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Forecasts Are About The Deals, Not The Number!

Partners in Excellence

We continue to get forecasting wrong, at least for complex B2B sales. We keep making the forecast about the number, for example, this quarter we are going to make $1B! Not long ago, I was analyzing the forecasting process for a very large organization. The management team was reasonably proud. And the rest slipped.

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Proven Strategies for Effective Sales Management

Highspot

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Targeting That Blows Your Targets Away

Steven Rosen

Helen Fanucci , a sales leader with 25+ years in the high-tech industry and author of “Love Your Team: A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World.” discusses the importance of trust in sales, effective targeting strategies, and the role of collaboration in team selling. Collaboration is key to success in sales.

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Here’s to 2021: Accurate, Agile Sales Forecasting

InsightSquared

When it comes to sales forecasting , it’s a simple truth: if you can see what’s coming, you can prepare and react accordingly. Sometimes you have to react on the fly, act on the best information you can find, and just give it all you’ve got. Accurate forecasting is, for all intents and purposes, the whole ballgame.

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Sales Forecasting – What Is It And How To Do It Effectively

Salesmate

Like a crystal ball, sales forecasting will surely not show you an exact view of the future. However, it will do give you some predictive insights into what is likely to happen in a specific time frame in context to your sales. Thus, sales forecasting is essential for any sales-driven organization.

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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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How to Shift From Sales Management to Sales Leadership

Miller Heiman Group

Even before the rise of COVID-19, sales managers had what’s known as the “hardest job in sales.” As the rest of their organization pivots to manage the challenges of the coronavirus and establish strategies for rebounding from the crisis, sales managers also must shift.