Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 2, 2024

I’ve helped sales managers and business owners interview hundreds of potential sales reps over the years, and I’ve identified 3 top mistakes that virtually eliminate sales candidates on the spot! Nothing is more of a Red Flag to a potential hiring manager than instability of employment. Less is more.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”. The dog days of summer are quickly approaching….

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2022

5 Sales Manager Coaching Blunders. Sales coaching is the No. 1 management activity that drives sales performance. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to coach effectively. Do You Want To Increase Sales Performance? ” As a sales manager , you probably were a top sales rep.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. They would observe calls, ask questions to help the sales rep evaluate what worked well and didn’t work, and have the rep come up with ways they would commit to improving their selling skills. Step 2, is Coaching Focus.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2024

Navigating the Challenges of Managing Top Performers In this 4:58 video, Brandon Nye discusses the challenges of transitioning from a player-coach to a leader and the importance of letting go of old muscle memory. Emotional intelligence and maturity are crucial for sales managers to lead and communicate with diverse teams effectively.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. The effectiveness of traditional methods like phone calls and face-to-face meetings remains significant.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 10, 2018

Author: Michelle Vazzana, CEO, Vantage Point Performance Frontline sales managers have a difficult job. In fact, we think they have the hardest job in any sales organization. Despite the varied and intense demands put on sales managers, they are given relatively little guidance or training on how to actually do their job.

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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. That alone isn’t enough. They don’t just ask what; they ask who?

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . Of course, different industries face different realities. . However, there are two fundamental activities that successful sales organizations have been able to continue doing despite COVID. Virtual Selling.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Annually spending by companies: Sales training $20 billion on sales training.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This article originally appeared on Training Industry. A fully enabled sales team remains one of the best ways to adapt to a changing environment and increase win rates when there are fewer opportunities available. Two key questions for sales leaders are: Can the sales organization keep producing at a high rate with fewer resources?

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re involved in sales training , you know creating a training program is a multi-step and multi-person effort. Create Engaging Content: Your sales training content must be engaging, relevant, and effective. It should also be practical and directly applicable to their daily sales activities. It’s a lot.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

How come so many sales managers who are highly intelligent and experienced are still unable to motivate their teams to achieve great results? What happens to great salespeople so that when they become sales managers they fall by the wayside? They learn from the errors or mistakes so the symptom or cause aren’t repeated.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 3, 2020

Unleash the 10X Factor to Close the Sales Gap. Do you want to close the sales gap? Now is the time to get sales on track. Even though we are still social distancing and face to face selling may not resume until 2021, you are still responsible for sales results. Doing nothing is not an option!

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 29, 2012

Sales training. 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. By themselves they will not adequately reinforce the training investment.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 8, 2021

Let me explain: If you’re like most sales reps, then you hate making calls because you’re either afraid of being rejected, or you’re are afraid you’re going to mishandle a call and so lose a good lead. Like my first sales manager used to say: “There’s nothing to it but to do it.”. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the past, onboarding involved sitting in a room and listening to your manager explain the role. Virtual training has often become the default. Sales is a famously extroverted job. So, what type of training makes sense? Let’s review what virtual training is, the best practices, and how to run a virtual training program.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 12, 2017

Sales Management Challenges . Many sales managers are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep juggling all their priorities. Well, here is a great opportunity to hear it straight from two leading sales management experts. Overcoming Your Biggest Sales Management Challenges.

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Allego

JULY 9, 2020

Sales productivity has never been more important, yet sales teams today face tougher obstacles than ever as the current crisis makes most in-person interactions impossible. Almost 90 percent of sales have moved to a remote model since the pandemic began, according to McKinsey. Managing Virtual Teams in a Changing World.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Even though I was a sales manager long before I had the opportunity to get involved in training, it was my work with trainers that help me appreciate not only the real challenges sales managers face, but their importance to a successful sales team executing their sales winning consistently.

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Allego

AUGUST 21, 2023

Frontline sales managers are the powerhouse behind every high-performing sales team. However, many frontline sales managers struggle because they don’t receive proper enablement and coaching. In many cases, frontline sales managers get promoted to that role because they’re a top-performing sales rep.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It is enticing to play the role of a manager in a sales team. Along with your own quota, you even need to ensure that your sales team performs well and achieves its sales quota. The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Best sales management books you must read.

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

Diego, a trained scuba instructor, fled Argentina for Cancun in his mid 30’s to create a better life. The next day he began training the other marketers. Within a week, he assisted the sales department by standardizing the hiring process and mentoring new sellers. Diego unknowingly employed the number one rule of management.

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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. Next, let’s look at the salespeople.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated. In this blog post, we’ll outline the unique challenges faced in pharmaceutical sales training and provide practical solutions. What are some challenges in pharmaceutical sales training?

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Allego

MARCH 30, 2023

Sales reps never seem to have enough days in the month for all the phone calls, emails, meetings they need to have with buyers. Add to that the management and administrative tasks that go with every sale, and even top performers may end up exhausted and frustrated. Sales training is one solution.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. This thinking leads them to believe that you do not need training. A recent study showed that only 11% of organizations train their sales managers. Sales Manager Killers.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Recruiters, HR departments, and sales managers are working harder than ever, and they all ask me the same thing: “Where has everyone gone?”. If you or your company is in need of sourcing and hiring quality talent for your inside sales department, then I’d like to share a resource with you. How about your company?

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 30, 2012

One of the main questions I get from sales people is what to do when trapped under ineffective, negative, de-motivating or otherwise, bad sales management. Being a sales director myself, I hesitate to align myself with unfounded complaints about sales management. 1 – You Are Involved. 1 – You Are Involved.

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Like in a post-apocalyptic movie, sales heroes valiantly fought a formidable foe, developing and broadening their skills to combat the challenges of uncertain markets, supply-chain chaos, rising inflation, and the great resignation. Here are the top sales training trends to watch in the coming year: Delivery Methods.

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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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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 16, 2021

This quote sums up my management philosophy: A leader isn’t afraid of jumping into the trenches and showing their team exactly how to succeed in their job. In sales, this means leading by example. What’s interesting in my training these days is that there are a good number of sales managers who resist this idea.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 16, 2024

As a sales manager, you may feel this pressure more than other department heads. You can increase team productivity by personalizing coaching and improving efficiency in sales team processes. They may have recognized that their reps face bigger challenges in guiding leads through the B2B sales funnel.

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criteria for success

MARCH 23, 2022

Organizations tend to under-invest in leadership skills training. Here are 6 signs you need to invest in leadership skills training – and some resources that can help. An overwhelmed executive team is the most obvious sign you need to invest in leadership skills training. Troubleshoot Your Sales Problems.

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