Steven Rosen

MAY 5, 2022

Sales Manager Coaching. 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. You can train your sales managers in coaching.

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Coaching Sales Management Sales Coaching Account 156

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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Pipeline Opportunity Coaching Meeting 104

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. It’s a lonely world for account executives. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sound familiar?

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

SBI

JULY 15, 2021

Sales Execution 101: Creating Account Visibility. The most critical factor in successful sales execution is having the right foundation. Your account team needs to have a common understand of an account or opportunity – the key stakeholders, their goals, and company objectives. Account Visibility = Agility.

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Account Segment Forecasting Webinar Metrics 143

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

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Sales Management Hiring Compensation Scale 218

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The topic of Sales management is very broad, and is covered in an infinite number of books, so we won’t be covering that here. There is also an endless list of material on sales management—and as anyone who has read my previous writings on the subject knows, I consider that management is management.

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Pipeline CRM Sales Management Sports 98

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 14, 2024

Last week the CEO reconnected with the sales team to check if everyone was selling properly. The team had lost a few customers because a high pressure competitor was stealing their accounts. They weren’t.

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Hiring Penetration Pipeline Coaching 193

Nutshell

JANUARY 19, 2018

They know that their success as a manager requires that they develop their salespeople to be their very best. But what if your sales organization doesn’t have a manager? How can you sell effectively without the processes, goals, and accountability that a manager provides? 1: Set Your Own Goals and Accountabilities.

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Account Sales Management Pipeline How To 73

Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

He cautions against hiring individuals who blame external factors for their lack of success, which indicates a lack of accountability and a victim mentality. Managing High-Performing Reps Managing high-performing reps can be challenging, as they often have strong personalities and high expectations.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Leads 228

SBI Growth

MAY 17, 2014

Over 60% of sales leaders who trail through Q2 don’t make the number. Buyer Persona Account Management 2014 planning Sales Manager Sales Manager Resources' You missed the Q1 number and Q2 isn’t looking too good. You’re worried. And you should be.

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Buyer Persona Opportunity Resources Buyer 275

Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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. Also, monitor their sales.

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Account Survey Analysis Scale 62

Pipeliner

APRIL 23, 2021

Another important foundational aspect of account management—and sales itself—is the handling of quotas and forecasting. From my observation, only a few companies manage the problems for quotas and forecasting well. Ranked Target multiplies the percentage by the value of that opportunity. Setting the Quota.

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Forecasting Quota Account Lead Rank 98

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 13, 2021

This ownership, sometimes called sales accountability, is how sales managers prepare their teams for success by giving them all the information, tools, and training they need to succeed and meet quotas. How to Create and Encourage Sales Accountability. Transparency drives accountability.

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Account Hiring Coaching Motivation 118

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 7, 2018

Author: Gregg Schwartz Many people think sales management is complicated and mysterious, that there's some unknowable process to becoming a great sales manager, or that great sales managers are born, not made. Here are five choices that great sales managers make – and you can make these same choices too: 1.

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Sales Management Lead Generation Churn Competition 214

Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Do you know how effective you sales managers are? The obvious place to start assessing your sales managers’ effectiveness is to evaluate the activity that has the greatest impact on sales rep performance. The problem is that sales executives are not in a position to observe their sales managers in action.

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Coaching Sales Management How To Sales Coaching 310

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2018

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. A good sales manager needs to stay on top of their game at all times, and ensure that their team is focused, efficient and most importantly, profitable. There are many moving parts in the sales process, and it’s not easy staying on top of them all.

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Sales Management B2B Fashion Call-back 196

Alice Heiman

JUNE 20, 2019

Looking for business in existing accounts is something many sales leaders assume their salespeople or account teams are doing. In fact, according to CSO I nsights , only 33% of companies have a formal Key Account Management Plan. Selecting Key Accounts . Some large accounts are not profitable.

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Account Decision Maker Revenue Guidelines 124

Steven Rosen

JUNE 12, 2017

Sales Management Challenges . Many sales managers are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep juggling all their priorities. Well, here is a great opportunity to hear it straight from two leading sales management experts. Overcoming Your Biggest Sales Management Challenges.

