Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Being a sales manager is a whirlwind experience, especially for those who were once successful sales reps themselves. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions. Best Practices for Sales Managers 1. Lay a robust foundation.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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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 Talent — How to improve your sales manager’s performance. Pick the right ones.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 25, 2013

When you assess the performance of your sales leader, perhaps you’re feeling let down. As you plan for next year, you have two options: Pull the Plug – Fire your sales leader and find someone else. As you plan for next year, you have two options: Pull the Plug – Fire your sales leader and find someone else. He works hard.

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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. If it is sales process improvement, Sales pays.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 4, 2014

Sales Managers. If you want to get better at management a good first step is – stop annoying you staff. People complain about their managers regardless of their position inside the organization or the type of business all the time. This good idea also holds true for sales managers.

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Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

If you lead a sales team or are in a senior level role at your company, you are probably actively engaged in the planning process to ensure you have a successful 2015. A few key questions that sales leaders need to be considering include: Is the sales compensation plan providing the results expected? Web Tools'

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Lessons for Sales Managers. In the book, the author shares several key points about entrepreneurs which we believe surely presents lessons for sales managers. Delegators are great managers and supportive bosses. From our observation, these points are particularly important for front-line sales managers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Can you name 10 Core Competencies of a great salesperson? For the past 20 years, every Objective Management Group (OMG) sales force evaluation and sales candidate assessment has been tied to 21 Sales Core Competencies. Shut up Dave and just show us the list already!

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SBI Growth

JULY 26, 2013

started a sales improvement effort. He worked with sales leadership to bring in consultants. Hank is pushing to start the next recommended SFE (Sales Force Effectiveness) initiatives. However, Chief Sales Officer Victor wants to know if the first initiative is successful. It will surely help sales recruiting.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Now he’s got a new book focused on sales , The New Rules of Sales and Service. 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. Sound familiar?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 31, 2013

How do you know if your sales force is a high-performing one? This post lists some attributes of high-performance sales cultures. A Culture Creation tool is available by signing up for the SBI Making the 2014 Number tour. It lists 11 traits of high performance sales cultures. Revised sales territories.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

Sales Planning: Sales Leadership and Sales Execution. This forecast maybe created by product type/vertical/geographic market along with a high, most likely and minimum sales values. The quarterly sales plan by salesperson must be much more tactical. Ken’s latest book is “Leading High Performance Sales Teams”.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Entering 2014, Sales and HR leaders face new trends causing turnover with top talent. This post offers solutions to Sales and HR leaders who ask this question: “How do we respond to demographic trends and retain top sales talent?” This tool is a practical guide to 10 conversations that will boost retention.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

There is no argument among sales leaders that finding, hiring, and retaining good sales reps is the biggest challenge in leading an organization to higher profits. But how to hire the right sales reps? Now, many tools will help you through assessments and there are books available to help walk newer managers through this.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Not all “A” Player sales reps were meant to be managers. If you’ve been in sales long enough, you’ve seen this mistake unfold. The newly promoted manager repeats behavior that made him successful as a rep. He neglects his skill development and sales initiatives. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 17, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-04-18. Teaser: Using last decade's sales management tools to accomplish today's complex tasks isn't quite as bad as suiting up a football team with leather helmets, but it may as well be. Author: Dan Hawtof. read more'

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2014

Don’t get wrapped up in the “coolness” of Sales 2.0 tools and Social Selling. by Dave Brock on July 31st, 2014. attempts to bring sanity and manageability into our lives, we leverage all sorts of tools and techniques to improve our efficiency. Customers Sales Management'

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SBI

MAY 6, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. InsideSales.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Need to improve your sales team’s results? That’s the advice from a recent Harvard Business Review article that concluded, women are the future of B2B sales. If you are skeptical, ask yourself this: Which do you think is more likely to have a positive impact on your sales results next year — more women on your sales team or less?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

We write frequently about aligning your sales process to your ideal customer''s buying process. Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.” Learn why your team ignores your sales process and how to fix it. Creating tools. Frustration results.

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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.” What is Topgrading for Sales?

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SBI

MAY 6, 2014

You’ll need a new fuel source if you want to blast sales into the next stratosphere. Today’s best-in-class sales organizations implement a variety of sales tools to impact their revenue. See which tools we chose for: Contract Management and eSigning. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. InsideSales.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Most HR and Sales leaders who just completed this mid-year chore would agree. It does not answer the question that is top of mind with Sales and HR leaders, “How can we improve the performance of our sales team?” The accelerated pace of today’s selling environment requires a new kind of performance management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sales Process isn't even the only thing that inbound marketers say is dead. Let's start with my recent Google search for "Sales Process is Dead." One article was written by a sales expert discussing the concept of following the buyer's purchasing process. But the key word here is tools. Tools don't replace selling.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

In B2B sales, activity leads to results. 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. You reduce the number of sales reps to cut costs. This tool will save you a ton of time. Layered content.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 22, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! The article also instructs readers to evaluate using a predictive tool. With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. 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. Who are they? What size are they?

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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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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

You have to make the rest of 2013 with the sales heads you have.” Sign up for SBI’s 7th annual research tour: " How to Make Your Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute." In the guide you will learn: Make the number with the remaining sales people you have. Sales people like to be included in a team environment.

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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. This blog addresses how sales reps can ensure their quota is realistic and attainable. Many sales reps are forced to accept a quota that is neither.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. In this post I want to recommend three ideas to raise your game in 2014. Every sales manager is time starved. Lack of quality leads.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2018

If you’re one of the few sales professionals who’s never heard of Keenan the Sales Guy, here’s a little introduction. Keenan is the self-described CEO/President and Chief Antagonist of A Sales Guy Inc. With more than 20 years of sales experience, Keenan has influenced, learned, and shaped the world of sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

Author: Erroin Martin, Vice President of Sales at Conversica “These are the new leads. 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. And why is that?

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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. Now that productivity is defined, you need to identify the tools they need. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s a big problem with many of the sales blogs you read. One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. Keeping that in mind, Objective Management Group (OMG) held its quarterly Rockefeller Habits meeting this week.

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