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Sales Leadership: 5 Steps to Exceed 2015 Quota

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. The end of the year is rapidly closing in and while everyone in your organization is focused on achieving their targets; as a sales leader it is crucial you are also focused on the new year. Create annual sales contests.

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

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. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration.

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New Managers Want to Succeed! Are You Helping Them?

Steven Rosen

Congratulations you have been promoted and you are now the sales manager! What if you are left to sink or swim because your organization is going to send you out in the field without any formal training? Sales organizations tend to promote their top sales reps into sales manager jobs. Unheard of?

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Sales managers – a new pathway to leadership

Sales Training Connection

You have to act like a leader before you’re appointed to a leadership position, and you have to manage your own leadership path … only be exiting your comfort zone can you develop “outsight”— the term she coins to describe the valuable perspective gained through actions.”. So let’s translate this message to sales management.

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Sales Contests: Building a Culture of High Performance

Your Sales Management Guru

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. Never run contests to the last day of the month or sales period.

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Building a Sustaining Partner Community: a Channel Strategy

Your Sales Management Guru

After working in a VAR partner organization for 8 years as a Sales Manager, leading an entire channel focused company for 8 years as a VP of Sales and spending the last 19 years consulting with vendors, distributors and VARs, dealers, resellers, partners all focused on channel based strategies, I believe I can say: I have seen it all.

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Sales Compensation Planning for 2017

Your Sales Management Guru

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. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!