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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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan My vision, of how the future of selling is shaping up, appears in today''s (the December 18, 2013) issue of Top Sales Magazine. This issue also features the 2013 Award Winners of the Top Sales & Marketing Awards in 18 Categories. We did pretty well this year!

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 30, 2012

Sales Leadership: Impacting Your 2013 Revenue. Yes, I am fully aware it is still 2012 and there are five months left in this year to exceed your quota and hopefully you are well positioned from a pipeline, marketing and headcount to achieve your goals. Many organizations are starting early stage strategic planning at this stage.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

It''s being perpetuated by extremist marketers who are claiming that inbound will become the be-all end-all. The latest proof can be found in this July 2013 USA Today article. Not only that, our company, Objective Management Group , will need to change it''s BHAG from 14 million to 16 million salespeople evaluated!

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2013

I am honored to have been nominated for one or more of the annual Top Sales & Marketing Awards since the event''s inception several years ago. This year I was nominated for 3 awards and Objective Management Group was nominated for 1 award. Top Sales & Marketing Thought Leader - Dave Kurlan.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 16, 2013

The 2013 contributors line-up has been finalized over at Top Sales World , and these are the sales experts who will be working with TSW this year: They will be writing articles, providing tips, taking part in roundtables and interviews etc. This is the group that will be … Writing articles for the Top Sales magazine.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 17, 2013

And most personality assessments now claim to be able to help you eliminate sales hiring mistakes too. The reality though is that almost every available "sales assessment" is a marketing-modified version of a personality assessment. You also need a best-practices, sales recruiting process. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Dealing with objections. When salespeople have good plans but poor time management. We know how important qualifying is and Pete Caputa , Sales & Marketing VP at Hubspot , proves that qualifying improves closing percentages with the metrics data he included in this recent post. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This kind of story doesn''t happen every day. One of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) most successful partners had an opportunity to work with young business leaders that had never sold. There simply wasn''t any sales management and the coaching they received was consistent.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Some companies need to validate our validation. Objective Management Group (OMG) uses Predictive Validity - the most time-consuming and expensive form of validation. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' In this pilot, their success rate was also 92%. Of course not.

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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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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? Should you consider moving some or all of your sales to the inside?

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Some of them are marketers who, in order to push their applications, must convince you that marketing can handle both finding and closing sales - all via the internet. Others are from the big new inside sales industry. Image credit: rtimages / 123RF Stock Photo (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' Register here.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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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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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”? Measuring activity” gives you a false read on the reality of sales. The post The Biggest Thing Sales Leaders Overlook: SALES!

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Among the things being debated are: The migration from outside to inside sales - yes it''s happening and it''s good; but it won''t happen in every company, to every salesperson or necessarily soon. The death of selling - yes, marketing people are predictably predicting this and no it''s not going to happen. 700,000 salespeople!

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pharmaceutical sales training faces several unique challenges that require tailored approaches and solutions. These challenges include: No insight into field activities Traditionally, it has been difficult for sales managers to gain visibility into the daily activities of their sales reps in the field.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Objections (1892). Sales Process (1775). 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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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Here is their success story and an invitation to learn more best practices from SBI's “ Make the Number 2013 Tour.”. As the strategic HR partner to multiple sales leaders, Steve is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent. The assessment can be a great objective tie-breaker.”. But they are patiently persistent.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Why Doesn''t Sales Methodology Get More Attention? Getting a Sales Organization to Buy-In to Sales Training.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 21, 2014

Consider Objective Management Group''s (OMG) approach. Back in 1990, OMG developed the very first assessment specifically for sales. Group 2 is the training group and they get the optimized sales process, their sales managers are trained to coach, and the salespeople are trained on both sales process and methodology.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2012

To stop the cycle, sales leaders and the CEO need the discipline to spend Q4 focusing on the team and the organization in addition to Q4 revenue and closing out the year. Starting the new year right, and in this case 2013, means having the right structure, people, processess, and strategies in place. What is the 2013 sales strategy?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 21, 2013

I''ve been critical of that as well, but for completely different reasons, so let''s review: The Challenger describes a certain type of salesperson, one that Objective Management Group (OMG) has been identifying for 23 years. This highly successful, elite salesperson, has a Sales Quotient of 140 (out of a possible 173) or better.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 12, 2012

As you wrap-up what I hope was a successful 2012 and begin preparation for 2013, I think you will find some great ideas about sales tools during two Webinars to register for. Minimize Your Workload and Maximize Your Sales with Web Tool Automation. 31 Must-Have Sales Tools in 2013.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 6, 2013

The first is Friday May 10 th , Building Predictable Revenue: Sales Management Systems. The second is May 28 th , 1pm EST: Creating Sales Compensation Plans for High Performance. This is one of 10 Sales Management Training programs from Top Sales Management: read below. REGISTER: https://m360.salesassociation.org/event.aspx?eventID=74422.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. Now that you’re a startup expert let’s talk about how you can help them achieve their growth objectives.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 7, 2013

Sales coaching. Sales leadership talks about it all the time. Sales consultants advocate it and Sales Managers say they would like to do more of it if they had the time. The “it” of course is sales coaching. So sales coaching gets put off until Friday and it never happens. Reinforces Sales Training.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 5, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A couple of questions from the mail bag concerned finding that special someone; you know, "The One.". Many small companies do not have sales managers, leaving the Presidents, CEO''s and owners serving in that role on-demand. A great example of this is your copier lease.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

She teaches sales and management courses at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton Executive Development Center. The New Selling Landscape Calls for a New Sales Map. 2013: A Resurgence in Developing People for the New Sales Landscape. Richardson Website: www.richardson.com.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

On my flight to Seattle I was pondering what this week’s blog might contain; it occurred to me that in reflecting on the past year and looking forward towards 2013 a quick summary of a few basic actions sales leadership must take to succeed would be of value. Recruiting is sales leadership’s marketing campaign for sales leads.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 9, 2014

Impacting the lives of others and how focusing on that objective will improve the Life Enrichment of your life. Ken Thoreson, President of Acumen Management Group Ltd. operationalizes” business and sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. Keynote Programs'

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 3, 2013

New product launches and your sales force. Companies in the B2B market develop a dazzling array of new products. And some are extraordinary new products that are designed to be significant revenue producers or game changers or in some cases “bet the company” entries into the market. Overcoming unique obstacles and objections.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Inside salespeople are no longer just engaged in small commodity type sales or as backup for completing the secondary tasks of the outside sales group. As Steve Martin pointed out in an HBR blog companies are increasingly creating inside sales groups who are independently handling accounts in the mid-market.

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