Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

MDM and the Rapid Learning Institute collaborated on a survey that offers keen insights into how wholesale distributors structure their sales teams, what they want to change, and which skills are mission critical to succeeding in the marketplace. Most Critical Skill Gaps. What This Means for Sales Managers.

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Distribution Selling Skills Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

Sales Management 82

Sales Management Hiring Territories Coaching 82

Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

We need to identify the critical success factors and narrow them down to three manageable items. “Change management is sales management, and that’s going to make the difference.” ” – Colleen Stanley Change management also plays a significant role in execution.

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Strategy Sales Leadership Competition Coaching 156

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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Chemicals Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Rank 75

Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sales Managers – it’s what you say and how you say it. A hallmark of a great sales manager is being a good communicator. For example, front-line sales managers are the critical screens through which messages travel from top management to the sales team.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Sales Leadership Quota 124

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!”

Hiring 112

Hiring Forecasting Coaching Training 112

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.

Sales Management 105

Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Funnel 105

Sales Readiness Group

APRIL 21, 2021

One of the biggest challenges for a sales organization is moving upmarket. For example, if you target the small- and medium-sized business market (SMB) and now want to target enterprise customers – that’s where the money is – you need to rethink how you sell. At the heart of these differences is size.

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Enterprise Enterprise Customer Marketing 105

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data?—?from from CRM, sales performance management solutions, sales enablement, CPQ and other sales-related applications. Selling skills still matter. So, the first thing an artificial intelligence application needs is data.

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Training Penetration Government CRM 206

SBI Growth

MARCH 22, 2013

In particular, the front-line Sales Manager - a critical role responsible for marshaling a team of revenue makers. This post includes a downloadable Sales Leader Curriculum. This tool is perfect for HR Business Partners who serve the Sales function. It will help to prevent vacant Sales Management positions.

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How To Sales Leadership Exercises Proposal 312

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 7, 2014

Here’s his take: “Our clients are constantly asking us where sales managers should spend their time. No matter what one’s position in life may be—CEO, vice president of sales, regional sales manager, president of a country, or general of an army—we all have the same amount of time: 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week, 52 weeks a year.

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Hiring Small Business Small Business Enterprise 274

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Having access to easy-to-use data visualizations of your sales data makes it easy to raise the tide on your sales and revenue performance. What Are Selling Gaps? Sales performance gaps can manifest in many ways and can be measured on several parameters. One example is the sales activity gap.

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Distribution Retention Sales Cycle Selling Skills 52

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Why not use them to upgrade your team’s selling skills so they can hit the third and fourth quarter hard? Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! Life in office. The dog days of summer are quickly approaching….

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Closing Training Gatekeeper Face-to-face 156

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. Unfortunately, this feedback often doesn't result in significant behavior change from the sales representative. Sales Coaching Benefits 1.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Benefit Construction 100

The Sales Readiness Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The “sell me this pen” test is a classic go-to question for sales managers interviewing sales candidates, and it’s easy to see why. This one simple, industry-neutral example can quickly test whether a salesperson knows how to sell. Here are three ways to use this timeless question in your hiring process.

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Hiring Industry Examples Sales Management 105

Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 30, 2017

I spent most of my professional life as a sales manager in some form or another. I gave up managing 12 years ago largely because I was tired of the stress. Selling is much more fun! If they can’t display strong sales-related behaviors during the hiring process, who will hire them, and us, for our services?

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Hiring Sales Management Face-to-face Training 54

SBI Growth

JUNE 21, 2013

If you’re a CEO without selling experience, what you need may not be clear. The secret to hiring a great sales leader is the ‘A’ Player Scorecard. Get it free here and nail your next sales leadership hire. Your next sales manager needs modern skills to make the number. The selling points of the role.

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Hiring Commission Compensation Account 320

Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

All by now have implemented virtual sales training or online sales training programs that have had a better impact on sellers’ behavior than a face-to-face training session ever was able to achieve. Is Online Sales Training Effective? For years, sales training presentations have been crammed into one- or two-day events.

Benefit 59

Benefit Training Retention Ideal Customer Profile 59

The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 19, 2013

Many of you are building your 2014 sales goals as you read this, and if you’re not, you need to start. Let’s use an easy example. We’ll say you want to achieve $1 million in sales next year. Sales managers who are reading this need to make sure each salesperson follows through in their pre-planning.

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Motivation Selling Skills Sales Goal Follow-up 219

Allego

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Competition is greater than ever, buyers are cautious, your industry is constantly changing, and sales managers have little time to ensure their reps get the coaching they need. Leading sales organizations recognize the power of automation and are adopting technology to help both their sales managers and their sales reps.

