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COVID-19 accelerates expected B2B sales trends

Sales and Marketing Management

The report from late May highlights three seemingly obvious but key trends: An accelerated migration to digital. The next normal sales model. Signals from the survey indicate that B2B sales operations are at a digital inflection point. The pandemic has accelerated previous trends?—?omnichannel

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4 Sales Trends to Watch in 2024

Janek Performance Group

While no one predicted a global health emergency, sales trends did anticipate future needs. In the absence of foolproof magic, sales trends reveal what’s coming and how to prepare. In the absence of foolproof magic, sales trends reveal what’s coming and how to prepare. This trend is not a fad.

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10 Sales Influencers You Should Be Following On Social Media

Zoominfo

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

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

Pointclear

Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales? Or just go with inside sales? The following trends indicate that field sales teams are becoming extinct. Here’s why: Inside sales teams continue to grow at 15% each year. Good question.

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14 questions you should ask during an inside sales interview

Close.io

So you’re looking to build out your inside sales team and you’ve lined up a full day of interviews with potential new hires. To make sure you don’t waste time and money on a bad hire who doesn’t fit the culture, there are some questions you absolutely need to be asking in your interviews with prospective inside sales reps.

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Sales Trends to Expect in 2019 from the Experts

Alice Heiman

So, we decided to ask a group of sales experts this one question: What is the biggest trend you expect to see in the sales industry in 2019? . Sales Trends of 2019 . AI for Sales . More Sales Time – Less Sales Admin Time . One of the most important trends I see is personalization.

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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

“We realized that for the foreseeable future, instead of having 12 field people and 10 inside, we really had 22 inside sales reps. Learning to manage sales virtually versus the way we’d done it historically was going to be a learning curve,” Kavadellas said. Trends that are here to stay. Take any trend?—?social,