Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2021

Peer Group Discussion and Coupled with Leadership Coaching Will Pump you Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they, too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. The most effective ways are networking with a peer group of like-minded sales leaders who face similar challenges and utilizing a sales leadership coach.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 17, 2024

She explains that the major appeal of social sales videos is the sense of authenticity they deliver. Thanks to the shareability of video, and the continued use of social, combining the two is a smart choice. “It It should be an essential part of everyone’s social selling strategy,” advises Erin Pennings for HubSpot.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bookmark this article so that over time, if you want to improve your sales effectiveness, you can read more of the topics below: To shorten your sales process, differentiate, uncover compelling reasons to buy and create urgency, read articles on taking more of a consultative approach. The same is true of this Blog.

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Hiring Decision Maker Forecasting Face-to-face 156

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bookmark this article so that over time, if you want to improve your sales effectiveness, you can read more of the topics below: To shorten your sales process, differentiate, uncover compelling reasons to buy and create urgency, read articles on taking more of a consultative approach. The same is true of this Blog.

Hiring 156

Hiring Decision Maker Forecasting Face-to-face 156

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 2, 2021

As part of their role, sales leaders set the direction, create the culture, hire, develop, and retain top sales professionals, aiming to create an environment that facilitates success. Sales leaders that have their sales force operating at peak performance have the greatest chance of achieving their objectives.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2024

Dennis Connelly, Derek Baer and I were sharing our experiences coaching salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders, and comparing those who were and weren’t coachable. The data from Objective Management Group’s (OMG) assessment of 2.5 It wasn’t personal.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. A recent study showed that only 11% of organizations train their sales managers. If you are a new manager, you are asking, “What do I do now?”. Sales Manager Killers. Control Your Destiny.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 24, 2024

With some thoughtful effort, you can still make the sale happen. How To Identify A Stalled Sale It’s important that you can tell when a sale has stalled out. Sales Acceleration Group notes that reps often think a stalled sale is simply at a slow stage in the funnel. Their budget didn’t get approved.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 116

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. Yet while 82 percent of buyers accept meetings with sellers who proactively reach out, 58 percent of them say these meetings are not valuable, according to Rain Group. Simplify coaching.

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Face-to-face Intent Data GoldMine Lead Rank 264

SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. But that’s not true.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 21, 2023

To sell consultatively, the salesperson must have a deep understanding of the challenges their prospects and clients face and their impact on the organization and them personally. As you approach Sales Management training, your philosophy should be the same. Helping them accomplish their goals while acting as a trusted advisor.

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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. Problem solving has been linked to company performance.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

The 3 most important questions that we need to address when making hiring decisions for a sales position are: Can the candidate effectively sell virtually? Unfortunately, most sales organizations have not adapted their hiring process to identify top performers in the post-COVID reality. Traditional Hiring Challenges. 1: Fit Interview.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2014

The CEO said, "We really like what you do, your sales force evaluation is exactly what we need, the information, data, science and intelligence you provide is perfect for us, this is the right time to move forward, and we''re ready to go.". Always start with sales management. To begin with a smaller, more manageable group.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The packages for each sales rep that is being laid off (severance letters and outplacement service offerings etc.) Ensure that the people who are going to contact the sales reps have been trained and know how to effectively communicate what is happening. Five Steps to Leading Sales Force Change. should be prepared and reviewed.

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SalesFuel

MAY 9, 2024

Sellers who ask powerful sales questions position themselves for success. They can leverage the valuable knowledge gained from these questions to develop relationships, show value and close sales. Powerful Sales Questions Build the Bigger Picture Questions play a big role throughout the entire sales process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 29, 2012

Let’s round up two representatives of everyone engaged in sales training – sales training vendors, training managers, VP’s of Sales, front-line sales managers, sales reps etc. The reason for the round up is we want to do a comprehensive opinion survey about the status of sales training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 3: Only small deals or accounts are appropriate for virtual sales.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Be a better sales manager with Sales Management Boot Camp. As a frequent reader and contributor to LinkedIn I thought I should share with you an answer to many challenges Sales Managers face. Sales Management Tools, Best Practice Guides. For the New Sales Manager.

