Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I’ve been writing a short series on Hacking Selling–( Hacking Selling , Hacking Selling Part 2 ). As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?”

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 4, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Selling Power Blog published a new article of mine, The Top 10 Steps Salespeople Can Take to Improve. The article includes a really terrific video on the importance of tonality. While persistence has always been important in sales, we are in uncharted territory.

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

In this article we’re going to discuss momentum killers for salespeople and organizations. For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. Territory Adjustments.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

The June issue of Top Sales Magazine has been published and you can download it here. Among all of the important articles this month is mine on The Top 5 Reasons Salespeople Fail to Meet Quota and the Common Link to All 5 Reasons. Jonathan Farrington interviews Jill Konrath on her new book, Agile Selling. The Talent Warp.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

As you move up the y-axis, those programs gain more executive altitude , becoming more strategic and immediately impactful to the company’s growth agenda. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. The second wave of sales enablement, moving up and to the right, is what we call the Territory Planning wave.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sales is the most important function with any company, and the sales manager plays a critical role within it. That said… The importance of your sales manager cannot be understated. The sales force drives the company’s revenue and it’s the sales manager’s job to drive the sales force.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Need to improve your sales team’s results? That’s the advice from a recent Harvard Business Review article that concluded, women are the future of B2B sales. If you believe diversity on your sales team will improve sales performance, keep reading because there is plenty of science to back that up.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was also used to ensure that follow-up tasks were completed when due. While the benefits of Nimble CRM can expand into many departments in an organization, as a self-identified salesperson, we are going to focus on your salespeople, your sales manager, and the overall benefits to your company. By territory.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Sales people often are promoted into sales manager positions – primarily based on their sales success. Sales Coaching. Just because a sales people excelled at face-to-face selling doesn’t mean they will excel as a sales manager. So, what happens?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Why are they your targets?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 9, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan When most sales bloggers write about selling, we almost always discuss direct B2B sales. Ignored in all of these articles are those clients and companies that sell through channels. Channel sales is quite different. This is more like traditional B2B sales.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 12, 2012

Sales people often are promoted into sales manager positions – primarily based on their sales success. Just because a sales people excelled at face-to-face selling doesn’t mean they will excel as a sales manager. Sales managers responsibilities extend far beyond face-to-face selling.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

Just ask Frank Cespedes , Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He has so much sales and management knowledge he could write a book on it — and, in fact, he’s written seven, including “Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing.”

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Gong.io

AUGUST 24, 2022

We call this process sales forecasting. Sales forecasting is critical for setting revenue and sales targets, planning resources and new hires, and managing company cash flow. In this article, you’ll get a 101 on this crucial process. Sales managers use forecasts for territory planning as well.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, you’ll learn some positions you can consider in SaaS sales, expert tips for getting into the industry, and how to succeed in your first sales role. Table of Contents Is SaaS sales a good career? In fact, at the time of writing this article, there are over 100,000 open SaaS sales roles on LinkedIn.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 12, 2021

Almost all tech salespeople were selling from home this past year, and several will continue to do so throughout 2021. Many sales professionals have come to appreciate the ability to connect with customers and partners remotely — whether that be online or over the phone. Create a community that’s "digitally on-call.".

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Corporate Visions

JULY 2, 2020

As you move up the y-axis, those programs gain more executive altitude , becoming more strategic and immediately impactful to the company’s growth agenda. The Second Wave: Territory Plans. The second wave of sales enablement, moving up and to the right, is what we call the Territory Planning wave.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Retarded Sales Behavior and The Reasons We Under-Perform. Stored in Attitude , EDGE Selling , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Tool , execution. We’ve become a generation of retarded under-performing sales semi-professionals. Home About The Pipeline.

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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. And here we run into issues that should be top of mind for every executive: productivity and available selling time.

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Showpad

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales reps need support to drive growth and increase likelihood of success, whether they’re going through initial onboarding, working through the buyer’s journey or collaborating with marketing. We’ll get into unique responsibilities of each later in this article. Sales Operations Roles and Responsibilities.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. You can see her articles regularly on the Software Advice blog.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. This year again, I have the honour and privilege to be nominated in five categories alongside some great sales thinkers, and friends. While each category will have a winner, the real winners are the readers who have the chance to take insight from these sales experts. EDGE Sales Process.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Sales Training Article: Great Sales Teams Need Great Managers By Andris A. Lorimer, Harvard Business Review Blog Network If you had to decide between having a team of excellent salespeople with an average manager, or having a team of average salespeople with an excellent manager, which would you choose?

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The solution, in our experience, is modern training software that allows sales reps to find and review product information exactly when it’s needed by using techniques like just-in-time learning (reps can look up answers as needed) and microlearning (short lessons for improved knowledge retention). It’s wildly inefficient.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ''A'' players on the team.

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Allego

APRIL 21, 2022

Like it or not, virtual selling is here to stay. As you’ve probably experienced, however, the traditional ways of doing business don’t always transfer to a hybrid selling world. Coaching distributed sales teams and providing feedback. Coaching distributed sales teams and providing feedback. You aren’t alone.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Read this article to better understand the pros and cons that other CRMs have when compared to Pipedrive. Both mature SMBs and newly minted sales teams love Pipedrive for how newcomer-friendly the CRM is. To capture both professional reviews and opinions from real users, we actively interact with up to 30 various sources of data.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Should you take the risk of applying to a fast-growing startup, or slowly work your way up at a more established enterprise company? I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Even more so when you consider that the average manager waits much too long to take corrective action. One of the reasons for this is the difference in role expectation between HR and the frontline sales manager. Sales eXchange , Tibor Shanto. Home About The Pipeline.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. We’re not selling in a vacuum.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. Very cool, and now new applications of that capability are popping up.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. To get more insight on that, you can read a related article “ Working Backwards From Your Goal To Get Ahead “ Look forward to your comments, and invite you to visit our YouTube Channel to view other SellBetter sales videos. Sales Skills , Tibor Shanto , Time Allocation , Video.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. It’s your job to lead your team through the trenches and give them direction so they’ll know which markets or territories to target and how best to attack. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. SPIN selling.

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InsightSquared

JUNE 16, 2020

Fortunately, many sales teams are improving coaching and executing using the new Guided Selling technology. While the term is not new, Guided Selling has recently gained momentum in the B2B selling world due to its ability to adapt on demand and scale coaching across an entire sales team.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2017

But there’s a simpler way to increase market share: Make your sales organization more optimistic. Don’t roll your eyes; this isn’t going to be a Pollyanna article. Turnover decreased and sales increased because Met Life focused on hiring for optimism, not just hard selling skills. My territory is lousy.”.

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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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