If you ask ten construction sales reps how to increase sales, you'll probably hear ten different answers. "Quote more jobs." "Make more cold calls." "Hire another rep." "Lower your prices." Some of those ideas can help. Some can hurt if they're the only strategy you're relying on. The funny thing is, many construction businesses already […]

If you've spent any time riding along with field reps, you've probably noticed something. The work doesn't stop when the meeting ends. A conversation wraps up. You walk back to the truck. Maybe you grab lunch before the next appointment. Then comes the question every rep has asked at some point: I'll remember that later... […]

If you've spent any time in B2B Insurance Sales, you've probably had one of those days where you leave the office with a full calendar... yet somehow feel like you didn't get enough done. Two appointments took longer than expected. A prospect canceled at the last minute. You drove across town for a meeting that […]

If you've spent any time chasing medical sales leads, you've probably noticed something pretty quickly. The hard part usually isn't finding companies that could buy from you. It's figuring out which ones are actually worth your time this week. Healthcare is crowded. One hospital system can have dozens of decision-makers. Independent clinics all work a […]

Some sales conversations feel over before they really begin. A rep asks, "Are you happy with your current supplier?" "Yep." Conversation over. Nothing was technically wrong with the question. It just didn't leave much room for the other person to go anywhere with the answer. A yes or no closes the door pretty quickly. That's […]

There’s a moment most reps have at some point. You finish a meeting, sit in your car, and think… who else is nearby? There are accounts around you. You just can’t picture them clearly. So, you either drive somewhere familiar or head to your next scheduled stop, even if it’s not the best use of time. That’s usually what kicks off the idea of starting […]

A lot of sales emails fail before the recipient reads the first sentence. They fail in the inbox. Buried between meeting invites, internal updates, shipping notifications, newsletters, and whatever else arrived during the previous fifteen minutes. That's the reality facing every salesperson who hits "send." Whether you're following up after a customer visit or reaching […]

There’s a certain kind of sales rep who says they know their territory by heart. But knowing a territory and seeing a sales territory are two different things. According to Harvard Business Review, sales territory design is often a competitive inefficiency. A CRM with mapping capability resolves this issue. A rep can feel busy all […]

Walk onto an active construction site around 7 a.m. and you'll learn something pretty quickly. Nobody is standing around waiting for a sales pitch. Forklifts are moving and crews are unloading materials. Project managers are answering three phone calls at once while trying to track deliveries that should have arrived yesterday. Someone's already frustrated before […]

Walk into a hospital loading dock at 6:30 in the morning and you'll get a pretty accurate picture of what medical equipment sales actually looks like. Not the version from sales conferences or motivational presentations. The real version. Delivery teams moving equipment through narrow hallways. Nurses trying to finish charting before shift change. Department managers […]

The pressure on pharma sales teams never really lets up. New products enter crowded markets and prescribers have less time than ever. Access restrictions keep changing. Meanwhile, leadership teams still expect stronger performance quarter after quarter. For many organizations, the instinct is to focus on hiring more reps or increasing activity targets. More calls, more […]

This post pulls together ratings from G2, Gartner Digital Markets (Capterra/GetApp/Software Advice), TrustRadius, the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store to identify the best field sales software platforms. To keep things fair, only vendors with reviews on at least four of the five sites made the cut. We calculated both a straight average […]