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Exposing the DIY Sales Organization

Understanding the Sales Force

For comparison, the built-ins that cabinet makers have constructed in our current home, look like they came out of a page in Architectural Digest. Customizing the sales process – they consistently create sales processes that are missing entire stages and key milestones.

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How Readiness Scorecards put your data in coachable context

BrainShark

The real question is: how do you make that data useful as part of the regular sales process? Readiness Scorecards put data from sales training courses and curriculums into a ‘coachable’ context , so enablement leaders can collaborate with sales managers to improve results. Motivate sales reps to improve.

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7 skills you’ll need to become a sales manager

Close.io

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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How you manage makes a difference

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Dispensing with sales manager myths. What’s your sales manager mythology? In a recent conversation with a sales vice president, he noted that leadership is not about being engaged, it’s about the willingness to take risks. He was talking about his sales managers. What you can do.

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The True Cost Of Sales Rep Turnover

Sell Integrity

Hiring, training and severance and bonus packages all figure into the hard-dollar costs. firms spend $15 billion a year training salespeople and another $800 billion on incentives. In the meantime, the sales manager has to invest time in helping that new hire get ramped up. Profitability finally comes around month 21.

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The Top 10 Things a Sales Rep Should Never Say to a Sales Manager

The Brooks Group

My brother and I were chatting in the Atlanta airport on our way to a meeting in Phoenix a few weeks ago and I jokingly asked him, “What are the top 10 things a sales rep should never say to a sales manager?” The Top 10 Things a Sales Rep Should Never Say to a Sales Manager. . Wait until next month.

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Seller’s Remorse

Rob Jolles

Just in case it isn’t quite as “easy as that,” most sales people receive a commission to help motivate them to sell. They have sales managers who will add a little more “encouragement” to help motivate them to sell – and those sales people are often engaged in sales contests and bonuses.