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. Need to prepare a 2017 Sales Business Plan ? Need more sales management resources?

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 7, 2014

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. No matter which approach you use, success depends on awareness.

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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. In particular, the Anaplan Revenue and Forecasting model demo garnered a lot of interest from booth visitors. Many showed a keen interest in our demos.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What Sales Compensation Trends Are in Store for 2015? . A look into the Alexander Group’s “2015 Sales Compensation Trends Survey” reveals that companies plan to offer moderate pay raises of 3 percent for sales personnel in 2015. percent median increase in sales for 2015. By David J.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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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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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is in spite of the fact that most of it is created for sales and channel enablement purposes. A similarly scary statistic came from Docurated’s State of Sales Productivity 2015 study, which found that salespeople only spent 1/3 of their time actually selling. Decrease research time. Training, training, training.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Build Predictable Revenue In Your Organization. Make 2015 Your Best Year Ever! CEOs have strengthened their balance sheets with better asset management, reduced their inventory and cost levels with just-in-time methodologies, and increased direct mail and advertising effectiveness through thorough testing and reporting methods.

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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. A book review-. Hire for Traits, not Skills.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 3, 2016

Sales Management Shouldn’t be a Horse Race. That happens because of many reasons; lack of good pure sales management training programs, lack of previous exposure to sales leadership mentors or poor management styles. It happens in so many aspects of the job of sales leadership. What do I mean?

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 5, 2015

When asked about his early management challenges, Roger Ferguson – CEO at TIAA-CREF – shared: “You have to get the balance right between leaving them alone and micromanaging.” Although Roger was discussing management in general, we thought his advice was particularly relevant for sale managers. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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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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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”. Therefore, their perspective must be short-term revenue generation. However, there’s one big difference.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

She also spearheaded the creation of an inbound revenue generation engine, which has accounted for over 80% of Latana’s revenue for the past three years. As a leader, she has focused on building strong and diverse teams from the ground up that put people first, while also increasing revenue year over year.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 2, 2015

Sales coaching. One frequently asked question is – Where should we focus our sales coaching efforts to optimize the impact on revenue generation? While the above answer is widely accepted, it does not mean that coaching top sales performers should be totally neglected. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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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, 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. A critical success factor for 2015.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 20, 2014

How to dramatically improve revenues & profitability. If you are unfamiliar with this concept essentially the client generates a list of all their customers showing total combined revenues and margin over a recent 3 or 5 year period. Examples might be: What are the total revenues? Sales Management Systems'

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SalesLoft

MARCH 24, 2015

Last week, our Salesloft team members joined the TOPO webinar on the “7 Best Practices For Designing Your Sales Process.” Don’t confuse CRM with sales process… process is bigger than that. The “7 Best Practices for Effective Sales Process Design” by @funnelholic @topohq.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Darrelle Revis, recognized as the best lock-down cornerback in the game, chose to leave the Pats and return to the Jets prior to the 2015 season. In looking at enterprise revenue generation, a defined sales process can allow companies to emulate the Patriot approach of getting higher production from each member of the team.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As a Sales Leader or Executive these 3 secrets will also help propel your sales organization to the next level. In Chicago I took each bullet and discussed the specific actions sales management must implement to execute on each element. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world! Ken@AcumenMgmt.com.

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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

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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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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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. Need other tools designed to increase your sales and sales management effectiveness?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 27, 2016

Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. During the past 19 years, our consulting, advisory, and platform services have illuminated, motivated, and rejuvenated the sales efforts for organizations throughout the world.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

High-Profit Prospecting b y Mark Hunter, published by AMA (American Management Association) has laid out solutions to one of the top sales problems facing every sales organization. Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2014

While everyone maybe thinking of their Halloween costume or what tricks or treats they may provide, as sales leaders we must consider the bigger picture. The issues your team must understand are: operational efficiency, cost containment, customer responsiveness, revenue growth and increase market share. Sales Management Consulting'

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 20, 2016

What are your revenue objectives by each quarter for 2017? When is your 2017 Sales Kick-Off Meeting? Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world! Where will be held?

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 11, 2017

And regardless of the title a leader carries, whether it be general, sales manager or company owner, if they are not thoroughly trained, they too , will come up short. Bernadette McClelland is a Keynote and Sales Kick-Off Speaker, Executive Sales Leadership Coach, and published author. It’s what I do.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That is a question most executives worry about and often have to ask their direct reports, this is especially true when thinking about Sales Management. In some situations the President of the company may have responsibility to manage the sales team or maybe they are attempting to manage a sales manager(s).

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales Stack 2015 was an event with many passionate VPs about how to scale sales organizations. The most talked about and important issue for sales organizations is how to properly scale that ensures long-term growth while minimizing the damage done to the company. What are some sales tools that you’ve leveraged?

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SBI

MAY 11, 2015

Sales ToolSkool Video Transcript: This week’s topic is how to optimize the entire sales process from lead to revenue. The sales process begins when prospects visit your website. You can even measure the progress of front line sales and sales management against critical success factors.

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Allego

APRIL 27, 2018

What rep wouldn’t want to be a fly on the wall throughout the sales process for a top producer at their company selling a newly rolled out product? To see how they created urgency, addressed concerns and finally closed the sale? Top sales reps get all the glory—they sweep awards ceremonies, they snag bonuses, etc.

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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, Sales Enablement.

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