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. Don’t get me wrong.

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." There are 10 best practices Sales VPs have taken to ensure this doesn’t happen. Make the sales job fun. Training your sales team how to social sell will immediately improve your sales pipeline.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 9, 2014

Jason Kanigan at Salestactics.org interviewed Richard about sales training trends earlier this week. Some of the points raised were: Upgrading sales teams is a continuous challenge given the changing sales environment. Most companies have purchased some sales training – especially around basic selling skills.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

There are certain trainings that can produce these results. Register now for our How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Execute. By registering, you will get our Quarter 3 Pipeline Strategy Assessment. It will help your team determine: What deals can close quickly in your pipeline.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 4, 2014

Sales manager with a new sales team. As most in sales leadership would share – the front-line sales manager is the pivotal job for building and sustaining sales success. And, perhaps the most critical time for any sales manager is when first taking over a new sales team.

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Score More Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Could you use a powerhouse team of sales experts to help you with deals in your pipeline? Q4 is here, for those of you working in sales and working off of a calendar year. Sales leaders want to drive as much revenue as possible from their sales team – is that you? Expand Your Pipeline. Register now.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

This forecast maybe created by product type/vertical/geographic market along with a high, most likely and minimum sales values. In addition this plan should include personal training requirements, selected activity goals and personalized marketing programs. The quarterly sales plan by salesperson must be much more tactical.

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Forecasting Quota Compensation System 73

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Converting to Agile Performance Reviews will help you Make the Number in 2014. Unfortunately, none of these apply to a modern sales organization. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. Training classes and workshops won''t get it done.

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Territories Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation Targets 282

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sales Training Article: Is"Sales Manager" An Oxymoron? Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Are you doing more selling than managing? That is when the problems started.

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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. So, Grace started to investigate this potential career path in sales further. “I because I had felt the pain as a sales manager of not having a solution like it,” she says. “I

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 5, 2013

Sales Training Article: "When Is This Deal Going to Close?". By Scott Gruher, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Image courtesy of imagerymajestic at FreeDigitalPhotos.net "When Is This Deal Going to Close?" The worst question a sales leader can ask a rep. The problem is that most sales leaders aren''t doing this.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. This means your sales force will be in more deals. This is how your pipeline gets built. Training organized in “sprints”. The sales manager owns the process and is paid on average ramp time.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Assessment Tool: Objective Management Group Sales Candidate Assessment. I’ve followed OMG’s Dave Kurlan for a number of years and finally got to meet him at INBOUND 2014 in Boston this year. OMG’s products are backed by years of research and in working with hundreds of thousands of sales reps.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 18, 2015

Max was her top sales rep—the one with the best customer relationships, the most closed business, and the largest pipeline. Check out Richard’s advice for sales leadership: “Sales managers have a tendency not to focus on their top performers. This is certainly a statistic that all sales managers should ponder.

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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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

They rely on manually-entered data to monitor the sales pipeline and coach their salespeople, and they run sales and marketing independently, creating a disjointed experience for buyers. In inbound sales — the modern methodology for sales teams — companies base their sales process on buyer actions.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Immediate revenues, larger pipelines and increased levels of belief along with better customer relationships is a positive way to start the year. Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. Sales Motivation Sales Training'

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My answer: This book is the closest to a formal handbook on selling than I have read in a many years and as my clients need sales tips, this will be a great resource. In fact I will recommend it as an internal sales training book club tool as well! Ken has written 5 books, his latest book is: SLAMMED!

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We plan on doing the best sales blogs punchy, to the point, easy-to-implement tactics, drenched with useful visuals. 5 Best Sales Role Play Scenarios to Train Your New Hires. +24 24 Examples of Sales Follow Up Email Subject Line. 46 Best Sales Questions to Ask on a Sales Call. A Post Worth Your Time .

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98

Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Next week I am off site all week during a 2014 client strategy and planning meeting, this week I am assisting another client with ‘on-boarding” two salespeople that are remote from the main business office! Each box must be dated/signed and as a Sales Manager: “Inspect what you expect” is never more important. 3f4qb8v9ge.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 23, 2015

This is what I generally see or hear when I begin to poke at the problem: When you review the pipeline report (CRM/Excel) all the Closing Dates are listed as the end of the month-6/30/15 as an example. Beyond your current monthly pipeline values future pipeline dollar values are not listed. Third, it takes training.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

The Sales Babble Podcast. Sales Pipeline Radio. Make It Happen Mondays -- B2B Sales with John Barrows. The Sales Podcast. After a long day at the office, Netflix is usually more appealing than cracking open a sales book or streaming a sales training video on YouTube. Sales Pipeline Radio.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 21, 2015

Not only does this strategy let sales leaders off the hook for coaching and training salespeople —which is their No. 1 job—but it also puts sales teams in the position to compete with each other, when they should be collaborating. Sales is no longer a lone ranger business. That’s 5 percent less than in 2012.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 6, 2015

The sales manager began to fully understand not only what the steps in the sales process were, but why each salesperson needed to execute on them. This provided the sales manager a better platform for coaching, mentoring and monitoring opportunities in the pipeline. Need more sales management resources?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last Friday my topic was “Accelerate Your Business in 2015”, during the program I covered a variety of ideas, techniques and tools the audience could use to drive increased levels of sales pipeline values and revenues. Need other tools designed to increase your sales and sales management effectiveness?

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Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 5, 2014

As you can imagine, I am often asked by sales leaders anxious to recruit the best salespeople they can afford, just what is it that makes a consistently top performer; what are their characteristics, where are their strengths, and what differentiates them? They are selling quite literally on top of the world!

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

Taking the right approach to training and coaching. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Taking the right approach to training and coaching [28:46]. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a relationship-based digital selling tool that is designed to help you do just that. We went public in 2014. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

In fact, BrightFunnel report found that from 2014 to 2015: It took 52% more marketing touches to close a deal. The total number of touches were evenly split between pre-sales (53%) and the sales cycle (47%). Tech marketers had to nurture leads 12+ months before they hit the sales pipeline.

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Penetration Industry Buying Cycle Marketing 68

Cience

MAY 7, 2019

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity. Up-to-dateness.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 58

Cience

MAY 7, 2019

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity. Up-to-dateness.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 40

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world. Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 28, 2020

Sam Jacobs: We’re excited to have on the show, Lori Richardson, a really well-known thought leader and speaker in the sales community. So, all sorts of PCs and peripherals and training and services. And that’s why training is such a big industry with so much waste in it. How much did that help you, Sam?

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