The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 18, 2013

If and Then : The two words no sales manager ever wants to hear. ” The reasoning goes like this: “ If we could cut our price, then I know I could close more sales.” Thinking they’re strategic is the last thing that comes into the sales manager’s mind. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Are you prepared to succeed today in Sales, Sales Management, Business and Life? Let me take a minute to answer for myself and then I'll get on with the rest of the post: Sales - yes, Sales management - kind of, Business - yes. In sales management you would likely look at sales.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 16, 2013

Let’s do a quick review of some of the key activities the typical sales manager — or sales leader — does. Sales managers put them together properly, adding information where necessary, and send them up the chain of command on time. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 31, 2013

It is time to get it out on the table and say once and for all that if you are a sales manager, you are in a dead-end position. If you are a salesperson and you want to be promoted to a sales manager position, it’s time to change your thinking. Sales managers manage processes.

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The Science and Art of Selling

JANUARY 17, 2014

For two weeks in December 2013, ShareBloc ran a contest to find the Top Content Marketing Posts of 2013 as part of their open beta launch. My article about the Agreement Frame was #1 in Sales Management for 2013, and #10 in the overall contest!

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

As a sales manager, one of your jobs is to make sure your salespeople are equipped to succeed when selling to purchasing departments and/or buyers. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 27, 2013

A sales manager can help tremendously if they occasionally go on sales calls with their salespeople. I call this the “four-legged sales call.” ” Problem is too managers won’t do this at all — or when they do it, they do it wrong. ” Sales Motivation Blog. .

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. This article lists the top 10 sales management competencies. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s a big problem with many of the sales blogs you read. One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. Image credit: photoman / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' Evaluate and thrive!

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2014

It got me thinking about the road most often taken to sales management. Compared to the rocky road to coaching in the NFL, the road to sales management absolutely sounds like a road paved with gold! You see, only 18% of all sales managers are any good at coaching and only 66% of them can be coached up.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

One of the easiest things sales managers and senior management can do is to call every person they know at a client company. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Sooner you make the calls, the better. Objective of the calls is three-fold.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2013

Your Sales Management Guru Blog Author on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers” List . Speaker, consultant, and author Ken Thoreson’s updated Sales Manager’s Tool Kit now available . One of the new approaches we’re taking with sales organizations is Business Guidance Selling.” .

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Keith Rosen’s company, Profit Builders, was named one of Selling Power’s Top 20 Training Companies for 2013. ” Representatives for the publication say that editors assembled the list for the benefit of sales leaders that want to reach higher levels of productivity and performance. Read his blog at KeithRosen.com.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. Top Sales Books to Read in 2013.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. Last week I was speaking at a conference on: “ Building and Maintaining Sales Motivation ”, after the program several individuals came up to discuss my concept of a “Drive Statement. Then engage several team members to assist you in developing a sales theme or Drive Statement.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 4, 2013

It shows up in both the top-line sales numbers and the bottom-line profit results. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Blog leadership Professional Selling Skills Sales Development Training Sales Motivation Sales Training sales leadership sales motivation'

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan My vision, of how the future of selling is shaping up, appears in today''s (the December 18, 2013) issue of Top Sales Magazine. This issue also features the 2013 Award Winners of the Top Sales & Marketing Awards in 18 Categories.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 21, 2014

Far too many salespeople and sales managers are still living as if it is 2013 or even 2010. Things change and they change quickly, and if your sales process and strategies aren’t keeping pace, then you’re going to find yourself closing fewer sales.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 30, 2012

Sales Leadership: Impacting Your 2013 Revenue. This week I want you to turn your thinking towards growing overall company revenues for next year and making sure you have the proper number of salespeople contributing on your sales team. Blog: www.YourSalesManagementGuru.com. www.AcumenManagement.com.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 5, 2013

Kanter was writing about leadership in general, we thought her message held merit for front-line sales managers. Most sales managers work in a highly demanding and challenging environment. Clearly it is important to help sales managers learn how to create an environment where accountability is valued and taken seriously.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