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Sales Enablement Microsoft Coaching Webinar Metrics 118

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

66% of Sales Reps believe that increasing the time invested by sales managers would help to increase their sales. After all, sales management is responsible for Sales Performance Management. Build those skills by utilizing the tools around you. Your manager is one of those tools.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Analysis 300

Showpad

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sales managers at any organization are in a position to guide and motivate those they lead, similar to the coach of a sports team. So it would make sense to give managers the proper training for sales coaching, right? Unfortunately, many sales managers do not know how to coach properly and aren’t being held accountable.

Coaching 45

Coaching Sales Management Scale Sports 45

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, viewing social media posts, following news or sports updates, or reading random newsletters. The opportunity cost as a sales rep of doing things that add no value to our performance can be an expensive luxury. . As sales reps, we end up doing the same task two or three times before we complete it.

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Engineering Lead Rank Lead Scoring Maximizer 62

Klozers

JUNE 10, 2014

Sales Management has only one goal, which is improving sales effectiveness within the organization. Although there is only one goal, there are many different areas a sales manager can help increase sales performance and choosing the right ones and prioritizing is obviously important.

Sales Management 45

Sales Management Hiring Salary Guarantee 45

Pipeliner

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s also a quote that should be taken to heart by sales managers. It often happens that when sales managers sign up for that leadership role, they often are lacking in the skills of one major responsibility: imparting the knowledge of what made them successful. Great sales managers are great teachers and coaches.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Selling Skills Outbound 74

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 30, 2014

When a great salesperson is recommended by Objective Management Group''s (OMG) Sales Candidate Assessment, and this star has a great track record, and great references, should we expect this person to succeed? Skills and experience are terrific but track record is extremely misleading! Most executives do. Difficulty Level.

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Sales Cycle Distribution Territories Up-Sell 217

Apptivo

JANUARY 27, 2022

There are two types of sales detractors whom you will come across when selling your products or services. The customer is not ready for upselling or cross-selling. Sales Plan. To make the sales plan effective, it is recommended that the sales manager follow a definite strategy.

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Real Estate Promotion CRM Software 98

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Training Harvest 117

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I’ve written a lot about the need for new skills for sales people, the traditional selling skills are in sufficient for success in the future. I’ve even gone so far as to suggest we stop training sales people in traditional selling skills, focusing on skills critical for the future.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Selling Skills Networking 74

Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

And even after months of adjusting, you might still be struggling to adapt to this digital transformation and lead your sales team into a tech-driven new world. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries are encountering the same challenges: Onboarding and training sales reps virtually.

Hiring 71

Hiring Video Distribution Buyer 71

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Related: How to Calculate a Lead Score, with Examples. Sales leaders often evaluate prospects and existing customers based on readily available information — order history, and firmographic data (company location, size, industry, etc). Consider the selling skills, roles, and tenures of the sellers you will deploy in the territory.

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Lead Rank Territories Lead Scoring Quota 98

SBI Growth

JANUARY 9, 2013

The below downloadable tool will give over 40 sales leadership skills to choose from. You have to pick the skills that work best for your organization. For example, if your company needs to be “social”, then Social Selling skills are a must. There are many areas of knowledge sales leaders need.

Sales Leadership 310

Sales Leadership Buyer Persona Exercises Course 310

SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

(And even small improvements can yield big gains: research shows that at little as a 5% gain from the middle performers in your sales team can yield 70% more revenue.). Here are 3 key sales metrics you may be missing: 1. And they ranked it higher than lead generation, compensation, and sales methodology.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Analytics 139

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

These symptoms are examples of some of the hidden weaknesses that Objective Management Group identifies as reasons why salespeople don't perform as well as you need them too. These weaknesses can neutralize entire sets of skills, from Hunting skills to Consultative Selling skills, to Qualifying skills to Closing Skills.

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Airlines Prospecting Decision Maker Vendor 268

Showpad

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To get started, understand the company goals, the main goals of sales and marketing, and the specific circumstances. In this third step, we only want to define the headline of your sales enablement strategy: What’s the central theme, and what’s a powerful name? In our example, we go with “Awaken the sales power.”

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Sales Methodology 52

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

And often I observed that a salesperson could execute hard selling skills very effectively during role plays and practice sessions. Then, when he or she encountered a tough prospect, all their good selling skills went out the window. Emotions started running the call—not effective influence and communication skills.

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Decision Maker Proposal Lead Rank Influencer 234

Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales readiness should always be closely connected to the sales content management domain, as all your internal training content has to be managed and communicated as well. This domain should also be closely connected to sales effectiveness. Selling challenges directly linked to sales readiness.

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Hiring Study Survey Sales Leadership 66