The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 12, 2017

No matter how good you are or how long you have been in sales, sooner or later you're going to hit a sales slump. It’s never exactly the same, but it sometimes looks like this: You've put a lot of time and energy into a prospect, and thought for sure he or she would say yes—but the person gives you a NO.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. Once we got good at selling, we liked it.

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Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. Why isn’t everyone putting their energy and attention behind something they know will deliver results? In the world of sales, coaching is seen as critical for driving growth and developing excellence within sales teams.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Are you in sales and looking to get promoted into management? 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. What traits or skills do they look for in new managers?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, if you’re a brand new sales manager, say, someone who was just promoted for excellent performance in sales, you might be wondering exactly how to go about finding the right person. If you’re about to hire a sales superstar that blows quotas out of the water, you want to know. Consider this a red flag.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They harness their energy for achieving their overall goal. They conserved their energy, picking and choosing their battles. Too often, I see people and managers behaving as if they are Super-Heroes, but since they aren’t they lack the wisdom, experience, and effectiveness of these Super-Heroes.

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Women Sales Pros

JANUARY 22, 2019

It’s charged with excitement, anticipation, and energy. Now ask yourself if your upcoming sales kickoff will demonstrate that or fall into the “just another meeting” category. As a former vice president of sales, I can confidently say we held some great sales kickoffs. Establish a theme. Add some humor. Peer learning.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. 18 Phone Sales Skills Tips You Can Use Right Now. It’s time to crank out a new list of phone sales skills tips.

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

There is no shortage of sales onboarding solution options to choose from and most of them offer basic instructor-led training that is created once and typically isn’t updated for months or years at a time. Visual data points on sales KPIs (like bookings and close rate) that quickly allow you to see where reps are struggling.

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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! So what’s the secret?

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Bigtincan

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over the past ten years, we’ve worked with thousands of sales leaders who run large sales teams and we’ve found that there are seven highly-effective techniques that are responsible for consistent and effective sales strategy development: Break training down into bite-sized chunks to help reps retain more product knowledge.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

We’ve seen it happen time and again: firms are wowed by their top sales performers and all rational thought gets thrown to the wind. These are the salespeople who have little concept of quotas; they push and push until their numbers, placements, and billings are towering over the rest of your sales team. They get promoted.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 18, 2020

If you’re a sales leader, planning your annual sales kickoff event is probably at the top of your to-do list…or at least it should be. Even in uncertain times, it’s important to get your sales team thinking long term. What’s a Sales Kickoff? Why Host a Sales kickoff Event? Here’s why: Focus.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Even if your sales team was not immediately or directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, even if no one on your team was touched by the illness and you were able to keep your team up and running through those long months of lockdown, your team has still been impacted. A career in sales can be as challenging as it is rewarding.

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Women Sales Pros

MAY 24, 2019

Ask sales managers what they look for in a salesperson and inevitably one of the top three responses is some variation of enthusiasm, passion, or energy. In a coaching session with a junior sales rep this morning, I was role-playing the client and the rep was playing herself on a sales call to a major account.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 26, 2020

There’s a reason the sales gamification “trend” has stuck around for so long: it really works. Sales contests have the power to drive performance and create lasting behavior change — but only if you’re running them intentionally. Too often, sales managers will spin up contests at random, when energy seems low or they need a quick lift.

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Allego

MARCH 11, 2021

Ami Tully Lotka, co-founder of Maximum Impact Partners and expert in sales strategy and mobilization, has a simple answer to her own question: “The relationship is what breaks the deal.”. 1 Differentiating With Sales Relationships. “So, ways to promote engagement and meaningful learning, even in digital spaces.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Just How Costly Is Sales Turnover? When hiring – and retaining – sales talent, you might say that a bit more is at risk: Nearly $100,000 of your hard-earned revenue, to be exact. Though it may seem obvious, the razor-thin line between success and failure starts well before the first sales call. Management headaches.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 11, 2020

Remote work is the new normal for many professionals, and salespeople are being tasked with meeting and exceeding their sales quotas while making a swift transition to working from home. Stellar sales work is possible outside of a traditional company office. Remote Sales Management Challenges.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New research from Gartner has revealed a startling truth– almost 90% of B2B sales reps are experiencing burnout ( source ). Although it’s no secret that sales is a high-stress job, uncertain market conditions have only amplified the pressure to perform. What is Sales Burnout and Why is it so Common? Let’s jump into it!

