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Did President Obama Do More Damage to the Image of Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

Just when there was hope that the profession of selling was getting its act together - taking itself more seriously, becoming more professional, embracing integrity, evaluations, metrics, training and coaching - our President, of all people, undoes it with three instances of name-calling. Sales Manager: "What happened?".

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Inbound Sales: How to Sell the Way Prospects Buy

Hubspot Sales

That’s because inbound sales transforms selling to match today’s empowered buyer -- so sales reps can sell the way people buy. What is inbound sales? Inbound sales is a personalized, helpful, modern sales methodology. Here's how to understand the difference between inbound and outbound sales. Challenges.

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MBO Examples to Kickstart Your Sales Team Engagement

Xactly

Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.

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The Sales Association: Insatiably Curious

The Sales Association

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. The most important part of the sales process is the questioning phase, so you either have to be curious or act like you are. This is just as valuable as sales training! Join The Sales Association. Sales Jobs.

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Team selling – lone wolfs no longer reign supreme

Sales Training Connection

First, several markets are undergoing a transformational change where the customer is demanding the salesperson brings a broader and deeper level of knowledge to sales process. A good case in point is the medical market where the Affordable Care Act plus other social and economic trends are transforming the health care landscape.