SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. If you are considering sending your sales managers to training seminars in 2013, keep your money. Develop a custom sales management program.

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Sales Management Hiring Comparison Quota 267

Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

A good coach knows how to communicate, motivate and personalize each sales associate’s training, so the sales team repeatedly delivers results. This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great.

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Coaching Sales Management Company Hiring 93

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Sales Goal Examples Sales Management Hiring 84

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Empathy allows sales leaders to understand their team members’ perspectives and effectively communicate with them, while assertiveness ensures that expectations are set and execution is achieved. Summary Video Article: Title: “Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Leaders.”

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Video Sales Leadership Hiring Face-to-face 156

Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

How is your customer retention doing? You get the idea -these are key sales management actions to be thinking about. From across North America they will share their expertise on topics like Sales Hiring Best Practices, Onboarding, Territory Planning, Time Management and more. Is your revenue meeting plans?

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Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank 118

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

Empathy allows sales leaders to understand their team members’ perspectives and effectively communicate with them, while assertiveness ensures that expectations are set and execution is achieved. Summary Video Article: Title: “Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Leaders.”

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Video Sales Leadership Hiring Face-to-face 156

SalesFuel

MARCH 21, 2024

Wealth management seeks to create that sense of exclusivity that leads to increased client loyalty and retention. Helpfully, the article reveals five elements that must strike the right balance to satisfy a diverse clientele. Loyalty rewards members to increase their amount of purchase and to return more often.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Loyalty Health Care 115

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

In fact, more than six in 10 organizations (62%) say their sales onboarding programs are ineffective, according to the Sales Management Association (SMA). Far from a check-the-box approach, driving better sales readiness takes commitment, coordination and foresight. Yet too many companies are blowing it.

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Hiring Retention Case Study Maximizer 221

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I’m the Director of Enablement at WorkRamp, with more than 12 years of experience in enablement, training, and sales operations. In this article, I’ll walk you through bridging the gap between L&D and sales enablement for your sales teams to create a culture of continuous learning that leads to super-powered sales reps.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Enablement Retention 122

Nutshell

JUNE 12, 2024

The differences between strategy vs tactics The relationship between strategy and tactics The importance of strategy and tactics in business How to track your strategies and tactics with a CRM FAQs about strategy vs tactics DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? FREE DOWNLOAD What is strategy? Prioritize same-day customer support.”

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CommercialTribe

MARCH 5, 2019

But what about the sales manager ? Beyond saying “hit this number,” the expectations of today’s sales manager are nebulous. This is the first article of a three-part series on sales manager productivity. More B and C sales reps to goal. The Plight of the B and C Sales Manager.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The solution, in our experience, is modern training software that allows sales reps to find and review product information exactly when it’s needed by using techniques like just-in-time learning (reps can look up answers as needed) and microlearning (short lessons for improved knowledge retention). It’s wildly inefficient.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 10, 2017

AI and Sales Management. Sales leadership talks about it all the time. Sales consultants advocate it and sales managers say they would like to do more of it. The “it” of course is sales coaching. Lots of companies start sales coaching initiatives but a scarce few sustain them over time.

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Coaching Sales Management Sales Coaching Retention 50

SBI

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Resources All Awards & Recognition Blog Article Brief eBook ebooks & Guides Funding & Acquisitions Industry News Interview Report Video Video Reviews Webinars. Brainshark is a data-driven sales readiness platform. Blog Article. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement. Sales Incentives. Industry News.

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Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Lose This One Thing, and You Can Kiss Your Customers, Employees and Trust Goodbye. Are you a patient leader, salesperson and communicator? Do you shift from coaching to telling and become frustrated when the person isn’t “getting it” fast enough?

