Pipeliner

MARCH 18, 2018

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. The last three years have been tough, and she was looking for new ideas for 2018 to excite her team and to simply change up the routine.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Selling Skills 2018. Your job title hasn’t changed -- you’re still a salesperson, sales manager, sales director, etc. -- but of course, everything else has. Sales tools are different; they’re basically the phone book and your business card. 2018 is going to be even bigger. 2018 is going to be even bigger.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2018

This isn’t the result of sales people being sloppy with what they are doing, it is the unwitting end result of the complexity built into too many of our organizations. The worst case we’ve seen was 72% voluntary attrition in the first 12 months a sales person is on board.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 25, 2018

A quick Google search or skim through your favorite sales blogs will show article upon article about how to hire the perfect reps, increase customer retention, and write the perfect sales job description -- for good reason. What if the biggest threat to sales teams isn't losing clients, but losing our teammates themselves?

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The Sales Manager Boot Camp. Becoming a new sales leader is overwhelming. Suddenly you go from having a quota to managing the quotas of multiple people. Improving your professionalism as an experienced Sales Manager is just as hard. This is what New Sales Manager Boot Camp is all about.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

So we’ve compiled a list (in chronological order) of the top sales conferences you should attend in 2017 and 2018. The Best Sales Conferences. Digital Sales Engine. Sales Acceleration Technology Summit. AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. Sandler Sales & Leadership Summit. TOPO Sales Summit.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Key accounts are the 20% of accounts that generate 80% of your company revenue. Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. Accurate identification will help you avoid rashly categorizing tail accounts as having strategic value.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 5, 2018

I hope you have enjoyed our video series so far in terms of strategies to Crush your Sales Numbers. Strategy #4 is have your sales reps develop their own territory business plans. If your sales reps are not taking the time to build their business plans then where are they going to go, what are they going to do?

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. Sales Prospecting Techniques. Why is this so?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Each year, Richardson Sales Training asks sales professionals about the sales challenges that they anticipate in the coming year and complies their responses to create its annual selling challenges study. The sales professionals who prevail will win big as new opportunities escalate amid today’s robust business climate.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. Decrease the cost of sales. Flash Sale.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Align Sales Compensation with Your Goals A compensation plan that works. Note: This week’s blog is an excerpt from my new book: “Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans”. Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2018

As we embarked on our 2018 Business Performance Benchmark Study , our goal had not changed from 2017. We have a broad spectrum of opinions from 422 enterprise-level executives and sales leaders worldwide. Altify continues its commitment to providing a definitive guide to improve business performance across all industries in 2018.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2019

Sure, they keep the sales rolling in, but they also play a key role in keeping your entire team motivated. So, as a sales manager, you need to guide your top salespeople in choosing new skills to learn and next-step goals to accomplish. Excellent at coordinating sales activities of each member of the account team.

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SBI

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Just in time to get ready for a record-breaking 2018! The Top Sales Tools of 2017 Guide: Final Cut is where you’ll find the best sales tech for growing revenue. You’ll find detailed information on top selling tools for: Account-Based Selling. Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Closing Deals.

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CloserIQ

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Check back every week to stay up to date on industry trends and advice on everything from sales and recruiting to tech and startup news. Top Sales Books for Enterprise Account Executives. 7 skills you’ll need to become a Sales Manager (Steli Efti of Close.io). ” Managing Teams. Featured Article.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Our sales process is broken. Our marketing team sucks.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN In a 2018 survey, Bain & Company discovered that 80 percent of companies believe their customer experience is not only better than average, it’s “superior.” A senior VP of sales and marketing at a half-billion-dollar firm told me that a great customer experience starts with reps’ proximity to clients.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2018

In order to answer these questions and find out what separates sales winners from second-place finishers, RAIN Group, a sales training company , studied over 700 B2B purchases from the buyer’s perspective to find out what really happened in their buying experiences. Top 10 Sales Representative Skills. Understand prospect needs.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 15, 2017

At Flannery Sales Systems, we just finalized work with three of our customers on their 2018 sales plans. To ensure that all critical items are in place for a successful 2018, here is a checklist that can be utilized by senior executives and sales leaders.

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Allbound

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As we enter the last couple weeks of 2017, we turn our focus to the future of channel sales. We’re in the new age of partner relationship management. To help illustrate how to build a partner program in 2018, we’ll outline a three-step process. Align Your Marketing and Sales Efforts. Automate, Automate, Automate.

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Allbound

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As we enter the last couple weeks of 2017, we turn our focus to the future of channel sales. We’re in the new age of partner relationship management. To help illustrate how to build a partner program in 2018, we’ll outline a three-step process. Align Your Marketing and Sales Efforts. Automate, Automate, Automate.

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Xactly

JANUARY 3, 2019

Sales statistics are a variety of metrics that provide insight into your sales organization’s health. Industry and planning-specific statistics also help guide sales planning and incentive compensation. We did some research and compiled some valuable sales stats that are important for all salespeople to be aware of.

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SBI

OCTOBER 4, 2018

First up… A quick chat with Luke Perritt, Account Executive of Conversica. ” It helps sales and marketing build pipeline. He described how their AI Sales Assistant takes on the grunt work and delivers prospects who are ready to have quality conversations. Luke explained why Conversica is so “cool.”

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals.

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 25, 2020

Consider these two statistics: Less than a quarter of B2B buyers think sellers are a resource for solving their business problems or see differences among sellers, according to our 2018 Buyer Preferences Study. Both share a skeptical view of sales talent. The Phases of Sales Talent Development.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Because it takes six to 12 months for organizations to achieve meaningful sales transformation , now is the time for chief revenue officers and chief sales officers to improve sales performance to bring their companies to a position of strength before the downturn hits. What does retention look like on your sales team?

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you’ve worked in sales, revenue operations, or finance for any amount of time, I don’t have to tell you how important sales compensation is. You already know the right sales compensation plan can motivate your team, improve their performance, and boost overall job satisfaction. Current Sales Compensation Benchmarks.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Risk is sometimes thought of as an impulse decision, but in the sales word specifically, this is not always the case. Join Andy Rudin and John Golden on November 15th as they dive into how you can identify your selling risks and manage them more efficiently. Watch Live on 15th November 2018 9am PT/Noon ET. Episode Questions.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

participated in the recently concluded Zoomtopia 2018, Zoom.com’s annual event held at held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. The new partnership will lead the way in how sales conversations can be analyzed and turned into actionable data in order to drastically increase revenue. And we don't know why.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Launches RevenueGrid.com, New Sales Engagement Platform that Goes Beyond CRM, AI And Redefines What Sales Engagement Tools Should Be. Through its unique, account-specific revenue signals and automated outreach, the enterprise cloud solution is promised to accelerate sales in a way that CRM and AI alone cannot.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

At the beginning of March, we announced the winners of the 2nd annual Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards, presented by Bravado. So this week, we’re sharing some of the runners-up: the folks who didn’t get a billion nominations, but who clearly crushed it in 2018. Honorable Mentions from The 2019 Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals.

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Contact Monkey

DECEMBER 7, 2017

4 Must-Have Attributes of a High-Performing Sales Team in 2018. So your sales team is full of people who are great at what they do, but does it actually feel like a team? If this situation sounds familiar to you, take a look at these four traits of high-performing sales teams. Goals You Can Deliver.

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