No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Account based sales reps are only as good as their last deal, as the saying goes. 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. Hopefully they learn something from it.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 1, 2017

New Sales Managers. Customers now want sales reps who are trusted advisors not product facilitators. All this means that in order for a sales team to be successful in the years ahead, front-line managers need be highly skilled. Let’s look at how a new sales manager can get off on the right foot.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve rounded up sales productivity stats from the leading research firms and vendors in the sales enablement space to put together stats bucked into a few different categories: customer experience; rep time management; sales managers; sales enablement; and technology usage.

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 2, 2018

Here is a quick checklist for sales managers to make sure you have everyone focused correctly. Each individual salesperson must know what’s expected of them regarding sales. This includes where the sales need to come from – will it be from new clients, an expansion of existing clients, or some combination of the two?

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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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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

She’s noticed she enjoys a high success rate when she talks to prospects 90 days before their contract renewal. If you have 20 in your pipeline, two or so should be opportunities you’re not comfortable forecasting. If there’s an opportunity to expand the account, you should be adding a new opportunity into your pipeline every year.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 28, 2019

Belichick does what every sales manager wants to do: lead his team to victory consistently. Salespeople typically make their sales alone, but your job as a sales manager is to maximize what your team can be together and coach them to a collective victory for the company. Clearly, the man knows how lead a team.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Engage your prospects; engage your clients; engage your employees with what matters most. Even if the game is the same, every sales team plays by different rules, yet most Sales managers long to control each play of each game — often to no avail. Shorten the reaction time so prospects are engaged faster.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

This is a time of the year as the end of Q3 approaches that many salespeople assess whether they can make their number this year or should slow some opportunities down to get off to a fast start in 2017. As a sales manager, most of my sellers hit the accelerator hard as needed. Read more sales training articles.

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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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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2022

At Outreach, I have worked with many customers who struggle with their prospecting strategy. New customers often seek advice on engaging prospects across multiple channels , what to say, and how often. Regardless of the size of the sales org, the challenges remain the same. Reserve this tier for your highest priority prospects.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Remember that clients and prospects are seeking help and you’re in a position to both reassure and assist them. Doing the countdown adds urgency to the process for you and your prospects. Can an existing client, vendor contact, or strategic partner help create credibility with prospects? Keep prospecting.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Marc Jacobs , SVP of Sales and Customer Success at CB Insights about the secret to incredible sales management and building a sales coaching culture. Sam Jacobs : Hey everyone, it’s Sam Jacobs with the Sales Hacker podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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Nutshell

MAY 29, 2018

For example, your CRM could automatically gather publicly available information on a prospect based on their email address, or automatically update the status of a lead when a goal is completed. Communication automation, or the automatic triggering of sales communications based on your prospect’s movement through the sales process.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

year-on-year (YoY) growth of CRM adoption According to Gartner, at the end of 2017, the revenue of CRM overtook the place of database management systems (DMBSs), making CRM the largest software market in the world. contractors and surveyors) and salespeople who still meet prospects face-to-face. General CRM Statistics 1) 12.6%

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EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It’s no wonder most sales people go home exhausted at the end of the week and are discouraged when they come into work on Monday and look at their list of prospects to call back… I used to be one of those discouraged sales reps until I learned about disqualifying prospects rather than qualifying them.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Pricing that was too high and/or lack of some particular feature or function are often the reasons given by prospects to salespeople after having competed for and lost a potential piece of business. That information is then relayed back to sales management either via a formal Loss Report or through a post sales ‘autopsy’ discussion.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

2 Predictable Prospecting. Predictable Prospecting brings in some of the top minds in lead gen, social selling, and sales process. Filling the pipeline with quality leads is a concept that so many neglects. 3 The Sales Podcasts. Nothing happens until a sale is made. 8 Outside Sales Talk.

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LevelEleven

AUGUST 7, 2018

You have been promoted to sales manager. Going from a top performing sales person to a manager seems like it will be an easy transition, right? The traits that make all-star salespeople usually don’t directly translate to the skills needed to be an effective sales manager. Congratulations!

