Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Forecasting 115

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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Motivation Incentives Incentive Lead Rank 191

The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Reflecting on this example, there are three notable hallmarks of a good incentive program : Simplicity Visibility/Transparency Appropriate Timing Let’s take a look at how each of these factors plays a crucial role in a successful incentive program: Simplicity “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity.

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Motivation Hiring Compensation Incentives 75

Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed.

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Sales Management Hiring Forecasting Pipeline 121

Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Practical Tips to Improve Sales Operations Dealing with the complexities of change management and overcoming resistance requires simple, practical solutions. We’ll talk about how good leadership, special sales incentives, and clear jobs can help make sales ops better.

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Sales Operations Forecasting Incentives Incentive 52

Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Though the “goal” is to set the stage for sales success, SKO agendas are dominated with things that do not help salespeople be better at the craft of selling. Use your SKO time to train your sellers how to be better at selling; otherwise scrap the meeting. A better playbook for designing that sales kick-off meeting.

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Meeting Decision Maker Revelation ACT 130

The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sales ramp-up time can be costly, considering how much training and coaching is required to get new reps up to speed. For one, insufficient training won’t create effective salespeople. Identify any sources of confusion or disruption that new sales reps might experience in their early days at your company.

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Banking Hiring Churn Scale 84

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While marketing compiles success stories, sales teams provide real anecdotes and feedback from clients, which makes the case study more authentic and compelling. Training webinars. Sales teams, needing up-to-date product knowledge, benefit from training sessions from marketing. Get on sales calls.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 99

Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 8, 2013

Instill pride for sales. Have incentives and contests to keep it competitive. Pay a larger incentive the second time. Have regular sales training. A weekly sales meeting should include 15 minutes of training. Have regular personal development training. Act on them.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. The resulting incentive plan must develop a compensation process that will motivates the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Networking 49

Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: A Brilliant Sales Management Strategy. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A sales manager’s dream is having “A” Players that can carry a branch, district or regional office. Need some help to increase sales?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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Promotion Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 79

Sales Training Connection

APRIL 15, 2015

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 Management Sales Leadership Coaching Pivotal 50

Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. He is the creator of the Top 1% Academy, where he trains on how to sell to buyers, whether they be CEOs, business owners, or entrepreneurs, and how to be in the top 1% of sales earners doing so. What are the 5 selling strategies?

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Hiring Strategy Referrals Sales Qualified Lead 90

BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ? Get creative!

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Sales Coaching Coaching Scale Hiring 62

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It means constantly seeking out a “better way” to approach sales. Salespeople who are open to new ideas and willing to act on them – even when it’s uncomfortable or foreign – demonstrate a commitment to do what it takes to stay relevant and ahead. In sales, adaptability is directly impacted by a person’s commitment level.

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Hiring Face-to-face Competition Channels 52

Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Assuming your sales quota will go up, you will need additional salespeople on your team to achieve those higher numbers. Recruiting takes time and training new salespeople takes time, get a jump on your headcount. Create annual sales contests. Plan what major sales training your team requires.

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Quota Sales Leadership Compensation Penetration 89

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Act-On Software. Act-On’s streamlined user interface puts first-rate marketing tools at your fingertips, making campaigns and programs easier and faster. Integrate your CRM, webinar management and more, most with one click. Use Act-On for all your online marketing campaigns. Act-On ToolSkool. ActonSoftware.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Managing referrals from existing customers. Booking meetings on behalf of other sales agents. Attending sales training and coaching sessions. Reporting on own sales performance in a CRM or dedicated inside sales software . Collaborating with other sales professionals . AMs (Account Managers).

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Inside Sales Outsourcing Services Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 62

Miller Heiman Group

DECEMBER 11, 2019

They need analytics-powered technology like Scout, which reinforces your organization’s sales methodology and shows sellers the specific actions required to win more opportunities and close deals faster. Pair Your CRM with Your Methodology to Boost Your Performance.

