OutboundView

AUGUST 14, 2019

Sales organizations today are commonly organized in two groups, outside sales and inside sales. Inside salespeople reach out to possible prospects and find new sales opportunities. Inside salespeople are also called business development representatives, or sales development reps. Short History.

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Telemarketing Salary 31

Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 97

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2012

And what is the value I should receive by actually improving a sales person’s selling time in front of a customer? Register here for our Making the Number Research to learn where the biggest time sinks are). The rep’s territory potential starts to max out. As a Sales VP, you need to understand how to get back more time.

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Hiring Travel Territories Face-to-face 310

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively. Territory Management. What level of attention does each deserve?

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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 127

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside vs. Outside Sales. Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales. New research has those answers. Outside or inside sales?

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Outside Sales Hiring Face-to-face Inside Sales 131

SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

Honestly, it’s crazy to think that in 2019 and going into the 2020s, some companies aren’t thinking holistically as a selling unit about how to target key accounts , geographic territories, or verticals. Step 2: Deep research. Your team has to conduct deep research using tools like LinkedIn to evaluate these relationships.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Case Study Top of Funnel Territories 93

Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

If assigned a vertical territory of financial services I would do several things right away: look at who my existing and past customers in financial services are. This one tip can cut the time from research to conversation dramatically. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 254

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

But after a little research, we found something surprising. As a result, sales people spent all their time finding and pursuing those, and were completely missing the large deals. It turned out, the structure and the territory assignments of the sales people in these organizations, was a problem.

Ideal Customer Profile 91

Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation Account 91

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2012

My VP of Sales wants me to research trends in inside sales and conduct account segmentation. The sales managers are yelling for updated dashboards and territories. Oh, and Marketing wants to discuss sales enablement improvements. You have to move top down from sales strategy to sales infrastructure.

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Sales Operations Compensation Territories Segment 303

Score More Sales

JULY 22, 2014

Buyers can get exhaustive research done and have the upper hand now in communication with sellers like us. But before you get too depressed about the state of the power of buyers, think again – sellers have as much of a chance at research as our buyers do. How Many Sales Research Tools Are There?

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Ideal Customer Profile Banking Engineering Twitter 234

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Time you spent doing “research” because you really are reluctant to get on the phone. Time you spent doing “research” because you are not clear on who your buyers really are. Time you spent in the office with your colleagues talking about the problem with your territory, your CRM system, your personal issues.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 71

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2012

The most important function an HR leader can perform to support Sales is to help attract and retain top sales talent. Based upon our research interviews conducted with VPs of Human Resources, it is clear that most don’t really understand how to help Sales attract top talent. Is this opportunity limited to just Sales?

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Compensation Commission Territories Quota 244

SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Typically the focus is on blocking and tackling: basic execution of a compensation plan, sales dashboards, sales crediting, and territory/customer assignments. What separates most organizations from those that are “World-Class” is the existence of bold insights that drive sales strategy. How does he do it?

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Infusion Data Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 244

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. Sign up for SBI''s free onsite research session here. By doing so, you will receive: A copy of a Sales Strategy Blueprint. You may need more partners.

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Compensation Social Media Incentives Incentive 325

SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2012

Over the last month you, the Sales Operations leader, have been thick in the weeds identifying growth opportunities to support your upcoming sales strategy plan. You are confident in your research and analysis; however, are you confident that you will be able to: Communicate your recommendation effectively? How do you use it?

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Strategy Google Analytics ROI Penetration 257

Close.io

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you locate your prospects in high concentration in a territory, then cold canvassing will work well. Monroe Systems for Business built a personalized system using Smart Views in Close to look at their territory level data granularly. Travel costs - Does your territory require traveling by air or commuting by their cars?

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Campaigns Cold Calling Territories Face-to-face 80

The Brooks Group

JUNE 3, 2020

Internal Restructuring: As you consider your sales strategy and how you can best reach buyers in the aftermath of the pandemic, you may have determined that you need more inside sales roles; or you may need more account management roles with a specific focus on retaining and cultivating existing customers.

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Hiring Face-to-face Territories Churn 52

Score More Sales

MAY 26, 2014

You put a process in place, do a little research, and voila – soon you have some well-qualified potential buyers to offer insight to and learn about their upcoming projects in their new roles. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Buyer 209

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

General Manager, Worldwide Partner Sales. Senior Director of WW Inside Sales. VP New business – Sales leader. Regional Vice President of Sales. Vice President of Sales. Vice President, NA Inside Sales. Regional VP Sales. Inside Sales by Design. Sales Manager.

