SalesLatitude

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The first-line sales manager is one of the most rewarding, yet overworked positions in the sales chain. Client and team meetings, account and territory planning, financial and administrative work, management requests, and sales rep coaching are just a few of the sales manager’s responsibilities.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I’ve been trying to find a way to tie cooking to sales management. I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. Thus my attempt to find another way to explain concepts of sales management: COOKING! Let’s think about your relationship with your sales people.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As one of our readers wrote: “As a pricing director, understanding the business and grappling with the sales rep and customer-facing issues related to pricing is a significant portion of your role. .” When you interact directly with top customers and local sales reps, you gain a valuable insight into what really drives buying behavior.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. Do you dread the weekly sales team meeting?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I’m sorry if this offends anybody, but the weak link in the revenue chain is usually sales management. Sales meetings often expose lazy or short-term mindsets and, sadly, waste most of the participant’s time. Sales meetings often expose lazy or short-term mindsets and, sadly, waste most of the participant’s time.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 3, 2014

However, once I got into sales, sales management, sales training and became a president of a company, I think I finally understood. Not Hiring – We are not hiring better sales people AND we don’t have replacements, therefore we feel trapped in a bad situation. Brian Tracey describes it as “Eat That Frog”.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As I was looking through my meeting notes from that day, I came across a list of items necessary for growth and sustainability of a business. The 80/20 rule may be a rule, but your numbers can be killed if you lose 1 or 2 sales people from the 20% side of the equation.). Risk Management – Where are you at risk today?

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s LinkedIn: Social-ism Meets Capital-ism – Sales eXchange – 98. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Sales 2.0 , Sales Leadership , Sales eXchange , Social Selling , Social media , execution. What happens when social-ism meets capital-ism? January 2008.

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Allego

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2024, we’ll see plenty of top-notch conferences for professionals in all industries, especially sales enablement. Sales enablement conferences and other events offer the ideal opportunity for you to build your career skills, learn about new technologies, and hear about new approaches to sales enablement. See you out there!

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Pipeliner

MARCH 30, 2018

Frequently I am asked by management teams to attend their sales meetings, to give feedback, and to participate in how my customers are developing their revenue engines. These meetings are often designed around team building events on a beach or at a resort with a golf course. Some are both (my favorites, indeed).

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 12, 2013

Managing a Sales Manager . As a result of our one of my readers sending me an email comment regarding his personal situation, I have attached the sample of one our of a tools we have included in our “On Line Sales Manager Tool Kit ” www.AcumenManagement.com. . Acumen Management Group . Sales Metrics.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 7, 2020

The Sales Manager's Guide To Greatness! You may have been a top salesperson, and still continue to be, but that doesn’t always qualify you to be a top sales manager. Davis is the author of the book The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading your Team to the Top.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

What Happened at the End of the Sales Leadership Training Workshop? It was an interesting out come at the end of the two day Sales Management Training Workshop last week… We discussed the Role of Sales Management, what Strategies face sales managers and focused on the Execution of sales management tactics.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies. Promote sales, throw out freebies, offer free shipping for certain orders. Show them you’re willing to meet their needs and you’re building bridges. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link].

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. When we reached out to Sunny Sandhu — Director of Sales Development at Guru — for his insight, he stressed the importance of covering the "why" behind a topic. Start with "why.".

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. This means sales teams need more than a website to gather product and pricing information. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams. Create a plan.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

I originally met him about 10 years ago, when he led the sales effort for a specialized product line for his company. I took that job in 1997, and I’ve been working in sales ever since. Though sales, I have traveled much of the world, experienced different cultures, learnt so much, and have come in contact with wonderful people.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 31, 2013

How do you know if your sales force is a high-performing one? This post lists some attributes of high-performance sales cultures. It lists 11 traits of high performance sales cultures. Sales Turnover - A Symptom of a Low Performing Sales Culture. Dani, the VP of North America Sales, is frustrated.

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Carew International

APRIL 1, 2021

How Top-Management Involvement Impacts the Sales Process. One of the most interesting and conflicting circumstances sales managers, leaders and executives find themselves in is whether to get involved in the sales process with one of their sales professional’s customers. The Five Types of Involvement.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2017

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2017? Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Become a Detective : In sales management workshops we always talk about inspect what you expect.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 10, 2018

Over the last year, sales management coaching has become THE hot topic. There has been an avalanche of articles in sales publications on coaching and new sales tools focused on making it easier to coach. As the leader of Sales Enablement , one of my major initiatives is to invest in the development of our management team.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shelly King, Manager, Sales Force Development, CooperVision, faced a challenge. Her team supports a multi-generational sales force, dispersed across the U.S. As her team began planning the company’s annual sales conference, King knew they needed to rethink the meeting to prepare reps better.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: A Brilliant Sales Management Strategy. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A sales manager’s dream is having “A” Players that can carry a branch, district or regional office. It took little time for Bob to manage the top 3 performers.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. Once we got good at selling, we liked it.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 6, 2014

I’ve delivered a workshop by this title several times over the last 5 years - at conferences as a keynote and also as a break out workshop. The program, delivered in a 45 to 90 minute segment, is an overview of our Sales Managed Environment (SME) program. o Consistent sales growth. o Consistent sales growth.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in another conference (14th of the year), they are always great times when you can hear other speakers, learn new ideas and meet new people. 3. Still others believed sales must prospect and any leads from marketing were simply “gifts”. . Preparing for 2013.

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Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 10, 2012

So being someone who is a typical ‘bull in a china shop’ there was something about this message that resonated with me and so I wanted to share it especially at this busy time of year where we still have meetings to go to, parties to attend and functions to organise. Allow warm-up time. Set the tone, pace and environment.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 21, 2023

Since writing it, I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations–and workshops on the language of coaching. Coaching is something, if we do it, that is a meeting or activity with one of our people where we “coach” them. Not long ago, I wrote about Coaching Is A Language.

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Annual sales kickoff meetings are a great opportunity to get the entire team together in one place—to share ideas, network, and get motivated to hit the ground running in the New Year. But getting buy-in from your team for the sales meeting is critical in determining whether the time away will be successful and productive or not.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 3, 2012

I'd like to gather some data from those in sales executive positions as to "why" people fail to meet expectations. The other thing I wanted to share about sales success is my informal polling over the last 20 years of conducting sales training and sales management development classes and workshops.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. A collection of three top sales books, including my award winning book on Trigger Events. EDGE Sales Process.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 2, 2016

Sales Tips: Reality Check for Sales Management. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. Are you the senior leader of an underperforming sales team? If your sales team is failing to meet its revenue goals, despite everything else that is going on, you’re ‘underperforming.’

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 12, 2017

Sales Tips: Avoid the "People Like Me" Mentality in Initial Buyer Meetings. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales readiness is the enablement domain that connects the dots to engage and empower your sales force. This domain covers impactful knowledge transfer and effective skill development, and is supported by targeted coaching across the entire sales cycle. This domain should also be closely connected to sales effectiveness.

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