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How Many Days Should a Sales Manager Spend in the Field Sales Coaching?

Steven Rosen

Sales managers who spend more time in the field sales coaching outperform those that don’t! Sales coaching is the number one activity that drives sales rep performance and engagement. Therefore, as much time as you can spend in the field is the right answer. My answer was very simple.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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Best Practices for Managing Field Sales Reps with Field Sales Software

Repsly

By nature, great field sales reps are independent thinkers who are driven by an almost instinctive need to compete and win. These natural sales leaders make selling part of their life, and make much of their life about selling.

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Weekly Roundup: 4 Field Sales Best Practices of High-Performing Teams + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

> 4 Field Sales Best Practices of High-Performing Teams — CloserIQ. Though the lines are sometimes blurred, inside sales and outside sales are generally separate functions within an organization that require distinctly different skill sets. ROCKEFELLER. AROUND THE WEB -. >

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Four Keys to Optimizing Management of Your Field Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

Although inside sales teams are becoming increasingly popular - to the point where most experts expect parity with field sales reps usage in the near future - outside sales is still a critical component of many organizations’ selling strategies. Ergo, the following best practices for managing field sales reps.

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The Transformation of Field Sales

Janek Performance Group

In the pre-Internet age, field sales was the primary means by which sales reps not only gained new accounts, but the venue through which customers gained most of their information about products and services.