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4 Forever Changes Transforming B2B Revenue Activities

Sales and Marketing Management

This makes all sellers “inside sellers,” which opens the door to improving their productivity, performance and cost structure, while also imagining how former field sales teams should be operating on a cadence versus an expense account. Marketing is the sales development team. All selling is inside selling.

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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. Reimagining Sales Coverage.

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The Innovation Gray Space

Partners in Excellence

It enables us to do new and different things, address new and different opportunities/markets, shift our strategies, products, markets. For example, the invention of 3-D printing has driven the disruptive innovation of additive manufacturing–changing dramatically how things are manufactured. Innovation underlies change.

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How Tricia Westfall of Kaiser Permanente Is leading the move from field sales to virtual selling | Building Modern Sellers Blog Series

Showpad

Meet Tricia Westfall, a Senior Manager for the Sales Capability Planning & Enablement team at Kaiser Permanente. In this interview, she shares how she and her team are adding value during virtual conversations with customers—and how they’re partnering with marketing to build curated content experiences. Can you share an example?

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Your Best Sales Rep: The Internal Content Marketing Agency

SBI Growth

This is an executive-level overview of the Internal Content Marketing Agency (ICMA). It is written for the top sales executive in the organization. What is an Internal Content Marketing Agency? It can be located within your Sales or Marketing organizations. Sell when a sales rep is not present.

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Poor 'Quality' Marketing Leads for the Dumpster?

SBI Growth

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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5 Things Your Field Sales Team Needs to Become Sales Ready

Mindtickle

I often hear from our customers how challenging it is to manage distributed field sales teams. Sales led businesses tend to rely more on solution selling, so the needs of their sales team are focused on things like re-baselining knowledge and sharing success stories for example.