I don’t know any sales rep, ever, who didn’t hate doing data entry. Sales reps want to be productive, move quickly, and spend more time talking to people, i.e. what they’re good at: selling. But ...

A top rep once hit “save” on his last call log at 9?p.m.??and realized he’d missed his daughter’s recital. He’s not an outlier: Sellers devote just 28 percent of their week to actual selling; the rest ...