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CRM Sales Methodology Decision Maker Incentives 50

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

To keep their businesses growing and operating, sales leaders must be able to address the factors preventing them from reaching their revenue targets in today’s market. Andrews and her team work with company Presidents, CEOs, and sales executives who are frustrated with stalled revenue, and lack of company growth.

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Hiring Promotion Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 102

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2019

Simply sending an email announcement of your next incentive to make the reps aware of the program will not maximize results. Effective incentives are more than awareness. Sales managers are wise to use incentives to improve their results. Sales managers are wise to use incentives to improve their results.

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Incentives Incentive Maximizer ACT 120

Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Sales teams are incentivized to have conversations while support teams are incentivized to end conversations. Both departments are pushed in opposite directions by different goals, causing them not to share information or act as one team. This is not necessarily a reflection on sales or customer service.

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Customer Service Customer How To Lead Rank 121

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When sales teams fail to scale innovative products, there can be several reasons, including: Lack of clear goals and objectives : Without a well-defined process and strategy, sales teams can become disorganized and lack direction. Poor management: Sales teams require strong leadership and effective management.

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Decision Maker Scale Lead Rank Transportation 62

Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

Identify opportunities that will run out of time (based on expected sales cycle) without additional focus. Act now before they get out of reach for the year. “No Enablement’s job is to worry about the things that sales managers just can’t spare the time for. Deploy final training. Reinforce opportunity management.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 52

Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

A sales process is a set of repeatable steps that your sales team takes to convert prospects into customers. Building a sales process is absolutely necessary to your company’s success, and is perhaps the most important thing you can do as a sales manager to impact your team’s ability to sell.

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Sales Process Top of Funnel Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 118

Xactly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Take advantage of a number of sales competitions and incentives. However, make sure you don’t repeat the same sales contests — not only will the same people keep winning (causing everyone else to give up ultimately), but you’ll also turn the winners into natural targets. Accept feedback and act on it.

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Hiring Scale How To Incentives 52

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 3, 2012

At this time of the year everyone is working on your sales business plans for 2013 and finishing budgets and forecasts. It may appear on your internal letterhead, made into a banner and hung in your sales area and used to reinforce your training programs. Ken Thoreson is the President of the Acumen Management Group Ltd.,

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Sales Leadership Incentives Incentive Motivation 82

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Two sales reps could deliver an identical message, word for word, but if one rep lacks eye contact, they will undermine their credibility and negatively impact their chances of winning the business. Our experience in sales training shows that 50 percent of sales reps regularly miss quotas or underperform.

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Referrals Exercises Discount Study 62

Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Effective management begins with the realization that you need both sales team management tools as well as reps that are well-trained and prepared for the sales floor. So what can sales managers do to help their teams meet quota? Build Positive Relationships with the Sales Team.

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Enterprise Enterprise Top of Funnel Compensation 40

Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where sales prospects are in the buying process. Sales pipeline stages represent the various points a buyer may be in the buying process. A C-suite executive, sales manager or sales director typically creates the sales stages. Perform sales call coaching.

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Pipeline Maximizer Conversion Sales Qualified Lead 48

Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

This should be led by the sales leader and focus on any changes and the “whys” behind each adjustment. Comp workshops between reps and sales management also create a safe space to ask and address any rep-level questions. Your comp plan can then act as a guide to reaching those company targets. Embrace accelerators.

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Compensation Retention Hiring Commission 86

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Her company #GirlsClub is dedicated to changing the face of sales leaders. GirlsClub helps women sales reps navigate the tricky path to sales leadership with their management training, mentoring, confidence building, and community. Tonni Bennett – VP Sales at Terminus.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Scale Lead Rank 111

LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis.

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Paid Content Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 98

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Take the sales cycle into account. Don’t expect a 6-12 month enterprise opportunity to close just because they are offered an incentive. However, don’t forget about managing them. Ensure that your sales team has a close plan that the client agrees to. Track your “best cases” but don’t include them in your forecast.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Analytics Enterprise 78

Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2018

In the last six months at Weave, our sales team managed this balancing act. What are the steps your reps should execute at each stage of the sales process? Figure them out and build your sales performance coaching program around them. Training and development is like game film in sports.

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