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5 Signs Your Star Salesperson Will Make a Terrible Sales Manager

Sales Hacker

Kim* was fed up because James,* the star salesperson her organization promoted, wasn’t making it as a sales manager. James had been killing it at sales. It was clear he knew the industry and how to convert leads into sales. When is a top performer really going to make a great manager, and when are they going to bomb?

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How Big Data Can Help the Sales Leader

SBI Growth

These companies are harvesting vast amounts of internet activity and point of sale data. Many of the B2B sales leaders simply dismiss the Big Data revolution. It will answer two key questions their sales leader wants to know: What is the probability of this individual deal closing? Will I make the number this year?

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Sales Managers: What are you Thankful For?

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Managers: What Are You Thankful For? because of our Thanksgiving holiday and while many other nations have similar events based upon similar justifications; i.e. thankful for successful harvests, it is always important for everyone to pause, at anytime, and consider what they are thankful for. Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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How to Recruit a Sales Team: 4 Tips to Attract Top Sales Talent

Pipeliner

Carving a strong employer brand increases your company’s visibility and reputation, making it a desirable destination for top-performing sales professionals. #4. Teach your team leaders to make a real difference Hiring result-driven sales personnel often requires effective backing from sales managers and leaders from the top hierarchy.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Existing Technology Stack

Miller Heiman Group

If your salespeople carelessly enter data, or if your system is full of outdated or duplicative information, it won’t be useful. And if your salespeople aren’t getting any value from the CRM, they won’t spend the time required to input meaningful information in the system. Your CRM is full of bad data. It’s a vicious cycle.

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Low-Hanging Fruit, “Operation Bounty” and the Problem with Having Too Many Orchard Crates

Pointclear

Call it laziness if you will (and many sales managers do), but going after the low-hanging fruit first just makes a heck-of-a lot of sense. Most sales organizations don’t have the good fortune of plentiful deals ripe for the pickin’ So Marketers set to work finding and delivering the fruit to them.

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Best Sales Podcasts: An Ultimate List of 100+ Must-Listens

LeadFuze

Episode 159: Presentation Management – James Ontra. Episode 158: Revenue Harvest – Nigel Green. You’ll be sure to hear the importance of prospecting as well as dynamite for the rest of your sales process, even if you listen to a few episodes. 3 The Sales Podcasts. Influencer Marketing Done Right Disrupts Sales.