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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

You know you need to begin planning for 2014 now. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. Sales training.

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51 Ways to Fund Your Sales Improvement Effort

SBI Growth

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. Whatever the Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) improvement, it will require funds to get it implemented. Or a redesigned compensation plan.

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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps.

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Top 20 Sales & Marketing Vendors to Follow on Twitter @Dreamforce ’14

SBI

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. Sales managers love ClearSlide for the insight it offers into their team’s activities, and sales people love the automatic activity logging. Accelerate Sales Ramp Up. That’s me with Sassy.

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Put a Little Personality into Selling

Your Sales Management Guru

Offer incentives for a willingness to take a risk, avoid too many details, speak to the persuader’s dreams and make the person a hero. During your sales process you will need to emphasize research. Show personal respect by being open and honest, even about weaknesses of your solution. Many executives can be analytical.

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Systems/Processes/Tools. Marketing/Sales Integration. Sales Automation/Tools. Performance Management/Metrics. Sales Effectiveness/Sales Efficiency. Incentives/Compensation.

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If It Isn’t Fun, It isn’t Selling!!!

Your Sales Management Guru

First, in every organization that I have been with or have consulted in that had great cultures, those sales teams not only worked hard, were professional in their approach they also had a culture of fun. The second aspect of creating fun and selling is with prospects and clients during the sales process. Sports events?