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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

COVID-19 has accelerated a trend already underway toward increased virtual interactions between customers and their suppliers. As vaccines are distributed and we move beyond the most acute phase of the pandemic, most salespeople believe virtual selling is here to stay. Just 5 percent report no success at all ( Figure 3 ).

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Maximizing Virtual Selling for Prospects and Clients

The Center for Sales Strategy

Remote selling, virtual selling, more communication via emails, and phone calls — it’s all the new normal. Being a sales professional in 2020 is very different than it was just last year. Buyers, who used to prefer meeting face-to-face prior to making a purchasing decision, have changed too.

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Four New Sales Habits for 2021

Revenue Storm

When reaching out to friends and colleagues in the new year, there is a familiar feeling permeating amongst all of them – “…thank goodness 2020 is over and let’s hope 2021 is better!”. Get Good at Virtual Selling. Virtual selling is going to be here for a long time to come. We all know hope is not a strategy.

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Growth Opportunities Exist in 2021: Here’s How to Find Them, According to HubSpot's Chief Customer Officer

Hubspot Sales

2020 has been a year of massive change. But what does "growth" mean in 2020? In August 2020, Yelp reported that 165,735 businesses indicated that they have closed, and 97,966 (60%) of those were reported as permanent closures. Our mission at HubSpot is to help millions of organizations grow better.

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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.

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How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force

Mike Kunkle

I originally posted it as a LinkedIn Article in August of 2020 and unfortunately, find it relevant again already in mid-2022. In 2020, I applauded them for trying hard not to send people out into the record masses of the unemployed. Another rep might work in an office and sell virtually, without every leaving HQ.

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Sales Readiness: Engaging and Empowering Your Sales Force to Thrive in a Remote-First World

Showpad

Sales readiness should always be closely connected to the sales content management domain, as all your internal training content has to be managed and communicated as well. This is why one of the core messages of this study is that the pandemic has amplified existing selling challenges rather than created new selling challenges.