Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The Sales Manager Boot Camp. Becoming a new sales leader is overwhelming. Suddenly you go from having a quota to managing the quotas of multiple people. Improving your professionalism as an experienced Sales Manager is just as hard. This is what New Sales Manager Boot Camp is all about.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 20, 2023

Managers and reps can replay the call, pause for discussions at key moments, and analyze the conversation without the pressure of a live situation. 7- Document Feedback: Keep a collaborative document detailing feedback from each session. – Recorded Calls: Delving into recorded calls offers versatility.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

Because I interview some of the world’s top influencers and authors, I knew I had to come up with a resource list of the best sales books for 2023. Which are the sales books that will help sales professionals have more conversations and close more sales in 2023? See @M_3Jr's top #sales picks here!

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Conversations From My Facebook Page. There are a lot of great conversations going on that I would love to have you participate in. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Dont even think about reproducing this document or its contents without written permission from Jeffrey Gitomer. Online Training. Hire Jeffrey.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Jeanne continued, “The first step in the process is to have a conversation. But the sales directors always give reps a long leash. I called Barry a week later to see how the conversation went. But nothing’s documented. If you’re like Jeanne, this probably happens with your sales managers.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance. If so, you’ve come to the right place. What is pipeline coaching?

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 16, 2021

Sales management is equally infamous for making the CRM a tool the salespeople hate. However, if we take a deeper look, the results here highlight a GROSS problem in sales and one that plagues almost every sales organization in the world. Because diagnosis requires documentation. Here are the results.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

These 3 Sales Process Tips Will Make You Unstoppable. The best way to drive adoption for your sales process is to document it in a visual way and print out a laminated copy that reps can tape to their desk. The sales process should include as few steps as possible. Don’t make the sales process too cumbersome to adopt.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recently, in conversations with clients and other groups, I’ve been stunned at how few have performance plans in place for their people. It should be unique to each person, not a standard document you pull from a Google Docs folder. Do each of your people have a documented performance plan, developed collaboratively?

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Have a Shared Document. The best way for frontline managers to grow is to get the buy-in from the organization to aid in their professional development. Operationalizing things like leadership development and training encourages even the most tenured of sales managers to form good habits from day one. Get It in Writing.

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DocSend

MAY 17, 2022

At a high-level, a sales enablement tool can do two things: help teach your sales team how to sell and enable their ability to sell by providing training, documents, and guidance. Essentially, sales enablement tools serve as a teaching aid or a repository for critical information that sales reps need to do their job.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. Sales conversations. How to Create a Sales Prospecting Action Plan. We recommend that salespeople, sales managers, and anyone else in a selling capacity create a Prospecting Action Plan every month. Networking.

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Increase Sales

JULY 23, 2015

Sales managers face increased responsibility and accountability. Research continues to show sales teams do not meet sales goals while margins shrink due to the dynamics of market forces as well as government compliance. 1 – Sales to Earn or Close Time. 2 – Sales Conversion Ratio.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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Apptivo

JANUARY 27, 2022

There are two types of sales detractors whom you will come across when selling your products or services. In either case, effective sales management deals with strengthening your social relationship skills and understanding how to tackle dire situations that might cost a lot for your business. Sales Plan. Be Prepared.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 29, 2014

You have a great conversation with your buyer (or team member) and walk away thinking you’re both clear about what will happen next. End your conversation with a clear agreement on expectations for the following: What? After the discussion, send a follow-up note to document and confirm once again. Then either: Nothing happens.