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Webinar Metrics Sales Management Hiring Case Study 184

Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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Software Software Sales Management Sales Forecasts 118

Pipeliner

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. In his 2014 book Zero to One , Peter Thiel wrote, “In the 1990s, the focus was on the product, and not on sales. Following the dot-com bubble burst, people learned that sales mattered just as much as the product.

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Account Customer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Steven Rosen

APRIL 17, 2012

As the head of sales you know that the primary role of the sales managers is to coach and develop their sales team. In fact you believe that great coaching will be a key driver in helping you achieve your sales goals. Your sales managers all think that they are doing a great job coaching.

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Coaching Sales Management Sales Coaching Report 311

SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market? What is wrong with this picture?

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Opportunity Strategy Banking Territories 316

SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

It’s a great opportunity to challenge yourself to grow, both personally and professionally. 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.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Decision Maker Travel 310

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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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Hiring Sales Management Territories Forecasting 73

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Remember the days when sales managers routinely scolded sales reps for being in the office? But the fact of the matter is that there are fewer opportunities to do it in our brave new world. Truth be told, remote selling has been commonplace for years now especially with major accounts. and “Go sell something!”.

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Account Face-to-face Sports Scale 52

SBI Growth

JANUARY 11, 2013

SVPs of Sales in large companies share some universal challenges, regardless of industry. One challenge is to close more key accounts. How can you ensure a green, over-eager new rep doesn’t blow the sale? Here’s how: Add the " L ook-to-Book" ratio to your key account Win/Loss Analysis. What’s the “Look-to-Book” Ratio?

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Account Closing Analysis Coaching 297

criteria for success

APRIL 7, 2021

If you're in the market for some DIY sales management training, you've come to the right place. We've compiled 5 checklists for you to use with your sales managers in any organization. We often talk about the importance of process in selling, but good sales management is a process too. Review weekly reports.

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Sales Management Training Journal Forecasting 85

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Targeting is a fairly simple practice, but when sales management doesn't perform this activity for their salespeople (as in, "Mary, call on these 27 accounts.") There is also the case of the salesperson who calls on the right people in the right industries (so far so good), but all of the opportunities are the wrong size.

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Opportunity Insurance Insurance Comparison 188

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 18, 2017

So what are the identifying marks of a weak sales manager ? How can you, as Sales Director, determine the signs that have to be dealt with? You measure your management team on the results they achieve. A weak manager will look for reasons and excuses. Blaming Results On The Poor Sales Team.

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Sales Management How To Influencer Coaching 120

Apptivo

AUGUST 25, 2021

Salespeople follow up right from capturing a lead, converting it to sales qualified lead, moving it into pipeline opportunities, and improving the customer conversion rate. In short, sales teams have a significant role in increasing the revenue of a company. It is not that if there is lead, there will be no opportunity.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Opportunity 98

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Sales Manager’s Success Guide. Even though I was a sales manager long before I had the opportunity to get involved in training, it was my work with trainers that help me appreciate not only the real challenges sales managers face, but their importance to a successful sales team executing their sales winning consistently.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Hiring Call-back 281

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. It is far too early to look at sales early. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success. Sales coaching is the #1 sales management activity that drives sales performance.

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Compensation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Quota 386

Steven Rosen

JULY 12, 2022

What Great Sales Managers Do? Many sales managers will be sitting down with their sales people over the next month or so to do mid-year reviews to gauge progress on objectives, business plans, and development plans. Sales managers spend a considerable amount of time preparing for a mid-year performance review.

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Objections Coaching Sales Management Course 276

Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2020

So when your sales team unexpectedly and hastily goes remote… well, that’s even harder. One of the biggest challenges sales managers face? Especially if you’re a manager who wasn’t prepared for the remote shift, it can feel like you’re suddenly wearing blinders. Every sales manager has a unique coaching style.

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Account Hiring Face-to-face Coaching 98

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the comments on my article, The Validiation of the Sales Assessment Validation , mentioned the reluctance of CEOs and Presidents to redeploy or terminate ineffective sales managers. Lack of overall sales performance is an easily recognized problem.

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Sales Management Hiring Forecasting Promotion 269