Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2020

Sales evangelist podcast is a conglomeration of industry trends, motivational stories, and practical sales advice. Donald not only shares his own knowledge but also interviews some of the sales experts of the industry and offers useful tips for being successful in the sales field. Host: Andy Paul.

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Cold Calling B2B Pipeline Sports 113

Showpad

JUNE 6, 2022

So 2020 became a year of training. The post How Tricia Westfall of Kaiser Permanente Is leading the move from field sales to virtual selling | Building Modern Sellers Blog Series appeared first on Showpad. We were still in our growing phase in year two at the same time COVID hit.

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Field Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 52

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The flowering of virtual sales channels and tools flies in the face of four myths, as documented by Bain & Company’s recent survey, conducted with Dynata, of more than 300 B2B buyers and sellers in the US, UK and Canada. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Lead Rank Quota Face-to-face Hiring 339

Showpad

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Showpad just hosted the world’s largest sales enablement conference. This post will recap TRANSFORM 2020 keynotes, breakouts and sessions and give you some new ideas about sales enablement you can put into practice right now. The traditional setting of sales meetings and pitches is no longer the way businesses exist.

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Hiring Sales Enablement Lead Rank Enterprise 40

Canidium

JUNE 4, 2020

If Your Sales Team has Quotas to Hit, You need SAP’s Territory and Quota Management Tool. So far, 2020 has not gone the way many of us expected it to. Peering into your crystal ball and determining how to realign your reps with new goals or coverage models can seem like a herculean labor, but it doesn’t take a hero.

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Territories Quota Field Sales Pipeline 86

Chorus.ai

MAY 15, 2020

And field sales in the same boat as inside sales now. But field sales is now inside sales, we’re all working from home.”. You get creative on how to do business virtually. I think people are accepting it now.” Travel has largely stopped. We were building trust before we were traveling.

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Face-to-face Travel Pivotal Inside Sales 62

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Mobile CRM applications are particularly useful for sales professionals — specifically field sales reps who might spend a lot of time on the road or working on-site with prospects. It offers them the flexibility to leverage your CRM and refer to its data while they're out-of-office or traveling for work.

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CRM SugarCRM Hubspot SalesForce 94

Outside Sales Talk

MARCH 23, 2023

She is recognized as a LinkedIn Top Sales Voice and has had a successful B2B sales career, working with global tech companies such as IBM and Lenovo. Her book, The Modern Seller: Sell More And Increase Your Impact In The New Sales Economy was named a top sales book of 2020 by Top Sales World.

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Outside Sales Loyalty Field Sales LinkedIn 52

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Groove.co

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) just announced the winners of its 2020 Service Provider of the Year Award, and Groove is proud to have been named service provider of the year.

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Inside Sales SalesForce Vendor Field Sales 26

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. Back in 2018, 90% of B2B customers reported investigating between two and seven sites before they made a purchase. However, the rub here is simple: All web traffic is NOT created equal.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 147

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. Not All Web Traffic is High Quality Back in 2018, 90% of B2B customers reported investigating between two and seven sites before they made a purchase.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 130

Mereo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

With the business world still experiencing great disruption from COVID-19, we are taking an in-depth look at exactly how sales teams are being altered by this situation — and the best ways to adapt for success in the uncertain future. Sales will follow. Field Sales Teams. Virtual sales require new capabilities and tools.

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Inside Sales Face-to-face Field Sales Sales Enablement 78

Vengreso

JULY 17, 2020

In the post-quarantine world, remote sales professionals won’t be working from home all the time, but neither will outside sales teams be in the field as they used to. In 2020, there are no trade shows but virtual events are very successful for B2B companies. What Will Sales Look Like in 2021? Click To Tweet.

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Chemicals Trade Show Engineering Social Selling 115

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2020 has been a year of massive change. But what does "growth" mean in 2020? In August 2020, Yelp reported that 165,735 businesses indicated that they have closed, and 97,966 (60%) of those were reported as permanent closures. Before this year, there was already a clear split in sales models. To Close Things Out….

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Hubspot Lead Rank Opportunity Lead Scoring 125

Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Then fast forward a couple of months to the summer of 2020. Sales teams were hitting all time records. Many individual sales professionals were selling more and earning more than ever before. In sales, at least in field sales, you have much more autonomy with how you manage your time than most employees.

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Construction Territories Pipeline Field Sales 76

Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2022

On an average morning in early 2020, sales reps left their team huddles pumped up on yesterday’s success stories and a few cups of dark roast, ready to start dialing for the day. They had a system of tried-and-true tactics for making sales calls and historical data that supported what worked best. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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Cold Calling Channels Demand Generation Agencies Call-back 100

Zendesk Sell

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

According to Beechum Research , the AR market, minus consumer components, could reach $800 million by 2020. When applied to door-to-door sales specifically, AR has the potential to drive unprecedented productivity by allowing reps to interact in real-time with their territories. Would you use AR as a field sales rep?

