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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. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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The Importance of VoIP in a B2B Sales Strategy

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Seamus Dunne How is your business performing regarding its current sales figures? Communication is the basis of any solid sales platform and a handful of VoIP strategies can help to maximize your current efforts. The Notion of a Unified Approach to Sales. Ablating Administrative Pitfalls. Encouraging Remote Access.

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Will You Take The Road Less Travelled or the Path of Least Resistance?

Bernadette McClelland

In my opinion, (no matter how humble, at times, I think that opinion is ), I know we all have more to give – and I have more to give over and above training sales teams just as you have more to give, too. Do I enjoy sales training? Absolutely! You can subscribe to THE STORYSELLER my brand-new (I mean brand-new!)

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Sales Talk for CEOs: A 30 Year Perspective on Scaling a Startup with Doug Frazier (S3:E9)

Alice Heiman

And one of those hats is often head of sales usually because they are the most knowledgeable about the product and the problems it solves in the market. Replacing himself as a salesperson took 3 years, but replacing himself as head of sales took Doug Frazier much longer. Click to tweet. LinkedIn: [link]. Website: [link].

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Old School vs New School Sales Training

Bigtincan

by Chris Williams A bit about me: I’m the Director of Telecommunications/Technology vertical at Bigtincan. In a previous role at a Fortune 10 company, I was responsible for selling over 100+ telecommunications and software solutions to about 5,000 customers as a sales overlay.

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12 Sales Metrics that Matter Most-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the THE 12 SALES METRICS THAT MATTER MOST.     Sales is both an art and a science. Below, you will find twelve of these key sales metrics that benchmark sales organization performance, structure, and effectiveness. million and software was $3.2