Sales Reps Spend Less Than 37% of Their Time Selling (and Only 18% Inside CRM), New Research Shows

There’s a groundswell occurring in the way corporate sales teams and representatives sell, new research is suggesting. InsideSales.com Labs (a division of AI-fueled sales acceleration company InsideSales.com) released a new Time Management Study this week. The research is based on responses from nearly 200 sales reps including more than dozen in-depth interviews, to provide a closer look at the way today’s inside and outside sales reps are spending their time.

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How Your Sales Team Can Leverage Marketing Content To Close More Leads

Sales team members often find themselves getting the short end of the stick. Though they’re expected to hit rigorous sales quotas, they often have little control over the quality of leads being sent to them from marketing – or any influence over the buyer journey at all, up until the very end.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Sales Organization: Effectiveness vs. Efficiency

The sales team is the life force of every business. If it’s a healthy team, the business will thrive and grow, but if the sales team is weak and not united in their efforts, the business will without a doubt suffer in the long-term.

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The Real World: Marketing & Sales Alignment

This is the true story…of two organizational functions…picked to share an office (work together)…and produce results…to find out what happens…when marketing and sales stop pointing fingers…and start getting aligned…The Real World: Marketing & Sales Alignment

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. You’ll probably get an uncomfortable laugh and a shake of the head. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs.

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