SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Here are 5 key takeaways that made this training a success.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2022

Sales trainer Amy Franko shares highlights from a webinar she presented recently for SMM Connect on the most important metrics for sales managers to monitor. She talks about how she goes to market and how companies can be smarter buyers of sales training.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Annually spending by companies: Sales training $20 billion on sales training.

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SMEI

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the morning of January 6, 2024, SMEI Vietnam, representative of Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI), organized the ceremony to award the Certificate of Sales Professional (SCPS – SMEI Certified Professional Salesperson ) and the Certificate of Professional Marketing Specialist.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re involved in sales training , you know creating a training program is a multi-step and multi-person effort. Create Engaging Content: Your sales training content must be engaging, relevant, and effective. It should also be practical and directly applicable to their daily sales activities.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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criteria for success

APRIL 7, 2021

If you're in the market for some DIY sales management training, you've come to the right place. We've compiled 5 checklists for you to use with your sales managers in any organization. We often talk about the importance of process in selling, but good sales management is a process too.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here are 9 questions for sales managers to ask themselves (or for executives to ask their sales managers) as we forward in the new sales year. Is my sales process working? Regardless of when you developed your sales process, you should review it on a regular basis and update it where necessary.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

Do you manage a sales team or an organization that has a sales team? If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. Simply put, small tweaks have an outsized impact in sales. If this sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. Frontline sales managers coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. This shift requires not only a change in skills but also a fundamental shift in mindset.

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

Diego, a trained scuba instructor, fled Argentina for Cancun in his mid 30’s to create a better life. It wasn’t long before the Director of Marketing of the hotel and real estate division offered him a job as an appointment booker (SDR), where he quickly made five times the money he made pointing out tropical fish.

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criteria for success

MARCH 2, 2022

There are many aspects to sales development. And all great sales managers know that when it comes to sales development, opportunities for growth are endless. When we talk to sales managers about sales development, we tend to get some similar questions: Where is the best place to start? Where to Start.

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Allego

AUGUST 21, 2023

Frontline sales managers are the powerhouse behind every high-performing sales team. However, many frontline sales managers struggle because they don’t receive proper enablement and coaching. In many cases, frontline sales managers get promoted to that role because they’re a top-performing sales rep.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 10, 2018

Author: Michelle Vazzana, CEO, Vantage Point Performance Frontline sales managers have a difficult job. In fact, we think they have the hardest job in any sales organization. Despite the varied and intense demands put on sales managers, they are given relatively little guidance or training on how to actually do their job.

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criteria for success

MAY 17, 2022

If you’re in the process of building a winning sales training program for your team, you've come to the right place. Here at Criteria for Success, we help companies strengthen their sales teams and build out training processes that ensure sales best practices are being put to use. Acceleration. Acceleration.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 7, 2018

Author: Gregg Schwartz Many people think sales management is complicated and mysterious, that there's some unknowable process to becoming a great sales manager, or that great sales managers are born, not made. Here are five choices that great sales managers make – and you can make these same choices too: 1.

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Braveheart Sales

JULY 12, 2023

Good Selling Starts With Great Sales Managers Why I Wrote The Happy Sales Manager , The Comprehensive Guide To Successful Sales Management I’ve been in sales for almost 40 years, 14 of which I’ve spent analyzing sales organizations and learning about their sales managers.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2022

A sales rep schedules a meeting with a prospect, but then they receive a request to attend a training session for the exact same time. Sales training is critical. The best solution: Implement a sales training program that allows for both. Sales organizations “should empower sellers to take the call.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

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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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The sales profession isn’t what it used to be. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? It’s no surprise that 20% of salespeople say their training needs a complete overhaul. What about sales training programs?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

For most organizations, the answer is to gain visibility into the activities of individual sales reps. 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. Management Matters. Management Matters.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan There are more sales experts, self-professed and otherwise, than ever before. There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined. There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. It seems to have worsened!

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Like in a post-apocalyptic movie, sales heroes valiantly fought a formidable foe, developing and broadening their skills to combat the challenges of uncertain markets, supply-chain chaos, rising inflation, and the great resignation. Here are the top sales training trends to watch in the coming year: Delivery Methods.

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SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. Keeping Up with Industry Trends The sales and marketing sector is continuously evolving, with new tools, strategies, and market dynamics emerging regularly.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Sales Leaders leverage Sales Training as a tool for improvement. This will prevent wasting your sales or HR dollars on low-return methods. This article lists sales training poisons SBI has seen - and their respective antidotes. Getting your sales force together for a training event can be expensive.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 18, 2017

So what are the identifying marks of a weak sales manager ? How can you, as Sales Director, determine the signs that have to be dealt with? You measure your management team on the results they achieve. A weak manager will look for reasons and excuses. Blaming Results On The Poor Sales Team.

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