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 13, 2021

Everyone knows that sales is challenging, particularly when prospect after prospect is saying "no." This can have a negative impact on morale, which in turn feeds into a nasty cycle because sales teams with low morale do not perform as well. Pipeline development (new opportunities created, proposals).

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For example: that may mean total call volume for SDRs or closed pipeline for AEs. If your manager has prepared for this review, they will bring all these metrics to the table themselves. Even sales managers have been known to make mistakes from time to time. Prove Your Sales Efficiency Rating. The idea here?

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

I missed last week’s blog because of some of that travel but I also wanted to make sure everyone had time to consider the blog on sales compensation planning for 2017-it’s a critical component for building a high performance and self managed sales team. Recruiting must be a constant focus of sales management.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sales professionals won’t be working from home all the time. However, outside sales teams will not be in the field as much as they used to be. The first thing you need to know is how remote selling is different from traditional selling or otherwise known as field sales. How to Hire a Remote Sales Team. Why Vengreso?

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Velocify

OCTOBER 1, 2017

To that end, aligning with your sales team is critical to building an effective lead management process that drives results and helps achieve shared goals. Last year, our sales and marketing teams aligned on a high-growth strategy for 2017. Luckily at Velocify, we drink our own champagne – we use our own solution.

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MJ Hoffman

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

You might repeat the close, not-so-subtly threaten the prospect with an expiring discount, or roll several asks into one conversation. They keep your prospect the focus, give them option and escape routes, and help you avoid becoming your own worst enemy — the stereotypical pushy salesperson. Don’t Corner Your Prospects.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. Qualified prospects. All your leads won’t become customers. Clients/customers.

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OutboundView

JUNE 17, 2019

The ability of sales reps to consistently fill sales pipeline by finding new qualified opportunities proves a lot of benefits for a growing business. Just to give you a ballpark, SiriusDecisions research shows that it takes 8 to 12 calls to reach a prospect. Sales Management. Why Appointment Setting Matters.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s the same as anticipating the likely outcome of a sales opportunity while there’s still time to influence it. Sales managers are like tornado watchers. Unfortunately, most managers are horribly ineffective at running deal reviews. Key Reasons a Prospect Should By. Sales manager: “What’s their budget?”.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

SalesLoft offers a suite of sales engagement tools to help reps form better connections with their prospects, analyze their sales process, and much more. Their sales blog features advice from industry experts, background information about important sales events, and shines a light on important sales research.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As your business grows, manually keeping track of your prospects and customers with spreadsheets and random notes in different places becomes near impossible. Not only is this type of system time- and energy-consuming to manage, but things also start slipping through the cracks at an alarming rate. Benefits of CRM. Deal Stage.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

SalesLoft offers a suite of sales engagement tools to help reps form better connections with their prospects, analyze their sales process, and much more. Their sales blog features advice from industry experts, background information about important sales events, and shines a light on important sales research.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It doesn’t matter how frequently you call prospects or how many years you’ve been in sales, you’ll always feel some anxiety before you dial. I’ve met reps who will do everything in their power to avoid making calls, which unsurprisingly hurts their ability to fill their pipeline with new opportunities. And that’s a good thing.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It doesn’t matter how frequently you call prospects or how many years you’ve been in sales, you’ll always feel some anxiety before you dial. I’ve met reps who will do everything in their power to avoid making calls, which unsurprisingly hurts their ability to fill their pipeline with new opportunities. And that’s a good thing.

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CloserIQ

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you want to bring sales enablement best practices into your organization, this is the right time to do it. A sales rep consistently exceeds quota, but when they’re promoted to a role in sales management, they flounder. The same goes for sales enablement. Look Beyond Selling Skills. We’ve all heard the stories.

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 15, 2020

Good sales leaders are those who can successfully manage a sales team and escalate them to great heights. Here are some sales team management tips to set your team up for success. RELATED: 3 Questions Data-Driven Sales Managers Must Answer. In this article: Build a Sales Team Based on Your Needs.

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