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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SalesFuel

MARCH 6, 2024

3 Ways to Drive Revenue with Business Intelligence Insights Find Out What’s Working vs. What Needs to Change According to an article by Localogy , one of the best ways to start your client’s profit margin improvement journey is by performing an audit. This strategy is the best way to ensure that you boost your revenue and theirs.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. I suggest that you read it first, returning to this article for the analysis. Selling skills!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

So that has many of us questioning which direction we should be heading toward in our modern day revenue tech stack? Which AI tools are going to make revenue operators’ lives immensely easier? Pipeline analytics: Offers sales managers a view of their teams’ pipelines that goes beyond what’s available in their native SFA applications.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Revenue Operations is at the forefront of a paradigm shift — to view the buyer’s journey as a seamless thread across multiple people, systems, and value propositions. This involves driving more new logo and renewal revenue, lowering customer acquisition cost, and increasing forecasting predictability. Execute FAST.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

There are eighteen years worth and 2,000 articles and while there are a few popular series of articles listed on the right-side navigation panel, there hasn’t been a way to finding the most helpful articles. To avoid wasting time and chasing opportunities that have ghosted you, read articles about qualifying.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

There are eighteen years worth and 2,000 articles and while there are a few popular series of articles listed on the right-side navigation panel, there hasn’t been a way to finding the most helpful articles. To avoid wasting time and chasing opportunities that have ghosted you, read articles about qualifying.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A title like, "Presidents & CEO''s: 4 Out of 5 Sales Managers Are Ineffective", will cause some Sales Directors, Sales VP''s and Sales Managers to click and read the article. Do you have a way to objectively evaluate sales management performance?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I know it’s heresy, but not all revenue is good revenue—particularly for start-ups. But let me backtrack a little bit, I’ve written about this concept quite a bit beore, if you want to read some of the articles, follow the LINK. But let me give a brief recap: Good revenue is: Business we can deliver profitably.

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CommercialTribe

MARCH 26, 2019

This is the third article of a three-part series on sales manager productivity. Before reading on, catch up on Part 1 and Part 2: Part 1: Where and why most organizations don’t actually know who their B and C sales managers are, and the hidden cost they bring to organizational performance. Not by a long shot. “A”

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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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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.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Your revenue organization works in the same way. Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. The beauty of a sales performance dashboard is your ability to customize it. Every part of your revenue engine serves a specific purpose, but each part supports the whole.

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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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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

You can’t tell a sales rep to “increase sales” and expect them to know what to do. A good place to start is to set the right sales objectives. In this article, we’ll explain what sales objectives are and why they’re critical to business growth. What is a sales objective? What is a sales objective?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And, chances are if you’ve considered implementing a sales enablement tool like a CRM into your strategic plan to drive revenue, you’ve read a lot of articles that discuss the various reasons why most sales CRM systems fail. As a sales manager, what can you do to ensure your sales reps use a CRM to its full potential?

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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. Connect Skills & Outcomes.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it. The Solution Where to begin?

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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. Make sure it aligns with marketing — to an extent.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Sometimes you just don’t have time to read an entire article. That’s why we went ahead and pulled out the five most important sales statistics and listed them here. 40% of businesses did not meet revenue targets in 2020. 25% of sales reps believe they have not received enough sales training. OptinMonster.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But those methods will only treat the symptoms, not the real sales management problem: a lack of proper planning. It’s similar to the conversations most sales reps have with prospects. Sales management: Listen up. It’s your sales team’s expertise in defining and communicating prospects’ problems.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2019

Cirrus Insight Announces Sean Piket as VP of Revenue. Cirrus Insight is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Piket as Vice President of Revenue. Sean Piket, VP of Revenue. and Knoxville, Tn. – May 7, 2019 — Cirrus Insight is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Piket as Vice President of Revenue.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 25, 2021

First, a bit of grounding on two key meetings within your sales management system: forecast reviews and funnel reviews, and more importantly, the differences between them. . Here are a few best practices to break this cycle and improve the throughput of your sales teams. . Assess the cadence of your sales management system.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2023

It seems you can’t open your news feed these days without seeing an article about how AI will transform the workforce. Let’s see what sales managers can do amidst this revolution to merge the gap between humans and technology.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sales Management End of Year Checklist. . Depending upon the person and the conditions in their sales organization each article may or may not be pertinent. I decided to start with a Sales Management End of Year Checklist. Need to prepare a 2017 Sales Business Plan ? Have fun and go sell something!

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Increase Sales

APRIL 2, 2012

Those in sales management seem to fall into one of two roles that being sales killer or sales motivator. In Drive by Daniel Pink and a McKinsey quarterly article both appear to reinforce how these killer or motivator roles develop. These folks consistently worked hard to secure the goal to increase sales.

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HeavyHitter Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

the most prestigious publication for business leaders and management thinkers. Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the  SEVEN TYPES OF SALES MANAGERS. Most likely, a sales leader will use several different management styles and move from one style to another depending on the situation.

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InsightSquared

AUGUST 1, 2019

“There’s no stronger time than now, where a sales executive needs a really strong partnership with business ops or sales ops or revenue ops,” said Todd Abbott, as he opened his presentation at Ramp 2019, the revenue ops event of the year hosted by InsightSquared.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? It’s common knowledge that revenue is a lagging indicator. You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Then why are so many account based selling teams given revenue targets and let loose? Revenue can be measured but not managed.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

That’s what makes the momentum surrounding the InsightSquared Revenue Intelligence Platform —featuring six integrated solutions in 1—so powerful. It’s been just over a month since launch and, here’s what we’ve seen: Already more than 100 customers have signed up for the InsightSquared Revenue Intelligence Platform.

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CommercialTribe

MARCH 14, 2019

This is the second article of a three-part series on sales manager productivity. In Part I, I shared where and why most organizations don’t actually know who their B and C sales managers are, and illuminated the hidden cost they bring to organizational performance. Coaching Is Every Sales Manager’s Power Play.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

He suggests the addition of resources and tools to allow for more coaching time and support between sales managers and their team members. Adding resources and managing a span of control can create more time for coaching and support. Ongoing reflection and level-setting help ensure that coaching remains a priority.

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