No other company role was impacted more by the COVID pandemic than field sales. Business travel came to a halt. Field salespeople had to pivot to remote and virtual selling. Prospects, leads, and customers stopped picking up the phone and replying to emails.
“Should I pivot to inside sales?” “What will fill the gap that my commissions used to take up?” “Will we ever get back to the old way of doing things?”
These were some of the questions that field sales pros were asking in 2020 and 2021. As a G2 Field Sales Leader, we felt compelled to survey 500 sales professionals across North America and Europe to discover the necessary reasons for optimism in 2022 and beyond.
This is what we found. Start turning the pages and get excited about field sales again!