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4 Forever Changes Transforming B2B Revenue Activities

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM RIESTERER Sales training and enablement leaders, it’s time to level up. Buyers are searching for more information on their own. As a result, your content can’t be just a companion to a sales-led customer conversation?— When buyers eventually do talk to your reps, those conversations will most often happen remotely.

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6 steps to adapt effectively

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan To thrive in the next normal, B2B companies will need to continue adapting to the new economic reality. A survey of B2B sales operations by McKinsey & Company shows the pandemic has accelerated previous trends?—?omnichannel omnichannel selling, inside sales, tech-enabled selling and e-commerce.

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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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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Lincoln Smith The modern world asks a lot of B2B business owners. As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives.

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New Trends in Technology Enabling the Inside Sales Function

SBI Growth

The Growth of Inside Sales Has Left Large Cloud Providers Playing Catch Up.

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Video Is the Channel of the Future—Are You Ready?

Showpad

The pandemic had upended the sales industry. Even veteran field sellers had pivoted to inside sales. But even though the landscape changed, sales was still a relationship game. Buyers don’t want to be sold to via email and Powerpoint. In sales, the pandemic compounded an ongoing transformation.

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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. Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills?