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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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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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 has a proven track record of delivering stellar sales results. The post Successful Strategy Execution appeared first on Star Results.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2016

Lean Communication For Sales , Jack Malcolm. 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.

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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. Delineate their interpretation and analysis of the sales situation – is this a viable opportunity and why?

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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

JANUARY 20, 2016

Sales coaching. Good sales coaching is a balance – a mix of feedback on things that go right, as well as, things that don’t. 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.

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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 Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Listen Guest-at-a-Glance Name : Tito Bohrt What he does : Tito is the CEO of AltiSales.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Sales coaching puzzle. 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 and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data?

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If your sales reps miss quota this year, they might not deserve the blame. The more I delved into the film’s history, the angrier I became with sales leaders who let their account based selling teams fail to meet quota. NASA wouldn’t let their mission fail, so why do sales leaders let their account based selling teams fail?

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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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MarketJoy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Sales are the lifeblood of every business and sales rep’s turnover can hurt sales. Sales rep turnover costs businesses billions of dollars a year. Keeping your sales rep turnover down doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. Keeping your sales rep turnover down doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming.

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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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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. . My palms were sweaty, so I could only imagine how she felt. .

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Sales 2.0

MAY 2, 2016

As I’ve said before , I think time management is one of the top 3 most important skills in sales. I love the work “Uncle Paul” does so I signed up for his upcoming webinar on using your sales time effectively. (I’m How To Prospect Consistently Even When You’re Completely Swamped.

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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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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to pass the org chart alignment test [10:27]. How to get better at sales [21:37]. We’re on iTunes.

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

JULY 26, 2019

I also mentioned that formulating Learning Goals at sophistication levels three (apply) and higher is necessary but not sufficient for Sales Training Initiatives having a sustainable impact on sellers’ performance. For sales tool training, level 3 is sufficient. How to recognize this will be the subject for my next post.

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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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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 5, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How the role of sales development has changed [13:10]. Keeping new sales professionals focused on the mission [18:44]. 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. Remote work?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If you manage hang on for another week, I assure you that there is life after the election, and what is waiting on the other side is not the end of the world, but the end of your sales year. If you know the specifics of your sales cycle, average length of cycle, critical points, number of interactions (phone, live, web, e-mails, etc.),

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

There are many misconceptions that trip up modern sales leaders. For example, if you believe that 57 percent of the buying process is complete before buyers ever contact account based sales reps, you’ve lost the deal before you’ve begun. Rather, it’s a step, an action, a conversation missed earlier in the sales process.

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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. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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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. It’s worth the forethought, because if the sales team defaults to an “all hands on deck” effort, it may sabotage your success in the New Year. The 10 Most Common Sales Management Mistakes.

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DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

Sales enablement is a rapidly growing trend, with the potential to significantly transform business results for the better. Yet, some business leaders continue to resist the trend, while others remain unsure of the ways in which a sales enablement initiative can benefit their organization. Long Sales Ramp-Up Times.

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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. ” Jeff Davis , founder of the Sales + Marketing Alignment Summit , is looking to go back into the classic Good to Great. And they didn’t disappoint.

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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. But which sales metrics should you watch, and what should you do with that information?

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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. Updated data is critical for sales success. As great a tool LinkedIn is for sales professionals, there are hazards companies need to be aware of. The Premature Sales Pitch.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

These days, it seems as though there’s a new app or widget every week promising to make businesses and their sales reps more productive, efficient, and effective. Although some technology has proven to be more useful than others, one piece of sales technology that’s here to stay is customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ed Calnan , co-Founder and CEO of Seismic. 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. How to structure a POC.

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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. Why is this such a common challenge in sales?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

What would happen if you locked a leading self help expert and a sales expert in a room, challenging them to write a book? No, I’m not setting you up for a line like, “How many self help gurus does it take to screw in a light bulb,” or “What do you call 100 sales thought leaders sitting at the bottom of the ocean?”

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A variety of industries use inside sales as a popular high-growth sales model. According to Harvard Business Review , 46 percent of high-growth tech companies are expanding through inside sales, as compared to 21 percent growing through outside sales teams. There is a higher turnover among the sales ranks.

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