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Top 10 Kurlan Sales Articles of 2013

Understanding the Sales Force

Also, I did not include the article that was awarded a Gold Medal for Top Sales & Marketing Article of 2013 earlier this week. Here they are in no particular order - My Top 10 Articles of 2013: SALES. Actual Coaching Call - Use it to Coach Your Salespeople to Success. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Operationalize Personas to Meet Your 2013 Goals

SBI Growth

Do you want to increase sales and meet your 2013 goals? Enable Sales Managers to Coach Reps on Personas. New habits and skills require training and coaching. To operational personas, you are going to have to deliver persona training and coaching. Hey, Sales Operations leaders. Specific examples of how to use personas.

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How CEOs Can Help Sales Managers Beat the # in 2013

SBI Growth

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. 66% of the respondents “agreed” or “strongly agreed” with the following statement: I believe increasing the time invested by my sales manager in coaching, training and development activities will have a positive impact on my performance.

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Maximize Your "B Player" Sales Talent in 2013

SBI Growth

By now, HR and Sales leaders have solidified their common 2013 goals. The insights offered by Thomas DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan may be 10 years old, but they are especially relevant for 2013. B players will gratefully accept coaching time, but they won’t demand it. Welcome to the final SBI blog post of the year!

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New 2013 Sales Quota = HR Get Ready!

SBI Growth

Sales teams are getting their 2013 numbers. 2013 results will uncover some long-hidden flaws in the sales force. Sales coaching. Guide the Sales Managers on how to effectively coach C players. For one thing, coaching of C players should NOT be more than 10% of a Sales Manager’s time. What's the best approach?

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Will These 6 Tests Save 2013’s Sales Compensation Plan?

SBI Growth

Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. That would make 2013 worse than this year! Any one of these areas could be a land mine that blows up your 2013 sales comp plan. Will a focus on training and coaching be undermined? HR even brought in an expert compensation firm.

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5 Steps for HR to Develop 2013 Sales Leaders

SBI Growth

Our 2012 sales leader research finds it is still a big fear for 2013. Here are five steps for HR to build a sales leadership pipeline in 2013: 1. Then, the HR leader coaches the mentor on use of the onboarding program. The top fear of HR leaders for 2012 was finding or developing leaders. Leverage them as you can.