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What Is Your Company’s Prospecting Culture?

The Sales Hunter

Quit blaming salespeople for bad prospecting habits when you as the sales manager are the one with the bad prospecting habits! If you want your team to focus on prospecting, you must make it a priority. Your role as a sales manager/leader is not to be the best prospecting person.

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Major Accounts vs. Sales Prospecting: Where to Spend Your Time?

The Sales Hunter

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. ” Salespeople love to spend time with major accounts, because I believe they would rather do that with their time instead of sales prospecting. Who is right?

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Why CEOs Are Failing Account Based Sales Reps

No More Cold Calling

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. They’re expected to land and expand within their named accounts. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. environments.

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The Sales Manager New Year’s Resolution: 3 Do’s & 3 Don'ts

SBI Growth

Resolutions are all about setting challenging goals and holding yourself accountable to achieve them. Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. PRIORITIZE THE PROSPECT UNIVERSE.

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5 Tips to Build Stronger Relationships in Account Planning

Janek Performance Group

In B2B selling, we often focus on new accounts. However, according to Altify: Companies receive 60 percent of their sales revenue from existing customers. This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. This is a seller’s advantage.

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Sales Management, We Understand The Pieces/Parts, But Not The Whole

Partners in Excellence

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

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May 2018 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series—these monthly blog posts published by ZoomInfo highlight some of the great work our writers have contributed to outside publications. Today’s blog post is a primer on data-driven marketing. 7 Sales Metrics to Track in 2018. 1. Length of Sales Cycle.

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