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The Many Different Selling Roles and How They Differ - Part 1

Understanding the Sales Force

When you think about cars, you know there are coupes, sedans, crossovers, SUVs, and sports cars. To further complicate things, in some companies and industries, Sales Managers function as salespeople and Sales VPs function as Sales Managers. You also know there are luxury cars, mid-range cars and economy cars.

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Inside Sales Event Supports Art and Science of Selling

Score More Sales

You cannot attend a full day event like this and not come away excited about the profession of inside sales, or as Forbes author and industry leader Ken Krogue calls, “Remote Professional Selling” . Always be prospecting. Ralph Barsi of InsideView gave a great presentation 7 Sales Tips for Prospecting.

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The Advanced Guide to Inside Sales: Strategy, KPIs, and Tools for Success

Sales Hacker

First, let’s look at what inside sales is. Inside sales means you, the seller, are stationary. Your position does not require you to travel and meet prospects face-to-face to do business. Inside sales can also be referred to as “phone sales” or “tele-sales.”. What does an inside sales rep do?

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Sales Hunters Must Have the Right Tools

Pipeliner

Although a sales team includes many different job titles, such as sales engineer, SDS, customer success, and sales admin, when it comes down to salespeople themselves, no matter if they are inside or outside sales, in my opinion, there are really only two major roles: the hunter, and the farmer.

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Is Coaching Salespeople Different than Managing Them?

Janek Performance Group

In addition, sales managers seek outside sales partners. Also, like sellers with prospects, managers must relate to and connect with their team members. Attending, mastering, and reinforcing sales training. Like their counterparts in sports, sales coaches need knowledge, experience, and expertise in their field.

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Baseball to Pizza to Sales Enablement Training Software: What I’ve Learned In My Career (So Far) About Selling With Excellence

Lessonly

I never thought I would be in sales. If I’m honest, my career prospects felt bleak, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. . So much so that the husband offered me a job doing outside sales for his company. From that point years ago, I’ve been on one heck of a sales journey. . How do you measure sales enablement?

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9 Principles of Effortlessly Effective Networking

Keith Rosen

Professional networking functions provide access to qualified prospects—fast. It’s a safe assumption that any salesperson would rather follow up with a qualified prospect they recently met rather than make a cold call. To do so, she found an outside sales position selling a line of self-care products. Bring a Wingman.