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Tell Marketing They Can Keep Their Leads

No More Cold Calling

Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28 You can probably guess what the vice president of sales told his team: Just ignore all leads from marketing, because they suck.

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What is Inside Sales (And Why Do You Need It?)

DialSource

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of inside sales was a fast-growing trend. In the United States, inside sales grew 15 times faster than outside sales, creating jobs and immense business opportunities. . If you’re a sales professional in today’s new norm, then welcome to digital selling.

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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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PipeLiner CRM #SalesChats Webinar on Prospecting

Pointclear

I quoted experts during the video as follows: Consultant/author Mike Weinberg (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. During the video I talk about the five steps in the sales process and how most sales people only use two steps which results in bad experiences for their prospects and NO DEALS. Simplified.”

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What is the Net Effect of the Migration to Inside Sales?

Jonathan Farrington

“The growth in sales jobs, and therefore one would think, in sales training is in inside sales. Although there is a migration to inside selling, most sales training is based on the assumption that sales calls will be face to face. Geoffrey is a journalist in love with the field of sales.

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Leveraging Inside Sales

Pipeliner

A variety of industries use inside sales as a popular high-growth sales model. According to Harvard Business Review , 46 percent of high-growth tech companies are expanding through inside sales, as compared to 21 percent growing through outside sales teams. Growth Carries Challenges.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

Pointclear

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. What is killing us is turnover in salespeople.