Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

On the surface, it’s easy to see products as the center of your sales strategy. It’s natural to build a strategy around them. That’s why a product-focused strategy is limited. Instead, even the best products need a sales strategy centered around the people who sell. They embody what they sell.

Strategy 117

Strategy Incentives Incentive Coaching 117

Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2024

He shares insights on managing high-performing sales reps, emphasizing the need to understand their drivers and view their challenges as positive. Managing high-performing sales reps requires understanding and appreciating their drivers and demands rather than being threatened by their assertiveness.

Video 156

Video Face-to-face Coaching Sales Management 156

Allego

MAY 17, 2023

Second, sales leaders do not have enough time to help their reps develop their skills and give them the customized coaching and guidance they need. In fact, 76% of sales leaders have too many demands on their time, Brandon Hall Group research shows. 76% of sales leaders have too many demands on their time.

Positioning 113

Positioning Hiring Strategy Scale 113

Allego

JULY 29, 2021

Most recently, Cespedes published a new book—his sixth—entitled Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing. . The combination of Cespedes’ academic experience and his knowledge of real-world selling makes him one of the foremost authorities on the topics of sales and sales management.

Strategy 152

Strategy Top of Funnel Lead Rank Hiring 152

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 23, 2024

Let's dive into some winning strategies for upselling backed by data. Check out these ten strategies for identifying upselling opportunities that are mutually beneficial below to help get you started — before you pass a customer over to a sales rep. 10 Upselling Strategies for 2024 1. Use social proof to convince them.

Data 91

Data Strategy Customer Social Media 91

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

For most organizations, the answer is to gain visibility into the activities of individual sales reps. There’s nothing wrong or nefarious about this strategy. If leaders can’t see what salespeople are doing, they can’t manage what their reps are doing. Nor can they make smart investments in improving sales capability.

Sales Management 205

Sales Management Quota Territories CRM 205

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2024

Key takeaways With its specific business needs, budget restrictions, and customization requirements, the sales landscape for small- and medium-sized businesses requires a different strategy than enterprise and B2C sales. Here are some of the clear advantages.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Strategy Decision Maker 52

SBI Growth

AUGUST 2, 2018

Setting up rules and guidelines for the sales force to follow feels an awful lot like being a parent to a group of rowdy teenagers. Nobody wants to be the bad guy. Enter this information here, follow this new process.

Groups 159

Groups Sales Operations Guidelines Revenue 159

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One very effective method for teaching this skill is through problem solving group activities. Problem solving games help teams break a problem down into five5 distinct stages: Find Define Describe Diagnose Test Going through this problem solving process helps a team learn basic strategies they can then apply to real-world problems.

Groups 52

Groups Construction Exercises Lead Rank 52

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 4, 2013

It isn’t linked to an overall corporate strategy, so it’s just an event. If you want your next training session to be successful, stop and think through the changes you want to implement, plan your strategy to reinforce what your team has learned, and make the time to invest in your people. That’s why most training fails.

Sales Management 265

Sales Management Referrals Small Business Small Business 265

Sales Training Connection

JULY 25, 2014

Coaching sales strategy. Ask sales managers and salespeople what makes them successful. Sales managers can’t help salespeople become more talented, but they can help them become more skilled. However like a lot of good ideas, coaching sales strategy is easy to say but no so easy to do.

Coaching 99

Coaching Sales Management Strategy Face-to-face 99

Allego

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving realm of B2B sales , the landscape of buyer behavior has undergone a radical transformation, posing fresh challenges for sales teams and their sales enablement counterparts. As a result, organizations must have innovative sales enablement strategies that resonate with today’s B2B buyers.

Sales Enablement 62

Sales Enablement B2B Strategy Scale 62

SBI Growth

AUGUST 9, 2013

The Senior Sales VP gives you a call. Two of your eight sales managers have high turnover. You reach out to the head of sales operations. However, removing a sales manager causes sales disruption. Having an open sales manager forces you fill in for the team. Should we let this guy go?”

Sales Management 288

Sales Management Forecasting Analysis Margin 288

Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I was working with a group of sales managers at a workshop a few weeks ago and one of them introduced this strategy. It was a very simple strategy of implementing an account plan when you didn’t have a sophisticated … Read More »

Account 88

Account Strategy Groups Sales Management 88

Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 13, 2020

Sales managers are being tested in ways they’ve never seen before, and new managers have even more challenges as they assume their roles in the midst of sweeping change. Here are five ways that sales leaders can help newly minted sales managers accelerate through the turn and spearhead recovery.

Sales Management 107

Sales Management Top of Funnel Funnel Coaching 107

Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

Sales Management 124

Sales Management Hiring Buyer Persona Compensation 124

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.

Promotion 288

Promotion Sales Management Hiring Face-to-face 288

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2014

And he said, "But we don''t want to evaluate everyone right now, we want to start with our sales management team.". Small and mid-market companies don''t usually request this particular approach because their management teams are usually quite lean and it doesn''t make sense for them to take this approach. I hate being right.

