Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 17, 2015

Ignite Your Sales Team: Sales Management on Fire! Everyone wants to lead a high performance sales team, but have you made the right investment to make it happen? We see many organizations struggling simply because they have not figured out the importance of investing in training their sales managers.

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 40

Nutshell

MARCH 18, 2024

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems have become vital in managing customer data, creating effective sales processes, and boosting sales team efficiency. So, how do sales managers and their teams overcome this challenge? Great CRMs exist, and sales teams across the globe love using them.

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CRM Face-to-face Software Software 71

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.

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Benefit Training Retention Ideal Customer Profile 59

Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 6, 2012

The topic will be on recruiting and upgrading your current sales team. In our Sales Management Environment Program we focus on 5 primary components: Setting Standards and Accountability, Coching for Success, Motivation that Works, Growing by the Numbers and Upgrading Your Sales Staff. It can only be one of those two.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Licensing Sales Talent 159

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 2, 2013

We do this using a tool called the Impact Analysis, for which we are a licensed distributor (provided by Objective Management Group). The analysis provides us insight into the sales organization's systems and processes that support or hinder sales growth. One of the findings is desire for success. I don't know.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 30, 2021

A vital key to strategic account management is creating value for the customer. This is best stated by the RAIN group: “Ask 100 different people at 100 different companies why their clients buy from them, and you’ll likely hear 100 different answers with the same underlying theme: the value we provide.”. Need from CRM. Need from CRM.

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Pipeliner

MAY 8, 2022

When they are enabled, salespeople and managers are informed if any of these indicators show up on any opportunity. They are set as risk factors by sales management and salespeople—with increased risk as the level of the indicator moves higher. Near the month’s end, the sales manager comes along and asks about this deal.

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Pipeline CRM Opportunity Lead Rank 98

Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

This past year, Shea hosted 16 Revenue Innovators podcast episodes , served as a guest on 11 additional podcasts , participated in 23 webinars, and was a keynote speaker at 19 sales kickoff meetings and industry events.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

Vengreso

MARCH 30, 2022

However, most of our digital sales training clients with an enterprise license pay between $700 – $1,300 per license per year. We’ve also seen in many cases the Microsoft account team gives LinkedIn Sales Navigator away for free when they bundle it into a much larger Microsoft deal. There, I said it.

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LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 115

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 2, 2013

In our normal course of on-boarding a new client, our first step in the process is to evaluate the sales environment. We do this using a tool called the Impact Analysis, for which we are a licensed distributor (provided by Objective Management Group).

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 20, 2015

A guest blog by Dave Kulran, President and founder of Objective Management Group, with an introduction by Tony Cole, President of Anthony Cole Training Group. For a problem that seems to be so obvious, you would think that, as an industry, we would work hard to ‘find a cure’ to the high cost of hiring the wrong sales people.

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Hiring Groups Licensing Pipeline 120

Vengreso

MARCH 30, 2022

However, most of our digital sales training clients with an enterprise license pay between $700 – $1,300 per license per year. We’ve also seen in many cases the Microsoft account team gives LinkedIn Sales Navigator away for free when they bundle it into a much larger Microsoft deal. There, I said it.

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LinkedIn Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 99

Score More Sales

JULY 26, 2012

Being at Sales 2.0 in Boston this week, I spent a full day away from the office but it is critical to see what others are talking about when it comes to sales enablement, sales strategy, new selling tools, and in increasing company revenues. Gerhard Gschwandtner , Founder and CEO of Selling Power and Sales 2.0

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Licensing Video Face-to-face B2B 192

The Brooks Group

MARCH 3, 2020

Some companies are simply unwilling to devote the time and resources necessary to get to the heart of sales self-improvement – so you’ve crossed the first hurdle. Assessments : Does the sales training program include tools that allow you to evaluate and adapt training best practices to the individual, based on personality traits?

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Outsourcing Services Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All focus was on maximizing growth, and frontline sales managers were most worried about what to do if their reps were regularly exceeding quota. It’s altered so much of the context surrounding sales, from the kinds of companies able to buy to the language that wins deals. But COVID-19 has drastically changed this environment.

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ROI Buyer Persona Churn Follow-up 118

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 23, 2018

This filter taps the networks of the other members of your sales team and your first-degree connections. Note: You must have a team or enterprise license to use TeamLink.). TeamLink lets you tap into the connections of every Sales Navigator seatholder at your company. Groups (Also available in LinkedIn Premium).

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Nonprofit Lead Rank 143

Allego

MARCH 2, 2022

The number of women in sales is small, but they are a mighty group. A look at some of the top female sellers in history gives you a glimpse of their power: Persis Foster Eames Albee was the top sales agent for The California Perfume Co., During her time there, she developed a network of more than 5,000 female sales agents.

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Video Buyer Licensing Retail 62

Troops

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

When you hear the term “team selling,” your first impulse might be to think about collaborative sales efforts within your sales team—a “tall” team as Tim described it. A “tall” team is usually a collection of account managers, product specialists, sales managers and other professionals within the sales group.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 106

Fill the Funnel

MARCH 10, 2016

They called it a CRM tool, a sales automation tool, and frankly I have walked away from every CRM tool I have ever used and there have been dozens of them. They look at them as a burden to use, help their sales management team more than themselves and are clumsy and difficult to use. I am working with salespeople every day.

