Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Earlier this year I published an article titled 5 Ways to Create a Successful Sales Coaching Program. The results from Sales Mastery sales executive survey showed that 1/3 of executives surveyed, said that “ sub-optimal sales manager coaching” is one of their top 3 barriers to achieving their objectives in 2018.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sales Management End of Year Checklist. . Depending upon the person and the conditions in their sales organization each article may or may not be pertinent. I decided to start with a Sales Management End of Year Checklist. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. But every time I read these articles and start discussing the big issues for the coming year, I get this overwhelming sense of “Deja Vu All Over Again.”

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

2015 was a big year for The Brooks Group, and we’re going to brag a little. Our achievements this year included: Bronze Stevie Award for Sales Training Practice of the Year. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Training Industry. Top 20 Sales Training Company, Selling Power Magazine. Top 7 Articles of 2015 .

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 10, 2015

Sales Mastery 2015. According to Bain & Company, B2B sales executives have seen tremendous disruption in how customers buy in recent years – and they see no reason to think it won’t continue. The folks at Bain surveyed 550 B2B sales executives. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. What does the horse look like?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. Unfortunately, this feedback often doesn't result in significant behavior change from the sales representative.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this article, we take a closer look at the ways you can focus your enablement efforts, to achieve the best possible sales performance. One of the most important aspects of any sales enablement strategy is alignment to the customer journey. Map your strategy to the customer journey. Training, training, training.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2015

Congratulations you have been promoted and you are now the sales manager! Sales organizations tend to promote their top sales reps into sales manager jobs. We all know that this promotion leads to the sales organization losing on two counts. Unheard of? Top performers may end up leaving the company.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 11, 2015

Sales teams. Ask most sales management whether they have ever used some form of competition as a management technique and most will answer – “yes – and if I must say so it worked great.”. Stories abound about how competition can be used effectively inside a sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 19, 2015

In a recent New York Times article Robert Reid CEO of Intact goes on to point out - “Almost everyone goes to work to do a good job. We thought this was an interesting idea for sales management to consider as they start a new year. So what might sales management do to help put in place a more supportive culture?

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 23, 2015

The same is true of sales managers. If you believe front-line sales managers are the key to a team’s sales success – and we do – the end of Q1 is a good time to look at what’s working, what isn’t working and why. A good starting point is to reflect on their performance as a sales manager.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." That search turned up these articles on the first page of results: So who wrote all of these articles? One article was written by a sales expert discussing the concept of following the buyer's purchasing process. Februrary 19 2015.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 8, 2015

What best practices are particularly important to keep in mind when coaching the Millennials on your sales team? But a Forbes article about people in their 40s and 50s recently caught our eye. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 15, 2015

Leading edge sales organizations understand the value of investing and developing their front line sales managers. They believe that strong sales managers are the key to driving sales rep performance. The 2015 STAR Sales Manager Survey set out to gauge the development priorities of sales organizations.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

One of the best responses to this question that I have seen is from a somewhat dated (2015) article in Eyes On Sales in which the author asks: “How many callbacks do you get if you DON'T leave a voicemail?”. The following is from my favorite author (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. Simplified.”

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Take a look at that tattooed figure in the top right of the article. Consider this, Gartner says: “through 2015, 80% of social business efforts will not achieve the intended benefits”. Stop kidding yourself when you say you involved the sales team. Asking a couple of sales reps does not constitute understanding the buyer.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last week I was in Chicago keynoting an international association’s sales conference, in preparation I had been making notes and clipping interesting ideas from a variety of sources, one of them was Success magazine. The specific article covered a young coach, Dale Brown meeting with John Wooden, the Hall of Fame UCLA basketball.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). 2015 could be the year for a quantum shift in strategy, execution and results in your world.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. After pouring loads of time and effort into onboarding, coaching, and engaging sellers on their team, frontline managers feel defeated when they hear “I’m leaving.” Bad Leadership.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 6, 2015

11 Actions Sales Management Must Take Now! Sound investment portfolio-management advice ranges from “hold firm with your existing stocks” to “take advantage of a great opportunity to buy at today’s basement prices”. This also is an opportunity to build a better sales team that will increase your market share as competitors lag.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 6, 2015

So I’m starting this New Year with a great sense of gratitude and purpose because of the sales professionals I reach, and who reach out to me. Here is what you told me: My wife just read your Salesforce article about PITA clients and shared it with me this evening. I liked your article on “ Do Your Leads Suck?