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 11, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2017

No salesperson should ever have to cold call to generate sales leads. Sales reps often tell me they’re not cold calling. Sales attempts are either: Cold : The prospect doesn’t know the sales rep and doesn’t expect to hear from her. But that’s where marketing’s role in the sales process ends. Good, right?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A lot of the tactics and responsibilities effective sales leaders need to understand and fulfill aren't exactly intuitive. While there's no be-all-end-all playbook for effective sales leadership, there are some tricks and strategies you can employ early on to set yourself on the right track. Sales leadership is a personal game.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 24, 2013

Sales Leadership: Inspire Sales Confidence. During the many years of sales management and the past 14 as a consultant to hundreds of firms the hardest element I see executives and sales managers struggle with is inspiring sales confidence. What are your tips on inspiring sales confidence?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. Sales courses are largely absent from college curricula. Most sales managers will tell you that they’re looking above all for the right attitude. Leadership. Positivity.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Spontaneous “Solutions” Usually Don’t Increase Sales. FREE Resources. Networking.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For sales teams, access to customer information is essential to do their job. Data needs to be readily available to use for prospecting , sales calls and to see how sales reps are measuring against their goals. As sales leaders gather this information, it can help teams become more aligned. Identify the right customers.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Here are six video-powered sales tactics (two for sales development reps, two for account executives, and two for sales managers). Sales Development Reps. During the pandemic, Sales Development Reps (SDRs) had a tougher time than most on the revenue team. Video isn’t exactly new. Now that’s changed.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 8, 2022

There once was an international sales conference for the world’s top sales performers. The highlight of the sales conference was an evening yacht ride to Success Island. The high-performing sales professionals already on the yacht yelled, “You got this. In sales, and in life, we seldom succeed or fail suddenly.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

You can always find much discussion on how to hire top sales people and how to recognise and find people who can be top producers. However, when is it time to give up, admit your mistake and let a sales person go? Has this sales person received all of the necessary training? The Walking Personal Problem. 2: I Did It My Way.

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2014

To build a great sales team, a meaningful and consistent sales management process must be in place organization wide. The 8 Components Of A Best-In-Class Sales Management Process. Recruitment – Regardless of industry, recruiting top sales performers is the very cornerstone of any sales management process.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. Sales Enablement is about to become your priority (if it isn’t already). Let’s start by answering this simple question: “What is Sales Enablement?”. So, what is Sales Enablement?

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 4, 2015

I had no idea about beliefs and the relationship between my beliefs and how I executed as a sales person until I was introduced to the Objective Management Group Sales Person Evaluation Tool. But, before I go into a discussion about beliefs and sales success , let me take a minute to just focus on beliefs, attitude and behavior.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2021

It’s hard to find a “better” example than in sales, where the annual turnover rate in the United States averages at 34%. Sales is one of those jobs where you sink or swim based on your efforts. All of that can lead to a lot of pressure and stress on sales teams. What is sales productivity? What causes sales burnout?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Consistency and efficiency are built into any successful sales team. As a manager, you want your team to consistently demonstrate an understanding of what you expect from them. Consistently efficient — that’s an ideal sales team. What’s the Sales Huddle? Sales huddles are relatively short but incredibly useful.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2018

We asked veteran B2B sales managers, consultants and coaches how best to build and sustain a high-performing sales team with a clear understanding that a company’s success relies on a lot more than it sales personnel. But eventually, someone has to make a sale. Fielding a consistently strong sales team?—?let’s

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