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Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

The importance of defining sales pipeline stages. 18 ways to improve conversion from stage to stage. Management best practices. A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where sales prospects are in the buying process. Sales pipeline stages represent the various points a buyer may be in the buying process.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sales teams must be retrained to create value not sell benefits. Let me start a conversation with you about that. Sales teams must be retrained to create value not sell benefits. Number two, reporting on the actual conversations that are ongoing. It’s the conversations that we’re having. [23:34]

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

Not only that, but creating and running a sales training program involves multiple people—your sales enablement manager, sales managers, content creators, etc.—people Generative AI is having a profound effect on sales training, helping to automate tasks, streamline processes, and create training materials.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A clearly defined sales process: Next-action sales strategies involve a structured and documented sales process. Adaptability: Next-action selling involves well-defined sales processes, but adaptability is also an essential element. This process provides consistency and guidance for which actions your team takes.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Additionally, with features like call coaching software — some tools can even help you help them level up their conversations. This software helps you track your team’s performance with HubSpot’s conversation AI that automatically captures voice data in your CRM. Pricing: Essential, Plus, and Ultimate tiers are offered.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Not long ago, I was speaking with a group of sales managers. In every meeting, rather than having nice conversations, I insist on agreeing on action plans and next steps. Those are documented in the manner I outlined above. They were struggling with the performance of their people. then to follow up on them.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 25, 2021

Salespeople follow up right from capturing a lead, converting it to sales qualified lead, moving it into pipeline opportunities, and improving the customer conversion rate. In short, sales teams have a significant role in increasing the revenue of a company. Kick-off the conversation. Identify the prospects.

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ExecVision

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Developing sales skills and understanding the buyer. Many tools on the market are leveraged for one or two of these areas, but Conversation Intelligence technology is one the few which can be applied in all three. Utilizing Conversation Intelligence Technology During Onboarding. Tutorials of internal processes and systems.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Pillar 1: Knowledge Sharing Shine a light on the right sales stories to strengthen learning, content, and conversations. A key component of this is having a modern sales content management system that not only houses all of your content, but is fast and easy to use. Those insights make the entire GTM team more successful.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

If your lead generators aren’t scheduling enough appointments or if your sellers aren’t closing deals, you can train and coach them to hit their desired outcomes—as long as you have a methodology that is fully developed, documented, tested, and refined. Companies like HubSpot know that and share their experience freely with others.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Reps and their managers can see what their buyers will see, and learn from it – making course corrections before those high-stakes conversations. Typically, a coach (often a rep’s manager) will issue an activity: for example, “Show me your 30-second elevator pitch.” 8 – Encourage manager coaching. Here’s How it Works.

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The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2020

By constantly reviewing which steps in the sales cycle lead to a sales and which steps when skipped don’t, a business can finetune their methods and sales training to improve conversion rates. Reduces unnecessary sales activity. A well-defined sales process will reveal what is working and what is not.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 10, 2023

Effective sales proposals are data-driven and essential for closing deals faster. Prospects only make purchase decisions after evaluating a sales proposal document ; hence, the proposal should be crafted according to the customer’s requirements in order to provide complete solutions. Timing is crucial. Deliverables and pricing.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 26, 2014

Let’s take a look some ideas for how a sales manager might deal with a sales rep facing the second situation. Establish a sales coaching priority. Jointly establish with the sales rep that moving out of their comfort is important for their success. Document and broadcast success. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 10, 2023

Make sure you leave no stone unturned in this discussion with your manager. Make sure these expectations are documented and both you and your manager have copies of this. While your manager should be driving these discussions, too often they don’t. What are the metrics used to track our goal attainment?

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PandaDoc

MAY 26, 2022

Is my sales strategy clear? Without a clear and documented plan to help your sales team position your products and services directly to buyers, the risk of misinterpretation, miscommunication, and costly errors increases dramatically. Build more effective sales documents with PandaDoc! What is a sales strategy?

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SalesLatitude

AUGUST 2, 2018

Whenever I coach sales people and sales managers, I ask them specific questions to see how much they know about their customers and prospects, with an eye towards understanding the quality of their pipeline. The conversation has to help them think differently, provoke an action or give them insight. It’s your job.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sales readiness checklist helps you and your reps understand whether they have all the information, skills, and competencies they need to have conversations with potential customers. Share this 10-step checklist with your reps, or send it to your sales managers to use in their 1:1 meetings with each rep.

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