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Sales Tools Tools Top of Funnel Funnel 48

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the Aberdeen Group , best-in-class CPQ users average 5 times greater growth in revenue year-over-year. And they can save $1 million in sales rep replacement costs over 10 years. Manual business processes replaced by sales automation frees your team up to do what they do best — nurturing client relationships.

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Software Software CRM Leads 52

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The client’s top executives and sales manager told us that they wanted to learn how to improve sales practices. The sales teams blamed the pricing or missing features, but none of them requested feedback from their buyers. They just didn’t understand where they succeeded and where they failed.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Launch your own LinkedIn group and host it curating it with great articles and posting provocative questions. Join 50 groups and actively participate in all of them as much as possible with relevant questions to foster engagement. Keep rotating out 2 to 5 of them to make sure every group is packing a power punch. Differentiate!

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Twitter Hiring 66

The ROI Guy

MARCH 6, 2017

A great group of product marketers, value consultants and ROI practitioners gathered in Santa Clara last week for the first ever Business Value Summit – West. Communicating the value of Windows 10 Enterprise, beyond a features discussion, is essential to justify the additional license fee.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring ROI Microsoft 45

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Traditional software models based on one-time, upfront licensing fees have evolved to SaaS cloud solutions. Sales professionals must redesign their approach with buyers by being able to engage various stakeholders and extend value beyond the close of the sale. Establish a Buyer-centric Sales Process.

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Strategy Decision Maker Licensing Demographics 40

PandaDoc

MAY 25, 2021

I like the concept of the ‘Epic’ for managing groups of tasks. Our engineering team depends on Jira to manage all of their sprints as well. ” — g2 review. If a user chooses to set up a private group message, they can even convert that group message into a channel to keep things organized. Really a big blessing.

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Enterprise Enterprise Software Software 52

The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

A B2B buyer experience survey recently reported that B2B buyer’s believer that the purchasing process is more tedious due to more detailed ROI analysis (77%), more extensive research activity (75%), and increased buying group members (52%). Gen Z will also be a large portion of the B2B buying group within the next 10 years.

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Paid Content Lead Rank Social Media Cold Calling 51

PandaDoc

MAY 25, 2021

I like the concept of the ‘Epic’ for managing groups of tasks. Our engineering team depends on Jira to manage all of their sprints as well. ” — g2 review. If a user chooses to set up a private group message, they can even convert that group message into a channel to keep things organized. Really a big blessing.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Enterprise Software Software 52

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 23, 2021

Tools help you start, sell, market, and manage your business so you can find customers, bring in sales, manage day-to-day tasks. Point of sale tools make it simple for customers to buy online or in-person, and marketing tools help you manage email marketing, Google Shopping campaigns, and Facebook ads.

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Resources Tools Hubspot Small Business 92

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Closing a $55,000 deal over the phone when you’re pretty young and just cracking into your sales career is a pretty cool accomplishment. After 12 or 13 years, I landed at a company called ThinkingPhones, where I got my first inside sales manager job, managing the West team, handling all the SDRs and the AEs.

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Company Hiring Inside Sales Call-back 55

Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. Features: Revenue growth Full customer view Reporting and analytics Price : Month to month plans start at $25 10) VanillaSoft VanillaSoft’s mission is to remove all barriers to sales productivity.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 52

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Analyzing dozens of calls that an IT sales department makes daily, artificial intelligence identifies intricate trends — like newer reps that often struggle to explain particular features. Sales managers then organize training sessions focused on these features, improving the teams’ pitches. They also used Wonderway.io

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Lead Rank Sales Process Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 52

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

Focus: Prospecting, negotiating and closing, social selling, and sales management. Intended audience: Sales reps and managers. Jeff Hoffman’s workshops span the entire sales cycle, from getting your prospect’s attention to successfully winning their business. Vendor: Hoffeld Group. Inbound Sales.

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Training Vendor Top of Funnel Workbooks 144

Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 28, 2012

Which is why it is alarming to note that the average tenure of a sales manager today is just eighteen months. Today, I read the transcript of an interview Linda Richardson has just conducted with Dave Kurlan of Objective Management Group – the world’s leading authority on sales team and sales leadership assessments.

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Hiring Banking Licensing Pivotal 35

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

3 3 Sales managers have an important role in coordinating all these efforts by setting goals that drive performance am. For example, the number of deals will be spread out among these groups. LinkedIns Sales Navigator is an example of this. 3) Online sales. 4) Inside sales. Market intelligence.

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Strategy Lead Rank Outsourcing Services Marketing 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Devante Lewis-Jackson , one of the top rising sales leaders helping companies grow in New York City and most recently a sales manager at The Muse. The four phases of sales management. The four phases of sales management [9:30].

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Conversion Face-to-face Hiring Call-back 63

Allego

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One of the biggest challenges a lot of firms have is people being willing to close the sale or have their first client meeting by themselves. I learned this lesson all over again when I took a month off and got my private pilot’s license. Mark Caner , Financial Services Leader, W&S Financial Group Distributors.

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Face-to-face Pivotal Licensing Selling Skills 103

Allego

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This guide was designed specifically for sales managers and enablement leaders like you, providing a comprehensive overview of Digital Sales Room software, its benefits, and the key considerations for selecting and implementing the right solution for your team. What’s the best platform? How hard is it to implement?”

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