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Dec 2017
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The State of Sales Development: How 1000...

Brandon Bornancin
About this episode

Sales development is a tough role but it's an important role and one of the most innovative roles to emerge from sales in the last decade. The problem is, the research has been weak and so has the best practices. That ends today. InsideSales.com in partnership with a half-dozen companies have produced the largest study ever on sales development. The study focuses on Structure, Systems, People, and Pipeline.

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In This Episode You'll Learn:

  • What is sales development
  • How 1000+ companies are building and executing successful sales development teams
  • The structure, systems, people, and pipeline of successful sales development teams
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