Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2016

As the complexity of our work, our organizations, and our customers skyrockets, we need models and frameworks to help us understand things, to help us evaluate how to most effectively achieve our goals, to help others understand what we are trying to achieve. Unfortunately, too many people struggle with this. Other Reading: .

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 5, 2016

The past couple of weeks, I’ve pretty much focused on the launch of Sales Manager Survival Guide. In the first 24 hours after the release, the book hit the number 1 spot on Amazon’s “Hot New Books In Sales And Marketing.” Here are several: James Muir wrote: How To Rock As A Sales Manager.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 17, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-04-18. Author: Tom Searcy, CEO of Hunt Big Sales. Teaser: The role of a sales manager is messier and more complex than ever. Sales leaders have to deal with numerous additional factors beyond motivating and rewarding the sales force. read more

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2016

How we engage our customers in understanding what they value, how we articulate the value in the most impactful manner possible is critical to our success in sales. Jack’s one of the best people I’ve met in helping us understand how to engage our customers. It’s a fast, actionable read.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 11, 2017

Even with brilliant marketing strategies and a solid management team, many companies miss their sales objectives. Successful strategy execution is the key to crushing sales numbers. He is recognized as a Sales Leadership thought leader and is considered one of the Top 50 Sales Influencers 2015.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sales Compensation Planning for 2016. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-November and December will be quickly on top of you. Once that step is taken, you can take a free sales compensation “assessment” on Acumen’s website.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2015

businesses are managed by single office/home office entrepreneurs (SOHO), these crazy busy small business owners might think this book Sales Management Simplified by Mike Weinberg is not for them. These SOHO entrepreneurs are the sales team of one as well as the sales manager.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

It sounds simple – but it struck us with a few word of substitution these steps would provide a straightforward framework for sales managers to use when working with their sales teams to review sales strategy. Work collaboratively with the sale manager to craft a sales strategy for the opportunity.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 21, 2016

They didn’t know how to sell, just fill requests. Outside of rare business booms, sales reps always encounter these top two challenges: Getting meetings with decision-makers at the level that counts. Reps learn how to define the business reason for a referral and how to ask for referral introductions to their ideal clients.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As I continue to work with sales professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs, I’ve found just how important this planning is for success. In 2016, both holidays fall on the weekend so there is a full work week between the two. Perform a post mortem on 2016. The Black Hole between Christmas and New Years.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Tito and host Colin Campbell also touch upon the concept of a sales champion and how to find the ideal champion within a prospect’s organization. So they realize that there’s a lot more value in net new customers.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 20, 2016

As a correction a common how-to instruction for giving feedback suggests – start by saying something encouraging, and then move on to the behavior that needs to be improved and close with something positive. And for large opportunities the win often is celebrated inside the sales team – again automatic positive feedback.

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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 and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

But this makes a major assumption: that salespeople will know how to use the new bounty of knowledge at their fingertips. If mere access to data was the key to sales results, the widespread use of CRM should have had a “rising tide lifts all boats” effect on sales. including the B- and C-players?—?to

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

CSO Insights’ 2017 Best Practices Study revealed that quota attainment—averaged across all geographies, industries, and company sizes—dropped from 63 percent of salespeople in 2012 to 53 percent in 2016. And I’m not pointing at the account based sales development reps. How Leaders Fail Their Account Based Selling Teams .

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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.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 2, 2016

How To Prospect Consistently Even When You’re Completely Swamped. by PAUL CASTAIN on APRIL 27, 2016. I thought I’d share the formula I’ve been using to grow my sales in an industry with way too many competitors! Here’s a great post that is a teaser to some of the tips that will be shared on the webinar.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Increase Your Chances of Achieving Your Sales Goals. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. I’m not going to say that exceptional sales performance doesn’t “just happen” because sometime it does…sometimes. Download Ep.

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MarketJoy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Many sales reps strive to achieve success but don’t know how to become successful. Active listening is one of the most critical skills you can teach your sales rep to help them in achieving what they’re striving for. Listening is one skill you need to have to succeed in sales. Because, “Selling is listening, not talking.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Plan Your 2017 for Success. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a system, a plan, a course, or a book that I could I could turn to that would tell me what to do and how to do it. Step 1: Timing.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2016, I wrote a blog, " How to Get a Standing Ovation After Your Next Sales Meeting ," and I'm happy to say that I see way more productive sales meetings today than I did back then. So that made me think it might be an excellent time to share some tips on taking your next sales meeting from good to g reat !

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

How to pass the org chart alignment test [10:27]. How to get better at sales [21:37]. How to pass the org chart alignment test [10:27]. But science to me is just as important in your journey to become a great sales professional, and science is discipline. How to get better at sales [21:37].

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Avoid a Stressful Year-end. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. It’s drama that plays out at seller, district manager, regional manager, VP of Sales and CEO levels. The holidays are stressful.

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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. Your reps will come away from the 1-day program with solid, actionable prospecting checklists and a concrete plan for hitting their numbers in 2016. Finishing the year strong, and….

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If you know the specifics of your sales cycle, average length of cycle, critical points, number of interactions (phone, live, web, e-mails, etc.), You can map out your sale, manage it and lead the sales process not just go along for the ride. then you have the data on which you can build knowledge and success.

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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. . ” Clearly listening is critical to success in sales.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Closing is the easy part of account based sales development. Then why do so many account based sales reps overlook critical sales activities that occur earlier in the sales process? 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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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I went to my friends who were leaders in their fields to see how they were spending the last week of the year. How to Maximize the Last Week of December. Tapping in to my creative side helps me expand how I see opportunities and how to tackle a project (“sketching it out” in my mind). And they didn’t disappoint.

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Kata Nyitrai , head of global sales development for Meero, a fast-growing company in Europe. She talks about how to get in touch with people, specifically how you can generate meetings. How old is it? How big is it? How many people? Where is it based?

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

He is the Co-Founder and COO of Cirrus Insight, one of the Inc 500's fastest-growing companies in 2016. Cirrus Insight developed a powerful self-titled sales productivity plugin that integrates Gmail and Outlook with Salesforce. And, he also answers questions about: * His journey in sales and business development. *

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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?” or “How come the forecast figures are off?”. ©2016 Sales Momentum ® LLC.

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

JULY 26, 2019

A combined view on Learners’ Sophistication and Proficiency I found Julie Dirksen’s (Dirksen 2016) approach, to position Learning Goals in a space defined by the two axes (Level of Sophistication and Level of Proficiency), very pertinent for a holistic understanding of setting Learning Goals. Literature: (Biech 2017) Biech E.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2019

Today he’s discussing how to go to market with an enterprise solution. With a background in sales leadership that extends beyond 20 years, he knows a thing or two about growing a company. If you missed episode 67, check it out here: PODCAST 67: How Data and Metrics Fuel Revenue and Company Growth w/ David Zwerin.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, it has evolved into the go-to-platform for sales professionals. Salespeople should be educated and trained how to use LinkedIn to their advantage. The goal is to have your sales team’s time be invested wisely. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

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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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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve rounded up the 7 most popular articles of the year in hopes that they will inspire you to tackle your biggest sales challenges in 2016 and make it your best year yet. 5 Things High Performing Sales Managers Should Be Doing. How to Know When to Ignore an RFP. How to Know When to Ignore an RFP.

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