Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Preparing for 2013. I thought I might simply highlight a few points from both sessions since there are pertinent for everyone as we move into 2013. There were four panelists -all with real world experience in selling and marketing. Still others believed sales must prospect and any leads from marketing were simply “gifts”. .

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated. In this blog post, we’ll outline the unique challenges faced in pharmaceutical sales training and provide practical solutions. What are some challenges in pharmaceutical sales training?

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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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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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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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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2013

There are several GREAT speakers in the general sessions, but it is not a conference where you will find constant discussions about the art and science of selling or sales management. Whenever I hear a talk, a message or a point of view, I find myself automatically translating it to sales and sales management.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In fact, according to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , the number of businesses with a dedicated enablement function has increased from 19% to 33% since 2013. One of the most important aspects of any sales enablement strategy is alignment to the customer journey. Streamlining the sales process.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 12, 2013

Related Stories Jeffrey Gitomer | Live in Orlando See Jeffrey Gitomer LIVE in Greeneville, TN | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Jeffrey Gitomer – Named one of the Top Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2013.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 19, 2013

Medical device sales and sales managers. The medical device market faces transformational market challenges – decision criteria shifting from clinical to economic, decision-making moving from local hospitals to IDNs, the rise of GPOs, and the dramatic impact of new governmental regulations.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In 2013, American companies alone spent $164.2 billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. Clearly, if your team needs sales training, there's a lot of options out there.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s amazing what Harvard Business Review will print on their pages when it comes to the subject of sales. The November 2013 issue featured an article titled Dismantling the Sales Machine. Their survey data is limited to 2,500 salespeople at 30 member companies.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 23, 2013

Booz & Co published a particularly insightful article on a particularly important topic – Sales Force Design: Assessing Stark Choices and Getting it Right. Because of the dynamic changes occurring across markets, the assessment of whether the right sales force design is in place has become a priority for senior sales leaders.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 30, 2012

Sales Leadership: Impacting Your 2013 Revenue. Yes, I am fully aware it is still 2012 and there are five months left in this year to exceed your quota and hopefully you are well positioned from a pipeline, marketing and headcount to achieve your goals. Many organizations are starting early stage strategic planning at this stage.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

One of the biggest problems a VP of Sales faces is prioritization. Prioritization through 3 lenses: What sales productivity problems should you fix in 2013? This post is written for the VP of Sales trying to determine which sales productivity problem to prioritize and which ones to ignore. You don’t run Marketing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 15, 2018

This is why a start-up company hired me to build their training department. The firm was targeting the senior market by offering solutions to keep these older people safe in their own homes rather than empty bank accounts to move into senior housing. But I wanted to do more than just offer live training and follow-up coaching.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Inside salespeople are no longer just engaged in small commodity type sales or as backup for completing the secondary tasks of the outside sales group. As Steve Martin pointed out in an HBR blog companies are increasingly creating inside sales groups who are independently handling accounts in the mid-market.

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SBI

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s not as if companies in years past weren’t training and enabling their sales forces; it’s just that the term “enablement” wasn’t yet a common part of the B2B sales lexicon. But don’t forget that your sales managers need enablement too. How many managers are naturally adept at all (or even most) of these areas?

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 8, 2013

Key Account Executives Sales Training. In this post, we are focusing on companies who have a separate Key Account sales team. Over the years we have had the opportunity to design sales training initiatives for numerous companies having Key Account sales teams. Let’s take a look at that difference.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Sales cycle redesign is a good start, but the salespeople must be able to execute on the new sales process as well. Many sales processes die upon introduction as sales managers are unable to hold salespeople accountable for following the process and aren''t able to coach to the new process either. The introduction?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Organizing and scheduling product training sessions.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 18, 2013

Many would say it''s about the size of the sales force. And a few would point to sales leadership and discipline. World-Class Sales Organization. Let''s discuss the challenges of this model in a smaller company where there may be a half dozen salespeople or less reporting to one sales manager. Sales Architecture.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 7, 2013

Learn how thought leadership marketing will impact your vertical market presence. The first thing most people ask when considering whether to focus on vertical or niche markets is, of course, what are the benefits? Lower cost of sales. Wednesday July 10th, SM18 Dominate Your Market: at 2:30pm . Better margins.

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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”? Measuring activity” gives you a false read on the reality of sales. The post The Biggest Thing Sales Leaders Overlook: SALES!

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 11, 2013

Key Account Executives Sales Training. In this post, we are focusing on companies who have a separate Key Account sales team. Over the years we have had the opportunity to design sales training initiatives for numerous companies having Key Account sales teams. Let’s take a look at that difference.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 2, 2013

A sharp sales manager who is a strategic thinker and has clout in the company. No micro-managing. They don’t have time for petty stuff and especially for a sales manager or anyone else who wants to pick apart everything and insist on over complicating everything. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

My intention is to produce a free new white paper, which will be ready for distribution on December 31st – “The FIVE Most Significant Challenges Facing Every Company Everywhere in 2013″ and today, I can give you a flavor … Challenge One: Finding the Opportunities.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 20, 2013

Believe it or not in spite of all the articles, books, sale training coaching and enterprise consulting on creating a culture of high performance, there are still Fortune 500 companies who are clueless when it comes to creating a united sales strategy where there exists a culture of collaboration among their sales management and team members.

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Score More Sales

JULY 17, 2013

Video for sales training and coaching is a given. Nothing fully replaces in-person interaction with prospects, clients, or in-house training, yet video can work as a close second in augmenting in-person meetings. Gerhard had been in the UK recently for a Sales 2.0 Sales managers should hire learners, not students.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 14, 2013

You meet with the: Chief marketing officer. Product marketing. Field marketing. The “hunter” sales force leader. Manager of the lead development team. A sales training program redesign. Manager of learning and development. Director of sales training. Director of demand gen.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 3, 2013

If the sales team is to do all this successfully they need help from others. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection. ©2013 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Increase Sales

JULY 18, 2013

The obvious problem in sales is the first one that comes out during that initial first contact or within the more formal fact finding meeting. And much of the marketing is geared to those plentiful small business problems.Sales Training Coaching Tip: 99.1% Inconsistent sales management. Poor marketing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 9, 2014

When we work with companies selling through channels, the sales processes, metrics, sales management, sales coaching, sales training, messaging and coaching must be different from what we do with direct B2B sales forces. Channel sales is quite different.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 21, 2014

OMG''s sales assessment is an executional sales assessment and scientifically shows not only if a sales candidate can sell, but whether or not they will sell and succeed - for your company, in a specific sales role, against your competition, at your price points, calling into your market, and from the challenges they''ll face.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Training (4995). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics. Tools (2872).

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 24, 2013

In today’s markets a competitor is likely come out with a product that is just as good or better than yours, in half the time you thought it is going to take – plus make it cheaper. While they had a superior product on the market they also devoted substantial resources to developing a world-class sales team.

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