesses unprecedented choice in building out their ideal sales stack. As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting.

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Looking at Sales Enablement From Two Different Lenses

SBI

One of my favorite podcasts is the Inside Sales Enablement series by Scott Santucci and Brian Lambert. In their last episode, they spent time reviewing their thoughts and insights from the Sales Enablement Soiree that recently took place in Boston. A mismatch in views towards sales, and there are many other reasons of course.

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Sales Blogs We Love: Where to go for insight in every sales role

SalesLoft

Sales blogs to go to for insight in every sales role, from sales professionals to sales managers to sales leaders — aside from Salesloft.com, of course! For Sales Professionals: The Sales Blog (Anthony Iannarino) | Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, author, and sales leader.

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4 Ways to Prepare for AI-Assisted Sales

Sales Hacker

Practical suggestions for putting data front and center include creating dashboards that include relevant metrics such as number of meetings and number of sales qualified opportunities for inside sales reps or number (or percent) of reps making quota and wins / losses against competitors for account executives.

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How To Reach Your Sales Quota During The Holidays [INFOGRAPHIC]

InsideSales.com

If you don’t already have a strong pipeline leading into the holidays, the inside sales world struggles. Vacation days for both the sales rep and the leads are just around the corner. Getting in touch, closing a deal , and hitting the sales quota can be tough. This is the tricky part, of course. Who can blame them?

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