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5 Essential Tips For Sales Managers For Running Better Sales Meetings

MTD Sales Training

For many sales managers, they can turn into long, boring sessions that people can’t wait to get out of. Many sales meetings fail because of the following reasons: – administrative matters receive more time than sales matters. – management uses threatening tactics rather than motivational ones.

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5 Reasons You Don’t Want to be a Sales Manager

The Sales Hunter

It is time to get it out on the table and say once and for all that if you are a sales manager, you are in a dead-end position. If you are a salesperson and you want to be promoted to a sales manager position, it’s time to change your thinking. Sales managers manage processes.

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Sales Blogging - Do As I Say, Not as I Do

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s a big problem with many of the sales blogs you read. One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. Keeping that in mind, Objective Management Group (OMG) held its quarterly Rockefeller Habits meeting this week.

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The Zero Tolerance Approach To Sales Management

MTD Sales Training

When you hear the term “Zero Tolerance to Sales Management,” I would imagine your first thought is about having little or no patience for inept or slip-shod sales people. When talking about zero tolerance, I am speaking to sales managers who need to adapt to a policy of total responsibility.

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Increase Sales Forecast Accuracy and Speed Up Your Pipeline

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Are your sales forecasts tied to reality? Is sales forecast accuracy more of a pipedream within your sales organization? Does the speed of your sales pipeline resemble molasses? In fact, less than half of all forecasted sales opportunities actually result in a sales win. Ditch the weighted sales pipeline.

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5th Secret to Selling at Full Price: Don’t Offer Discounts. Period.

The Sales Hunter

This is the reason I tell many sales managers they should take all pricing authority away from their salespeople. The best structure for a “no-discounts” policy is one that does not allow salespeople to have any flexibility in prices. In the end, the result is increased profit with zero loss of sales.

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Give Your Sales People What They Need!

Partners in Excellence

My friend, Orrin Broberg, wrote a great post: 5 Critical Sales Enablement Mistakes To Avoid. His first point was stunning in it’s simplicity, we fail to give sales people what they need. It’s a critical issue, we have to understand, at a deep level, what sales people need to perform at the highest levels possible.