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Why Marketing Should Own Inside Sales (and why they shouldn’t)

A Sales Guy

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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How Sales is much more intimate with “Inside Sales”

SalesHandy

Inside Sales over traditional sales is the way to go nowadays and it’s the future of Sales. Being an Inside Sales Rep implies you’re not on your feet, up and running to increase your company’s sales but instead you have to manage everything from your office space without meeting your possible clients in-person.

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How Sales is much more intimate with “Inside Sales”

SalesHandy

Inside Sales over traditional sales is the way to go nowadays and it’s the future of Sales. Being an Inside Sales Rep implies you’re not on your feet, up and running to increase your company’s sales but instead you have to manage everything from your office space without meeting your possible clients in-person.

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Master the Sales Development Playbook to Boost Growth

Highspot

Definition Glossary Have you ever questioned the demographic or behavior attributes of an MQL or SQL? The book includes strategy frameworks, specialization, recruiting practices and hiring processes, retention tactics, execution, and sales leadership advice. A glossary of terms helps maintain clarity and consistency in communication.

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B2B Sales Outsourcing Is Dicey. Here’s How to Do It Right

Sales Hacker

2) Building a repeatable sales model. Sell directly to customers or through various sales channels? Inside sales or field sales? SDR services ( sales development ) to qualify, follow up and nurture leads by email and phone and to discover sales opportunities for your own account executives (AE).

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Sales Operations Analyst Job Description

InsightSquared

Sales ops teams usually have numerous technologies in their stack , but none is more vital than the CRM. Salesforce.com is the go-to CRM for most companies, so that’s where sales ops analysts end up spending most of their time. – which means more things for sales ops to maintain.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

Pointclear

In another blog post , SiriusDecisions’ Jay Gaines (vice president and group director, demand) writes that getting sales to accept a lead (thereby terming the lead a sales-accepted lead, or SAL) is the most important (and most overlooked) step in the demand creation process. For various reasons, sales often won’t accept the lead.