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How to Manage a Sales Pipeline for a Retail and Ecommerce Company

Nutshell

Your sales pipeline—that is, the multi-stage journey your leads take to become customers—is the key to unlocking more revenue for your retail and ecommerce company. When your pipeline is efficiently managed, you can significantly increase the number of sales your business generates. But how do you do that?

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Top 10 Problems with Channel Sales - Don't be Held Hostage

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan When most sales bloggers write about selling, we almost always discuss direct B2B sales. The channels are many, and include stocking distributors, brokers, retailers, VARs, agencies, partners, resellers, rep firms and more. Channel sales is quite different.

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What If There Were No Salespeople?

Partners in Excellence

We’ve already seen some trends supporting this premise: In retail, we are seeing people increasingly leveraging on-line channels. Personally, I despise shopping–not because of the retail sales people, just because buying online is so much easier. Recently, I saw a report on number of retail store locations.

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How to Train a Sales Team on Products: Use Modern Software, Not Old-Fashioned Training Techniques

Bigtincan

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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Missing Sales Goals Is Worse Than You Think: 3 Steps to Help Reps Fail Better

Hubspot Sales

Sales-Oriented Behaviors vs. Customer-Oriented Behaviors. As a former regional vice president of sales in a retail organization, I’ve seen sales-oriented behaviors firsthand. Needless to say, that sales interaction did not end well. As a sales manager , your goal is to help everyone on your team succeed.

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“In the Trenches” With Her Sales Team Is Where TripActions’ Hillary Unis Loves to Be

Chorus.ai

Hillary and her sister, when shopping with their parents at the department store, would pretend they were sales assistants and ask, “What can I help you with today?” Hillary was 16 when she landed her first job in retail sales. “I This podcast is perfect because it’s the exact duration of my walk,” she says.

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Lessonly Competitors: 5 Alternatives to Consider in 2022

BrainShark

AI-powered video coaching (so sales managers get instant insights into reps’ sales skills). Readiness scorecards (so you can find skill gaps and see how training impacts sales performance). Advanced content management (so you can optimize and track content without changing your workflow ).

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