Sales Management 241

Sales Management Hiring Face-to-face Groups 241

SalesLoft

JANUARY 29, 2020

They host monthly sales talks that provide opportunities to learn, collaborate, and connect with growth minded professionals seeking to achieve excellence in the realm of B2B sales. London Enterprise Sales Forum ). Modern Tech Sales : Today’s services and systems are complex and expensive.

Groups 52

Groups Scale Networking Webinar Metrics 52

Steven Rosen

APRIL 20, 2024

In this Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Gerilyn Horan , Hilton’s VP of Group Sales, shares strategies to become the best place to work In the world. As athletes scrimmage before a game to refine their skills and strategies, she believes sales teams should do the same before essential client meetings.

Lead Rank 177

Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To Retention 177

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it. We have a law firm for that.

Company 212

Company Hiring Scale Forecasting 212

The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 4, 2023

Culture is defined as a way of life for a group of people. When in doubt about what to do, the members will fall back on what they have learned from their culture. They don’t even think about it—they know what their culture would tell them to do.

Sales Management 84

Sales Management Groups Sales Prospecting 84

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. Learn more about the IMPACT Selling Virtual Sales Training Program with our helpful information packet below!

Sales Management 72

Sales Management Hiring Travel Face-to-face 72

Sell Integrity

MAY 12, 2020

With leaner sales organizations, your sales enablement strategy has to step up and be a valuable contributor to the organization. But none of those matter if they don’t translate into helping sales people have better conversations with customers, especially now that those conversations are mainly virtual.

Sales Enablement 124

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Strategy Coaching 124

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The Sales Manager Boot Camp. Becoming a new sales leader is overwhelming. Suddenly you go from having a quota to managing the quotas of multiple people. Improving your professionalism as an experienced Sales Manager is just as hard. This is what New Sales Manager Boot Camp is all about.

Sales Management 78

Sales Management Hiring Sales Leadership Course 78

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 2, 2021

Peak performance is a sales team that can efficiently manage the execution of sales plans while effectively developing and encouraging their salespeople to operate at peak levels. Sales leaders believe it is their job to develop their sales managers. So how do we overcome this biased assertion?

Hiring 424

Hiring Comparison Face-to-face Campaigns 424

SalesFuel

APRIL 17, 2024

It should be an essential part of everyone’s social selling strategy,” advises Erin Pennings for HubSpot. It’s important to answer these questions to help guide your strategy. These videos are often posted on a seller’s own profile or shared within a group. Would you rather post short videos? Are you looking for rapid growth?

Social Selling 112

Social Selling Video Social Media Face-to-face 112

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.

Chemicals 75

Chemicals Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Rank 75

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 28, 2020

Instead of my usual focus on personal leadership, I want to give you a major strategy from one of my methodologies, something that found its way into The Lost Art of Closing and Eat Their Lunch. Key Strategy: Trading Value. When this is true, it is a lack of confidence that prevents salespeople from executing this strategy.

Meeting 106

Meeting Strategy eBook Trends 106

SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

6 Ways Sales Enablement Leaders can Gain Sales Management Support. Sales Enablement is generally focused on assisting individual sellers with less focus placed on others in the organization. “ Sales Enablement supports the sales team to move buyers to a decision point. Sales technology.

Sales Enablement 131

Sales Enablement Sales Management Coaching Engineering 131

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

Hiring 120

Hiring Sales Management CRM Scale 120

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

Sales Management 159

Sales Management Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Call-back 159

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Do you have a channel strategy in place? You may have channel partners as part of your go-to-market strategy, but do you have a strategy that includes how you will support your partners’ success? . What is the first step any company should take in designing a channel strategy? Bruce Stuart, Partner at CHANNELCORP .

Channels 69

Channels Strategy Margin Ideal Customer Profile 69

Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2023

A sales manager recently asked, “Is cold calling effective?” My answer was not an attempt to be glib or elusive, but rather a factual observation from working with hundreds of sales teams. There are sales teams who find cold calling effective, while there are others who think it is useless. I replied, “Sometimes.”

Cold Calling 62

Cold Calling Scale Hiring Strategy 62

Allego

JANUARY 14, 2021

As sales managers reviewed results at the end of last year, many faced a stark reality: the virtual sales training programs they had cobbled together to get through the pandemic had not produced the desired results. We are still unable to gather in groups, and travel is difficult to navigate. Learn More.

Sales Enablement 90

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Strategy Face-to-face 90

Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Sales Coaching. Front-line sales managers are the “pivotal job” for improving sales productivity. That means – if companies want to improve sales revenue and optimize sales profitability, they should do everything they can to make sure front-line sales managers are doing what they should be doing.

Sales Management 132

Sales Management Coaching Pivotal Sales Coaching 132

criteria for success

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What makes an effective sales manager? Acting as sales manager can be a difficult job because you wear two bulls-eyes: one on your front and one on your back. Your senior management is pushing for results, numbers, revenue, and profit. Your sales people are looking to you for guidance. Coach, don't manage.

Sales Management 59

Sales Management Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Guidelines 59