Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 3 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. Hire the right sales managers. This doesn’t happen by accident.

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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. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions. Best Practices for Sales Managers 1. Lay a robust foundation.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It is enticing to play the role of a manager in a sales team. Along with your own quota, you even need to ensure that your sales team performs well and achieves its sales quota. The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Best sales management books you must read.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here are 9 questions for sales managers to ask themselves (or for executives to ask their sales managers) as we forward in the new sales year. What changes might need to be made? Is my sales process working? How's my management? Is my sales training program working? If not, why?

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Assessments Compared Data on Sales Excellence Coaching Salespeople MUST READ: Are Assessments as Evil as the Persona Movie Suggests? Correlation: Salespeople Strong in This Competency are 2125% More Likely to be Performers The Data: What Percentage of Salespeople are Really Coachable?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There has been lots written about the common mistake companies make in selecting new sales managers; specifically the habit of promoting some of their best sales people to the management ranks, whether they are suitable or not. While not isolated to the new managers above, cloning is a common and costly problem.

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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. But many find themselves wondering what they are looking for.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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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. Time management.

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criteria for success

JULY 15, 2021

As sales managers, we’ve all been told we need to coach our teams. But what value are you adding if you’re consistently coaching someone who’s not showing improvement? And what about our top performers? At CFS, we believe that to be an elite sales manager, you need to learn how to coach people where they are.

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Braveheart Sales

AUGUST 12, 2021

Here’s a question we sometimes get asked, “What about promoting individuals who do not have sales experience into sales leadership roles?”. We know that sales managers require different skills and strengths than salespeople. The same is true of sales managers vs other managers. Asks Questions.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

We didn’t know what we didn’t know. And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. Contracts, agreements, and IP law?

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Score More Sales

JULY 10, 2014

We are creating an epic list of skills and traits of good sales managers. Some of the sales leaders were phenomenal – like Al Martin who came from IBM. What traits do you admire about your sales manager if you are a rep? Expand Your Pipeline. This is where YOU come in. Please share!!

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A key factor in a sales manager’s approach is technology. Without the right technology, the sales manager isn’t going to even have the data to view, let alone interpret, and make decisions with. What does this mean for a sales manager newly on the job?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 2, 2019

In many ways, technology, like Google Maps, is similar to sales management software. Sales management software provides streamlined tools for data entry and management to speed up this process. And they often include some of the most popular sales tools (e.g., Free Sales Management Software.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 1, 2021

In this Expert Insight Interview, Eric Reed discusses the outdated approach we have to manage, getting the most out of your team and the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on the way we do business. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: The role of the sales manager in the post-COVID world. Zoom vs Personal Interaction.

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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. Your resources are limited though, so how do you make the most of what you’ve got? The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

One route into the position of a sales manager is promotion from having been a highly successful salesperson. They are suddenly saddled with the responsibility of the entire sales team. The fact of the matter is, having been a high-performing sales rep doesn’t mean that they’ll automatically be a great manager.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 24, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The first problem with today's title is the "5" in "Top 5.". They are not the 5 that most sales managers spend their time on, so let's begin with the sales management practices that most sales managers actually spend their time on.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Learning what the tools are at an early age was extremely helpful especially when dad (Ray) was working underneath a pickup truck or in the middle of a tractor engine and he said to his son (me), "Antny (Anthony), hand me the flat head screw driver." And you know what? As a sales manager, you need a tool box.

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InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The sales pipeline is different in every company and often in every product. But no matter what defines each stage of your pipeline, it’s imperative that sales leaders don’t make the common mistake of neglecting early-stage leads. Teams must be better at managing their pipeline.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Buyers are more self-directed and demand a different sales person. And this requires a different sales manager. CEOs that have terminated Sales VPs recently state performance is only part of the reason. The other is the inability to get consistent performance from sales managers. A’ player Sales Mgrs.

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Apptivo

JUNE 22, 2023

What is a CRM? Why is it important in sales management? CRM Functions to Speed Up the Sales Process 5. Footnotes In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective sales management involves more than just charm and persuasion. What is a CRM? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Scale your own management process. Good luck, and happy managing! Assess your strengths as a manager.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 23, 2023

Love Your Team: A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World Sales management can be challenging, especially in a hybrid work environment. In a recent podcast episode, John Golden interviews Helen Ucci, an experienced sales manager who developed the Love Your Team system of sales management.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

But what about considering the people who are working to sell your products every day? Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily. Establish Compensation Expectations. This could cause you to lose existing, valuable customers.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It might seem to be a self-contradictory statement: “The first thing a sales manager really needs to know is management.”. Often a sales manager becomes a sales manager by being promoted out of the salesperson position. A sales manager is a leader. Management is Management.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. 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.

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Allego

AUGUST 21, 2023

Frontline sales managers are the powerhouse behind every high-performing sales team. However, many frontline sales managers struggle because they don’t receive proper enablement and coaching. In many cases, frontline sales managers get promoted to that role because they’re a top-performing sales rep.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“Create more pipeline.”. Ask any sales leader what they want, and you’ll get an answer along these lines. You can’t tell a sales rep to “increase sales” and expect them to know what to do. A good place to start is to set the right sales objectives. What is a sales objective? Measurable.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2024

We seem to overlook the questions, “How do we know what ‘Top of Funnel’ we need? What drives our Top of Funnel requirements is what happens in the funnel itself. The first requires a 5X healthy pipeline, the latter requires a 2X pipeline. And that’s what the top of the funnel focus drives.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 11, 2014

It’s not a lot different from helping our clients identify why the sales team isn’t generating the anticipated sales growth. When we complete our Sales Organization Assessment, we end up with a graphic that looks like this: What you are looking at is a summary of the level of different skills that the sales team possesses.

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