Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Preparing for 2013. I thought I might simply highlight a few points from both sessions since there are pertinent for everyone as we move into 2013. There were four panelists -all with real world experience in selling and marketing. Still others believed sales must prospect and any leads from marketing were simply “gifts”. .

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 22, 2014

Assessments are the logical choice, but it should be more and more obvious that a personality assessment can''t possibly measure the different sales capabilities that would cause one to be effective in one of these roles and ineffective in another. Image Copyright: harishmarnad / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Today’s post is the first of three directed to Sales Operations leaders. Resource allocation is critical to success for sales. Customer/prospect segmentation is a key first step in making wise allocation decisions. The third of four regional stops to nail down 2013 budgets for the Sales EVP and the CFO.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. Top Sales Books to Read in 2013.

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Face-to-face Top of Funnel Call-back Social Media 132

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Speaking of Top Sales World, they just published a page showing all of the greats (I'm honored to be included) that have been inducted into their Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame in the past 3 years. A salesperson told me he met with a customer that had taken their business to a competitor because of price.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. Last week I was speaking at a conference on: “ Building and Maintaining Sales Motivation ”, after the program several individuals came up to discuss my concept of a “Drive Statement. Then engage several team members to assist you in developing a sales theme or Drive Statement.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

He had only been VP of Sales for 6 months. He rose from junior sales associate to become his division’s top rep. Then, as sales manager, he turned around a struggling team. Then he spent a year in Marketing. In Robert’s company, Sales VPs reported to the CSO. It was clear he deserved the job.

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Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is Managing Partner at CSO Insights, a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. Jim has over 29 years of sales and marketing management experience.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I’ve heard a lot of talk about “ Content Marketing.” It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. Well, it’s true.

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Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Among the negatives: the on-the-spot feedback that was vital to the relationship between a manager and his reps is now less common. Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. percent were quality.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The argument I hear is how sales leadership is something that only involves top performing sales people, sales managers or those who work for a company with huge market share. Sales leadership is a fundamental to anyone in sales who is striving to grow their sales and profit.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Map your strategy to the customer journey. Streamlining the sales process.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 2, 2013

But you can excel in 2013 because of your shortcomings in 2012. And with these answers come chances for improvement in 2013. Talent Assessment of Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Build specific competency and accountability based scorecards for Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Lead Generation.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Gen 267

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

One of the biggest problems a VP of Sales faces is prioritization. Prioritization through 3 lenses: What sales productivity problems should you fix in 2013? This post is written for the VP of Sales trying to determine which sales productivity problem to prioritize and which ones to ignore. You don’t run Marketing.

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Scale Face-to-face Promotion Lead Rank 282

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

They can get feedback, they can ask questions, they can get answers, they know that their version of Houston - their prospect or customer - can hear them and will respond if there is a good reason. It''s their sales managers, who are almost as much in the dark as their salespeople. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market? What is wrong with this picture?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s amazing what Harvard Business Review will print on their pages when it comes to the subject of sales. The November 2013 issue featured an article titled Dismantling the Sales Machine. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' It was a survey! 5 Steps don''t make a process.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Focus on new product sales. Obtain market penetration projections.

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Compensation Incentives Incentive Penetration 244

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Download our Quota Validation Guide for Sales to see which metrics align to realistic quotas. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. These include Territory Vacancy Rate and Talent Level (sales rep).

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The controversy continues to escalate, especially in some private LinkedIn groups, where comments are on the rise to Why Win Rates are at an All-Time Low and What is the Most Difficult Part of the Sales Process? A properly designed, staged, optimized process is all about the customer-centric conversation. Register here. **.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 7, 2013

Learn how thought leadership marketing will impact your vertical market presence. The first thing most people ask when considering whether to focus on vertical or niche markets is, of course, what are the benefits? Lower cost of sales. Wednesday July 10th, SM18 Dominate Your Market: at 2:30pm . Better margins.

Marketing 86

Marketing Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 86

SBI Growth

APRIL 30, 2013

Customers demand it. Yet many front-line sales managers are slow to respond. Because speed requires more time and effort from a sales manager. The average sales manager will avoid these requirements. This post will explore ideas sales managers can implement to increase their speed.

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Promotion Quota Social Media Territories 308

SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

The market outpaced him. You will learn if you possess the relevant skills of an “A” player sales leader. Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. He did it as a District Sales Manager. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 16, 2013

Tweet REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”? You’re using CRM as an accountability tool, rather than a sales tool. Successful sales leaders…. Make more cold calls?

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Leadership Sales Cycle 261

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. Marketing, on the other hand, tends to be compensated more for business growth, and their belief tends to be that growth is more likely to come from new customers than from existing customers.

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Account Prospecting Guidelines Compensation 204

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

So, a sales cycle length, on its own, is meaningless until compared with the cycles of your competitors, or a new, customized, staged and optimized version of your own sales cycle. A newly designed sales cycle must have the power and nuance to significantly shorten your current sales cycle. Integration is key.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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Sales Talent Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 15, 2018

The firm was targeting the senior market by offering solutions to keep these older people safe in their own homes rather than empty bank accounts to move into senior housing. Step Sales Process by modeling two top sales professionals who had been selling for years. Author: Dan Seidman Ten thousand baby boomers turn 65 every day.

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Hiring Lead Rank Face-to-face Banking 191

The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 15, 2013

The only thing a clogged sales pipeline does is provide disorder and give the weak a salesperson cover to hide from their boss. Problem is too many sales managers also use the same thing to hide themselves. Far too much effort is wasted by salespeople dealing with prospects who have little chance of ever becoming a customer.

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Pipeline Prospecting Scale Motivation 211

SBI

MARCH 20, 2018

Flash forward to the present, and the number of companies with dedicated sales enablement functions has more than tripled since 2013, reports CSO Insights. Thousands of people now have sales enablement in their titles on LinkedIn, and technology solutions have been born specifically to support the enablement function.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Face-to-face Course 139

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 31, 2013

The authors listed four scenarios where a move to inside sales could be effective: By market segment, By stage of the buyer engagement process, By geography, and. How about these: By sales talent - What roles are your salespeople best suited for? c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' By product or service.

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Inside Sales SAP Sales Talent Lead Rank 211

SBI

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Social Selling and Big Data at the Upcoming Sales & Marketing 2.0 Next week, Sales Dot Two Inc., will host the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The focus is purported to be on the benefits of big data for B2B sales organizations with an emphasis on social technologies. The Sales 2.0 Sales Performance.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Sales Management (2614). Customer Service (995). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Customer (6670). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast?

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Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 9, 2014

When we work with companies selling through channels, the sales processes, metrics, sales management, sales coaching, sales training, messaging and coaching must be different from what we do with direct B2B sales forces. Channel sales is quite different. This is more like traditional B2B sales.

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Score More Sales

JULY 17, 2013

Gerhard had been in the UK recently for a Sales 2.0 We are eliminating phone calls since we are much more focused and more productive using video calls” – David Keene, Head of Enterprise Marketing, Google, UK. Only 61% of reps are good at uncovering customer problems. Sales managers should hire learners, not students.

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Hiring B2B Video Lead Rank 192

Pipeliner

MAY 22, 2020

Sometimes discounting signals failure, but it can also signal vitality, for example, when a company executes a high-growth strategy to grab market share in a nascent market. Every marketer needs it in his or her tool kit. Discounting is as essential for marketers as a jig saw is to a carpenter.

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Discount Vendor Buyer Retail 98

Pointclear

JULY 17, 2013

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. As many as 100 million people are expected to telecommute to work by the year 2013.

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Field Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 245