LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 3, 2014

However, once I got into sales, sales management, sales training and became a president of a company, I think I finally understood. I really don’t care about all the reasons you can come up with for not providing the feedback, coaching and mentoring that your sales people deserve. Did you like today’s blog?

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. The territory optimization and alignment element of salesforce effectiveness is vital for three reasons. Finally, deployment of an automated solution generates improved sales performance.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are different types of sales managers you run into during your time in sales. These are the seven types of sales leaders you find on the sales floor, six of which you should avoid. These are the seven types of sales leaders you find on the sales floor, six of which you should avoid.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Sales Manager’s job is to provide an environment within which their sales people can succeed. Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. What more could you possibly ask for?

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Apptivo

JUNE 22, 2023

Why is it important in sales management? CRM Functions to Speed Up the Sales Process 5. Footnotes In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective sales management involves more than just charm and persuasion. Now, let’s look at how this is possible in the rest of the blog. What is a CRM?

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The Sales Readiness Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

One of the main challenges is that the job requires multiple management styles. For example, one day you could be on ride-alongs coaching your reps , the next day, working on new territory plans for your team. So if you don't want to struggle in your role, here are seven management styles you must adopt to be successful.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

It would be unacceptable for them not to have territory plans, maximizing the growth within their territories. We invest millions in software tools to help do these things, we invest additional millions in training to do these things, we invest thousands of person hours in account and territory planning. So think about it.

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OpenSymmetry

MARCH 16, 2016

The Territory & Quota Management Revolution – New Incentive Compensation Platforms Blazing the Trails to Greater Efficiencies. Gone are the simplistic days of sales reps simply “having a patch” to cover for selling their goods and services. Territory Definition and Modeling. Territory Definition and Crediting.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

My last blog discussed how to Make it Rain in Q4 and close the year strong. This blog addresses how sales reps can ensure their quota is realistic and attainable. Bottom-Up Quota Setting: Validating quota from a Sales Rep & Sales Management perspective. Today I have shifted the focus to next year.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2022

As sellers, our job is to find or initiate new opportunities with customers in our territory. It may be with existing customers, helping them grow and expanding our relationship, it may be finding new “logos,” to expand our coverage in the territory. We prospect, qualify, and pursue opportunities within our territories.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 6, 2018

Hi, this is my fifth video on Sales Strategies to Crush Your Sales Numbers, I call it Develop a Coaching Culture. . In the last four video/blogs, I covered: Sales Strategy #1: Upgrading the skills of your front-line sales managers because you have a multiplier effect when their skills get better.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A real sales job. Several years later I got my first “official” sales job. My territory was broad. I was set to make big money in sales! Their job was getting meetings so brilliant sales engineering geeks like me could waltz in and generate sales pipeline by talking engineer-to-engineer. I knew it!). (I

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 7, 2017

A great point highlighted on the Linkedin Sales Blog. 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.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 5, 2023

How BOLD Sales Leaders Are Needed in a Changing Economy Welcome to the new era of sales leadership, where the winds of change are blowing stronger than ever. The post-COVID landscape has reshaped the business world, thrusting sales leaders into uncharted territory.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. ” If sales management and selling were that easy… The problem is, these are false choices.

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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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Sales 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A great point highlighted on the Linkedin Sales Blog yesterday. Redefining Sales Territories: From Geographic to Social Proximity. That’s right, not even you, sales territories. I hope to be saying more about this soon. I’ve used this approach for some of my own startup gigs. Nothing gold can stay.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 14, 2013

Sales managers. A year ago, we published a post on the importance of sales managers to assess their prior year’s performance and to incorporate the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. As mentioned in a HBR blog , “All of us fall into unproductive habits, sometimes unconsciously.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For HR leaders, a recent Harvard Business Review blog post provides a stark reminder of the difficult challenge of supporting Sales leaders in recruiting top talent. Here’s what top producers have told us they look for: Territory with abundant opportunity. Take a look at each motivator: Abundant Territory Opportunity.

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 2, 2020

The salesperson drove past the location every day for two and a half years, as he worked in his territory, without ever stepping foot inside the building. When forced to see every prospect in his territory as part of a growth plan, he summoned his courage , walked through the front door, and asked for the person who had fired his company.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 20, 2020

Your territory isn’t as good as your neighbor’s territory. Your sales manager and the shady characters in your sales operations team want to make sure you are never a candidate for President’s Club. So they meticulously created a geographical territory that contains no clients you could win.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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. We’ve rounded up the top 10 most popular posts from The Sales Leader blog in 2017 to give you a place to start when you’re looking to improve your team’s performance.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

You blame your lack of success on your territory and how you would be more successful if you had a better territory. You think your sales manager is stupid. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog. You think all customers are stupid.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Sales people often are promoted into sales manager positions – primarily based on their sales success. Sales Coaching. Just because a sales people excelled at face-to-face selling doesn’t mean they will excel as a sales manager. So, what happens?

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CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

With June nearly over and the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis behind us, sales management teams are focusing on building a plan to come out stronger on the other side. We recommend three main areas of focus for sales leaders: WHO they focus sales manager coaching effort against.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2021

There are all sorts of things for us to think about: We can give them more responsibility and bigger territories. Over the years, we developed as sales people. We each moved to more important territories, larger accounts, more responsibility. I was anxious to move into sales management and leadership.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

What maximizes the success of a Global Account Manager in hunting in her account will be different from that which is most effective for territory managers. How a SDR applies the selling process in their role will be slightly different from the work of a product specialist, and different from an account manager.

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