Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Strong leadership .

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 13, 2020

Sales managers are being tested in ways they’ve never seen before, and new managers have even more challenges as they assume their roles in the midst of sweeping change. Here are five ways that sales leaders can help newly minted sales managers accelerate through the turn and spearhead recovery.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Set Goals and Quotas. As a sales manager, you're a motivator for your reps.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. If you are considering sending your sales managers to training seminars in 2013, keep your money. Develop a custom sales management program.

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SalesLatitude

JULY 26, 2018

If your fiscal year ends December 31, you are now a bit past the mid-year point to make quota. You may have made your quota for the year so everything else is gravy. Or, you have not made quota yet but have an eye towards closing the deal or deals that will get you there. You may not have enough in your pipeline to make quota.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a sales manager needs to be poised for the future, you reduce the chances of creating value and growth. The need for courage comes into play all throughout a sales manager’s job.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Can sales managers become true coaches rather than simply managers and directors? For instance, if incentives are based off of quota attainment, then quotas cannot be subjective and frivolously set by managers. Is the compensation plan workable? Otherwise, the opportunity exists for playing favorites.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Mike shares the 12 building blocks, tied together with systems thinking and communication management, sitting on a base of (optional) sales support services. The challenge has been defining Sales Enablement, is it training, sales operations, strategic, tactical, or some other thing. A Managed Process.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s no secret that salespeople often fail as sales managers. Nonetheless, many of the best reps within an organization often end up in management positions. Whether you’re actively seeking a role as a manager or have already gotten a promotion, you should understand the most difficult aspects of the transition.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople. Building a great sales management team is key to a sales team’s success. Nothing else matters.

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SalesLatitude

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Why do sales managers spend so much time reviewing and analyzing sales forecasts yet sales people typically do not? Because the best way to get sales people to take forecast accuracy seriously is to train and coach them on best practices and why it is important to them. Quality Pipelines Drive Forecast Accuracy.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Start your sales planning efforts with account segmentation to fill your territories with fruitful opportunities and increase your sellers’ ability to hit quotas. Consider leveraging predictive analytics to further identify buying patterns and buyer propensity to further maximize your sellers’ efforts. Try This Instead.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When you look at these things we use to describe “salesmanship,” none of it is meaningful to the buyers – the people we have to engage to meet our quotas, achieve our goals, and earn our commissions. Amazingly, the more we do this, the more easily we achieve our goals of hitting quotas, beating competition, earning our commission.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Purposes of a Sales Report.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A sales training reinforcement program is designed to let your sales reps practice these skills with real opportunities while being guided by expert sales coaches. Follow these 4 keys to maximize the ROI of your sales training reinforcement program and permanently shift the performance of your sales team.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A sales training reinforcement program is designed to let your sales reps practice these skills with real opportunities while being guided by expert sales coaches. Follow these 4 keys to maximize the ROI of your sales training reinforcement program and permanently shift the performance of your sales team.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 29, 2018

Monthly, I get into discussions with well intended sales managers–all are struggling, all are looking for help. ” Bob is a front line sales manager (FLSM) for a large technology company. They are doing the job of their sales people! The sales manager’s job is not “doing deals.”

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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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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 27, 2017

Likewise, revenue attainment, quota attainment, virtually any measure we have shows how front line sales managers have huge impacts on sales performance. There seems to be a feeling that just because they have the title of “manager” they must know how to do the job.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

As leaders, a key element of our job is to maximize the performance of each person on our team. Often, it’s very simple, some sort of compensation based on revenue, or possibly quota attainment. We have things that are important beyond just revenue/quota. But sometimes, that’s not sufficient for achieving our goals.

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 24, 2019

I see coaching from two angles, the ability of the rep or salesperson to be coached and accept the coaching and from the ability of sales management to coach effectively. Coaching is the biggest, non-financial way for sales organizations to improve their number and grow. Look it like maximizing your existing resources.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 31, 2016

I recently read this in an article from a sales compensation expert, “In high performing sales organizations 50-70% of sales people achieve quota. If your team is significantly above this, it’s possible your quotas are too easy. ” I’m not a sales compensation expert.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 12, 2012

Sharper decision-making and use of resources by both sales managers and salespeople will generate greater ROI. Create strategies that address customer segments and maximize your sales growth. Strategically allocate resources to achieve sales quotas. Strategically allocate resources to achieve sales quotas.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two days until the end of the month; your quota is complete by 67%. We stayed true to our promises.” — Brian Hicks , VP of Sales at Belkins Agency How to Rebound from a Bad Sales Month Get ready for more tips from sales managers who rebound from rough sales months. quota attainment!

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Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where sales prospects are in the buying process. Sales pipeline stages represent the various points a buyer may be in the buying process. A C-suite executive, sales manager or sales director typically creates the sales stages. Perform sales call coaching.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 3, 2020

Sales performance numbers continue to decline (for example % of sales people making quota). These things that are supposed to be helping us be more successful or to perform better don’t seem to be making us more successful. ” As sales people, we have to think, “How am I helping my customers and prospects?”

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Mindtickle

MAY 20, 2021

Unlock the skills that drive successful sales interactions . According to McKinsey research, over 85% of B2B sales interactions happen on the phone or within web conferencing platforms, making it impossible for sales managers to shadow every interaction between sellers and buyers.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 23, 2013

When your territory is changed, it opens a lot of questions for Sales Reps. Good Managers can provide answers, but typically from the “big picture” perspective. Total revenue potential, changes in quota, expected numbers of new customers are common themes. But can you, the Sales Rep, make a living in this new patch?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A high-performance sales environment is one where the conditions conducive to a successful sales culture have been put in place – resulting in predictable, continuous, metric-based performance improvement. Effective Sales Process. Only about 15 percent of sellers are natural, intuitive “sales eagles.”

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

When you work in sales, it’s not enough to just meet your goals. To truly maximize revenue, the sales team requires a style of management that uses collaboration, analysis, and a proactive approach. This is where sales performance management(SPM) comes in. Why is Sales Performance Management Important?

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sales organizations can analyze calls from different sales process stages to identify benchmarks for winning behaviors. Then, sales managers can deliver skills-centric coaching to help reps hone those behaviors. #3: One such strategy is flagging at-risk deals to sales managers.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability.

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Showpad

APRIL 30, 2020

All professionals are under the gun to maximize return on investment, but arguably no one is more committed to boosting the ROI of sales enablement than the people responsible for implementing it. Time to ramping quota attainment. Time to full quota attainment. points higher revenue attainment on average.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. And, quotas have gotten increasingly harder to hit.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2022

Just to put an emphasis on the importance of understanding why we win, why we lose, and how we maximize performance and productivity, let’s go through an example: Let’s assume 3 sales people with exactly the same quotas: $5M. When I ask sales managers and people for this data, they don’t track it.

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