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

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Referrals aren’t a function of a specific mile marker in the sales process. A study into the habits of business-to-business buyers sheds more light on the question. The blog post and Rapid Learning video module are based on the following research study: Johnson-Busbin, J. Journal of Business Research, 56 (2003) 257–263.

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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

Score More Sales

They say time flies when you are having fun – especially in sales. We included it because I’m crazy about LinkedIn as a sales tool, and because LinkedIn and I go way back – nine years, in fact. I opened my LinkedIn account on October 3, 2003. Have you looked into LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with David Sroka of Point of Reference; a Customer Reference Management Platform

SBI

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Their experiences are more relatable and credible.

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The ‘mom jeans’ of sales tactics: 3 old-school strategies that still work

Nutshell

I’m willing to bet you’re already confused, and images of Tina Fey in the 2003 SNL skit are dancing through your head. When something works, it works for a reason, and this same concept applies to sales. Just like the surprisingly edgy comeback of mom jeans, here are some old school sales tactics that are due for a revival.

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Metrics to Drive Lead Generation Performance

Pointclear

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). Here are select highlights from this study. Marketing strategies improve with better insight into lead conversion to opportunities, sales and revenue.