SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Some salespeople treat sales conversations like a game of Texas Hold ‘Em — analyzing the deck, not showing their cards too early, and playing it close to the vest. I’ve seen a dramatic change in my conversations. Watch the video below to learn more!

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 17, 2016

Sales Management Excellence. Herminia Ibaraan, an INSEAD professor, published a provocative book arguing that in today’s market if you desire to get better at management you must venture outside your comfort zone. There is little doubt that front-line sales managers are the pivotal job for building an effective sales team.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 20, 2016

And for large opportunities the win often is celebrated inside the sales team – again automatic positive feedback. All too often sales managers do not sit down with a salesperson who has closed a winning deal and leverage the win as an opportunity to have a second-level feedback discussion with the sales rep.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Author: Erica Abt One of the most common complaints of frontline sales managers is employee turnover. After pouring loads of time and effort into onboarding, coaching, and engaging sellers on their team, frontline managers feel defeated when they hear “I’m leaving.” Bad Leadership. Lack of flexibility.

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 27, 2016

New sales managers. You are now a sales manager. Even after some initial guidance from colleagues, most new sales managers find themselves struggling to figure out how to balance the requirements of the position. So, in reality, the answer is usually one of smart management not prevention.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A while ago we received a call from a company wanting to talk about coaching training for their front-line sales managers. They were real cheerleaders – they believed sales managers were the pivotal job for sales success and coaching was the sales managers’ key responsibility. Here’s why.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 1, 2016

To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016. Then they write and tell me their sales organizations have been transformed, with a close rate of well more than 50 percent. But sales reps have work to do as well.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2016

For the last several weeks to maybe months, sales managers and salespeople are looking to 2017 business growth. Within this annual or quarterly activity is the setting of sales quotas or goals. Strategic Plan? You heard about Captain Wing It haven’t you. Note: A limitation may not be as obvious as an obstacle or barrier.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

One of the best responses to this question that I have seen is from a somewhat dated (2015) article in Eyes On Sales in which the author asks: “How many callbacks do you get if you DON'T leave a voicemail?”. The following is from my favorite author (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. Simplified.”

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 27, 2016

It was a hugely fun conversation and learned a huge amount. By the way, if you aren’t familiar with WideAngle, they provide a great tool to help managers conduct and follow up One On One’s. In the session, I make an offer for a free chapter from my soon to be published book: Sales Manager Survival Guide.

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LevelEleven

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, coaching is crucial to success in sales. According to CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Report , “Sales coaching is a leadership skill that develops each salesperson’s full potential.” Invest in effective sales technology.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

We have found that many front-line sales managers have only a vague impression of how their sales reps are prioritizing their time. First, the sales managers isolate some of the best practices for optimizing the time spent on selling – that is what are the good folks doing on a good day. ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Rather, it’s a step, an action, a conversation missed earlier in the sales process. If you believe that video is the end-all, be-all for sales training and content marketing, you’re mistaken. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. The problem is that many sales managers were raised in Sales 1.0

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This way, your team members will always maintain a clear idea of how to position outreach for each segment, increasing the probability of conversion. Create sales reports. CRMs allow your team to collect and organize data about prospects and deals using reporting features such as sales dashboards and reports.

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Gong.io

MARCH 17, 2021

We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Samantha and our sales manager sat down and dialed into the call. . It was the last day of Q1 2016, and they were going into battle on a closing call. . Follow me to read upcoming research.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Create Better Insights Beyond the sales process, generative AI can help sales managers gain real-time insights into effective strategies, forecast revenue, and give feedback to improve a sales team’s performance. What we like : ChatSpot is conversational and has a personality.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

So in addition to starting conversations with SDR managers and SDR directors — his target personas — he also contacts anyone who may be interested in his offer. So encouraging two-way communication — where prospects provide feedback from the start — helps AltiSales establish a solid foundation for future conversations.

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 13, 2016

Sales Strategy. When you listen in on strategic account review sessions between Sales Managers and sales reps all too often the conversations is primarily about what has gone wrong – “Why did we lose that big sale?” This is where great Sales Managers come into their own. Best practices.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 2, 2017

Reach out to open a dialogue at any chance you have; yesterday at the Lady VOLs basketball game I had an ongoing conversation about the game with the Usher, it was fun and his insights to the team made the game more interesting. For the first time Sales Manager, this 8 week online boot camp is based upon my last book.

