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Growth Opportunities Exist in 2021: Here’s How to Find Them, According to HubSpot's Chief Customer Officer

Hubspot Sales

2020 has been a year of massive change. But what does "growth" mean in 2020? To answer this question, let’s start with some data: According to the latest HubSpot Research Study , we found that 40% of businesses will miss revenue targets this year. Before this year, there was already a clear split in sales models.

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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.”.

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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.”

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The Reopening Economy and the Changing Sales Role

The Brooks Group

The results of a recent survey — conducted the week of April 20 — found that more than 50 percent of polled companies considered themselves significantly behind their 2020 sales plan — while only five percent believe their tracking at or ahead of plan. Reach out to a sales effectiveness expert today.

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Remote Selling Made Simple: 5 Practical Tips for a Successful Organization

Vengreso

Face-to-face meetings have been replaced by video conferencing, and many sales leaders are scrambling to train their sales teams on how to sell remotely. A 2020 study by the RAIN Group found that pre-pandemic, only 27% of respondents reported conducting more than half of their sales activities virtually. Why Vengreso?

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Top 7 Utopian & Dystopian Shocking Sales Predictions

Tony Hughes

Gerhard , Huthwaite and many other sci-fi fans have prognosticated that sales itself may face an existential threat from artificial intelligence (AI) as we move further and further toward the COMPLETE buying cycle. Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85% of interactions between businesses will be executed without human intervention.

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TSE 1303: How to Network Your Way into Value

Sales Evangelist

Curt Tueffert is the Vice President of sales development for a large industrial distributor in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1908 is now a multinational publicly traded company with over 200 outside sales. This is especially true at this time where we have new rules of engagement in 2020. Who knows you?