Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 27, 2014

2014: How will you stand out in the marketplace? Embedded as one of the key components in the marketing segment was building a vertical market using Cloud solutions to increase sales velocity, one of the sub-elements was using Thought Leadership Marketing to help you stand out in the marketplace. Sales Management Consulting'

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Goodbye, 2014. Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )? Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. This is how it’s always worked in most sales organizations.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Can you name 10 Core Competencies of a great salesperson? Let''s see, there''s prospecting, qualifying and closing, and then there''s.wow, this is difficult! Next week I''ll introduce our new and revised Sales Management Core Competencies. They are marketing themselves.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore? Last week during a client’s sales meeting we got into a discussion regarding pipeline values, needless to say the number of prospects and dollar values were insufficient to achieve the overall corporate revenue objectives. What is your sales process? First, it depends.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 4, 2014

Sales manager with a new sales team. As most in sales leadership would share – the front-line sales manager is the pivotal job for building and sustaining sales success. And, perhaps the most critical time for any sales manager is when first taking over a new sales team.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Many of my clients and prospects tell me that the 4th quarter is when they take time to discuss sales plans (goals) and business plans with their sales people. However, this is so important that I want to give you the opportunity to get help with this critical sales management function.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.

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Pointclear

MARCH 24, 2015

I was particularly impressed with the first speaker Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. Mike''s presentation, “4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015,” blew me away. So, what is prospecting , exactly?

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Pointclear

MARCH 26, 2015

In the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff earlier this year, I had the pleasure of hearing for the first time, Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. A compelling message is a sales rep’s most valuable weapon. Simplified.:

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Many of my clients and prospects tell me that the 4th quarter is when they take time to discuss sales plans (goals) and business plans with their sales people. However, this is so important that I want to give you the opportunity to get help with this critical sales management function.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." There are 10 best practices Sales VPs have taken to ensure this doesn’t happen. Make the sales job fun. Training your sales team how to social sell will immediately improve your sales pipeline.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

You bet, and it’s critical to increasing B2B sales effectiveness. By sharing information, ideas, solutions, and even referrals with our clients and prospects, we become trusted resources. Working with PITA (“pain in the ass”) clients isn’t just an unpleasant experience; it’s an opportunity cost. CSO Insights agrees with me.

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Pointclear

MARCH 27, 2015

Here we are at the fourth and final installment of the series, 4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015 , from Mike Weinberg’s presentation at the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff. His final tip is a passionate plea calling all sales reps to return to the telephone. Part 1: Tip #1 Believe it Works. Part 2: Tip #2 Commit to It.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. They cross collaborate with manager peers, their reps, and the VP. They trust their managers to execute.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Every year, a Sales Enablement leader is faced with the same problem. Ramping new sales reps. Make a change in 2014. Lead to Opportunity conversion. Pipeline generation and management. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Now…what is productivity?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Now is the perfect time to follow up with your clients, prospects, and Referral Sources. Mark Hunter and Andy Paul revealed that 40 to 80 percent of sales leads are never followed up on. Although I’ve witnessed this brand of laziness first-hand, I was still shocked that salespeople could pass up so many opportunities to sell.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A 2019 study by Xactly that researched 100,000 women in sales roles, including sales reps, account managers, and sales managers, found that 86% of women achieved quota, compared to only 78% of men. Even though women make up 50% of the population, most companies’ sales forces only include about 25% women.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 9, 2014

It’s our job as smart, strategic sales pros to deliver value—real value—and we can only do that if we’ve invested time in researching our prospects. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. It''s a great opportunity to challenge yourself to grow, both personally and professionally. Every sales manager is time starved.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The seller connects with the contacts, by phone or email, and must overcome tremendous resistance, get their attention, get them engaged, qualify them as a potential prospect, and convert them to an opportunity in the pipeline. Or, if responsible for more of the sales cycle, convert that opportunity into something more, like a sale.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

Do you have salespeople who find enough opportunities, but struggle to get them closed? Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 29, 2015

Sales Management: The need for creativity! This past week I had opportunity to work with a great client at their worldwide sales conference in Miami. They seem to come up with unique ideas to prospect, find ways to enhance client relationships and they close more effectively. Need more sales management resources?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Amazed, you watch him visit with the prospect. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Learn why your team ignores your sales process and how to fix it. It takes time to run the new process against a set of sales opportunities.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

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 Scenario - the candidate is provided with an instruction package that includes the background information on fictional sales opportunity. The task is to create and deliver a winning sales presentation.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

If so, you can forget about exceeding quota in 2014. Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28 The only way to keep your pipeline full of HOT, qualified leads is to prospect through referrals.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 14, 2014

Nothing is more important in today’s selling than the conversation that takes place between the salesperson and the prospect. Milestones are known only to the salesperson, achieved within the conversation, and invisible to prospects. It causes prospects to think, “We need to work with Dave. Is it the concept of SOB Quality?

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2013

These ideas can be designed for sales leaders or individual sales performers. 1) Make a visual list of the top largest sales opportunities (white board) and strategize on the best tactics to close each one. 10) Don’t forget to prospect, market because January 1 st , 2014 will come up quickly.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Through the decades, the coaches, consultants and idea generators who help sales and marketing teams improve their performance have made storytelling a staple of their message. They are more often directly engaging with prospects and growth-opportunity customers. and isn’t that our goal in sales?—?a

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For sales teams, access to customer information is essential to do their job. Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. Today, this traditional sales structure is undergoing a drastic change. Identify the right customers.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Aventioninc.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Just today I listened to a prospective client describe how their prospects are treating his sales teams and how his sales teams dread attempting to call on ‘net new” opportunities-“It’s all about low price-vendor relationships vs how we like to work as a consultative partner with our clients” he stated.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 30, 2020

Unfortunately, this is the message I’m hearing from senior leadership to their front line sales managers, as companies fearfully scramble to reinvent themselves. It was day two of delivering my sales leadership coach training course for the talented leaders at Microsoft in São Paulo, Brazil. January 28-29, 2014.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2014

Duncan: The buying process has changed dramatically in the last decade and today as much as 70% of the buying cycle happens before a prospect ever reaches out to a vendor. They are reaching out to their friend Google instead.) This gives a very narrow window within which a sales rep must be able to add value for a prospect.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. Once the sales manager has spent these hours every week, they must come back the following week and do it all over again.

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SBI

MAY 6, 2014

Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Power Prospecting. Sales & Marketing Content.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Inbound sales benefits buyers at each stage of the buyer process: awareness , consideration , and decision. Developing a list of criteria and attributes for sales managers to screen for when interviewing candidates is essential to recruiting and retaining top talent. Sales Activities. Prospect qualification.

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