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Onboarding New Managers

Partners in Excellence

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!”

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90% of Sales Leaders Do Planning Wrong. Here Are 5 Tips to Fix It.

Sales Hacker

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). Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales. Try This Instead.

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Sales Performance Dashboards to Keep Every Part of Your Revenue Engine on Track

Sales Hacker

But before we open up the hood, let’s review some sales performance dashboard basics. The elements of a good sales performance dashboard. The purpose of a sales performance dashboard is to show individuals on your team where they stand in relation to their goals. Where you stand in relation to business goals.

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The Most Important Sales Metrics You’re Not Tracking @DeidreWM

SBI

(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, “Can I trust the data in my team’s pipeline to generate an accurate forecast?”. Why is that?

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Critical Skills For Sales Leaders

Partners in Excellence

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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Give Your Sales Territory Mapping the Direction It Needs

Gong.io

Sales territory mapping is the process of defining the areas of your target market that sales reps are responsible for growing. While only some sales organizations create sales territories, there are plenty of reasons to do so. . In an ideal world, sales managers would assign each account to the most suitable rep.

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Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline?

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. The point of my last article was that the integrity of data determines how accurate CRM forecasts will be. Forecasts don’t reflect “gut feelings” on transactions. The feeling is that “Big Brother” is watching.