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The One Thing You Cannot Skip When Hiring an ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

Planning for 2014 is in full swing. You just got off the weekly call with the Sales Leadership team. Your boss, the SVP of Sales, has some ‘great’ news. “We We got budget approval to add new sales heads. Start recruiting now so we can start of 2014 with a full team.” Invite your boss, a peer and two sales managers.

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How Data and Intelligence Are Going to Change the Sales Industry Forever

Crunchbase

CRMs, like Salesforce and HubSpot , not only house customer information but allows sales leaders to gain insight into their companies’ sales performance. Through data and analytics, sales leaders can effectively track and monitor sales reps’ activities while keeping an eye on how they are measuring against their KPIs.

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Hiring Best Practice: Test Before You Offer

SBI Growth

Sales can learn a lesson here. Sign up here to receive a copy of the Sales Job Tryout Toolkit. Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Here''s a 7-step overview of a tryout for a sales rep. (To It follows the format of your typical sales proposal. This post will help take the risk out of hiring.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Do you need to develop or sharpen your team’s analytics skills? But where to begin? Get them proficient with more marketing technologies?

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Why do millennials make great salespeople?

Sales Training Connection

They’re data-driven – Millennial salespeople will approach selling as a science, embracing the tools and analytics that are increasingly becoming important as a foundation for success. The challenge for sales management is to develop the mindset and skills to leverage that potential. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Do You Know Your A, B, C’s?

Your Sales Management Guru

Take an analytical approach to understanding your customer base, it will drive better messaging, increase order rates and improve your profitability-sounds like an excellent formula to get started on 2015! Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone.

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

Go To Customer/Sales Deployment Models/Inside/Outside/Channel/Web/Hybrid. Performance Management/Metrics. Sales Effectiveness/Sales Efficiency. Analytics/Big Data. Those were the issues I saw a year ago, talking about the key issues for 2014. Customer Focus/Customer Centricity. Customer Engagement.

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