Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2018

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. A good sales manager needs to stay on top of their game at all times, and ensure that their team is focused, efficient and most importantly, profitable. There are many moving parts in the sales process, and it’s not easy staying on top of them all.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2022

If you are in sales, you likely see yourself as a leader. If you are a sales manager, you must be a leader. But if sales management is a new role for you, it can feel like you are swimming upstream. First Rule of Sales Leadership: Know Your Purpose . What is that purpose of a new sales manager?

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One very effective method for teaching this skill is through problem solving group activities. They’re much more engaging than simply listening to everyone in the group stating their names, and help avoid the awkward “think of an interesting fact about yourself”, too. How do problem-solving games work? Time: 10 – 15 minutes.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 22, 2014

In the same period of time, there have been major shifts in the quality of sales candidates , in the roles those candidates will fill, and the capabilities we need those salespeople to possess. For example, just 7 years ago, a company may have needed salespeople who could hunt and/or close. June 5 11:00 AM Eastern Register here.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

Anyone in charge of a company’s sales success knows a sales team is only as good as its members. Like any group of individuals that comes together for a common cause, if a sales team is going to succeed consistently, reps and management must operate in a culture that motivates individuals to perform at their best.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

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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Pipeliner

MARCH 5, 2019

And this one deals with a topic at the forefront of today’s sales education: being customer-centric. Jesus set the very first example of this vital sales quality. Disclaimer: In this series, we’re examining the sales techniques of Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest salesperson of all time. Leading by Example.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. The Example Salespeople (anyone, with any title, whose primary role is selling) don’t know about their own skill gaps and blind spots. A lot of people don’t know what they don’t know about sales.

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 11, 2020

Remaining strong – and in fact, stalwart – in the face of this uncharted new landscape represents a generational challenge for many in positions of sales management. Sales Management Strategies. Learn more about the IMPACT Selling Virtual Sales Training Program with our helpful information packet below!

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed. Legal approval (70% weight).

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There are all kinds of beliefs a sales management or sales leader might hold, some healthy, many more unhealthy. If they need to improve, you need to improve them (and if you don’t like this group you refuse to develop, I promise you won’t like the next group any better. Perhaps an example here will help.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 20, 2024

Strategies to Develop an Exceptional Workplace As organizations strive to create a positive work environment, Hilton’s approach is a shining example of how investing in employees can lead to long-term success. The impact of this culture is evident in the high engagement scores and long tenures of its team members.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

It can be a “triple whammy” for the company as they lose the revenue of a top performer, need to fill a critical “seat” in the sales organization and have a group of salespeople that are not performing to their full potential. Per David Brock, a sales manager’s job is to be a coach.

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Allego

MARCH 12, 2020

When it comes to improving reps’ performance, one of the best productivity investments that an organization can make is sales coaching. Yet many sales managers still fail to provide enough high-quality coaching to their teams. For this group, the study found that good coaching could improve performance by up to 19 percent.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, there are many great options open to CEOs for networking opportunities, for example, TEC (The Executive Committee) in Canada or Vistage around the world. Groups like YPO (Young Presidents Organization) provide CEO’s an opportunity to discuss organizational concerns and receive feedback from other CEOs freely.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What makes an effective sales manager? Acting as sales manager can be a difficult job because you wear two bulls-eyes: one on your front and one on your back. Your senior management is pushing for results, numbers, revenue, and profit. Your sales people are looking to you for guidance. Coach, don't manage.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 12, 2018

When we launched Scout by Miller Heiman Group , our powerful sales analytics platform, we promised it would change the way you sell. By combining data-driven technology with our trusted and updated sales methodology, Strategic Selling® with Perspective, we said that Scout would make technology relevant and useful for your sales team.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

Lead distribution is the process of matching up specific leads with certain sales reps at your company. There are numerous ways you can do this, but most of them focus on assigning leads to the sales reps most qualified to convert them. DOWNLOAD Unsure which sales process stages are right for your company?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

Take suggested keywords with a grain of salt For every list of keywords within your ad groups, the search advertising platform will recommend a similar list of keywords to bid on. For example, if it’s small business owners, they often work every day of the week, so running ads on the weekends might make sense.

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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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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 7, 2020

The Sales Manager's Guide To Greatness! You may have been a top salesperson, and still continue to be, but that doesn’t always qualify you to be a top sales manager. Davis is the author of the book The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading your Team to the Top.

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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. For example, Geopointe implemented LevelEleven this past winter. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. Objective Management Group (OMG) has assessed nearly 2.4 A salesperson who messaged me last week is a great example of how successful salespeople are when they call on Decision Makers.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2018

When we launched Scout by Miller Heiman Group , our powerful sales analytics platform, we promised it would change the way you sell. By combining data-driven technology with our trusted and updated sales methodology, Strategic Selling® with Perspective, we said that Scout would make technology relevant and useful for your sales team.

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SalesLoft

MAY 17, 2018

Managers weren’t born with an innate knowledge of what it takes to lead a successful sales team. That’s why it’s important that a sales manager has a baseline understanding of how to coach a winning team. A mentor can help collaborate on difficult challenges that a sales manager encounters.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you’re new to the role of sales manager, you might not realize the power of providing coaching and skill development to your sales team. After all, one goal of any sales manager is creating a high-performing sales team with low turnover. Find Real-Deal Coaching Examples. Group Coaching Sessions.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three. If hiring, training and compensating are the science behind sales management, then deployment, monitoring and managing, and coaching and counseling are the art.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 20, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the most frequent questions we get from clients has to do with the second most important finding on Objective Management Group''s (OMG) sales and sales management evaluations. I''ll give you an example.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

An example is, during election times, everyone scrambles to learn about political outcomes. A lighter example is the love everyone has for the motion picture Back to the Future —McFly and the professor are able to return to a time in the past, knowing everything that is going to happen. Sales Management and Quotas.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. This can help organizations get the most from their sales managers, sales coaches, and, ultimately, their sales teams. What Is Sales Management? Developing sales plans. Forecasting. Adaptability.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 20, 2024

As buying groups grow bigger, there’s even more chance of someone being able to sabotage your sale. SalesFuel reports that on average, today’s buyer groups can reach up to 10 people. And there are specific types of stakeholders in the group that could derail progress. That is a lot of opinions.

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