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Sales Tips: Qualify Before Requesting a "Four-Legged" Sales Call. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In my first sales management position I soon noticed that one of my salespeople seldom made calls alone.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 17, 2015

“Our sales teams just don’t do a good job managing their pipeline.” As one frustrated sales manager shared: “For some of my sales reps, accounts literally take up permanent residence at Stage 3″ I hear a thousand reasons why hope is just around the corner. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2015

When you are evaluating your sales people for success, there is success and then there is SUCCESS. Too often, when I sit down with a CEO, president, sales executive or sales manager to discuss sales results and success, I get a description for success that has a great deal of variability to it.

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SBI

AUGUST 22, 2019

Highlighted moments can include calls that managers need to coach reps on, deals that need to be reviewed based on value or risks, and conversations from which others can learn. Recommendations cuts through the noise to find the signal each manager should pay attention to.” Sales Enablement. ????Revegy, Blog Article.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 3, 2016

As Sales Leaders or as anyone, creating a positive life for yourself begins by focusing on others; in my keynote programs I describe how during my work on improving the professionalism of sales managers, we actually began to focus impacting their personal lives as well. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

© 2015, Negotiating Women, Inc. Note: The original version of Carol’s article appeared on www.NegotiatingWomen.com.) Discuss what worked well and why, as well as what the team will do next time to be even more effective. All rights reserved. About the Author CAROL FROHLINGER, J.D. , is the President of Negotiating Women, Inc. ,

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The atmosphere that exists can either benefit sales or stand in its way, and that’s why it’s critical for leaders to intentionally build a healthy sales culture. Make sure that you’re continually fostering an atmosphere that focuses on your customers and their experiences by revisiting our most popular sales culture articles from 2015.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Since I happen to be a psychologist by education, I wondered what type of advice my professional colleagues are providing and whether it might be helpful to Sales? I came across an article in the NY Times by Tim Rohan sharing how the Mets are using a sport psychologist. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 1, 2015

In an interesting HBR article, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats reported people said they feel more productive when executing tasks than planning them – even though they knew planning usually leads to higher performance than simply diving into tasks without a predetermined course of action. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In an article by Gregg Rosenthal of Around The NFL , we are left with the clear message of just how “This has been the season of Cam Newton.” Throughout the 2015 season Cam Newton demonstrated how he could be an effective leader. The 10 Most Common Sales Management Mistakes. How to think through compensation.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 21, 2015

On these calls, top performers not only complete a pre-call plan, they rehearse the call in a role-play with a colleague or sales manager assuming the customer role. Although most sales training programs and sales managers give a fair amount of attention to pre-call planning, post–call planning is often the forgotten country cousin.

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Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 8, 2015

Mike Weinberg – @ mike_weinberg New Business Dev & Sales Management Consultant, Coach, Speaker & Author of #1 Bestseller – New Sales. Jeb Blount – @ SalesGravy Founder of Sales Gravy and Author of People Buy You, People Follow You, People Love You and Power Principles. Instigator.

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 27, 2020

Glen Llopis, a contributor to Forbes.com, offered up some great advice in his 2015 article Six Ways Effective Leaders Evaluate Business Relationships. Before a company starts chatting up potential partners, a careful evaluation of any potential business mates must be completed.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

employees reported working remotely all or some of the time in 2017, compared to just 23 percent in 2015 and 19 percent in 2003 , per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rise in remote work has created new challenges and opportunities for managers tasked with leading geographically dispersed teams. A whopping 43 percent of U.S.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. Hughes 2015 Challenge yourself.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. Full methodology details are available at the end of this article. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re taking the reins at their companies and driving explosive growth.

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