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91% of respondents are proud to call themselves salespeople.
Pipedrive: State of Sales 2020-2021
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2021
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Pipedrive interviewed 1,702 sales reps, sales managers, business owners and Pipedrive customers about how they work and their sales experiences in November and December 2020.
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