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Drawn-Out Sales Cycles: What to Do When Selling Stalls

Zoominfo

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. We are in a measured buying environment.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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5 Considerations When Deploying a Sales Engagement Platform

SalesLoft

Today’s top-performing sales reps use data, intelligence, and productivity tools 30% more than average performers. Whether you need to gain visibility into pipeline activity, manage deals, or decrease rep ramp time, Sales Engagement tools can help you improve efficiency, leading to sustained growth and profitability.

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Executive Interview with @AllegoSoftware CMO, Wayne St. Amand: Sales as a Buying Experience

SBI

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to talk about Selling as a Buying Experience. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP WAYS COMPANIES CAN TRANSFORM SALES TO IMPROVE THEIR PROSPECTS’ BUYING EXPERIENCE IN THE NEXT 12-24 MONTHS? . Companies must be aware of this expectation and transform their sales process to reflect it.

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Enabling Virtual Sales Success in 2021: 6 Predictions

Allego

One big takeaway for Allego: Sales enablement’s moment has arrived. That’s because in 2020, the business of sales was completely disrupted. Equipping sales teams with the content, skills training, knowledge, coaching, and tools to effectively sell your product or service is essential to survive and, hopefully, grow.

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3 Focus Areas for Sales Enablement to Help Your Organization Exceed Modern Buyer Expectations

Mindtickle

There is no denying that 2020 has had an impact on the way by which sales professionals engage with their customers and prospects. Sales professionals and buyers alike have quickly accepted and adopted this new reality. THE TOP BUYER EXPECTATIONS.

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Top 7 Utopian & Dystopian Shocking Sales Predictions

Tony Hughes

It's the end of the sales world as we know it. 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. Sales drones are an amusing but eerie concept to me.

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