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At MarketTime we believe salespeople are crucial to the wholesale industry and great salespeople know the value of following up. Following up is an important part of the B2B sales process because it allows salespeople to stay in touch with potential and current clients and is key to building strong relationships. When salespeople follow up with leads and clients they provide them with valuable information about new products, current and future product availability, and address any concerns they may have. 

MarketTime hosted a webinar about the art of follow-up, focusing on how B2B sales professionals follow up with new leads. We conducted surveys during the presentation, and MarketTime obtained some interesting insights. As we prepare for another upcoming wholesale show season, we invite you to learn more about some of the takeaways gathered from Salespeople, Sales Agency Admins, Sales Managers, and Suppliers that attended the webinar and utilize these tools as your follow-up post-shows. 

How Leading Brands, Sales Agencies, and Sales Reps are Outperforming the Market with MarketTime

Our world is awash in DATA – In fact, more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire history of humanity.

The retail industry is ever-evolving and has been vastly influenced and directed by technology. B2B wholesale and B2B eCommerce has expanded with multiple platforms developed to connect retail buyers to brands. In today’s quick-moving digital retail world, it can be enticing to hop on a platform that takes out the middleman, aka the salesperson, and connects you directly with brands. While this may be beneficial for someone just starting out, as you grow and continue to refine and finesse your business, it's essential to recognize the key role salespeople play in that development. 

At MarketTime, we believe that if our customer succeeds, our business succeeds. As reported by Gartner, about 66% of companies say they compete based on customer satisfaction. Customers will be more invested in your product and likely to promote it if they find success while using it. As a result, our MarketTime community grows every week. 

Our MarketTime community grows every week. Through the end of summer and the beginning of fall, we continue to welcome an unprecedented number of new vendors and sales agencies. These companies are adopting MarketTime sales tools powering both in-person and online sales and leveraging the extraordinary value that salespeople offer.

When it comes to helping your salespeople close deals while out on the road, information is the most valuable asset you can provide as a Sales Manager.

Although summer is the peak season for wholesale industry trade shows, there are some great events slated for the 4th quarter of 2022. Salespeople from all around the country will be gathering to gear up for 2023 and move closer to their growth goals.

In the wholesale industry, a Sales Representative serves as a vital link between Brands, Sales Agencies, and Retailers. They are responsible for developing and maintaining those critical relationships, from prospecting to sales to reordering. A Sales Rep career can be rewarding, exhilarating, and on some days exhausting. Elizabeth McElhatten, a Sales Representative at The Portico Collection, told us all about a day in her life as a Salesperson during a recent interview.

B2B eCommerce grew 1.17 times faster than the growth of manufacturing and sales in the United States, growing 17.8% between 2020 to 2021. Part of this is due to businesses, like MarketTime, that support the wholesale industry by offering solutions that enable Omnichannel marketing.