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. What does each salesperson need to enhance their productivity in 2017?

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 31, 2014

Sales Training Article: How Social Prospecting Helps Forecasting. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index Image courtesy of Adam R at FreeDigitalPhotos.net It’s a topic that won’t go away. Marketing is not driving the quality sales leads the field needs. You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The executive sponsor will often have the title of VP of Sales, VP of Sales Operations, VP of Marketing, or Director of Sales Enablement. The person in this role will likely have a title like Operations Manager, or fall somewhere in Sales Enablement, Marketing Operations, or Sales Operations.

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SBI

APRIL 21, 2019

Bigtincan’s ground-breaking functionality helps salespeople be more efficient and effective, marketing can optimize their content creation and know what’s being used, and managers can coach and reinforce at scale. Sales Enablement. The goal of implementing a Sales Enablement platform. Blog Article. Sales Enablement.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Needless to say, this paints a less-than-promising picture of sales forecast accuracy. In this article, we’ll break down five actionable strategies you can put in place to speed up your sales pipeline , roll out more accurate sales forecasting, and make course corrections before it’s too late.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This article originally appeared on MarketingProfs. Winning a sale is a team effort, not just from sellers and sales managers but the sales organization as a whole. Sales operations, customer success , and product marketing are all instrumental in getting prospects to the finish line.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth 3: Sales enablement is actually sales operations. Let’s not confuse apples and oranges … and pears.

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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. Find out if your sales resources are aligned with growth opportunity by using the Sales Growth Pin Pointer.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here are the 15 most important sales statistics every salesperson should bookmark today. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. 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. Short on time? OptinMonster.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

What, you didn’t have time to watch that webinar replay in between reading those two articles you’ve had open in a tab for three days? There’s more sales content than ever before – how do you sort through the noise? Since we deal with sales content on the daily, we thought we’d save you some time. Revenue operations.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 23, 2014

Marketing is not driving the quality sales leads the field needs. You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps. Your VP of Sales is sick of the excuses. Sales Operations should implement this strategy to help manage the funnel. Note what articles are trending and keep the pulse of the market.

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Vengreso

MAY 5, 2022

Sales training, product, and market information, a great CRM, and sales enablement software are all essential factors that can shape the sales reps’ chances of success. When you want to give your #sales team everything they need to be successful at their jobs - that's Sales Enablement! Check out this article!

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last week I was in Chicago keynoting an international association’s sales conference, in preparation I had been making notes and clipping interesting ideas from a variety of sources, one of them was Success magazine. The specific article covered a young coach, Dale Brown meeting with John Wooden, the Hall of Fame UCLA basketball.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I’m the Director of Enablement at WorkRamp, with more than 12 years of experience in enablement, training, and sales operations. In this article, I’ll walk you through bridging the gap between L&D and sales enablement for your sales teams to create a culture of continuous learning that leads to super-powered sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Sales Development. Sales Growth. Sales Enablement. Enterprise Sales. Sales Operations. Sales Technology. VP New business – Sales leader. Regional Vice President of Sales. Vice President of Sales. Sales Manager. Regional Vice President of Sales.

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Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

That means that modern sellers need to develop digital sales skills, learn how to interact with buyers in a remote selling environment, and learn how to use remote selling tools. Helping sales managers to drive their sellers to reach more key decision-makers, improve the selling process, grow the sales pipeline and close deals.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Whether you’re selling high-volume/reduced ACV deals or whale-sized enterprise deals, you can leverage MEDDIC and Challenger Sales Methodology in your sales cycle management to proactively understand risk, leave your audience with actionable takeaways, and retain desirable sales cycle length. Sales Strategy.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 26, 2020

In my last article , I declared that “customer focus” is too vague to measure and implement, but that “customer value focus” was the essence inside customer focus that you were unknowingly seeking. Then I introduced three domains in which any journey toward value focus should operate. Part 2 of a 4 part series.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

I was lucky enough to be introduced to a sales team’s top performer for 2013. Julie’s Sales Operations leader thought I could learn a lot from her. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. Her clients were sharing articles that her competitors had written.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 2, 2018

