Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: JIM NINIVAGGI, CHIEF READINESS OFFICER, BRAINSHARK “What’s your onboarding program for new sales managers?”. While most companies would agree that sales onboarding is a strategic priority, the focus of their processes is often only?—? Why you need to onboard sales managers. That’s a pity. and myopically?—?on

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Whether it’s an individual seeking to maximize her performance, or a team struggling with a change initiative or even collaborating effectively, the things they face are similar to those our customers face–yet the context is slightly different. The post Sales Manager, What Value Are You Creating?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim has been writing a series on sales management, Why Can’t We Build Better Sales Managers? In this particular article, Tim suggests we may not need traditional sales managers anymore. My immediate reaction was, “What is the role of a sales manager?” ” Absolutely!

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2019

Sadly, too many managers seem to mindlessly echo the same meaningless mantra from some hopelessly outdated sales manager playbook. It helps us maximize the results and outcomes of everything we currently do. As a result, we maximize the utilization and impact of all our resources. It’s tough work!

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management. I’ll stop here.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

There has been no shortage of new sales related books during COVID, the usual mixed bag, with scale. But one stands out, The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement , by Mike Kunkle. Not only because of the author, Mr. Kunkle and the subject, sales enablement, but because way Mike approaches the subject. A Managed Process.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2021

3 Steps to Flawless Sales Execution. With modest single-digit declines in sales, the sector has fared relatively well. The most significant factor to a slowing of growth has been attributed to a reduction in in-person meetings between sales representatives and physicians. Flawless Sales Execution Step 2: Lead from the Frontline.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

I wasn’t hearing anything about sales management–both top sales executives in setting the overall goals and priorities of the organization, and front line sales managers. The words “sales management” were not uttered in the conversation.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Every organization needs to choose the markets and buyers they want to focus on, and concentrate their efforts on those buyers. Related: How to Calculate a Lead Score, with Examples. Consider leveraging predictive analytics to further identify buying patterns and buyer propensity to further maximize your sellers’ efforts.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers.

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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).

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!”

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

So why is it any different with sales? Accordingly, onboarding is a critical component in maximizing reps’ performance and ability to positively impact the bottom line. In fact, more than six in 10 organizations (62%) say their sales onboarding programs are ineffective, according to the Sales Management Association (SMA).

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Increase Sales

JULY 11, 2013

Every day my inbox is crowded with poorly constructed email marketing messages with everyone looking to sell me something. These folks are still engaged in product based or sales based marketing instead of education based marketing. Here is the email marketing message I received with my initial gut reaction in red.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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).

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2016

What about sales managers? What are we doing in sales manager enablement? In fairness, many of the major sales enablement platforms and some of the specialized tools are doing very good things in sales manager enablement, but the majority of the conversations on the topic focus on sales people.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales Executive Leadership Forum. Build a Bigger Network and Increase Your Market Value. Every sales leader needs to consider their market value. Sales leaders should regularly evaluate and determine areas for growth for their staff and themselves. As a former sales executive , I was always in a tough spot.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Communication is the basis of any solid sales platform and a handful of VoIP strategies can help to maximize your current efforts. Another issue which has plagued B2B sales for years involves scenarios when a client (or prospective client) contacts the firm directly. The Presence of a Virtual Receptionist.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Let’s say you’re the head of sales in a small company that recently launched a product. Your task as a sales manager is to market it. But appealing to large audiences doesn’t help your business to reach sales goals, or generate and convert enough leads. The answer is “by implementing a vertical marketing strategy.”

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 31, 2016

I want to have a heart to heart with Sales Managers/Executives. Sales people and others can listen in if you want. After all, the data on sales management turnover is pretty disturbing—the average longevity in the job is 20 months. Sales management, at every level, is a tough job.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Being a top performing sales manager or executive isn’t an easy job. Sales managers live in a world of constantly shifting priorities, crises, and challenges. Simultaneously, sales leaders must balance their responsibility in executing the company strategy in the markets and with customers.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2018

Moving into the role of Sales Manager is a challenge for everyone. Often, new managers don’t get great coaching from their managers. Often, new managers don’t pay attention to the coaching they get from their managers. Too many new managers fail in their first 90 days, yet never know it.

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Nutshell

APRIL 24, 2024

That’s why integrating it with the best Outlook CRM is the perfect way to expand its usefulness and empower your sales and marketing teams. An Office 365 Outlook CRM integration allows you to do so much more with your email service, including team collaboration, sales management, email marketing, and lead generation.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Increasingly, sales enablement organizations are being staffed up and given the responsibility to coach and develop front line sales people, helping maximize their performance. But isn’t that what front line sales managers are supposed to do? Sales enablement or the sales manager?

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

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).

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Apptivo

AUGUST 5, 2022

In order to increase the sales numbers and expedite the revenue of your business, you should have an effective sales team in place to handle all the sales related activities in an efficient manner. What is a sales team? In the assembly line model, the sales team is mostly organized based on their job titles.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 28, 2022

However, to maximize the opportunity for this to occur, there is important sequencing of this process. Or worse, we blindly take what marketing or someone else provides. It requires us to be curious, “What’s happening in their industries, markets, with their customers, with their competitors?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 21, 2020

The COVID 19 and related issues have brought about a plethora of “Should We Be Selling” articles. Our job is to help them achieve their dreams and goals, whether it is to improve revenue, reduce costs, improve profitability, grow, address new markets, find new customer, improve their operations. Should we be selling?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

We all know, or should know that one of the highest impact activities managers can do with their people is coaching them, enabling them to discover and learn how to continually improve their performance. But what about managers? If you are a senior managers, are you coaching the managers reporting to you?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The job of the sales leader is to maximize the performance of the organization. The sales leader has to make sure the organization is working as effectively and efficiently as possible, executing the corporate strategy with the customers. We have to have a Sales Management Operating System.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Pile on that changes in the global political/economic situation, exacerbating the challenges from before, prices, particularly energy related skyrocketed. In our own organizations, we have to do with much less, many marketing and sales programs are being stopped or eliminated, all spending is being reassessed.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 23, 2020

The impact of age demographics is becoming more critical to the success of managed service providers and advanced manufacturers because they are selling in a multigenerational market. Personalization is Key to Selling in a Multigenerational Market. Age-Related Buying Behavior. Audience Attention Span.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 29, 2011

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).

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2017

But we aren’t the people out on the front lines selling, or designing and implementing a new marketing program, or directly supporting our customers in customer service. Here’s where managers coaching their people constantly, helping them learn and improve, helping them constantly develop so they meet our current and future expectations.

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