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? Who are keepers, who are laggards?

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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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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. Successful strategy execution is the key to crushing sales numbers.

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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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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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Relationals Sales Management Resources Account 48

SalesFuel

APRIL 26, 2024

billion in 2016, it’s the highest of the 2020s. There’s a chance that ad spending will return to normal this year since sales are anticipated to do the same. “In That on top of yearly sales and other events means there will be a lot to advertise in 2024. Search Engine Marketing: 19.9% billion on advertising in 2023.

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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! After that conversation I next interviewed the VP of Sales.

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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. At this time of year I would introduce get my sales team to start building plans for a strong start in the upcoming year.

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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. percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. It’s not a sales department.

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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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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

LinkedIn's some 722 million members make for a massive pool of data that could provide sales organizations with invaluable guidance about potential opportunities and ideal prospects. What is LinkedIn Sales Insights? LinkedIn Sales Insights is tailored toward Sales Operations and Sales Managers to plan sales and go-to-market strategies.

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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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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

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

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? Additional data sources.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, explains why in this month’s guest post. Have B2B sales reps gone the way of CD players, the Rolodex, and analog radio—replaced by technology that gets the job done faster and better? Fears also rose over technology stealing sales jobs following the advent of both the phone and internet.

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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 Training Connection

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Companies spend a tremendous amount of time, money and effort every year to improve the productivity of their sales teams. The intervention strategies range from sales training efforts to coaching initiatives to sales tools to marketing materials. Second, they can determine which sales reps need the most help.

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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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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 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.” Offered a better compensation package. Bad Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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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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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

By strategically locating their establishments on Main Street or near busy intersections, they would receive countless exposure and increase sales. According to some just released research by YP , local search is growing exponentially and changing the way for small businesses to market their solutions. However as 98.2%

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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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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? What has changed though is what we are selling, and how we now go to market.

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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.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 21, 2016

Millennials and Sales. What does this mean for Sales ? Whether you are talking about recruiting, selection, onboarding, training or compensation, it is will worth the time to consider whether your processes are in tune with the experiences and expectations of a cohort that will comprise an increasing percentage of your sales force.

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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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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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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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Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2018

“W e’re a fast-paced organization that builds and brings commercial products to market for businesses that are growing quickly. Their team, spread across the United States, has built over 175 products on the Salesforce platform and brought them to market on the AppExchange. And the majority of the company is remote.”.

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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. More importantly, it’s when many management bonus systems take effect, rewarding executives for driving certain levels of pretax income to the bottom line or attaining their revenue targets.

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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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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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