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What Sales Managers Get Wrong

Shari Levitin

Diego, a trained scuba instructor, fled Argentina for Cancun in his mid 30’s to create a better life. The next day he began training the other marketers. Within a week, he assisted the sales department by standardizing the hiring process and mentoring new sellers. “I Diego unknowingly employed the number one rule of management.

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Unlock Sales Potential with a Sales Training Strategy

Highspot

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building.

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Why You Can't Fill Your Open Sales Manager Positions

SBI Growth

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Weak sales strategy.

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5 Tips for Designing Successful Sales Incentive Compensation Plans

Xactly

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Creating incentive programs that work require balancing multiple design choices.

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

Salesforce research brief, Trends in Customer Trust, says fostering trust is the new business imperative. Martin’s research on buyers and the mistakes salespeople make. The problem is with typical sales metrics. Put a referral system in place, with training, metrics, and accountability for results. Trust should.

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The Secret to Sales Rep Motivation

Steven Rosen

The answer that traditional sales leaders have used in the past is to throw more money at their team to drive performance. Yet the research on motivation and performance is telling us a completely different story. But once the task required “even rudimentary cognitive skills” a larger incentive “ led to poorer performance”.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.