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The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Sales

Hubspot Sales

Sales development reps (also known as business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first step in the sales funnel: bringing in qualified leads. They conduct research to find prospective customers, reach out to gauge people's interest in the offering, and decide whether or not the lead is ready to move down the funnel.

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33 Stats to Know if You’re Considering or Planning a Sales Career in 2023

Hubspot Sales

Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Glassdoor predicts the average yearly salary of an outside sales rep to be $72,000.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. Sales processes that were easy to instrument were already trending toward being more data-driven.

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TSE 1303: How to Network Your Way into Value

Sales Evangelist

Curt Tueffert is the Vice President of sales development for a large industrial distributor in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1908 is now a multinational publicly traded company with over 200 outside sales. Customers and prospects are the ones who define your value in sales. Why so much effort?

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Top 7 Utopian & Dystopian Shocking Sales Predictions

Tony Hughes

Search engines like Wolfram Alpha become so smart they can fully educate the prospect so they go 100% of the way through the sales process before ever needing to talk to a human. Mercifully, the universities that do teach sales are discovering that their sales graduates get amazing jobs. And give back.

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The New Era Of The Cold Call

Jonathan Farrington

4 Inbound marketing techniques such as strategic search engine optimization, blogging to build thought leadership positioning and the prolific use?of of social media tools allow sales executives to target relevant prospects who can learn about products and services on their terms.

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How to Build a B2B Sales Team Structure

Zoominfo

Popular to contrary belief, sales teams can not only survive in the age of buyer empowerment, but use buying behavior to their advantage — so long as processes and prospecting tools that help engage the right buyer, at the right time, with the right message. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or

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