Customer Centric Selling

JULY 2, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Boost the Remainder of Your 2014. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Early in my sales management career, I was astounded by how hopeful salespeople were that had achieved 35% of their annual quota going into the fourth quarter.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Sales Training. It is not a career risk to be out front advocating your company place a priority on sales training. Business Case for Sales Training. CSO Insights recently published a particularly informative study that relates directly to our career question – The Business Case for Sales Training.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

Excellent sales organizations will have each salesperson complete a six month detailed sales business plan that will include defined personal and professional goals and depending on the type of product/services an organization offers, a forecast that equals 3X assigned quotas. Acumen Management Group Ltd. Like a sample?

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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." Trying to make your number without a full budgeted sales headcount is difficult. Missing even more than 5% of your budgeted team can cause a missed quota. Make the sales job fun.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Converting to Agile Performance Reviews will help you Make the Number in 2014. Unfortunately, none of these apply to a modern sales organization. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. Training classes and workshops won''t get it done.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2013

Q1 quota seemed to be a walk in the park. There is a better way to differentiate your sales force from the competition. There is a better way to differentiate your sales force from the competition. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute."

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 10, 2017

.” For those in sales leadership including sales management roles, results happen through consistent goal achievement. Yet sales research continues to reveal consistently achieving quotas is not the current reality. Back in 2011, Inc magazine suggested 50% of salespeople miss their sales goals.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

Sales VPs are asking a similar question this time of year: " What can we do with my reps to get a quick revenue lift? Can I make up the deficit and make my quota? ". There are certain trainings that can produce these results. Register now for our How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Execute.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

Training organized in “sprints”. The sales manager owns the process and is paid on average ramp time. Training happens in the field, not in the class room. Your 2014 quota is going up. You are going to need to hire new sales reps. Learning activities completed is useless. Start to finish in 13 weeks.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sales Training Article: Is"Sales Manager" An Oxymoron? Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Are you doing more selling than managing? Need some help with your sales performance?

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 5, 2013

Sales Training Article: "When Is This Deal Going to Close?". By Scott Gruher, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of imagerymajestic at FreeDigitalPhotos.net "When Is This Deal Going to Close?" The worst question a sales leader can ask a rep. You are thinking solely of your own quota.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. So, in 2014, I published Pick Up the Damn Phone! Was this company asking? That’s when my wheels began to turn.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 9, 2014

Developing sales talent. Sales managers, like many other managers, have a tendency not to focus on their top performers. Yet when we ask those same sales managers, “What’s your reaction when you find out that one of your superstars is moving on?” How can you minimize this happening on your sales team?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 18, 2015

Check out Richard’s advice for sales leadership: “Sales managers have a tendency not to focus on their top performers. There are many reasons: Top sales performers don’t demand as much from their sales managers, and sales managers believe their superstars can handle whatever on their own.

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Pointclear

JUNE 4, 2013

Since the economic downturn we recognize that companies have cut back on training for salespeople. I predict that this year about 50% of salespeople will miss quota due to the cut back in sales enablement and training. As mentioned earlier, companies have drastically cut back on sales enablement and training.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Why Doesn''t Sales Methodology Get More Attention? Getting a Sales Organization to Buy-In to Sales Training.

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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. What was the most creative sales tactic you have used? Need more sales management resources? Check out his Sales Management Tool Kit or the Acumen Project.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Sales Training Article: 11 Traits of a High Performing Sales Culture. By Steve Loftness, Sales Benchmark Index How do you know if your sales force is a high-performing one? This post lists some attributes of high-performance sales cultures. It lists 11 traits of high performance sales cultures.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2015

We can, however, measure and manage the key sales activities and behaviors that drive revenue. Some execs promote giving reps a quota and letting them figure out the activities that will help them meet it. Not only does this strategy let sales leaders off the hook for coaching and training salespeople —which is their No.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team should have a sales strategy plan outlining its goals, best practices, and processes designed to align the team and create consistency. Here are the essential components of a sales plan: 1. Each goal should be specific and measurable , such as “to sell 150% of the projected sales quota in Q2.”.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2014

This kind of smart work will help you target sell more effectively, reduce your wasted telephone prospecting time, increase your odds to develop new account relationships and open the doors to exceed your 2014-15 quotas. Acumen Management Group Ltd. for the first time sales manager. Sales Training'

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 30, 2015

Learners: High potentials, do we have a plan to train ? We recommend that this becomes a formal procedure between the Sales Manager and each salesperson, at least twice a year. Weuse a Salesperson Development Tool from our Sales Managers Tool Kit. (The Need more sales management resources?

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SBI

APRIL 8, 2015

They perform tasks imposed on them internally, like expense reports, product training and internal meetings. As managers, the way we determine whether reps are on target with time and task management, is to check whether they’re on target with percentage of quota to-date.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Sales representatives will know a lot about their industry by the time they’re done with training. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series offers helpful insights for how to run a successful SaaS modern sales organization. Reps were hired, trained and compensated to perform as an individual to hit a quota.

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 18, 2013

In date order … We are delivering Modules 5 and 6 of the Top Sales Academy Sales Management Level next week. Quota Attainment” “ Quota is the heart-beat of every organization because: It’s the revenue number management relies on for business planning purposes.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When you look ahead to 2014 sales, are you using the same assumptions as always? What if it takes the sales equivalent of 51 points to meet budget? For those, you''ll have to head into 2014 and leave margin for error. The real issues are: Will sales managers pay any attention to the metrics or look only at sales?

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Tenfold

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Back in 2014, gamification as a strategy for improving sales productivity was the trend – not that it was a new breakthrough idea then. The Case for Sales Gamification. The concept of winning as a reward in itself is not new to many sales managers. Easy Progress Monitoring.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world. Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Took a running start into sales, cold call to close, that was ups and downs. I worked really hard in the first three months and hit quota somehow. Went from manager to manager, trying to learn different sales methodologies, which was a disaster. We hit 34 out of 36 quotas sweeping.” It was miserable.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We plan on doing the best sales blogs punchy, to the point, easy-to-implement tactics, drenched with useful visuals. 5 Best Sales Role Play Scenarios to Train Your New Hires. +24 24 Examples of Sales Follow Up Email Subject Line. 46 Best Sales Questions to Ask on a Sales Call. A Post Worth Your Time .

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