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The Future of B2B Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

The B2B market needs to become as customer-centric as the B2C market. B2B companies are under pressure to make their offering more holistic and combine their product hardware with user-friendly software to create end-to-end solutions. They can take it one step further by using data to divide sales territories more efficiently.

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Give Your Sales Territory Mapping the Direction It Needs

Gong.io

The value of sales territories isn’t lost on most sales leaders (and if it is, we’ll clarify that shortly). The problem is making your sales territory planning fair without swallowing up your time. . What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important? What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important?

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The Future of Women in Sales

Janek Performance Group

That’s the advice from a recent Harvard Business Review article that concluded, women are the future of B2B sales. You know the stereotype–the aggressive closer who is a road warrior with lots of overnight travel and is part of the old boys club. Need to improve your sales team’s results? Hire more women. Better Coaching.

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Tips from the Sales Trenches: Is Inside Sales Demeaning?

Score More Sales

Because of Dale, I always thought it was cool to have a career where you did not need to travel anywhere – and have amazing relationships with customers- at the time it was all done by phone and fax - way before video conferencing. Travels and makes in-person calls. Works a territory of some type. Travel costs high.

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Old School Sales vs New: The Rise of the Modern Sales Model

Zoominfo

Tom is pitching to you because his office is based a few blocks away from your house and your street happens to fall within his territory. Inside sales became prevalent in the 1980s when companies wanted to sell large volumes of their products without having to travel. The Rise of Inside Sales.

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Bubble in the Funnel

Pointclear

These air bubbles can travel to your brain, heart, or lungs and cause a heart attack, stroke, or respiratory failure. To date in 2016, these same territory reps have exceeded their numbers. Snatching support away from these territories will cause what I call a ‘bubble in the funnel.’ The result?

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To Chatbot or Not to Chatbot for B2B Lead Generation?

Cience

Think for a moment about chatbots for B2B lead generation … What do you feel? of B2B companies that don’t have chatbots. In today’s article, we’ll examine the pros and cons of chatbots for B2B lead generation. Applied in business (both B2C and B2B): 1. Do you recall The Terminator, The Matrix, or Westworld? And we do. .