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Sales Management Hiring Face-to-face Compensation 79

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

A classic issue in sales forces is promoting one of the top performing sales reps to the manager of a sales team, then having them fail in this new role. I just became much clearer on why this happens and what can be done about it, by reading just one section of David Brock’s book “The Sales Manager Survival Guide”.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Promotion Proposal 39

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Typically dispersed across territories far and wide, and always on the go, face-to-face communication is often overridden by email, voicemail and text. This means sales teams need more than a website to gather product and pricing information. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams.

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Face-to-face Automotive Webinar Metrics Conference 197

Steven Rosen

APRIL 3, 2018

The rapid pace of change, high levels of uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in business is forcing both executives and managers to look beyond training for their ongoing development needs. Traditionally, CEOs, presidents and business owners were the group that benefited the most from executive sales coaching.

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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. This is not the time to manage based on instinct, or to allow hubris to take the wheel. Have a plan. Have a plan.

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Sales Management Hiring Travel Face-to-face 72

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales leaders, be honest — you're curious about what your peers are up to. This year has been unconventional (to put it lightly) and leaders have been faced with challenges that they likely haven’t seen at other points in their careers. The ability to share information with other leaders, or to ask "how are you managing?"

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

Every sales leader needs to consider their market value. Sales leaders should regularly evaluate and determine areas for growth for their staff and themselves. Most organizations don’t have development programs for their most senior managers, so one needs to look outside the organization for development programs.

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Networking Groups Hiring Travel 245

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. Yet while 82 percent of buyers accept meetings with sellers who proactively reach out, 58 percent of them say these meetings are not valuable, according to Rain Group.

Face-to-face 130

Face-to-face Intent Data GoldMine Lead Rank 130

Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 29, 2014

Sales managers – roadblock removers. Sales managers – how does your sales team spend its time? You can’t sell if you are not selling and most sales reps spend too much time not selling. . Simply put, there are roadblocks that every sales rep faces that are time-sinks. Sound familiar?

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Face-to-face Funnel 131

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. A recent study by the ASTD found that only 11% of companies train their managers. If you are a new manager, you are asking, “What do I do now?”. As a newly promoted manager, you need a guide so you do not thrash.

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Promotion Sales Management Hiring Face-to-face 120

criteria for success

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As a sales manager, how do you improve your team’s performance? If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. Increase commissions? Set up internal competitions?

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Consultative Selling Exercises Selling Skills Face-to-face 96

Braveheart Sales

APRIL 1, 2020

Frequently they lack the selling competencies that will support their sales efforts, but more frequently, salespeople even lack the Sales DNA to support the selling competencies they do possess. 63% lack emotional control during the sales process. 85% carry self-limiting beliefs regarding sales. Sales Manager Dependency.

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Closing Sales Management Face-to-face Groups 52

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 13, 2014

I wrote an article back in September of 2013 that asked the question, Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse? Consider the way that most companies hire people for sales roles. Now consider that on average, about half of those new salespeople fail, and half of the successful group fails to meet quota.

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Hiring Face-to-face Groups Webinar Metrics 267

Sales Training Connection

MAY 6, 2013

Managing Sales Teams. It’s easy to manage a sales team when there’s consensus on where you’re going and how you’re going to get there. That’s when sales managers face some challenges. “Particularly for a group under the size of 10 people, majority rule is a bad way of going about business.”

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Sales Management Hiring Sales Leadership Face-to-face 119

Sales Training Connection

JUNE 4, 2014

Sales Managers. If you want to get better at management a good first step is – stop annoying you staff. People complain about their managers regardless of their position inside the organization or the type of business all the time. Make it a group when it isn’t. This good idea also holds true for sales managers.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Pivotal Sales Leadership 123

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Recently on a phone call with a group of salespeople, I was asked if there were any secrets to selling at full price. It was a great question and I shared with the group 5 things they need to do. Selling to the wrong group is always going to create pricing pressure. Copyright 2014, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Discount Face-to-face Selling Skills Groups 241

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 2, 2014

All sales reps need coaching and guidance, but rainmakers deserve extra attention. The sales manager announces the top performers of the year. Applause resounds throughout the building as these sales champions are paraded like Superbowl winning gods across the sales floor. Drum roll, please. Want Proof?

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