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Why would a company ever outsource anything?

Pointclear

These are the words of author and professor Sydney Finkelstein, whose article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal maintains that companies should hire teams, not individuals. Eliminate the time, expense and distraction of setting up your sales telemarketing, business development or inside sales organization.

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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. Trends that are here to stay.

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Enabling RevOps in A Hybrid Working and Selling Environment

Vendor Neutral

Derrick Williams, Tenbound Derrick has been scaling high-performance Inside Sales & Sales Development teams for more than 10-years for hyper-growth startups and Enterprise companies such as Verizon and Dell. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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How often should you really follow-up with a prospect [data backed]

Close.io

Cold email outreach is a huge part of inside sales. In fact, some of our recent data found that there is less than a 5% response rate for the average cold email sent out by most sales pros. Search Engine Journal did some research on warm leads versus cold and found some interesting results. Let’s get to it.

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Research: Differentiating Your “Virtual” Sales Meetings

Corporate Visions

million sales professionals in the U.S.—47% 47% are inside sales reps, while about 53% are outside. Of course, inside sellers handle all their meetings remotely. A better question might be: What does the typical salesperson look like? A market-sizing survey by InsideSales.com found that there are 5.7

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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. Trends that are here to stay.

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Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 11 Featuring Courtney Ness

Allego

We really haven’t had a situation like this where we’ve had to turn into inside sales reps to create the surround sound that we need for our business.That’s the biggest challenge facing all of our clients right now in biotech and pharma. Or I get your email on one of the journal papers that you’ve published?