Remove Face-to-face Remove Outside Sales Remove Pipeline Remove Prospecting
article thumbnail

What Is Sales? A Quick Guide

Hubspot Sales

The term, "sales", encompasses all activities involved in selling a product or service to a consumer or business. But "sales" means so much more for businesses. Companies have entire sales organizations comprised of employees that are dedicated to selling their products and services. What is sales? Marketing and Sales.

article thumbnail

Inside Sales Power Tip 132 – Virtuality

Score More Sales

Some of the newest people to become inside sales reps are those who have left the field for now – perhaps forever. Many outside sales positions with fat travel accounts and face-to-face client meetings are slowly being switched over to inside positions. Thousands of outside rep jobs have even been eliminated.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Adapt & Succeed When Pivoting to an Inside Sales Strategy

Sales Hacker

One of the professions that’s seen the most pandemic upheaval due to COVID-19 is outside sales. Sellers who typically meet with clients and customers face-to-face have been forced to sell remotely. Reshaping Your Sales Process. Calling your prospects. Texting your prospects. Let’s dive in.

Pivotal 80
article thumbnail

Inside Sales Guide: Steps, Strategies & Benefits

SalesHandy

B2B sales can be complex and confusing with many different processes, practices and models it’s made up of. Inside sales is one such model. With more than 50% of new B2B sales jobs being inside sales roles, it’s no longer a niche operating model. So what does Inside Sales mean and what’s the big deal about it?

article thumbnail

The Customer Focused Sales Process

Partners in Excellence

.” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. We prospect to find potential opportunities, we qualify some with the idea the prospect is interested in buying our products.

article thumbnail

[Sales Alchemy]: Turning a “No” into a “Yes”

No More Cold Calling

Others say prospects use objections to test your sales savvy or to see how you respond. Either way, moving qualified buyers into your forecast and increasing your sales pipeline means addressing objections—without being defensive. Here’s his take: “How do you overcome that objection prospects always give?

article thumbnail

The Customer Focused Sales Process

Partners in Excellence

.” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. We prospect to find potential opportunities, we qualify some with the idea the prospect is interested in buying our products.