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Retention Customer How To Coaching 77

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recommended reading: 23 Quotes to Guide Your Sales Compensation Planning Process Compensation Transformation Tip #2: Emphasize customer retention and other expansion metrics. Make sure you define what retention, up-selling, and cross-selling look like for your organization in specific and measurable terms. in 2020 to 52.9%

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SBI

AUGUST 1, 2018

But we all know the reality – even with the most organized onboarding program, it’s going to take weeks of reinforcement, training, and coaching, and months before it can be determined whether a new sales rep is successful. Almost half of new sales rep hires aren’t going to succeed regardless of investments in onboarding and training.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Handbook 95

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over the past ten years, we’ve worked with thousands of sales leaders who run large sales teams and we’ve found that there are seven highly-effective techniques that are responsible for consistent and effective sales strategy development: Break training down into bite-sized chunks to help reps retain more product knowledge.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2015

Yet, salespeople close deals and move on, often because they believe customer retention is “not their job.” ” The deal is done, and now account management takes over. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople' Customer relationships are the referral seller’s most valuable asset.

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Allego

MARCH 23, 2023

This article was originally published by Demand Gen Report. High-performing sales teams can use this AI-powered tool to gather data to help sales reps overcome their unique challenges and raise overall team performance. The economic headwinds that are buffeting businesses have increased in force.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. After pouring loads of time and effort into onboarding, coaching, and engaging sellers on their team, frontline managers feel defeated when they hear “I’m leaving.” Bad Leadership.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Compensation Retention 136

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So our coveted retention/renewal aspirations are threatened. It’s the opportunity to create long term relationships, driving higher levels of customer satisfaction, engagement, renewal, and retention. ” But think about it, backtrack through this article and the “crumbs” I’ve dropped on the way.

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Revelation Margin Discount Retention 115

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

We all know customer retention is more important than ever. Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. Educational sequences. Use Outreach?

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Churn Segment Retention Sales Automation 78

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Actually, this article isn’t about your standard numbers. We won’t touch on revenue, percentage of quota, customer retention, etc. This article is about your ICP – that is to say, your Ideal Competency Profile numbers. After all, sales management is responsible for Sales Performance Management.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Analysis 300

Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

The B2B sales funnel is a popular method for modeling this journey. In this article, we‘re going to break down a few of those arguments and explore whether the B2B sales funnel is still a useful model. They represent the stages salespeople go through from lead to sale. Of course, the customer experience isn‘t over yet.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Examples B2B 133

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?

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Hiring Churn Survey Promotion 111

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Hundreds of pundits, thousands of articles, hundreds of books, hundreds/thousands of sales/marketing automation suppliers purport to have their miracle cures to fixing sales performance. I’ve become a broken record on this issue, citing the data on declining sales/management tenure.

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Sales Talent Face-to-face Margin Retention 91

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The downsides of job hopping can be truly detrimental to companies, sales teams, and even the sales reps themselves. Take responsibility for sales rep retention. Notice when and why sales reps are leaving, where they’re taking their talents, and what your new hires are switching away from.

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Hiring Compensation Salary Retention 82

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them.

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Hiring Retention B2C Demand Generation 97

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. The emphasis is on customer retention and satisfaction to ensure continued revenue streams.

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Compensation Salary Commission Margin 118

Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. Productivity, retention, engagement, adaptability and performance are just a few of the benefits coaching has been shown to deliver. Both of these results of coaching save the sales manager time in the long run.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Survey Motivation 88

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. It’s ripe for novel AI applications.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Data Intent Signal 195

Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries are encountering the same challenges: Onboarding and training sales reps virtually.

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Hiring Video Distribution Buyer 71

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

May include: customer retention rate, win rate, and new customers acquired. Tracking those numbers in a dashboard saves managers hours of valuable time and keeps the numbers accessible, so they know exactly who needs what kind of coaching at any given time. Let’s break down how that might look in a sales manager dashboard.

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Engineering Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 102

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Are You Paying Enough Attention To Your Sales Teams? Sales teams are expensive, complex and powerful, so they should be made as productive as possible. Via Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 11, 2013

Three additional initiatives that have a positive track record for addressing the sales turnover issue are: Non-financial rewards and recognition. Better coaching from front-line sales managers. Customized sales training. For all companies – losing top sales people to competitors is something they never can afford.

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Face-to-face Compensation Coaching Sales Leadership 98