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How Many Days Should a Sales Manager Spend in the Field Sales Coaching?

Steven Rosen

Sales managers who spend more time in the field sales coaching outperform those that don’t! I was sitting in with a customer who is a sales force excellence expert and he asked me, “what do you see in the industry in terms of the number of days that sales managers are expected to be out in the field sales coaching ?”

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New ReferenceEdge Release Completes the “Final Mile” by Coordinating Sales Reference Calls

SBI

New ReferenceEdge Release Completes the “Final Mile” by Coordinating Sales Reference Calls. the only native customer reference technology for Salesforce®. This new capability automates the logistics coordination of setting a reference call between a customer and a prospect. Denver (PRWEB) February 26, 2021.

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Why it pays to get all tangled up with your customers

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Are your customers satisfied with the products and services you provide? Thing is, in surveys up to 50% of “satisfied” customers say they’d happily switch suppliers. Research shows that it’s the pain your customer would feel if they were to stop doing business with you. Congratulations. But that’s a mistake.

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Marine Instruments: Optimizing Customer Service

SugarCRM

Established in 2003, Marine Instruments is an industry leading company in the development of electronic equipment for the marine environment. Furthermore, the issue became visible in the Sales department as well: salespeople were not aware of pending incidents and requests. As a result, they were unable to spot possible opportunities.

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Is B2B Buyer Confidence Stalling Your Deals?

Alice Heiman

My next guest on Sales Talk For CEOs is Brent Adamson and he’s got some revolutionary ideas about B2B enterprise selling. By the same measure, help the customer make the best decision and if that’s not your product, get to that answer as quickly as possible. 32:35] A faster close comes from confident customers.

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Best time to ask for a referral? Listen for warm words from your buyer

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Or a few weeks later when the customer has had a chance to see how well your product works? Referrals aren’t a function of a specific mile marker in the sales process. In one test the researchers asked whether the customers trusted and were satisfied with their rep. Journal of Business Research, 56 (2003) 257–263.

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How you manage makes a difference

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Houlihan Dispensing with sales manager myths. What’s your sales manager mythology? In a recent conversation with a sales vice president, he noted that leadership is not about being engaged, it’s about the willingness to take risks. He was talking about his sales managers. the sales manager?—?to

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