Demand Generation Agencies 121

Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 121

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

With advanced stealth B2B technologies I'm aware of right now, essentially one person can do the work of an entire traditional inside sales team of 50 and the CEO can just fly in and seal the deal. Neil Rackham and a handful of others have done amazingly insightful research into best practices and frameworks for selling, but not many.

Hiring 68

Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Establish new sales processess and procedures (Tighten the ship). Realign territories. Implement sales operations function. Restructure sales team. Implement an insides sales team. Retool the sales team. Incorporate predicative analytics. Embrace Challenger Selling (or any other selling methodology).

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Strategy Hiring Penetration Churn 116

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 31, 2018

Do research to offer up a compelling reason for your initial call, work inbound leads that want to talk to you, and provide helpful insights to potential prospects on social media before engaging. Back in the 1990s, inside sales was a stepping stone, not a career. But even early-stage sales calls were done in person.

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Cold Calling Social Media Inbound Face-to-face 145

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Sam Jacobs: On today’s show, we’re talking to a friend, an insightful author and leader, and an expert on sales, Trish Bertuzzi. She’s going to be talking to us about team selling and how the concept of combined quotas with senior and junior account executives, converging on one territory, is coming back.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Pivotal Enterprise 80

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Bloomfire gives your team fingertip-access to all the sales training they need to spike sales fast videos, presentations, spreadsheets, and more.Sales reps can ask questions – and get answers… from product managers, sales managers and each other. Phone, email, SMS and other channels are the lifeblood of inside sales.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Openview

MARCH 16, 2018

Salesforce was one of the first out of the gate with an inside model. Marc Benioff and his team demonstrated a consistent ability to scale with an outbound sales team in those early years. And with that, modern inside sales was born. One rep succeeding in a territory is not necessarily repeatable.

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Outbound Lead Rank Company Scale 89

ExecVision

AUGUST 31, 2018

Did you know the average win rate for an Inside Sales Team is only 22% ? Yet elite, best-in-class sales teams win 50% of their deals. Sales leaders that achieve this see: Increased sales without hiring additional reps. I had to manage a CRM build, distribute leads, assign territories and more.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Journal Inside Sales 40

Velocify

JUNE 28, 2017

4) Territory and Quota Management Solutions. Territory and quota management solutions assign leads to reps based on geographic areas. This is most useful for field sales teams who need reps to connect with customers in person and need a way to automate the process so they can scale effectively as territories shift and change.

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Sales Technology Top of Funnel Hiring Software 53

Zendesk Sell

MARCH 28, 2019

We are looking for entry-level Sales Representative professionals to join our growing team. Our Inside Sales Representative role offers an environment to learn, practice, challenge, and establish a strong foundation that’s invaluable to your career. Requirements. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited 4 year university.

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Hiring How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 77

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

But the reality is, spans of control are decreasing in field sales. In inside sales, they appear to be a little larger, but not huge. Interspersed, less frequently, some account and territory reviews. My friends at the CEB have researched this extensively. It’s roughly 10 friggin’ people!

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Coaching Benefit Territories Account 88

Crunchbase

JUNE 18, 2020

The mecca of sales content, LinkedIn has become increasingly popular not just as a networking site but as a place to create and consume content. It’s also a place where salespeople naturally spend a lot of time as they’re researching prospects and customers or working on their own personal brand. . Who To Follow.

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Scale Twitter LinkedIn Video 123

InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

It helps you understand the real flow of their sales process in a structured manner. Through this, leaders can then identify gaps and other challenges in their sales performance. Sales territory mapping can also help organizations establish their sales methodology and improve sales process steps.

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Sales Process Sales Methodology Lead Rank Government 65

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When they’re first exploring your site, most buyers aren’t ready to buy; they’re in research mode. Some sales cycles are quick, but many have a large number of opportunities that are months -- and maybe years -- old. In field sales, it's necessary to do physical ride alongs to observe reps. The offer?

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Prospecting Top of Funnel Social Media Hubspot 104

Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

Storytelling is essential to sales, and influence happens through being able to structure a story in a way that makes someone feel like this is their story, that they’re the hero, and that you understand where they are coming from. Do your research, understand your audience, then help as much as possible.".

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Influencer Industry Hiring Social Media 84

The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Specialties in: • Establishing marketing & sales tools and process. • Finding your targets & territory mapping. • Finding client’s needs & developing messaging around them. • Growing interest to a purchasing level. • Finding partners. • Coaching Inside Sales. Saturday Sales Tip.

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Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

Trinity Perspectives

MARCH 22, 2018

Ideally you need a seat at the table when your sales target is being decided or at a minimum, some input into the process. Like so many things in sales, the more discovery, research and evidence you can present in this discussion the better, in terms of influencing the final sales quota you receive.

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Strategy B2B Face-to-face Quota 62