Sales Productivity

Multi-Stop Route Optimization for B2B Sales: A Manager's Guide to Optimizing Sales Routes
Multi-Stop Route Optimization for B2B Sales: A Manager's Guide to Optimizing Sales Routes Stop me if you've heard this one before… your best rep's pitch meeting went over, so now they’re late to their next meeting and stuck in traffic, watching a $50,000 deal slip away. Why? They planned their route the way they navigate to brunch - by casually using their phone’s default routing app. Here's the uncomfortable truth: most field sales teams bleed money via bad routing. How? They treat optimized routes with multiple stops like an inconsequential option, not a competitive advantage. Sales route optimization separates quota-crushers from quota-missers. When they nail their routing, your reps will fit more…
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Medical Device Territory Planning & Alignment: How to Optimize Your Territories for Peak Sales Performance
Medical Device Territory Planning & Alignment: How to Optimize Your Territories for Peak Sales Performance If you’re in medtech sales management, medical device territory planning is the highest-leverage activity you can invest in this quarter. Don't believe me? Consider what optimized territory alignment consistently delivers for medical device teams:  15% higher sales objective achievements57% increase in prospect meetingsIncrease relevant data collection by 14% On the flip side, 2 - 5% of revenue disappears every year due to poor rep-to-territory match and alignment. Here's the truth: medical device sales reps operate in one of the most complex selling environments in the B2B space. They navigate hospital systems, coordinate with OR schedules, and build long-term relationships…
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How to Sell to Doctors: 3 Modern Fundamentals + Bonus Interview Insights
How to Sell to Doctors: 3 Modern Fundamentals + Bonus Interview Insights Every industry and persona is different, but understanding how to sell to doctors takes particular nuance. When your target market - doctors, nurse practitioners, and PAs - put patient care first, success hinges on blending medical expertise with current digital realities: Like telehealth use in over 40% of visits and AI being adopted by healthcare orgs at 2.2x the rate of the rest of the economy.  This guide, drawn from interviews with a primary care physician (who sees at least five reps a week!), a pharma specialist, an orthopedic device pro, and an animal health sales rep, distills timeless…
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Sales Territory Alignment: The What, Why, and How of Aligning Your Territories
Sales Territory Alignment: The What, Why, and How of Aligning Your Territories Wolf Cola, a regional beverage company, has been performing consistent and fair sales territory alignment for years - a lead comes in, that lead goes to Rep A. The next time a lead comes in, it is given to Rep B. The next lead goes to Rep C, and so on and so forth in a round-robin leads distribution process, safely logged in the related spreadsheet.  Frank’s Fluids, a rival beverage company, also feel that they have a good handle on sales territory planning - they have four sales reps, each covering one of the four quadrants of the…
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4 Ways Mindful Meditation Helps Salespeople Sell Better
4 Ways Mindful Meditation Helps Salespeople Sell Better The world of sales, with its constant striving to reach quotas, always on call to management, and countless other demands, is a high-stress job. A certain amount of stress is good, it can keep you on your toes. But you need to learn how to combat stress and use it to your advantage. Enter mindfulness meditation. Meditation to a lot of people may seem like fluff or some new age nonsense. Or maybe you have tried it but it hasn't worked out for you. I’m here to tell you that meditation can work for everyone, and can do wonders for…
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