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7 Skills Every Sales Manager Needs

Gong.io

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Let’s look at each one.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Management

Hubspot Sales

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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10 Sales Goals Worth Setting Today

Keith Rosen

If it’s ever been a struggle to create what you want most when setting sales goals, your goals and the strategy to achieve them may not be serving you best. List the things you’re putting up with that limit productivity, cause stress and waste time and energy. Photo Credit: Shutterstock (by nasirkhan).

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When Your Sales Manager Sucks

Pipeliner

While I had done a great job of taking care of our existing customers, I was not sure how to go about actually making a sales call. And as luck would (not) have it, my sales manager had no clue about how to actually go about training a sales person. I think we have all been there, any of us that have been in sales.

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(5:44 Video) “The Art of Getting Buy-In: A Journey of Vision and Transformation”

Steven Rosen

He suggests the addition of resources and tools to allow for more coaching time and support between sales managers and their team members. However, in many organizations, sales managers often find themselves caught up in firefighting and day-to-day operational tasks, leaving little time for coaching.

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Show, Don’t Tell: 5 Effective Ways to Coach Your Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

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. Now, even if you’re not talking to a future sales superstar, this information is not breaking news. In fact, most of the time, it’s downright uncomfortable.

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Pie In the Sky Sales Expectations

Increase Sales

Recently in speaking with a potential sales coaching client, I once again heard the pie in the sky sales expectations. Her boss who is in charge of sales management has: No marketing plan. And what is worse yet she (the boss) has never sold the firm’s solution from a sales lead that she generated.