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Sales Manager Rule #1: Coaching to Improve Skills

Steven Rosen

Chris committed to coaching to improve the skills of his sales team. is a district sales manager who just took my Focused Sales Coaching online program. He has done well implementing the program and is so close to being a great sales manager. I have been working with Chris as his sales executive coach.

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7 Sales Objective Examples According to Top Sales Managers

Gong.io

A good place to start is to set the right sales objectives. In this article, we’ll explain what sales objectives are and why they’re critical to business growth. We’ll also look at examples of sales objectives that you can set for your sales team. What is a sales objective? How to set sales objectives.

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Post-Sale Follow-Up: The Secret to Lasting Customer Relationships

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

Customer relationships are more important in distribution than making individual sales. But how is your post-sale follow-up? Following up with customer post-sale is an important way to make sure your customers know they mean more to you than just a sales transaction.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire.

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The 6 Crucial Stages Of A B2B Sales Funnel (Plus Examples)

Gong.io

In this article, we‘re going to break down a few of those arguments and explore whether the B2B sales funnel is still a useful model. Then, we‘ll discuss how you‘d actually go about using it in practice, and share a few helpful examples to illustrate. What is a B2B sales funnel? . B2B sales funnels vs. sales pipelines .

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The 5 Acts Of Winning Sales Demo Scripts + Examples

Gong.io

These are the 5 “acts” that winning sales demo scripts follow PLUS 5 examples to follow as you build out your script. The most brought-up topics in the first 10 minutes of winning sales demos help build the context. Example #1: Tear Apart The Status Quo. Act 1: The Contextual Overview.

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The Subtle Art of Follow-up

A Sales Guy

Since it is clearly much easier to sell customers who have already bought from you, it is always in your best interest to master the critical elements of the subtle art of follow-up. Five Critical Elements of Follow-Up. Stand up and be counted; take ownership of any problems that arise. Sales Executive.

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