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28%

28% -- percentage of week spent selling for salespeople (2022)

2022  · Salesforce

A 2022 Salesforce survey estimates that salespeople only spend an average of 28% of their week selling.

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salespeople
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Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2022 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Sales Enablement: How to Succeed in a Difficult Sales Climate
The current remote-forward, highly competitive sales landscape and tumultuous economic climate has salespeople facing higher quotas, while simultaneously running into more difficulties converting leads. Both salespeople and their customers are feeling the squeeze of inflation and looking towards the…
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salespeople: 28% percentage of week spent selling. Source: Salesforce (2022). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/salespeople-week-time-selling-2022
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/salespeople-week-time-selling-2022" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>28%</strong> -- percentage of week spent selling for salespeople<br><small>Source: Salesforce (2022) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/salespeople-week-time-selling-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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