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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

It’s time to face this new reality and reengineer our sales environments to exploit the spoils of it! Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. Sales used to be something that happened "out there" — in the field. Fifty years ago, when the modern sales function evolved, customers were "out there."

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How to run a successful inside sales onboarding effort (step by step)

Close.io

If your hiring strategy involves bringing in fresh talent, you can’t expect these new inside sales professionals to be confident and successful, without a strong onboarding effort. What’s inside sales onboarding, you ask? A strong inside sales onboarding program is one of the best things you can do.

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Using the Exploratory Process in Inside Sales

Carew International

Last month in MFTM, we wrote about the importance of responsiveness in inside sales. If you’re familiar with Carew’s Dimensions of Professional Selling ® program, you know that the Exploratory Process is the most important part of the sales cycle. What are the right open-ended questions to ask?

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Factor 8 Is Hiring Inside Sales Trainers!

Factor 8

If helping reps improve is your favorite part of the job, you love to train and call coach, and you agree that inside sales is harder than field sales…read on! That means work from home, manage your own clients, never go to another meeting about a meeting or wade through endless spreadsheets instead of coaching your team.

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Top 50 Women B2B Sales Experts

Women Sales Pros

Today we give a tip of the hat to the top women B2B sales experts of Women Sales Pros. Many work virtually Some have web-based programs Some do blended in-person and virtual programs Some help inside sales teams Others help field sales teams Some have industry specialties and niches They are Millennials, Gen X’s, and Baby Boomers.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. However, what they often don’t do is equip salespeople with the broader knowledge needed to have flexible initial discussions – to engage the contact and ‘set the hook’ for a more in-depth follow-up meeting.

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Top 21 Sales Training Programs and Techniques to Boost Team Performance in 2022

Highspot

But it can just as easily be summed up in a few statistics: Per a survey conducted by the Association of Talent Development (ATD) in 2021, over a quarter (28%) of median sales people didn’t meet their company’s sales goals during the last fiscal year. Note: this list is organized alphabetically, not by ranking.).