Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

First Quarter 2014. But as budget planning begins and business strategies begin to be set, it is your responsibility to be ready for 2014. 1. What are your revenue objectives by each quarter for 2014? a. Sales skills. d. Review your marketing/sales operational teams. Are You Set Up?

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Pipeliner

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. Yet to me, we’ve even come to a higher purpose today, which is to create repeat customers!

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 27, 2014

2014: How will you stand out in the marketplace? Embedded as one of the key components in the marketing segment was building a vertical market using Cloud solutions to increase sales velocity, one of the sub-elements was using Thought Leadership Marketing to help you stand out in the marketplace. About the Author.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2013

There is nothing more stressful than Q4 for a VP of Sales. Couple that with preparing for 2014 and you are maxed out. Schedule a review of your 2014 plan at your office here. We will use Sales Leader’s Q4 Critical Path Guide. Your Customer — What has changed and how this impacts your plan. The Love and Hate of Q4.

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Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

How is your customer retention doing? Are you acquiring new customers at the rate you have planned for? What do your customers think of your products and services? You get the idea -these are key sales management actions to be thinking about. You can learn from six of the best in Sales Management Consulting.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

I’m a big fan boy of David Meerman Scott dating back to his (in my opinion) classic book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Now he’s got a new book focused on sales , The New Rules of Sales and Service. 2. Sales managers are the biggest problem. Most sales managers, directors and VPs came up through the ranks.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 2, 2014

As you’re planning for 2014, forget resolutions. Set manageable goals instead. The New Year’s resolution checklists are the same every year—mostly about eating healthier, losing weight, and managing our finances better. Instead I create manageable goals for myself and my team. Forget Shaking the Trees. 1 Goal: Referrals.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Listening To the Market. You are finalizing plans for 2014. Many of the answers to a sales leader’s execution problems are in the market. This post is focused on how listening to the market accelerates field execution. This post is focused on how listening to the market accelerates field execution.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Learning the truth is critical for your sales strategy. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Learn what SBI’s Discovery says about what top organizations will do differently in 2014. Customer Interviews. Sales Rep Survey.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2013

When you assess the performance of your sales leader, perhaps you’re feeling let down. Your customers like him. As you plan for next year, you have two options: Pull the Plug – Fire your sales leader and find someone else. Rescue your current sales leader – Help the current guy make the number next year. He works hard.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

Excellent sales organizations will have each salesperson complete a six month detailed sales business plan that will include defined personal and professional goals and depending on the type of product/services an organization offers, a forecast that equals 3X assigned quotas. Acumen Management Group Ltd. Like a sample?

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 25, 2014

Coaching sales strategy. Ask sales managers and salespeople what makes them successful. Sales managers can’t help salespeople become more talented, but they can help them become more skilled. However like a lot of good ideas, coaching sales strategy is easy to say but no so easy to do. How many accounts?

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. ActonSoftware.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2014

With just a couple months left in 2014, there is still time to step up your selling, meet your quota, and develop a strong pipeline filled with referral-based prospects for the New Year. Why Permission Marketing Always Trumps the Cold Call “It’s better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” We all are. Want to Know Me?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Goodbye, 2014. Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )? Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. This is how it’s always worked in most sales organizations. Learn more.) [Top

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Just ask former math teacher Grace Tyson, who, in 2014, was struggling to define the unknown in a very important equation: Grace + [X] = new career. I sold for the company in the United States for a few years before selling in EMEA and eventually, I became an International Sales Manager. Discovery is a critical part of sales.

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Hank''s DLA experience: DLA hired engaged a consulting firm to help with sales rep onboarding. An initiative to align territories based on sales rep potential attracts A players. Failure here.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. They cross collaborate with manager peers, their reps, and the VP. He helps the new reps ramp up quickly.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 7, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan N ot too long ago, before the advent of Social Selling, if a salesperson needed to add new opportunities to the pipeline there were basically two options: Make Cold Calls; or. Call Existing Customers for Referrals and Introductions. Interestingly, this choice was not a no-brainer!

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Brian Trautschold , Cofounder and COO at Ambition , a 10-year-old sales gamification startup based in Tennessee, not the Bay Area or Atlanta. Join us for an inspiring conversation about perseverance and organic growth outside of a major market. powered by Sounder.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Sales Training Article: How Realistic Is Your 2014 Sales Quota? By Joel McCabe, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI''s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Close.io

AUGUST 21, 2019

Founded in 2008, Twilio reached $100 million in annual revenue in 2014 and $600-plus million in 2018. Platform startups often struggle to nail niche markets because customers can do so many things with it. Platform startups often struggle to nail niche markets because customers can do so many things with it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

If you’re in sales then you have likely seen “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Alec Baldwin’s iconic turn as a fire-breathing sales manager delivers the most anti-motivating motivational sales speech in movie history. It’s time for a major upgrade to the way salespeople are depicted in movies. And the way they operate in real life.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. ” A desire to spend too much time preparing to make sales calls as an excuse to not actually have to call. .”

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Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Why it’s Important: “The companies that lag behind in adopting new ways of selling and marketing are slated for the trash heaps of failed businesses.”. At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. About CRM Radio Guest Mike Plante, Chief Marketing Officer.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

If another customer told her every competitor’s offering felt the same, she might scream. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. She was frustrated and went on LinkedIn, ready to test the market. Buyers had decided on the benefits they wanted before a sales call.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 17, 2019

While this approach can generate net-new business, its approach contradicts a key concept that research has proven: in uncertain economic times , the best way to grow your sales organization is to invest in deepening customer relationships. What Challenger Gets Wrong about Customer Relationships. It’s evolved.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Small businesses do not have separate sales managers or marketing departments. The small business owners usually wear plethora of hats including sales manager and marketing director. Salespeople for those very same firms may often be the customer service department to even the technical department.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 14, 2014

Selling Power Features Keith Rosen’s company, Profit Builders on the 2014 Top 20 Sales Training Companies List. Profit Builders is honored to announce that on June 18, 2014 they were included on the 2014 list of the Top 20 Sales Training Companies that excel in helping sales leaders improve the performance of their sales teams.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. We want our teams to be empathetic while dealing with customers and while collaborating with each other. We want our teams to be empathetic while dealing with customers and while collaborating with each other.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In 2011, Wharton’s Ethan Mollick shared that mid-level managers could have greater impact on company performance than almost anyone else in an organization, yet they are “often overlooked and sometimes maligned.”. The Becker Hospital Review which shared the results of a 2014 Insigniam study that focuses on middle managers.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

More sales people means more sales calls. This means your sales force will be in more deals. In a soft economy, close rates will drop due to cautious customers. You reduce the number of sales reps to cut costs. This results in market share gains. Reps engage with customers day 1. No printed material.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

By chance, they were conducting a customer satisfaction survey with 50 of their best clients. As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. Was this company asking?

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2013

Sales can learn a lesson here. Sign up here to receive a copy of the Sales Job Tryout Toolkit. Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Here''s a 7-step overview of a tryout for a sales rep. (To Sales Manager - Scenario: Only 2 of 8 members of the sales team are making the number.

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SBI Growth

MAY 11, 2013

Sales VPs need to make the number this quarter. Sales Managers want more new business. Sales Reps need more leads. Introduce them to a ‘Dream Customer’ : This is the most valuable form of Social Debt. Connect your customer to one of their dream prospects. The pressure is on to consistently perform.

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