MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 18, 2017

So what are the identifying marks of a weak sales manager ? How can you, as Sales Director, determine the signs that have to be dealt with? You measure your management team on the results they achieve. A weak manager will look for reasons and excuses. Blaming Results On The Poor Sales Team.

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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.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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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. It can be guided by example.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Don’t even think about training your sales team on closing the deal.

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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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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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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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Pipeliner

AUGUST 29, 2018

CRM systems have been utilized throughout many different industries within the sales world. The way that CRM is used has a different impact on each industry, based on how it is used and adopted by the sales force. This article gives insight on how CRM has specifically impacted the printing industry.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Training System: Do You Have One? Do you have a sales training system you believe in? It never ceases to amaze me how few salespeople have a personal sales training system.

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Pipeliner

JULY 8, 2018

The Digital Era of Sales Management. “If This digital era of sales management will dwarf what’s occurred in the information era and the value of the Internet today. Sales management has been impacted by the onset of the digital era, but not always in the ways that people think. Big impact?

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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? They’ll just give you a blank stare.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2024

In this article, we reveal how targeted coaching can mitigate the common aversion to prospecting and elevate it to a key strength within the sales arsenal, thereby bolstering the sales pipeline significantly. 1- Increase Accountability Accountability is key to ensuring that individual sales reps are meeting their goals.

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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

Patience is essential for sales leaders, as behavior changes and shifts in an organization take time. Providing tools and resources for coaching and investing in sales leaders’ development is crucial to success. He prioritized creating a system that allows time for coaching and provides resources to support the coaching process.

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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. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Pipeliner

MARCH 27, 2018

While I had done a great job of taking care of our existing customers, I was not sure how to go about actually making a sales call. And as luck would (not) have it, my sales manager had no clue about how to actually go about training a sales person. I think we have all been there, any of us that have been in sales.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There’s a lot of stuff written about what sales managers have to do and their key job responsibilities. Some of the laundry list items include: Make sure the team makes the number, develop the strategy, manage the forecast/pipeline, manage performance, recruit, train, coach, and on and on. No related posts.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 30, 2024

I’m not talking about spying on your employees’ breakroom conversations or their chats on the in-office messaging system. Is Your Team Management Style Driving Top Results? Let Go of the Last Word Another tendency of managers that employees dislike is the need to always be superior or have the last word.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 30, 2019

In this article, we offer solutions for your CRM system and provide 5 concrete steps in helping your salespeople improve their numbers and ratios so that a sales manager can more accurately identify choke points in the sales process.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

The other day I wrote about the “Almost Perfect Sales Management Article.” ” That post stimulated a flurry of questions about a Sales Management Standard Operating Process/System. There are a few key building blocks to the Sales Management/Leadership Process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Sales managers who are nervous about their team working outside of the office can take heart in a recent study that ranks sales representative as the No. In fact, the study from MagnifyMoney shows that 13% of sales representatives already worked from a home office prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Author: SMM staff.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 19, 2016

Perusing my news feeds this morning, an article entitled, “Should Sales Managers Coach” caught my eye. I reread the article 5 times. Is it a super closer/sales person? The job of the front line sales manager is to maximize the performance of each person on the team!

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

That said, developing and managing successful remote teams comes with several challenges and resolving them before setting up virtual sales teams is critical for success. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the main challenges in running remote sales teams and strategies for effectively handling them. WIth Act!

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2017

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2017? Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Become a Detective : In sales management workshops we always talk about inspect what you expect.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The downside of that technological enrichment is the fact that ownership of the assorted systems and processes makes it necessary to move out of your silo and go knock on some doors to gather all of that rich data. Where does a CPQ system come into play? Sales Effectiveness – Who are your sales folks engaging with?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yesterday, I published a rather long article on the Selling Process. It’s part of my series of articles about “Things We Thought We Understood About Selling But Really Didn’t.” ” Apologies, the article was rather long, but the selling process is so important.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In one of my posts I provide guidance to sales managers on who belongs in their sales team and how do they decide who needs to be managed-out? The "rule of 24" helps them make the decision but for sales people assessing whether to fire their boss I recommend the three Cs. Is she competent?

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

That’s what I love about Tom Searcy’s simple but brilliant article, “ The Sales Metrics You Should Be Focusing On.” In this short, research-based article, Searcy summarizes findings by Jason Jordan, co-author of Cracking the Sales Management Code and partner of Vantage Point Performance. Comment Here.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

Are sales managers really at fault? You don’t hear that phrase very often anymore, but account based sales reps still carry a bag. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota. But it’s their managers who are left holding the bag when reps don’t meet or exceed quota.

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Lessonly

MAY 3, 2021

Systems are a beautiful thing. Without systems, you cannot test hypotheses, track progress, or repeatedly deliver exceptional results. In personal and professional development, these systems and procedures are, ultimately, habits.”. Systems are habits. Systems and habits are good. Use data and ask questions.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2016

I have to admit being appalled reading an article entitled, 5 Skills To Turn Sales Managers Into Sales Leaders (I won’t link to it, you would waste your time, but if you want to find it, google it). The article identified these 5 critical skills: Setting Goals. Developing A Strategy. Setting Expectations.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Kim* was fed up because James,* the star salesperson her organization promoted, wasn’t making it as a sales manager. James had been killing it at sales. It was clear he knew the industry and how to convert leads into sales. When is a top performer really going to make a great manager, and when are they going to bomb?

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 10, 2017

AI and Sales Management. Sales leadership talks about it all the time. Sales consultants advocate it and sales managers say they would like to do more of it. The “it” of course is sales coaching. Lots of companies start sales coaching initiatives but a scarce few sustain them over time.

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