Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received. Becoming “brilliant in sales execution” during each stage is critical. However as I consider the general area of sales we see several trends.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The One Must Do Action Step to Ensure a Great 2015. This will help the salesperson plan a strategic sales roadmap as to how their products/services can potentially be used to assist the client in achieving their goals. What is your plan to get a jump start on 2015? Blog: www.YourSalesManagementGuru.com.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Creating a Sales Compensation Plans. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. What are sales goals?

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What Sales Compensation Trends Are in Store for 2015? . This week while I am on vacation I am adding a Guest Blog, it should be of huge interest to the readers of this blog. Sales departments have a long history of overspending their compensation budgets. percent median increase in sales for 2015.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content. Two things.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 16, 2016

7 Steps to Success for Sales Managers. -A After being a VP of Sales, consulting on sales management for 19 years and after writing four books on sales management, Max Cates, author of 7 Steps caught my attention in the first five pages. Developing a Self-Managed Sales Team.

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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 . Learn More.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 31, 2015

Cincom recently attended Microsoft Convergence 2015, which took place in Atlanta, Georgia. If a sales manager or sales rep can’t access CRM or the sales tools they need while they’re on the road, it’s likely that you won’t be doing business with them. Related Posts. Top Trends of Microsoft Convergence 2014.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Sales Management and Discipline. I received a call from a former client that was concerned about the status of their sales team and VP of Sales-it seems that their revenue was off more than $2M over the previous year and below their growth goal! After that conversation I next interviewed the VP of Sales.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 24, 2015

2015 started strong for us at OpenSymmetry in Singapore. With such great activity, we took part as a speaker and exhibitor at the Anaplan Hub in Singapore on 18 th March 2015. The event was a great opportunity for us to showcase how we can help companies have unstoppable sales and financial performance. About the Author.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 3, 2016

Sales Management Shouldn’t be a Horse Race. During the past 18 years of consulting with hundreds of firms and certainly talking to thousands of people I have witnessed the same ignorance and casual attitudes in managing sales teams. It happens in so many aspects of the job of sales leadership. What do I mean?

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 4, 2015

Sales managers and the time trap. For sales managers Public Enemy # 1 is time. The more successful a sales manager, the more demands on their time. One simple answer is enough is enough when there is not enough time left to manage and coach your sales team. Emails and VMs abound. Team coaching.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 14, 2016

Sales Management: What is your goal—today? . Sales leadership is a constant focus on many various facets of business-it’s one of the reasons sales management is a one of the most difficult jobs in any business. It is because of these numerous aspects that many sales managers get distracted or lose focus.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Sales managers. A few years ago we published a blog on the importance of sales managers assessing their prior year’s performance and incorporating the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. A good starting point is to reflect on their past performance as a sales manager.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 17, 2015

Ignite Your Sales Team: Sales Management on Fire! Everyone wants to lead a high performance sales team, but have you made the right investment to make it happen? We see many organizations struggling simply because they have not figured out the importance of investing in training their sales managers.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 11, 2014

These uncertainties—which cause many sales professionals to dread networking events throughout the year—seem to weigh even heavier around the holidays, when we’re already busy and tired of running around. Otherwise you probably wouldn’t be in sales. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 8, 2015

Sales coaching. What best practices are particularly important to keep in mind when coaching the Millennials on your sales team? For this blog we borrowed a couple of ideas from the author and added a few of our own to make the point that experienced salespeople in their 40s and 50s also need and want coaching. Remember praise.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." One article was written by a sales expert discussing the concept of following the buyer's purchasing process. Februrary 19 2015. Don't get me wrong. April 29 2013.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Amp Up Your Sales. Amp Up Your Sales, published by AMACOM, written by Andy Paul is a book you should consider for your 2015 sales training program. Andy has put together 40 chapters of concise, practical and most important the right information that when implemented can drive your sales to the next level.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2014

If you want startling results in 2015, the time to get your ducks in a row is now. For more on the most effective sales strategy that exists, check out the latest blog posts from No More Cold Calling: Wide Awake at Dreamforce 2014 If we’re not learning, we’re dead. But begging for forgiveness doesn’t work in marketing and sales.

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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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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

The intricacies of pharmaceutical products, stringent regulatory guidelines, and the critical role healthcare professionals play in decision-making create a complex environment for sales reps. With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated.

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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. As a Sales Leader or Executive these 3 secrets will also help propel your sales organization to the next level.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 6, 2016

July is Sales Leadership Month. As a sales leader you must always have a vision and action plans for a rolling six months, this is why July is the perfect month for anyone that has sales management responsibility—so why not name it Sales Leadership Month ! Did the quarterly sales training plans work?

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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). Create an initial team of 5 of your best sales people. Here is how it can work. This Social 3.0

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2015

I find ways to relate events in my life to my primary professional focus – Developing Highly Successful Sales Organizations. At Anthony Cole Training Group, we do this by focusing on 1 VERY important CEO/President question – How do I grow sales? We have a program called SME – Sales Managed Environment.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List is a submission-based list. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. They’re creating safe spaces to empower female professionals and championing diversity in sales, both inside and outside their organizations.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 27, 2016

This book should be scheduled for your next Acumen Sales Book Club. Selling to the Point by Jeffrey Lipsius is a unique sales training book and I have read many. Rick, the sales trainer breaks his ideas into 10 Law’s, here are just a few: Salespeople will be successful when they understand that the point of selling isn’t selling.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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. The question is, as a sales manager how should you structure your sales team’s expectations around prospecting?

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

Building a Culture of High Performance: Sales Games. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for the 4th quarter and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. If it isn’t fun, it isn’t selling”. Improving customer service.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

It seems like new sales books are coming out every week but I can promise you this; this is one that must be in your sales library. It has made the Acumen Sales Book Club list. Time Management for Prospecting. It is a sales training session all by itself!

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last Friday my topic was “Accelerate Your Business in 2015”, during the program I covered a variety of ideas, techniques and tools the audience could use to drive increased levels of sales pipeline values and revenues. A portion of what I spoke about was from a recent blog: The One Must Do Action Step to Ensure a Great 2015!

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Guest blogger Carol Frohlinger explains how to corral your colleagues and make the sale together. My sense is that most salespeople, especially women in sales, would jump at the opportunity to learn how to win at team negotiations. to guest blog this month. © 2015, Negotiating Women, Inc. I think I’d flunk.

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MJ Hoffman

JULY 24, 2018

Sales managers often motivate their reps with SPIFFs and sales contests that award cash prizes. This is a tried and true sales motivation strategy, and monetary rewards generally produce results. However, they don’t really motivate the entire sales force — only the top performers likely to win. And the best part?

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