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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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2014

You are a strong sales manager and you know your business, your customers and your reps. I don’t know any sales manager who plans to fail, but some fail to plan. The purpose of this article is to help you focus on the 3 sales management secrets that are going to give you the success you desire.

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Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Being a sales manager is a whirlwind experience, especially for those who were once successful sales reps themselves. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions. Best Practices for Sales Managers 1. Lay a robust foundation.

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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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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 12, 2021

In this series of articles, we’ll explore the many reasons why salespeople seem, almost universally, to HATE CRM. This phenomenon will be particularly acute for salespeople who’s earnings are largely based on making sales. These three articles will explore …. How CRM can increase your sales. Don’t believe me?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 29, 2017

  I’m excited to have reached a gratifying personal milestone as my 35 th Harvard Business Review article was published this month. In recognition of this occasion, here’s my fifteen personal favorite articles (with links to the article) in order by date published. Martin to receive future research articles.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you are a new sales manager, building trust with your sales team is your first challenge. Without trust, progress will be slowed and time is a luxury few new sales managers have. In this article we will outline the key elements of trust and how a new sales leader can build trust within their new sales team.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

Congratulations, you are now a sales manager. Earning the title of sales manager is an important step in your sales career, regardless of the size of your sales team. There is plenty that new sales managers need to learn on their journey to become a sales leader. Trust is reciprocal.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 18, 2014

However, when you have your eyes glued to a device, keeping up with what’s going on “out there,” you miss out on the people in front of you—your loved ones, colleagues, customers, and prospects. Read the rest of the article for tips on making effective eye contact, plus when too much eye contact is well … yucky. Comment Here.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I posted an article that linked to two additional articles I wrote for EcSell Institute and Top Sales World. Apparently there were issues with those links last week because I got dozens of emails letting me know that you couldn't get to those two articles.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan As promised for today, I'm revealing the single article, from among my former 999 blog articles which my readers voted "best", to be my 1,000th post. The assessment to which he referred was a personality assessment marketed as a sales assessment. That is exactly what we need."

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Brent Adamson wrote an outstanding HBR article on “ Sensemaking For Sales.” ” It’s an important concept, focused on helping our customers make higher quality decisions, with greater confidence. Customers tend to fall back on what they already know and have confidence in.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 3, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I've written 930 articles for this Blog. I present to you the 10 best/most important articles from the last 3 months that you probably didn't read: Are Your Salespeople Receiving Welfare? Missing Link to Sales Success. How to Make Sure Your Sales Force Remains Relevant.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

A good coach knows how to communicate, motivate and personalize each sales associate’s training, so the sales team repeatedly delivers results. This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great. Search less.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

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. Targeting the right customers is crucial.

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Apptivo

JUNE 22, 2023

Why is it important in sales management? CRM Functions to Speed Up the Sales Process 5. Footnotes In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective sales management involves more than just charm and persuasion. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. What is a CRM? What is a CRM?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

She delves into the significance of collaboration with both customers and internal teams, emphasizing the need for trust and effective communication. She also highlights the role of executives and managers in fostering collaboration and the potential costs of not prioritizing teamwork.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

Exemplary sales managers don't just pop up out of nowhere. And very few — if any — reps can assume a management role and thrive, based strictly on intuition. Even the most effective sales leader might struggle to turn a rep who seems like "management material" into a successful manager.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

If you don’t know your customers, you’re not doing your job. As salespeople, it’s our job to ensure customers get the correct solutions for their business challenges—so that they keep buying from us and referring us to other great clients. Simplify Your Sales Conversation. We must have real conversations.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

One route into the position of a sales manager is promotion from having been a highly successful salesperson. They are suddenly saddled with the responsibility of the entire sales team. Fortunately, though, sales management is a craft that can be learned. This will help a sales manager to get up and running.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. If you are considering sending your sales managers to training seminars in 2013, keep your money. Develop a custom sales management program.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 8, 2019

This framework led me to leaving the corporate world in 2012 to start RSVPselling and the framework has helped many of my clients win large new customers and contracts as big a hundred million dollars. What's our strategy for winning while engineering a positive bias in the customer's requirements toward us?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Nutshell

APRIL 19, 2023

By identifying key customer segments, you can create marketing campaigns that resonate with your audience, identify new sales avenues, and even understand your audience better. But how do you create customer segments in the first place? Our answer? It’s all about market segmentation. What is market segmentation?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. Keep it customer-centric and accessible.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 19, 2020

If you don’t know what “being customer-focused” means or can’t measure it, you can’t know if you’re doing it. Many company leaders desire customer focus. Fewer still can describe specific behaviors to know how far they’ve progressed on a journey toward customer focus. Let’s fix that in this article.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The most common sales objections including detailed analysis and ways to counter each one. This is an article rich with great sales objection advice. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ?. B2B appointment setting: How to book more (and better quality) sales meetings. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ?. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ?.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 13, 2019

Sales Management is without doubt the most important link in the revenue chain. It’s also the toughest role in a company because it’s where the person is squeezed between the relentless expectations of executive management and sellers who struggle to differentiate in ferociously competitive markets.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim has been writing a series on sales management, Why Can’t We Build Better Sales Managers? In this particular article, Tim suggests we may not need traditional sales managers anymore. My immediate reaction was, “What is the role of a sales manager?”

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In this article, I would like to discuss a very fundamental quality for someone’s successful conduct in life—that of virtues. Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. In sales management, wisdom must be constantly exercised both in choosing people and in leading them.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 19, 2021

Churn rate” is the annual percentage rate at which customers stop subscribing to a service. To put it more simply, you need to hang onto your customers! Keeping customers is the foundation of your business, along with building confidence in the product, your team, and our company. The 5 Ways of Keeping a Customer.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 25, 2021

Perhaps more pertinent is a quote from Austrian management consultant and author Peter Drucker, who said, “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” Yet to me, we’ve even come to a higher purpose today, which is to create repeat customers! It’s not discussed much, not even in books. Creating Value and Expanding.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 3, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before I get to the meat of today''s article, I have one last request for you to participate in this very important survey on sales force function. As usual, this argument got me thinking about sales management (the coaches) and salespeople (the players).

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible. SaaS B2B Sales. B2B companies sell their products or services to other companies instead of selling them to customers. This is done to attract more inquiries from interested parties and convert them into customers. Structured plan.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

For a Sales Representative, climbing the corporate ladder begins with a promotion to Sales Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be recognized by senior management and develop your career options. Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. How Sales Manager Succeed.

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