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Sales Training Program Trouble? Look to Outside Sales Enablement for a Holistic Solution.

Mereo

Sales training is a common prescription to B2B selling organizations’ problems. No problem — sales training! Sales training! A young, new sales team that needs onboarding to your unique sales strategy? Sales training it is! Sales training alone cannot fix the entire organization.

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Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales: Which Is Best for You?

Sales Hacker

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Inside sales – it is a new dawn and sales training needs to shine

Sales Training Connection

These rooms may still be around but inside sales has undergone a dramatic shift in the last several years. Inside salespeople are no longer just engaged in small commodity type sales or as backup for completing the secondary tasks of the outside sales group. Training Design. Why the newfound interest?

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Building a Customer-Focused Sales Strategy with Erik Frank (S1:E14)

Alice Heiman

Erik’s strategy includes gathering extra insight into the customer experience through conversations with customers, a newly launched customer survey, and continued customer outreach. This episode is a must-listen if you feel that your sales strategy isn’t quite hitting the mark with your customers. 8:35] Customer-focused rebranding. [11:25]

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How Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

As recently as 5 years ago, only 20% of my personal clients were inside sales forces. Half of my own training, coaching and consulting clients are inside sales forces! Although it''s an easy survey to take, it''s a crucial that we produce this unbiased study. Sure enough, the numbers were amazing.

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Creating the Ideal Performance Culture

SBI Growth

80% of its sales team was outside sales reps. A survey showed between 10%-20% of their time was spent driving. The customer base was surveyed and asked what they required from their rep. Continually develop and train on new strategies. An electronics manufacturer was seeing declining revenue per head.

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Will Outside Sales Recover When the Pandemic Ends?

Zoominfo

The idea of Outside Sales, which depended on business travel and in-person meetings, feels like a distant memory. Until COVID-19, more than half of sales — 52.8 percent — were made by Outside Sales teams. By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”.