You need a superior sales team and maintaining a superior sales team requires f ront-line sales managers who coach and who are good at it. But for sales managers to be good at coaching, feedback must run both ways. From the sales rep perspective the feedback can take two very different forms: 1.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Sales Coaching. Front-line sales managers are the “pivotal job” for improving sales productivity. That means – if companies want to improve sales revenue and optimize sales profitability, they should do everything they can to make sure front-line sales managers are doing what they should be doing.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 20, 2013

As a sales manager, do you ever go on sales calls with you sales representatives? Most sales managers and sales reps don’t handle the “four-legged sales call” in a way that garners the most success. ” Sales Motivation Blog. . You should!

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

That’s why I want to make you aware of Lee Salz and his team over at Sales Architects. They offer a great resource called The Sales Management Challenge. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. Their goal?

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 4, 2013

Sales managers and off-the-cuff comments. We’ve noticed that one of many adjustments new sales managers must make is thinking about the impact of off-the-cuff comments. Because they are now in sales management, what the new sales manager says is taken more seriously. Management Messaging.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 12, 2013

The post Get your tickets TODAY to see Jeffrey Live in Greeneville, TN appeared first on Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Blog. Jeffrey Seminar Sales Sales Management Jeffrey Gitomer Ready Set Boost Jeffrey Gitomer Sales Training jeffrey gitomer seminar public sales seminar sales seminar sales training seminar'

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 14, 2013

Sales managers. A year ago, we published a post on the importance of sales managers to assess their prior year’s performance and to incorporate the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. As mentioned in a HBR blog , “All of us fall into unproductive habits, sometimes unconsciously.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 27, 2013

Sales Coaching. We’ve written several blogs on sales coaching. Second, most people agree that coaching is a must-do for developing a superior sales team. Over the last 30 years we have designed numerous coaching programs for companies engaged in large B2B sales. First it is a topic of widespread interest.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 6, 2013

Too many salespeople and sales managers are “asking” a customer for a price increase. To understand this better, check out the below video: Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. . This is the wrong approach! This isn’t about arrogance.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 2, 2013

I spend a lot of time with division heads, sales managers and salespeople, and it’s not unusual for the topic of sales training to be discussed — especially in context of how important it is or isn’t. . Does sales training really deliver better outcomes for sales teams?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

It''s their sales managers, who are almost as much in the dark as their salespeople. Want an example of sales management being in the dark? End of Quarter Closing is a great example of sales management dysfunction! And please vote for OMG, a finalist for Top Sales Assessment Tool. (c)

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The reason is simple: Confidence creates confidence, which in turn creates more sales. . Sales managers who are reading this should implement this strategy, and the way to do it is by making sure each salesperson has a standard voicemail message ready to go and a couple of questions they can ask anytime.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 19, 2013

Recently I found myself in a discussion with several sales managers over the topic of dealing with high-performing salespeople. One of the managers stated clearly that he didn’t want to try and lead the top-performer, for fear of risking something bad happening. You are a sales leader. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 16, 2013

The 2013 contributors line-up has been finalized over at Top Sales World , and these are the sales experts who will be working with TSW this year: They will be writing articles, providing tips, taking part in roundtables and interviews etc. This is the group that will be … Writing articles for the Top Sales magazine.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 29, 2013

The issue is the amount of time that is spent thinking about sales prospecting in relationship to the amount of time actually spent prospecting. I’ve heard from far too many sales managers and salespeople who say their prospecting pipeline is empty. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 16, 2013

Tweet REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”? Sales management and sales leadership is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Make more cold calls?

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 12, 2013

In sales, it can be all about the numbers and there’s nothing wrong with being concerned about the numbers. However, too many sales managers spend all of their time dealing with the numbers, leaving zero time to spend with their people. In my work with sales managers, I see a wide range of skill sets and competencies.

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