Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sales Management End of Year Checklist. . Depending upon the person and the conditions in their sales organization each article may or may not be pertinent. I decided to start with a Sales Management End of Year Checklist. Did it achieve your goals for 2016? Do you have a recruiting marketing plan in place?

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 11, 2017

Many companies have highly sophisticated rigorous marketing processes, resulting in strong brand plans and marketing strategies. Even with brilliant marketing strategies and a solid management team, many companies miss their sales objectives.

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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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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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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Sales Management and Discipline. I received a call from a former client that was concerned about the status of their sales team and VP of Sales-it seems that their revenue was off more than $2M over the previous year and below their growth goal! Development of a Sales Plan for the new year with quarterly objections/goals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Attempts to get sales enablement right are on the rise , as organizations grapple with the idea that shorter product life cycles, a more informed customer base, and global competition make the way they sell just as important as what they are selling. Streamlining the sales process. Create relevant sales content. Two things.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2017

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2017? Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Become a Detective : In sales management workshops we always talk about inspect what you expect.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If you are chasing your 2015 sales numbers you need to return from this holiday weekend highly energetic, focused and ready to sprint to the finish line. The other reality is that 2016 is only 36 days away. When I was running a sales force I was equally highly focused on finishing the year off and starting the next year even stronger.

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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. So, if you are a sales manager, how do you move from here to there – from being okay to being outstanding?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Compare that to 2016, when CRM penetration surged to 74 percent but goal attainment dropped to 55.8 percent, and it’s clear that data by itself is not the key to sales success. This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team? including the B- and C-players?—?to

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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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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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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 8, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-04-09. Teaser: Leaders, sales managers and professionals have found themselves stuck at a crossroads between the past and the future of selling. Leaders, sales managers and professionals have found themselves stuck at a crossroads between the past and the future of selling. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Issue Date: 02-11-2016. Teaser: The sales manager sits right in the gap between the recognition provided by the comp system and the needs of an individual sales rep. Unfortunately, many recognition efforts by managers are misguided and wind up being a waste of time and effort. Author: Paul White, Ph.D. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 13, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-06-13. Teaser: Millennials thrive in a team environment and are adept at problem solving through collaboration with others such as fellow salespeople and sales managers. Author: Max Cates. The days of the lone wolf road warrior may be a thing of the past, as this new generation becomes full-time salespeople.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota.

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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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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.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

The new application is a part of LinkedIn's Sales Solutions suite and can only be purchased by users who already leverage LinkedIn Sales Navigator — another program in the Sales Solution portfolio, dedicated to helping users find prospects via LinkedIn business and engagement data. What can you do with LinkedIn Sales Insights?

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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

According to some just released research by YP , local search is growing exponentially and changing the way for small businesses to market their solutions. ” The local search market is projected to nearly double from its revenue of $5.7B Many small businesses are putting together marketing budgets for 2013.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

These dire predictions can be troubling for the American worker, but perhaps less so for sales professionals who have become accustomed to hearing warnings about their job security for over a century. Here are five reasons you will not be replacing your sales reps with robots anytime soon: 1. Moreover, the U.S.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The intervention strategies range from sales training efforts to coaching initiatives to sales tools to marketing materials. These efforts tend to be laser focused on helping sales reps enhance their ability to sell more effectively. Help front-line sales managers be a filter not a funnel.

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 6, 2016

You are selling in a market where the competition either has products that are just as good as yours or they have products that are perceived by the customers to be “good enough” compared to yours. How do you adapt your selling strategy to these market scenarios? Managing the competition. Adjusting your sales strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

As many of us prepare to descend on Dreamforce 2016, I look at it with some trepidation. It seems Dreamforce has become the magnet for all the sales and marketing automation suppliers to trot out their shiny new toys and releases, enticing us to buy. Lead gen, demand gen, lead management. Email and messaging.

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Sales Excellence

MAY 25, 2016

Denver, CO, USA –May 25, 2016 – Sales Excellence, Inc., a premier global sales training and consulting organization, today announced that it has been awarded a spot on Selling Power’s 2016 list of the Top 20 Sales Training Companies that excel in helping organizations improve sales performance. 713/874-0898.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With that economic domino effect affecting us all as 2016 begins to wind down, ending the year on a high note will be more challenging than ever. And it’s no wonder that, just like every year at this time, sales teams feel like they’re in the last 100 yards of a big race. Need more sales management resources?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 2, 2017

A friend of my recently wrote a blog on the “ One Person That Impacted My Life in 2016” I think it was a fabulous idea, today is a good day for you to reflect on that thought, name that person and thank them, make them aware of your feelings and then go make 2017 Your Best Year Ever! His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 4, 2016

If not you will end up with everyone doing their own thing and having a fair number of sales reps being less effective than they could be if you pursued a systematic approach to improving the sales process. Today companies in most markets are undergoing transformational changes. ©2016 Sales Momentum ® LLC.

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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. We’ve got Lucidchart Sales Solutions.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She was recognized as a leading sales mentor by Women in Sales North America. She is the co-author of a business book, called Aligned to Achieve , about sales and marketing alignment. She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

What has changed though is what we are selling, and how we now go to market. But today, what we are really selling is change and that takes more than us just knowing our product specs, our pricing and our place in the market – the lines have blurred. Marketing has also impacted the sales landscape.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Seventy percent of companies using AI report that adoption has increased their marketing and sales revenue, while 28% say it’s decreased costs. A Look at the Numbers: Sales Industry Attitudes Toward AI We asked more than 1,350 sales reps and leaders how they’re using and thinking about generative AI in sales.

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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. Designate someone within your marketing or communications team to post on behalf of the company and have the sales team share the official content. The goal is to have your sales team’s time be invested wisely.

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DocSend

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2016, 60.7% It’s no secret that onboarding is one of the most important aspects of sales training, and improving sales training outcomes is one of the key goals of any sales enablement strategy. An aligned enablement strategy ensures that marketing and sales work together to improve sales efficiency.

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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 Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In the highly competitive B2B tech space, it’s easy to market your offer with so many tools and channels available. 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. Who should we call and try to book a meeting with? I started in 2011.

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