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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Why Account Executives Should Travel

No More Cold Calling

Sales leaders say they don’t need for account executives to travel. Yes, I know that’s snarky, but if you receive the lame sales emails that I do, you know what I’m talking about.). Over the past decade, companies have cut back on travel because of the assorted tools that enable video conferencing. Ridiculous, right?

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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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Agile Field Sales: How to Empower Your Sales Reps to Win More Deals in the Field

Repsly

Any brand that relies on field sales teams to generate new business knows the importance of efficiency and relationship building. Wasted time traveling between accounts or frantically trying to remember what you did at your last visit only slows down reps’ ability to close more deals.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

The flowering of virtual sales channels and tools flies in the face of four myths, as documented by Bain & Company’s recent survey, conducted with Dynata, of more than 300 B2B buyers and sellers in the US, UK and Canada. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years.

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6 steps to adapt effectively

Sales and Marketing Management

Offer the human touch whenever customers need it with your sales team?–?whether whether through inside sales or field sales. How COVID-19 could reshape sales. How COVID-19 could reshape sales. Group travel is down, but not out. Click on any of the articles below to read more from our special report.

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

Zoominfo

In the new world of sales, being well connected is no longer as important as being well informed. The Rise of Inside Sales. Inside sales became prevalent in the 1980s when companies wanted to sell large volumes of their products without having to travel. Inside sales is simply a better model than field sales.

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