Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Author: Lauren Boutwell As the field of sales enablement has evolved and matured, so, too, have its supporting technologies. Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. How would you respond to these common objections?” “How

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 17, 2019

There are many shared, best practices between sales coaching and selling. If the evolution of selling is coaching vs. closing customers, this also applies to how you manage and develop your team. Here’s how to break free of the most toxic of coaching tactics that kills team productivity and trust.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 22, 2018

When sales managers have opportunities to develop their sales team, it’s something they should throw their whole time and attention at, as they seldom have the chance to get out of the fire-fighting mode and spend time working on. So what are some ways to ensure success in this important part of the sales manager role?

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 4, 2020

Ahhhh, objections. For sales teams, there’s simply nothing worse than progressing a deal through the pipeline only to have a no-go objection come up at the 11th hour. For sales teams, there’s simply nothing worse than progressing a deal through the pipeline only to have a no-go objection come up at the 11th hour.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In sales, the terms “manager” and “coach” are common titles. Afterall, for each, their primary objective is supporting sales teams to boost performance and achieve success. In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. What Is Sales Management?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every winning sales team has an excellent coach guiding them. This is no different in sales. The key to improving sales performance lies not only in the hands of sales reps, but also in the ability of their managers to provide effective guidance and support. Pricing is available upon request.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 27, 2016

At the start of the new year, I wrote about my team trying to turn the corner from “Account Management” to “Customer Success”. Coaching is absolutely clutch. Here are three things we’re trying right now at DiscoverOrg to root down a coaching culture. Coaching at the Call Level. Just-in-time coaching, in other words.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Download Your Free Copy of The 60 Second Sales Coach . Over 600 Coaching Questions and 40 Critical Conversations Managers Must Master to Develop Sales Champions and Coach More Customers to Succeed. Coaching is simply the language you use in every conversation.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 26, 2022

You must learn to be an object of interest! The post How to Be an Object of Interest first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader. Recently, I was speaking with my good friend and advisor, Alan Weiss, about how inundated today’s marketplace has become with thought … Read More.

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Awarathon

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Part four of our five-part series is a hugely hot topic in sales enablement. Getting the most out of every coaching and training session is key to increasing sales velocity and conversion rate. The objective of every sales representative and team should revolve around these aspects. Let’s take an example.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2018

The insight, judgement, intelligence, wisdom and business knowledge required to be a sales manager is different to a sales person. Have they shown an aptitude for coaching and mentoring? Managing Director. MTD Sales Training. The post Is Your Employee Ready To Be A Sales Manager? Happy Selling!

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re trying to maximize sales rep performance and drive results, coaching should be an essential part of your strategy. CSO Insights reported that sales coaching has had the greatest impact on win rates and quota attainment over the span of five years. You’re now ready to start implementing the plan.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? The darker dotted line is the trend for the percentage of sales management candidates that were recommended by Objective Management Group for the same time period. Yes, it should.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. Pre-qualification call.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 21, 2023

To sell consultatively, the salesperson must have a deep understanding of the challenges their prospects and clients face and their impact on the organization and them personally. As you approach Sales Management training, your philosophy should be the same. What does being an Effective Consultative Coach really mean?

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite good interviewing skills, many sales managers are guilty of making the following hiring mistakes: Hiring people they like. Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Identifies candidates with sales success DNA.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. Revenue teams will get the insights they need for strategic onboarding and coaching opportunities. Fast-Track Sales Enablement. Simplify coaching. Measure what matters.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 18, 2016

I coach a lot of sales professionals, one on one, in individual sessions every week. Sales managers, business owners and also individual sales reps who are committed to moving into the top 20% or op 5% of their profession. Same thing in sales. In fact, I tell them, you’ll even welcome them!

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. They set the organization up to hit their objectives now. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. Gamify the training.

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BrainShark

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

That’s why most sales reps shy away from video coaching assessments — despite its potential to help grow their careers and client portfolios. Our own data pulled from a survey of 133,442 responses shows prospects are 13 times more likely to want to buy from a rep when they sounded extremely confident versus not confident at all. .

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

A recognized consulting, she has designed and delivered coaching, and training solutions for world class companies such as companies, including Cisco, Autodesk, Citrix Systems, Adobe, and others. TS: Many of today’s inside sales managers were promoted out of the cubicle into management. Be a good listener. Be observant.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 15, 2020

Here are eight paradoxes that will widen your peripheral view around how the top sales gurus think around selling, cold calling and prospecting for new business to win more sales in a volatile, uncertain marketplace. A champion mindset that wins more sales. The Eight Paradoxes of Prospecting. Let’s face it.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 22, 2014

While that still could be true today, it''s also possible that inside sales might replace the need for hunting, and a good consultative seller could add enough value to the prospect, his/her business, and the buying process so that great closing skills aren''t required.

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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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Allego

MARCH 17, 2022

Amand, The 2022 Guide to Intelligent Sales Enablement. We’re currently in phase two of the intelligent sales era. There’s more coaching, increased focus on methodology, and more use of conversational intelligence,” Lundy said. 3 Ways Conversation Intelligence Improves Sales Coaching. Conduct Digital Ride-Alongs.

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CommercialTribe

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Welcome to the final chapter in our series on data-driven sales coaching, aimed at arming sales leaders with the advice they need to effectively direct coaching efforts and realize a strong ROI. Adam is a second-year rep who is a moderate performer — he’s no rainmaker yet, but his manager, Kelly, sees the potential.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Problems with sales coaching aka what NOT to do 1.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. Good Selling!

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The alternative approach that I’m suggesting results in more profitable sales with less effort. To compound this, sales managers continue to remind their salespeople to sell value. It is at this point, during any conversation with a prospect or customer when you are creating new possibilities that may have never existed before.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

To help you out, I did the work for you and found some of the top GPTs for sales professionals. Below you’ll find GPTs for sales coaching, sales content, sales leadership, sales management, and sales strategy. Suggested prompts: How should I approach a new prospect?

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