Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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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

MARCH 25, 2019

Ironically, perhaps the single most important investment we can make in driving sales performance, has little attention and significantly smaller investment. That is, sales management—particularly front line and middle management. Within sales, we continue to see data that mirrors this.

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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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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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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We provide training, tools, content to reduce their ramp time. 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. It is critical that we onboard new managers, at all levels.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2017

Thanks to people like Mike Kunkle , Tamara Schenk , Jason Jordan , Mike Weinberg , and others; the importance of Front Line Sales Manager Enablement is getting some visibility–though still not enough. But simply sending a manager to a training program on coaching is insufficient. We need to do more.

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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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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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Mindtickle

APRIL 16, 2020

Selling is harder than ever in this competitive marketplace, so sales reps need easy access to key information and training, and sales leaders need an easy way to measure progress against key goals. This means a sales enablement tool is no longer a luxury: it’s a necessity for every CRO or Sales Leader. .

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2016

In the US alone, between training, technology, and tools, over $25Billion is spent each year on enabling sales people. There are dozens of software tools/platforms, with new one’s springing up every week that focus only on sales enablement. What about sales managers? Should Sales Managers Coach?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

Mostly, if managers are coaching performance at all, it’s tactically oriented; how do we win this deal, how do we fill the pipeline, what are you doing in this next call… ? We have to have a plan, with our people, to grow them and maximize their performance. Related Posts: I Just Don't Have Time To Coach!

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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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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 27, 2017

Virtually everything one reads about driving sales performance and productivity focuses on the sales person. 1000’s of books and articles provide endless advise to help improve sales people skills. Billions are spent in training and skills development—all focused on the sales person.

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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

MAY 19, 2016

Perusing my news feeds this morning, an article entitled, “Should Sales Managers Coach” caught my eye. Is it a super closer/sales person? The job of the front line sales manager is to maximize the performance of each person on the team! It’s management forsaking a key responsibility.

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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

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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Mindtickle

APRIL 16, 2020

Selling is harder than ever in this competitive marketplace, so sales reps need easy access to key information and training, and sales leaders need an easy way to measure progress against key goals. This means a sales enablement tool is no longer a luxury: it’s a necessity for every CRO or Sales Leader. .

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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

JUNE 3, 2020

Billions are spent on tools, content, consultants. All of these focus on how we succeed as sales people or leaders. Likewise, the tools. ” As sales leaders, it’s similar, “How am I helping my people maximize their performance?” Related Posts: How Much Do You Care?

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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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Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. But here’s another fact: sales is HARD! There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2018

I’ll be doing a short series of posts on critical issues facing sales managers in 2018. The first critical issue I’ll be addressing is Talent Management. There’s the old IT maxim: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Many might say, the critical issue is the same as it ha always been, making our numbers.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 23, 2016

One of the more common dysfunctions is sales managers leading from behind a desk. Increasingly we find sales managers either trapped behind or hiding behind a desk. Schedule these administrative tasks, as much as you can, for the early morning, evenings, or weekends (Who said sales management is a 40 hour per week job?).

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. They have to provide the coaching, training, systems, processes, tools, and support to enable their people to achieve their goals. No related posts.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Unless you are a sales manager with your own territory (which is an untenable position), you don’t produce revenue. It’s an important point that too many in sales management don’t understand. The only way to make your numbers is through maximizing the performance of each person on your team.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

We’ll also explore some of the challenges sales reps face that impact their productivity, detail how to calculate your team’s sales productivity, and discuss the best tools to help you increase it. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? Why is sales productivity important? What is sales productivity?

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Nutshell

APRIL 24, 2024

There’s no denying that it’s an invaluable tool, but it lacks much functionality beyond this. 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.

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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

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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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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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. We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The while point of this process has little to do with the customer, and more to do with maximizing the volume and velocity of moving customers through the assembly line. Only after that, do they look at maximizing the assembly line speed. (I Maximizing the value created for the customer at every step of the process.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2020

What maximizes the success of a Global Account Manager in hunting in her account will be different from that which is most effective for territory managers. How a SDR applies the selling process in their role will be slightly different from the work of a product specialist, and different from an account manager.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It will take careful planning and adjustments, but by prioritizing the right sales essentials, you can bring stability back to your sales department, find new customers, and thrive once more. It will, however, take all your skill and experience as a sales manager. First, ascertain your sales department’s main priorities.

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