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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales run through the phone, website or customer portal focused on the smallest opportunities and the long tail of lower-value accounts. And this dynamic has merely accelerated a long-term trend of B2B companies shifting their sales capacity from field-based to virtual models. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: The Importance of Understanding Sales with Steve Benson (S1:EP7)

Alice Heiman

On this episode of the Sales Talk for CEOs Podcast, Alice speaks with Steve Benson, the CEO of Badger Maps , the #1 route planner for field sales. Steve and Alice discuss the importance for CEOs to have a background in sales when starting out and growing their company. . Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel.

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How and Why You Should Transition from Field to Inside Sales

Hubspot Sales

Field sales has been dying for years. The modern salesperson still feels that the field is their rightful place of battle. It’s time to face this new reality and reengineer our sales environments to exploit the spoils of it! Why Inside Sales is Outpacing Field Sales. The Inside-Out Sales Function.

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What is Inside Sales? A Complete Overview

Mindtickle

The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of B2B sales interactions will occur via digital channels. By 2025 0 % of B2B sales interactions will happen via digital channels When it comes to inside sales, you may have questions like: What is inside sales?

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

Sales Development. Sales Growth. Sales Enablement. Enterprise Sales. Sales Operations. Sales Technology. Allied Air Enterprises. Regional Vice President of Sales. Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Vice President, NA Inside Sales. Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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Driving Growth Through Partnerships, A Discussion With Bill Corbin, CenturyLink

Partners in Excellence

We had a wide ranging discussion on leveraging channels and partnerships to drive more effective engagement with customers. Bill Corbin (BC): I’ve been involved in various aspects of “channels” for most of my career—both working in the channel and in roles with major companies like CenturyLink.

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Give Your Sales Territory Mapping the Direction It Needs

Gong.io

In an ideal world, sales managers would assign each account to the most suitable rep. If someone specializes in enterprise sales , they’d be on every enterprise account. . This never happens when accounts are assigned randomly, but it’s almost a given with sales territory mapping. Sales channel.