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How Many Days Should a Sales Manager Spend in the Field Sales Coaching?

Steven Rosen

Sales managers who spend more time in the field sales coaching outperform those that don’t! Sales coaching is the number one activity that drives sales rep performance and engagement. Therefore, as much time as you can spend in the field is the right answer. My answer was very simple.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

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PODCAST 148: Lessons Field Sales Can Learn From Inside Sales with Kristin Twining

Sales Hacker

She spent most of her career at Hewlett Packard Enterprise where she started off as an individual contributor, then moving into leadership, and ultimately running the inside sales organization at FireMon. We talk about lessons field sales can learn from inside sales and about how to manage a career and a family.

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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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Best Practices for Managing Field Sales Reps with Field Sales Software

Repsly

By nature, great field sales reps are independent thinkers who are driven by an almost instinctive need to compete and win. These natural sales leaders make selling part of their life, and make much of their life about selling.

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Weekly Roundup: 4 Field Sales Best Practices of High-Performing Teams + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

> 4 Field Sales Best Practices of High-Performing Teams — CloserIQ. Though the lines are sometimes blurred, inside sales and outside sales are generally separate functions within an organization that require distinctly different skill sets. ROCKEFELLER. AROUND THE WEB -. >

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The State of Field Sales in 2020 (Plus Outside Sales Statistics)

Sales Hacker

Our findings on field sales, its challenges, and solutions are summarized in this infographic. Keep reading to find outside sales statistics and details on what our survey revealed. Inside Sales CRMs for Outside Sales Teams. Field sales has vastly different needs than your inside sales team.