Sales Operations has a lot to do. A Sales Ops Charter helps the organization know what they can ask for from Sales Ops. But they also have a lot they shouldn’t be doing. It’s like hanging a sign on your.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Which is why today’s winning leaders implement strategies that accelerate pipeline and empower their reps to find success, no matter where the sale occurs. In this article, I’ll unpack the playbook for winning in the new world of hybrid sales. 6 Ways to Demonstrate Value for Virtual Buyers in the Age of Remote Buying.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recommended reading: How to Motivate Sales Managers With Compensation Strategy Compensation Transformation Tip #6: Leverage a mix of individual and team-based incentives. Of course, many of the changes we covered in today’s article wouldn’t have been possible a decade ago.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2020

That's why sales efficiency is one of the most important metrics for businesses to understand, track, and ultimately improve. Sales efficiency is, in large part, a measure of the speed of your sales operations. Let's assume all your sales reps hit their quota one quarter.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 23, 2021

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc. Many sales departments have been forced to remotely scale their operations.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

If you work in sales operations, it may seem like the sales reps at your company don’t always see the value you are adding to their daily lives. It sometimes feels like the only thing you have in common is both of your job titles beginning with the word “sales”. Sales will like the sound of that! Reporting on KPIs.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 5, 2023

The top 10 characteristics that any quality sales CRM software are covered in this article. You will know what to look for when selecting your new sales CRM software by the time you finish reading this article. If you’re in the market for a robust, powerful, and efficient CRM program, look no further.

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BrainShark

MARCH 3, 2024

For example, if your company already uses a corporate learning tool (like an LMS), you may want to be able to clearly articulate why a sales enablement solution is better equipped to meet the unique learning needs of your salespeople. This article will help: The Best Enterprise LMS 2.0 for Training and Knowledge Retention.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation? How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design.

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SBI

MAY 7, 2019

He has 22 years of experience in sales management, entrepreneurship and business operations, primarily at emerging-growth technology companies. Resources All Awards & Recognition Blog Article Industry News Interview Video Video Reviews Webinars. Sales Enablement. Blog Article. Account Targeting.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, the term "sales executive" refers to sales professionals working at the director level or higher — employees with significant influence over the general structure and trajectory of a company's sales efforts and strategy. It's on them to guide the course of sales operations.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Worse, bad sales meetings can cause aggravation and require hours for sales reps to recover from. If you’re in sales and looking to maximize the effectiveness of your sales meetings, this article is for you. Cost of a Bad Sales Meetings. But the cost of a bad sales meeting goes beyond time and money.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 15, 2019

The best example I’ve ever heard about a leader driving the culture around CRM adoption was from a fellow sales operations pro I met at my first visit to Dreamforce. Often times, a CRM can feel like it’s only there to benefit sales managers or worse, give them the opportunity to micromanage their reps.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Tracking those numbers in a dashboard saves managers hours of valuable time and keeps the numbers accessible, so they know exactly who needs what kind of coaching at any given time. Let’s break down how that might look in a sales manager dashboard. Metrics to measure in a sales manager dashboard. New accounts.

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BrainShark

MAY 23, 2022

Businesses are always looking for new ways to solve today’s sales challenges. Increasingly, they see sales enablement as a long-term solution. If you’re reading this article, you’ve probably heard or read some of the ongoing discussion about sales enablement. As for who owns sales enablement?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2018

It’s a formula stating that 80% of sales are made by 20% of sales reps, and it sometimes seems as immutable as a law of physics. Sales managers and business leaders try to move the ratio with training, but up to 87% of training content is forgotten within a few weeks. Coaching is no solution either.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To help you stay up-to-date on the latest sales intelligence, sales operations and sales leadership discussions happening during the conference, we curated a list of seven influencers you should follow on Twitter, and included their speaking sessions. . Partner at Vantage Point.

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MEDDIC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While a good coach can help you to build a team of sales superstars, a bad one can lower your revenue, drag out the sales cycle and increase the time it takes to close deals. What makes good sales coaches so good, and how do you spot a bad one? The Benefits of a Good Sales Coach. Where to find the best coaches?

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