Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three.

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

In this article we’re going to discuss momentum killers for salespeople and organizations. For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. Territory Adjustments.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Sales leaders often evaluate prospects and existing customers based on readily available information — order history, and firmographic data (company location, size, industry, etc). Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales. Related: Your Territory Model Is Hurting Attainment. Try This Instead.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 7, 2017

Redefining Sales Territories: From Geographic to Social Proximity. That’s right, not even you, sales territories. The old way, established over a century ago, of assigning sales professionals territories based on geographic location is on the way out. Read the full article. Nothing gold can stay.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , e-mail , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales!

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

The other day I wrote about the “Almost Perfect Sales Management Article.” ” That post stimulated a flurry of questions about a Sales Management Standard Operating Process/System. There are a few key building blocks to the Sales Management/Leadership Process.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 26, 2017

When you’re part of an organization whose sales team is spread out over a large territory, it’s easy to lose touch with what’s happening on the front lines, where staff work directly with prospects and customers. Your sales managers are … Read More »

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

Without the incentive of commission or performance-based bonuses, salespeople may lack the motivation to go above and beyond in driving sales results. Sales managers will have to think of nonmonetary alternatives as motivators. As a result, the organization may lose the benefits of a united and collaborative sales team.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

A prospective client had a 3×5 card, generally with their business card stapled to it, and this was used to keep track of activities. Of course, things can get complicated when you are juggling 100’s of clients, prospects, and active deals. More and better prospects. Customers vs. prospects. By territory.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. Proposal and Deal Closing – Find the reps with “constipated pipelines.”

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Go ahead, do it , click here now!

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Need to improve your sales team’s results? That’s the advice from a recent Harvard Business Review article that concluded, women are the future of B2B sales. If you believe diversity on your sales team will improve sales performance, keep reading because there is plenty of science to back that up. Hire more women.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Customer Spend: Calculate the ideal revenue from your prospects. What should your prospects be spending on your products or services? It is your job to equip sales management with these figures. Sales resources are directed towards the wrong opportunities, causing you to look for something new. Money is wasted.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, you’ll learn some positions you can consider in SaaS sales, expert tips for getting into the industry, and how to succeed in your first sales role. Table of Contents Is SaaS sales a good career? In fact, at the time of writing this article, there are over 100,000 open SaaS sales roles on LinkedIn.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I read an article about the key productivity metrics managers are tracking. According to the survey of over 1000 sales managers, the five most popular metrics were: CRM utilization, Calls made, Emails sent, Conversations, Use of sales tools. I was left scratching my head, thinking, “WTF??????”

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ''A'' players on the team.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

But, just as the first wave of agricultural society gave way to the second wave of industrial society, so too Learning Paths transitioned to more situational, Territory Plan-based learning and enablement. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. Proposal and Deal Closing – Find the reps with “constipated pipelines.”

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. We’ll get into unique responsibilities of each later in this article. Developing sales and revenue strategy. Managing sales tech stack.

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HeavyHitter Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2012

management thinkers. Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled “TOP TEN SALES TRENDS FOR 2013.”.   What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? Here’s my list based upon my experience of working with some of the world’s best sales organizations this past year.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve become a generation of retarded under-performing sales semi-professionals. Instead of being thought-leaders we’ve become frenetic, selfish territory managers. Trading one Mickey Mouse sales idea for the next. We should team up for the ultimate “outrageously irreverent” sales conference.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 12, 2021

And if you're like us, you thrive in a work-from-home environment for enough reasons to warrant another article in themselves! So for all the sales managers with reps who might be struggling with this transition — or those reps themselves — we've compiled a list of tips to help any and all salespeople thrive in this new landscape.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2021

When sales reps look for a new job, they’re never looking for a different role or new responsibilities. Reps are in search of a better quota, better territory, better comp plan, better product, or even something as simple as a faster sales cycle. What happens 99% of the time is that sales reps will go about the search alone.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2018

A quick Google search or skim through your favorite sales blogs will show article upon article about how to hire the perfect reps, increase customer retention, and write the perfect sales job description -- for good reason. What Can Sales Managers Do About Sales Retention? Hire more experienced reps.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

This year again, I have the honour and privilege to be nominated in five categories alongside some great sales thinkers, and friends. While each category will have a winner, the real winners are the readers who have the chance to take insight from these sales experts. Prospecting. Random Walk Down Sales Street.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 4, 2017

With many clients and prospects out of the office, however, there are opportunities for your entire sales team to assess what’s going well and where there’s room for improvement. Make the most of any downtime your team has this month to focus on improving sales effectiveness to hit the ground running in the New Year.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

There are 1000’s or articles (add one more to the stack) about how to drive change. This puts a huge, but appropriate, onus on sales managers. When we see an area that needs to be coached, we look at how it applies to deals, prospecting, calls, prospecting, account/territory plans, time management, teamwork, and so forth.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This is often compounded by the lack of visibility reps have when it comes to sales commission. The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Sales reps need to be organized and focused in order to sell. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A sales pipeline is a representation of the stages that prospects go through as they become customers. Establish a routine.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

For more information on each one and to see more choices for each category, check out the original article here: [link]. She focuses on enterprise technology in the area of customer relationship management. You can see her articles regularly on the Software Advice blog. Prospecting. Random Walk Down Sales Street.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Guest post Monday brings us Steven Rosen , The Sales Leadership Coach and founder of STAR Results. FREE Resources.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

But there’s a simpler way to increase market share: Make your sales organization more optimistic. Don’t roll your eyes; this isn’t going to be a Pollyanna article. Turnover decreased and sales increased because Met Life focused on hiring for optimism, not just hard selling skills. My territory is lousy.”.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Even more so when you consider that the average manager waits much too long to take corrective action. One of the reasons for this is the difference in role expectation between HR and the frontline sales manager. What a sales manager see as desired assertiveness, an HR manager could easily see as aggressive.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. It’s your job to lead your team through the trenches and give them direction so they’ll know which markets or territories to target and how best to attack. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. Qualification.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. Do you dread the weekly sales team meeting? Prospecting.

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