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Oracle Field Sales Retail Google 74

Showpad

MAY 7, 2021

Let’s dive a bit deeper into the dawn of online sales and what advantages a virtual sales platform can provide. COVID-19 forces sales online, many see it staying that way. For clear reasons, 2020 was a watershed year for sales — and business at-large. All sorts of sales activities online shifted.

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Hiring Survey Trade Show Webinar Metrics 59

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Repsly

APRIL 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges and obstacles throughout the 2020 calendar year, forcing many companies to re-examine how they work and operate from the top-down.

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Retail Guidelines Company Field Sales 62

Lead411

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The day of reckoning is upon many organizations who have ignored data quality issues until 2020. Companies with bad data will simply not be able to keep up with their competitors as we navigate 2020 and 2021. If you still think you can win in the sales world without having a solid data provider, you may as well close your doors now.

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Data Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Intent Data 52

The ROI Guy

MARCH 12, 2015

Despite a growing economy, research indicates that there will be over 1 million less B2B sales reps employed in 2020 compared to today. At the Forrester’s Sales Enablement Forum last week, a study by Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester was revealed showcasing this 22% expected decline over the next five years.

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Inside Sales B2B Field Sales B2C 90

Showpad

MARCH 17, 2020

While there was a time when working remotely was the sole domain of field sales representatives, it’s become the new normal for sellers of all types. That number is set to continue growing exponentially in 2020. Whether in the office or working remotely, your sales team needs your support.

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Face-to-face Coaching Collateral Sales Coaching 80

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

million professional salespeople in the U.S , and field sales make up 52.8%. 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. In May 2020, 71% said they were conducting more than half their sales virtually.

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Hiring Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 111

Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an April 2020 IndustryWeek article titled, “ What Will Manufacturing’s New Normal Be after COVID-19? Field sales and service personnel have already taken advantage of cloud-based applications such as CPQ and CRM to identify customers, configure solutions and deliver successful outcomes.

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Trends System CRM Lead Rank 62

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2020

Over the past 3 months, they’ve let go of 100 team members, shrinking their team from 627 in January 2020 to 527 in April 2020. . Their sales team is just 11 people today. . One way to measure a company’s dependence on its sales team is to look at what percent of the total employees are dedicated to a sales role. .

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Account Hiring Lead Rank How To 63

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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.

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Outside Sales Field Sales Oracle Enterprise 83

DialSource

JULY 8, 2020

At this point, there is no more discussion about inside sales vs outside sales and which is more optimal in terms of a company’s growth strategy. . Based on the 2020 pandemic and corresponding lockdown measures, overnight, everyone was transformed into an inside sales or digital selling role. This is the next normal.

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Inside Sales Scale Outside Sales Face-to-face 69

Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

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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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In this case, Berges is speaking to the massive success experienced by him and his colleagues—previously competitors, or even “archenemies,” as he describes it—with the launch of Ventilator Training Alliance in April of 2020.

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Meeting Strategy Customer Hiring 71

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Sales Models and Fundamentals. The Transparency Sale. The Challenger Sale. So which one would you consider the absolute best sales book? Or asked another way: If you had to limit yourself to just one sales book, which would it be?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring Handbook 141

Groove.co

MAY 7, 2020

As enterprises in new industries continue to adopt sales engagement platforms to make their revenue teams more productive, they will quickly see the unique advantages that Groove offers in terms of internal adoption, customization, and security.” Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2020 and is one of the Inc. Groove was named one of Inc.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise Enterprise 26

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.”. What is Outside Sales? Outside Sales is sometimes called “field sales.” percent between 2020 and 2027. A study by ZoomInfo found that there were 57 percent fewer events scheduled for Q1 of 2021 compared to 2020.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

At first, there were 627 employees in January 2020 but now its down to 527. For example, a company that sells customers through the freemium model would not care as much about field sales and more about no-touch onboarding. The company never really diversified. Over the last 3 months, they let go of 100 people on their team.

Account 52

Account Hiring Lead Rank Commission 52

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

By contrast, there were only 32,049 results for job titles containing the term “Outside Sales.” What is Outside Sales? Outside Sales is sometimes called “field sales.” percent between 2020 and 2027. A study by ZoomInfo found that there were 57 percent fewer events scheduled for Q1 of 2021 compared to 2020.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Cold Calling 130

Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

(And notably, when the median salesperson fails to reach the goal, at least 50% of the sales team doesn’t either.). Inside sales : Courses created for inside sales representatives that cover topics like email marketing, cold calling, and other telesales strategies to help them communicate successfully with prospects.

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Training Lead Rank Hiring Course 92