SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. Whatever the Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) improvement, it will require funds to get it implemented. Or a redesigned compensation plan.

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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. You are strategizing with Sales Managers and reps. How You Avoid Losing the 2014 Battle. You are sprinting to finish the current year.

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Territories Compensation Buyer Google 308

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. Sales Rep Survey. Sales Management Survey.

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Hiring How To Face-to-face Survey 310

The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2013

As we get ready to round the bend to the end of after Labour Day, it is not too early to start thinking about how we maximize our opportunities into the end of the year, and to kick 2014 off strong. Gutzmann, Sales Manager, Major Accounts IKON Document Efficiency At Work. “Tibor, thanks again for the training course.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Discount Maximizer 275

SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2013

There is a better way to differentiate your sales force from the competition. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." Learn why a customized sales process is the ultimate competitive advantage. Not Just a Regular Sales Process.

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Top of Funnel Competition Buyer Sales Methodology 276

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Planning for 2014 is in full swing. You just got off the weekly call with the Sales Leadership team. Your boss, the SVP of Sales, has some ‘great’ news. “We We got budget approval to add new sales heads. Start recruiting now so we can start of 2014 with a full team.” Invite your boss, a peer and two sales managers.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 288

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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Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Funnel 105

SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. Your CRM supports the sales process. Many artifacts common in sales trainings no longer work. Employee assessments are not testing for mastery of a sales process. Convert more leads into opportunities.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 6, 2015

7 Benefits of a Prescriptive Sales Process. By spelling out the steps that great sales performers use intuitively, you can develop the rest of your sales staff. By taking the time to document what each salesperson should at each step of the sales process you will ensure higher levels of performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

While the majority of the 1,200 articles that I have written and posted on this blog in the past 8 years are about the sales force, sales management, sales leadership and sales recruiting, I write about selling more than I ever expected to. How Stealing 2nd Base is Today''s Secret to Success in Sales.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Every year, a Sales Enablement leader is faced with the same problem. Ramping new sales reps. Make a change in 2014. Follow the 4 step process below to start this year off right. It will help you find the gaps in your current fast ramp process. Sales process: Your organization has a unique sales process.

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Training Buyer Persona Hiring How To 282

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A couple of weeks ago I went to the 2014 version of Inbound with about 10,000 other people and was thrilled to not only attend David’s talk but get him to do an interview about his new book and his thoughts on social selling. 2. Sales managers are the biggest problem. They were once top sales people. Let me know.).

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Lead Rank Cold Calling Lead Scoring CRM 300

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 14, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I wrote this article questioning the Death of SPIN Selling. Over the years I have questioned the impending death of other important areas like cold-calling, selling, sales process, salespeople and more. People who visit there experience life in a controlled environment.

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Top of Funnel Inside Sales Conference Webinar Metrics 250

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. 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? I will be speaking at the Sales 2.0

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Lead Rank Sales Methodology Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 240

Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Now there is a rush for software and computers to reason (yes, that is the right word) and to take action for sales and marketing revenue increases by people or in a programmatic fashion. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell.

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InsideSales Inside Sales Revenue Webinar Metrics 113

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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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 8, 2014

This is sales infrastructure, or systems and processes. Next comes training, and how to follow a customized, milestone-centric sales process that will steer them in the right direction, advance them on the path, govern their time, and help them disqualify those who will not buy.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you understand which strategies aren't worth your time, we reached out to some experts to offer their takes on sales tactics that brands should avoid, going forward. According to HubSpot Sales Manager Korina Ortiz , sales professionals need to avoid holding onto outdated positioning statements in 2021.

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Pointclear

MARCH 26, 2015

Mike is a consultant, sales coach, speaker and author on a mission to simplify sales and his specialties are New Business Development and Sales Management. In 2014, he was named a Top Sales Influencer by Forbes and OpenView Labs, and his first book New Sales. About Mike Weinberg. Simplified.:

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Let’s take an in-depth look into how data and sales intelligence can affect every aspect of the sales process and the impact it will have on the sales industry in the future. Building a data-driven business means they no longer have to rely on their intuition to guide them through the sales process.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 21, 2020

Sales ops’ breadth shows no signs of slowing down—and the most successful sales ops teams embrace that approach, investing in owning or playing a significant role in more of these activities than their compatriots at the average organization. Own Sales Support. Invest in a Dynamic Sales Forecasting Process.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2014

In my 16 years of sales management consulting I have found it to be a key success factor-the concept of a defined-specific sales process map. While many sales leaders believe they have a sales process, Andy’s explanation of changing a Light Bulb as compared to a sales process is exactly correct!