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Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2018

at Topo Summit in 2016 and immediately thought it was great,” Jeff says. “It He adds, “Our team’s philosophy is that we’d rather invest in a small, productive team than a massive sales org that is all over the place. “It’s holds our entire team accountable to the conversations we have or don’t have.”.

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. With Chorus, we can easily record all sales calls and have transcripts readily available.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Sales Process. Listen to a conversation about the need for improving sales process and it usually begins like this: “We have very aggressive sales targets and we’re just not getting there.”. We’re not leveraging our own best practices – a lot of our sales reps are simply doing what they did the last time.”.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Developing a sales culture. Traditionally when talking 
about sales best practices, most of the emphasis has been placed on individual sales rep and
 sales management skill sets. So the sales leadership needs to create a culture where taking a well-planned risk is rewarded. ©2016 Sales Momentum® LLC.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 21, 2019

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

You now have an opportunity for a 2-3 minute conversation – so what is your message? If you find yourself face-to-face in a similar situation– are you prepared for a short conversation that your “new found friend” will find compelling? They are short statements that enable you to engage the customer in a conversation.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 21, 2016

Additionally, when working as individuals, it’s important for sales managers to show Millennials how their work ties back to the sales team’s overall performance and the company as a whole. Increasingly Sales is being impacted by the digital revolution. ©2016 Sales Momentum ® LLC.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 6, 2016

Sales Strategy – Stop, Pause, Reassess. A sales manager recently finished sales strategy reviews for the top 20 accounts in her geography. She told me, “Let’s not talk about the quality of the sales strategies – some were great and some not so much. This means a sales strategy is always a work in progress.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Only a little more than half of account based sales reps made quota in 2016, according to CSO Insights. Based on what I’ve heard from sales leaders, 2017 wasn’t much better. There are many possible reasons that account based sales reps miss quota. Perhaps they: Depended on marketing to send them qualified sales leads.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 29, 2019

It was 2016 and I was managing a team of reps at InsightSquared during a period of rapid growth. At the time, I was a rookie manager with a lot on my plate who didn’t write much down and just expected my reps to listen to me crush a call then replicate the same talk track.

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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

Make them feel important by offering to include them in your conversations. While a tactic or technique may have been very effective in 2010, 2012, or even 2016, technology, industries, jobs, and people change. Not only is it a big ask, they don’t always know the people you should be speaking to. You’re an amazing client.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I have listed a few slices to chew on in 2016: Prospective clients have done their homework as to their issues and potential solutions via the internet or other relationships. This has caused the salesperson to alter their traditional sales approach. You can then leverage your clients during your prospecting and sales process.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Sales coaching. When top sales managers are asked what advice they would give to someone wanting to improve their coaching, a pervasive answer is – stop trying to teach your sales team and start trying to help them learn. . As one sales manager put it, “ Effective coaches ask, listen, and then tell.”

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Mindtickle

MAY 26, 2016

In my previous post , I gave you a glimpse at the SiriusDecisions framework for Sales Onboarding that was presented at their SiriusDecisions Summit 2016. Measuring sales onboarding. Conversion rates. Stakeholder feedback (sales managers, team leaders, etc. Examples of Leading Indicators: Velocity by stage.

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Mindtickle

MAY 26, 2016

In my previous post , I gave you a glimpse at the SiriusDecisions framework for Sales Onboarding that was presented at their SiriusDecisions Summit 2016. Measuring sales onboarding. Conversion rates. Stakeholder feedback (sales managers, team leaders, etc. Examples of Leading Indicators: Velocity by stage.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Being able to have conversations that are not about our products is a huge shift that many salespeople from a few years ago are finding difficult to adapt, and therefore finding themselves completely out of sync and also relevance. Today though, our buyers know more than us in many cases, and they now come to the table holding the cards.

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The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 28, 2015

It’s the 4th quarter, and there are 2 things on every sales leader’s mind. Building pipeline so that their team is on track for a good 2016. For example, it’s easy to commit to having 2 or 3 proactive conversations around unused budget per week. 3 conversations x 8 sales reps x 6 weeks = 144 customer touchpoints.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups. She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. Trish Bertuzzi founded The Bridge Group to help B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.

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