A presentation from LeadsCon 2013: Lead Generation Methods 2013 & Market Size Study: Ken Krogue - Founder
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Trish Bertuzzi at The BridgeGroup has been surveying inside sales groups for yearsIn 2007 she found her average inside sales group was 5 reps, in 2009 it was 12 reps! That’s 140% growth
Adjusted to exclude 87% of retail (total retail = 8 million in 2011; 1 M of which are included in these figures), and the food service industry
Data shows that new jobs are more or less evenly distributed between inside and outside sales (with slightly more jobs created through inside sales), though outside sales are increasingly using more inside sales techniques
Left out East South Central region because of insufficient data