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In-House vs. Outsourced Sales: A Case for NOT Hiring SDRs

Sales Hacker

The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. As a high-growth SMB, your number-one focus is consistent sales. For SMBs, this is a pivotal decision: Do you hire an in-house sales development team or work with an outbound partner? Let’s use the Sales Development Rep (SDR) role as an example.

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The Ultimate Guide to Outsourcing Sales Development and Lead Generation

Sales Hacker

Similar to going to a restaurant, where you can get a incredible well prepared peppercorn NY Strip with a Ceasar salad and mashed potatoes in a matter of 20 minutes, building your own SDR team, including tools, workflows, messaging, metrics, and management can take 6-18 months and cost you ~$15,000 per month for just 1 SDR and data.

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Only 7% of You Have Really Gotten Outsourced SDRs to Work

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So a recent SaaS survey confirmed what I’ve experienced over the year: outsourced SDRs are tough to make work. It would be so great if we could all outsource sales, sales development, sales operations, and more. I’ve invested in 2 startups that micromanaged outsourced SDR teams to some success.

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Don?t Hire the Wrong Outsourced Sales Professionals: 6 Handy Tips

Sales Hacker

There are many levers a sales leader or organization may pull to gain scale, accelerate revenue, drive cost savings, or augment sales team structures. A viable and proven option is handing over some or all of your sales efforts to outsourced sales professionals. 5) DO ensure sales and marketing are aligned.

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Should you outsource sales?

CloseSaaS

As the CEO or founder of a startup, you'll someday make a decision to either grow an internal outbound sales team, or outsource it. Outsourcing sales to people who really know how to do outbound sales is a good choice. but only if the time is right!

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Should Your SDR Team Be Outsourced?

Sales Hacker

As leads pour in, it becomes challenging for your current sales reps to manage their book of business and properly prospect. As a sales manager, you have to ask yourself “Do I simply hire more salespeople, or is it time to implement an SDR program?”. RELATED: B2B Sales Outsourcing Is Dicey.

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Sales Stack 2018: The Tools

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That’s why we started listing and classifying the software tools in the sales stack to look forward to in the coming year. This year we’ll be sharing parts of the YourSales outsourced sales stack tools as part of the list. Pipedrive – Sales CRM & Pipeline Management Software (use this link for 30 days extra trial).

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