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Should You Promote Your Best Salespeople to Management?

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And then the unexpected happens: these astonishingly high-performing sales-oriented workhorses get stuck in a rut. As a sales manager they struggle. So, which salespeople actually make the best sales managers? But for a strong sales manager, success is about more than numbers and granular details.

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5 Ways to Supercharge Your Sales Enablement Efforts

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In particular, focus on areas of training and coaching if you are looking to improve sales performance. CSO Insights’ 2017 Sales Manager Enablement Report that 47% of sales managers spend less than half an hour a week on coaching the skills and behaviours of their sales teams. Training, training, training.

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12 Memorable Memes for Salespeople

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You got into Sales because you thought it would be easy. The sales manager is hard on the team saying, “If you haven’t hit your quota to go back to your desk and put up the phone.”. You jump through hoops to get it for them and then it takes forever to get approval from the sales manager.

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Coaching Culture: Putting Down Roots

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Luckily, in this great era of sales enablement, there are options to capture and coach the conversations your team has. We use ExecVision to enable sales managers and peers to offer point-of-need feedback based on a scorecard that is customized to fit our specific needs.

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Successful Sales Coaching Best Practices

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To scale sales and marketing teams, we must learn to do more with less, and time is the most precious commodity. What can a sales manager do when there’s only so many hours in the day but we all know it’s important to spend time coaching our front line reps?

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How to Use Executive Leadership Changes to Time Sales Outreach

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Senior Sales Manager Brandon Battey suggests using the information as a hook. “I Whether you know it or not, statistics say that you’re going to blow through most of your budget within the next few months. Would you like to give some of that money to me?”. OK… maybe not the best approach.

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How to Build a Prospect Insight Report Your Entire Team Can Use for ABM and Sales Engagement

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Many players can use these profiles: Sales teams and Sales managers – Often overlooked is the value a customer insight report can have for sales managers, to both track the customer and coach account reps. Who can use a Customer Profile report?