July 29, 2026

The handoff tax: What it costs when your rep is alone on the call

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The most expensive moment in a B2B sales cycle does not look like one. An account executive is thirty minutes into a live call. Discovery is finished, the buyer is engaged, and the conversation has moved past polite curiosity into the part where deal...