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Maximizer 82

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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Webinar Metrics Strategy Hiring Hubspot 114

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! That chapter alone will begin to reset your view of the sales process.

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Handbook Negotiation Call-back Sales 87

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the sales process from the perspective of your co-workers will enrich your understanding of your piece of the process and enable you to be better at it. When you need help in a sales process, you most likely think of going to your sales manager. Asking Questions ? Growth = Success.

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Face-to-face Twitter Research Industry 101

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. This tool allows sales managers to analyze the email productivity of their reps.

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Tools Closing Territories Hubspot 108

Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In other organizations there is limited marketing of this nature with an expectation that sales will build relationships that lead to additional business opportunities. The question is, as a sales manager how should you structure your sales team’s expectations around prospecting? What is your sales process?

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Real Estate 92

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They’ll all be participating in this year’s Dreamforce 2014 event at the Mosconi Center in San Francisco. Sales managers love ClearSlide for the insight it offers into their team’s activities, and sales people love the automatic activity logging. Accelerate Sales Ramp Up. That’s me with Sassy.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 30, 2014

Because of the scope of the change on the buyers’ side of the equation, a comprehensive perspective of innovation is required: sales force designs need revisiting – sales processes should be reviewed – roles and responsibilities deserve a new look and that is just the short list. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Pointclear

MARCH 27, 2015

To get the full benefit, I encourage you to watch his presentation from the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff. Mike is a consultant, sales coach, speaker and author on a mission to simplify sales and his specialties are New Business Development and Sales Management. Sales Process Sales & Marketing Management'

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Prospecting Handbook Face-to-face Call-back 100

Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Beyond simply being flexible about schedules and responsibilities, salespeople increasingly are being called on to marshal internal resources and to be part of – or manage – sales teams. In today’s environment salespeople are required to play different roles at different times during the sales process.

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Hiring Face-to-face Lead Rank Study 125

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

AUGUST 16, 2017

in late 2014. If there were more respondents with transactional sales in the research carried out in 2014 (usually fewer customer stakeholders involved in a buying decision) compared to this latest research, carried out 18 months later, this fact alone can lead to the observed trend everything else remaining the same.

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Customer Forecasting Demographics Trends 40

Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 17, 2019

That evolution is what will strengthen relationships between buyers and sellers and bring success to sales organizations as we face an increasingly challenging global economy. Through the sales process, sellers co-create value with their buyers. What Challenger Gets Wrong about Customer Relationships. It’s not a moment in time.

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Customer Face-to-face Scale Journal 51

LevelEleven

AUGUST 7, 2018

You have been promoted to sales manager. Going from a top performing sales person to a manager seems like it will be an easy transition, right? The traits that make all-star salespeople usually don’t directly translate to the skills needed to be an effective sales manager. Congratulations!

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Hiring eBook Inside Sales Construction 48

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Good talent used to be found anywhere if you found someone who could talk the talk and so many hopeful’s resumes were tucked away and sandbagged in top drawers by sales managers ready to be called upon at any given time to replace their bottom performers. But the drawer is empty today. Image Courtesy of My Camera.

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Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Systems/Processes/Tools. Marketing/Sales Integration. Sales Automation/Tools. Those were the issues I saw a year ago, talking about the key issues for 2014. Recruiting/Onboarding.

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Fashion Face-to-face Analytics Social Media 89

Nutshell

APRIL 10, 2020

Customer relationship management (CRM) software makes it easier to handle your sales processes from beginning to end. While true for any business, small sales teams can reap the optimal benefits from the resources available in CRM software. Effectively prioritize sales tasks. As of 2014, the U.S.

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