Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 9, 2013

Now is the time to act. In this blog I wanted to give you some specific tactics to deploy immediately to assist you during the typical summer slow times, while I always consider that an excuse, there are proven sales leadership actions you can take now that will make a difference in your cash flow this summer.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Sales Gravy is an internationally recognized sales training and acceleration firm catering to the career development needs of salespeople and sales leaders. On Jeb’s YouTube channel you’ll find video content related to everything from sales leadership to women in sales. The SalesPOP!

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2015

It’s usually a result of an anticipated huge miss, so sales management pleads for sales people to get whatever they can. Sales people have already been closing everything they can, but still are going to have a huge shortfall, so the cast a wider net. It drives consistent, scalable results, at the highest margins.

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The Spiff Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But this overly dramatized theme is rooted in a real-world truth: a sales leaderboard is an incredibly effective motivator. You’ll learn why in today’s blog post, as we explore the underlying psychology of sales motivation that makes the sales leaderboard a successful sales management tactic.

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Xactly

APRIL 11, 2018

These short-term goals will act as early warning signals, symptoms, for the health of your plan. Revenue growth, gross margins, and sales costs as a percent of customer retention should be looked at in relation to the sales plan’s effectiveness. Make short-term improvements measurable ones.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2010

Building your business requires both leadership and management, and the first step in that journey is understanding the difference between the two. Management is the skill of attaining predefined objectives with others’ cooperation and effort. Gross margin dollars generated by practice. Revenue per employee.

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Anthony Iannarino

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Some consumers buy things they don’t need because they are on sale. December is the same time of year that sales organizations who reached their goals earlier use the next year’s price increase to compel people to act now, retaining their margins instead of taking money out of their client’s solution. Get the Free eBook!

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But, in the same scenario, what if the sales rep is getting a commission on every deal made? Then they’re more likely to focus on important leads and act accordingly. The sales commission plan and your company’s revenue are proportional. The more deals your sales reps close , the more commission they’ll earn.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

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. This has to do with the customers need to quickly take action, their existing knowledge and margin/COS pressures.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2014

As managers, we should be terrified of this–a pissed off customer talks to far more people than a satisfied one. The customers will take care of themselves, if we don’t act. Poor performers will suck the marginal performers down with them. Related Posts: We Can’t Ignore Poor Performers! No related posts.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 1, 2018

How can sales operations boost revenue with a CPQ ( configure-price-quote ) solution? We’ve talked about CPQ from the perspectives of IT , Sales Management , Finance and Marketing , but what about sales operations and the sales professionals themselves? CPQ Automates Sales Proposals.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2015

In reading his description, I thought—this is exactly what high performing sales people do, how they act, and how they behave. We see customers who abhor sales people because their experience of sales people is horrible. How are your growing profits/margins?” No related posts.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Selecting sales personnel is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, challenge of any organization. Failure to achieve revenue targets, manage customer relations and deliver service can be traced directly to hiring people unequipped to carry out their assigned roles. 2) Perform personality testing on your top sales reps.

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Chorus.ai

OCTOBER 27, 2020

When quotas seem impossible to satisfy, and the price of failure is high, even upright sales reps can be tempted to cut corners and stray from ethical standards to fudge their performance numbers. The tricky truth is that reps may act unethically without any malicious intent. Risks Plaguing Your Deals? Download the Deal Risk Ebook.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since a SaaS product is typically more complex to use than a physical product, prospects need a lot more education and training from sales reps before they feel prepared to buy. Educational selling is very important for my team,” says Kyle Ferretti , the US Sales Manager at SEMRush. Churn Rate.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 5, 2023

For example, you may have a goal for the upcoming quarter: 100 more sales than the previous quarter. Based on this goal, you can break your targets down into more manageable goals covering the whole quarter. Tracking monthly sales growth allows you to spot trends and pinpoint any problems. Average profit margin.

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Close.io

MAY 20, 2019

And the customizable leaderboard helps sales reps stay focused on activities that generate results. Whether you’re a sales manager trying to get the most out of your team or a rep gunning for the top spot, you need to understand which sales KPIs and metrics to track, why they matter to your company, and how you’re going to use them.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Management and Operations. Sales Manager Survival Guide. The Ultimate Sales Machine. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Sales Management. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Sales Models and Fundamentals.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Once you’ve identified the sales metrics you want to monitor, you need to uncover where this data currently resides. This could be your sales CRM , an Excel doc, Google Sheets, customer service software, or some other sales management tool. Create a quick list of all your sales metrics and their source to work off of.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

So my CFO allowed me to take that savings and plow it back into more BDR and more SDR function for my new business team, because he was okay with the margin. So I could take that money that I was saving there, infuse it into more front-end help for the sales team, which means I could give them a higher new business target.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Understanding how various decisions impact the company’s margin (e.g. I’ve spent 10 years in various Sales and Sales Management roles, both in Paris and London. I currently manage a team of 15 SDRs in 5 locations. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? Amy Looper.

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