SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Sales Managers should be spending 75% of their time coaching their team. Every sales manager wants a team of ‘A’ players.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are different types of sales managers you run into during your time in sales. You can learn something from most of them, but leadership being as tricky as it is, it’s often easier to point to how you get things wrong than it is to elucidate what makes one effective.

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Xactly

AUGUST 2, 2018

The sales territory is a geographical area that is managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by sales potential, history, geography, or a combination of the above. The objective is to make sure sales territories are balanced to help increase revenues. .

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On the bright side, I do know how to use the microwave oven! Even worse, some of these ineffective salespeople lead their sales teams in revenue because they inherited the biggest and best accounts, well-established large territories, have years in their industry and/or territory and are viewed as an expert.

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Download Guide.

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Closer's Coffee

JUNE 19, 2019

How to Choose the Right Sales Manager for Your Company. The sales manager is arguably the most critical person in the company. Hiring a leader for a sales organization is a decision that is more critical for a company. Many organizations “promote” their best seller to a sales management position.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, you’ll learn some positions you can consider in SaaS sales, expert tips for getting into the industry, and how to succeed in your first sales role. Table of Contents Is SaaS sales a good career? SaaS Sales Positions How to Get into SaaS Sales How to Succeed in SaaS Sales Is SaaS sales a good career?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. Managing At (Impossible) Scale.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Different ways to think about your training program: Training Modality: Sales training should be on multiple platforms and modalities. Training Topics: Social prospecting: You need to teach them how to identify prospects on social media.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“In my experience a lot of sales managers are keeping deals in their heads and they spend a lot of time discussing what they think is going to close and why. and free up time for managers to coach the reps on how to add more value in their territory for better outcomes.” Companies want “one throat to choke!”

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For everyone used to sitting down with a prospect, it’s new territory. You communicate, collaborate, and connect with prospects via desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. You also need to add new skills of engagement, technical aptitude, active listening, follow up, and time management to your toolbox of selling techniques.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A real sales job. Several years later I got my first “official” sales job. My territory was broad. I was set to make big money in sales! Their job was getting meetings so brilliant sales engineering geeks like me could waltz in and generate sales pipeline by talking engineer-to-engineer.

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Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you build a healthy sales culture? Why is it important to create balanced sales territories? How can you transition to a remote workforce more easily? Create a psychologically safe environment to help your reps manage anxiety and stress. Creating Balanced Territories. Key Points to Remember.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 3, 2020

There may not be anything that improves your character or skills quite so much as not being able to rely on any factor outside of the value you create for your prospective client to win big deals. The old school sales rules required salespeople to identify new potential clients continually. Learn how to sell without a sales manager.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations.

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Anthony Iannarino

JULY 2, 2020

Many decades ago, the theory about how to close deals faster was to use a trial close, followed by increasing pressure, regardless of your prospective client’s objections (which were unresolved concerns). The most popular theory now is to improve your sales velocity, the speed at which you complete “the sales conversation.”

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 6, 2021

You've established the various stages of your sales process. You know how the typical prospect goes from an email address in your CRM to a paying customer. You've trained your salespeople on the key actions required to move prospects from stage to stage. But how do you know if it's actually working?

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SalesLatitude

AUGUST 23, 2018

What is more important in sales, closing deals or building pipelines? I would say the answer is both, but the actions of sales people on average seem to say differently. Are sales managers coaching to the right outcomes? Sales managers should be coaching their team to the right outcomes. Why is that?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. Prospecting.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 10, 2014

Top sales leaders know how to communicate and roll out a sales plan. Get your sales managers involved early in the process. The sales management team needs to have a clear understanding of the new quota. The impact to the individual sellers and their territories. Start Early. Identify Any Gaps.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." How to check areas not normally thought of as providing positive return. Hank''s DLA experience: DLA hired engaged a consulting firm to help with sales rep onboarding. This post details 3 of these categories.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Unfortunately, many sales managers and reps struggle to get accurate sales forecasting results. 79% of companies miss their sales forecast by more than 10% Just 28% of closed deals are forecasted accurately. A sales forecast even helps the financial team of a company understand how much cash will flow into a business.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It’s every Sales Manager’s struggle. You’ve had an open territory for some time. So how do you get your new rep to produce quicker? Most sales managers do not identify the key metric for onboarding success. A sales manager should define a set of onboarding activities that drive the right selling behavior.

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Hiring How To Buyer Persona Demand Generation 202

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When a company has clearly defined win rate criteria, calculates its win rate frequently, and takes insight-based action to improve win rate, it is setting itself up to turn a higher percentage of prospects into customers. How to Calculate Your Sales Win Rate. Use a Sales Win Rate Calculator. Download This Template.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three. If hiring, training and compensating are the science behind sales management, then deployment, monitoring and managing, and coaching and counseling are the art.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s In Conversation – How to Shorten the Sales Cycle. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Interview , Lead Management , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Success , Video , execution. qualifying.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , e-mail , execution. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales!

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

With June nearly over and the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis behind us, sales management teams are focusing on building a plan to come out stronger on the other side. We recommend three main areas of focus for sales leaders: WHO they focus sales manager coaching effort against.

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