Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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.

Outside Sales 81

Outside Sales Inside sales Profit margin Sales 81

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz: So I took over sales, after we re-orged the go-to-market teams at the end of Q3 2019. We had grown a bunch, but our market had changed, and our go-to-market really needed to change as well. So we had a good head of sales prior, and he helped us grow a bunch. But, play the long game.

Pipeline 67

Pipeline Meeting Start-ups Up-sell 67

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

More companies will realize they achieve higher ROI with these roles and reduce the size of their outside sales teams as a result. I believe technologies that bring to the forefront “buyer intent”-related signals will gain traction and dominate much of the Account Based Selling and Marketing movement in 2018.

Sales 97

Sales Cross-sell Up-sell Pipeline 97

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Sales leaders can’t use their intuition to guide their decisions — not only are they dealing with a huge amount of information, but the risk of failure is high. That’s why successful companies obsessively measure everything about their go-to-market model, sales strategy, and salespeople. Sales KPIs by Team Type.

X-functional 95

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 95

Outreach

AUGUST 26, 2020

Sales without physical boundaries. The line between inside sales and outside sales teams evaporated when business travel screeched to a halt. Field sellers and customer success managers are operating like sales development reps with most of their daily activities now digital.

B2B 52

B2B Teamwork Inside sales Outside Sales 52