The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 26, 2023

If you’ve ever been in sales, you know first-hand that one of the most powerful ways to go from good to great is having a strong sales manager. The best sales managers are active listeners and innovative thinkers. So, is there a secret that only these superstar managers know? Of course not.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 30, 2022

If you want to maximize sales, use criticism! You’ve probably had to deal with professional criticism at some point (or often) in your sales career. The post Using Criticism to Maximize Sales first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader. In such a fast-paced, high-pressure … Read More.

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The Sales Readiness Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Despite the current economic challenges, sales leaders are still expected to increase sales revenue. Take a back-to-basics approach and focus on the core activities proven to help Sales Managers drive revenue. While this may seem like a formidable challenge, it is possible.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To paraphrase the renowned sales guru Mark Twain, The difference between the right word and almost the right word, is the difference between telling your sales manager that the deal is dead, versus, the deal is no longer viable. Words are the hammers and nails of sales.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Being a sales manager is a whirlwind experience, especially for those who were once successful sales reps themselves. Transitioning into a leadership role requires a whole new set of skills and strategies. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions.

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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. In terms of the end-user sales experience, proactively enacting these changes will help to ensure that your business remains one step ahead of your closest competitors.

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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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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

The secret to maximizing sales training is simple. In this article, we will outline how organizations can maximize their sales training to increase performance, prevent failure, and maximize their sales training investment. . Plan Sales Training Strategically. Simple, but not easy. Top Down Buy-In.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 29, 2020

You’ve moved from being an individual contributor to managing a team. How do you transition from being a great sales person into being a great sales manager. The job of sales manager is different. As manager, it’s not your responsibility to manage the deals, to make the numbers.

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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. Deal strategy.

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Types of resources Budget Human resources Material resources Why is resource management important for sales managers?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As we settle into 2021, maximizing trust is a top priority for sales managers and professionals, company leaders, and entrepreneurs. Achieving a deep-seated trust among consumers toward your brand is dependent upon your ability to adapt your strategies, practices, and business systems to this newly focused foundation.

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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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Sales Training Connection

JULY 25, 2014

Coaching sales strategy. Ask sales managers and salespeople what makes them successful. Sales managers can’t help salespeople become more talented, but they can help them become more skilled. However like a lot of good ideas, coaching sales strategy is easy to say but no so easy to do.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sales people may be doing these tasks out of habit, or as a reason to avoid doing tasks they perceive as hard, like prospecting. Sales management. Sales people need support in order to change their results. Management needs to create the environment that makes sales success more likely.

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

Top earners in sales use top sales strategies to attain their success. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. Lastly, we’ll examine lessons gleaned from record-breaking achievements in sales to provide valuable insights on persistence and collaboration.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 30, 2015

Sales strategy coaching. As the new year unfolds one of the challenges for suppliers is to better execute on their business strategy. They need to revisit and revise their s ales strategy. They need to revisit and revise their s ales strategy. And formulating sales strategy requires having better information.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

Exemplary sales managers don't just pop up out of nowhere. And very few — if any — reps can assume a management role and thrive, based strictly on intuition. Even the most effective sales leader might struggle to turn a rep who seems like "management material" into a successful manager.

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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. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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Allego

JULY 28, 2022

Magnacca was one of four Allego executives featured on the IT Visionaries Podcast, The Sales Development Podcast, Sales Enablement with Andy Paul, Salesman.org Podcast, Sales Leadership Conversations Podcast, and The Sales Hacker Podcast. 2 Tips for Enabling Sales Managers.

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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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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

ValueSelling Associates’ Julie Thomas and Highspot’s Kelly Lewis break down how to maximize the impact of revenue enablement Love it, hate it – or do everything in your power to work around it – when it comes to the revenue enablement function, everyone’s a critic. It all comes down to strategy.

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Vengreso

APRIL 23, 2019

The leaders of every organization want to maximize sales effectiveness and productivity. But the ever-changing digital sales landscape can make it hard to keep up. That’s why I wanted to bring Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Effectiveness for CenturyLink on as my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial.

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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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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. While it may seem like it from an altruistic perspective, treating all accounts fairly isn’t actually a viable key account strategy and doesn’t guarantee a successful relationship with your top portfolios.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Business strategies change constantly, but they usually pivot slowly over time. Here are some ways to pivot your sales strategy to maximize your post-COVID-19 success. What is a Sales Strategy? What do business leaders mean when they talk about a “sales strategy?”

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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

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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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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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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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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SBI

JUNE 1, 2021

The Art of Holding Deal Strategy Conversations. Three Impactful Approaches High-Performing Enterprise Sellers Practice for Deal Strategy Conversations. Sellers need more help with deal strategy and execution to make quota. By Les Yuen, DealCoachPro. Deal pursuit has never been more challenging than it is right now.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. ” As the Head of Sales Ops, are you thinking the same way? Follow @DanKorten.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 3, 2019

Are you maximizing your natural strengths in your work? I recently worked with a sales manager in our Executive Coaching program and helped him get to the bottom of how he was perceived by his sales team. Do other people really see you for who you are? It’s often hard to know!

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 26, 2023

As a sales manager, you've realized that the sales world is not a constant, static environment. Understanding the seasonal nature of sales is crucial for any business to thrive and adapt to the challenges and opportunities that arise throughout the year.

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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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Allego

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’re living in a world where sales teams must do more with what they have. In this climate, winning sales teams will change their strategy to become more efficient and effective. When sales teams must do more with what they have, it’s critical that sales managers and coaches prepare reps for any scenario.

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