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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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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Partners in Excellence

JULY 16, 2012

What resonated with me is the radical simplicity with which Mark approached (and described) building a sales team. In a world where too many try to overcomplicate things, Mark’s article cut to the essence of building high performance sales teams. Summarizing: Hire the same successful sales person every time. (P).

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2024

Sales Managers: Get Off Your Butt and Start Coaching Your Reps In today’s highly competitive sales industry, which has endless analytic tools and virtual interfaces, the role of the sales manager has quietly pivoted to that of a ‘dashboard coach.’

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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

MAY 5, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan During the past 9 years I have written the occasional Top 5, Top 10 and Top 20 Articles and we have now put them into a series of their own. In no particular order they are: Top 10 Sales Competencies. Top 10 Sales Management Functions. 10 Sales Coaching Examples.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 15, 2021

Leading-edge sales organizations understand the value of investing in leadership development. They believe that strong sales managers are the key to driving sales rep performance. The STAR Sales Manager Survey set out to gauge the development priorities of sales organizations. They really loved it!”.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today's article has a collection of links to help you, your sales managers and your salespeople become more effective. It's a nice collection of important reminders, tips and insights for all things sales. A new book by Adon Rigg, Insightful Selling , launched today.

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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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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2014

It got me thinking about the road most often taken to sales management. Compared to the rocky road to coaching in the NFL, the road to sales management absolutely sounds like a road paved with gold! You see, only 18% of all sales managers are any good at coaching and only 66% of them can be coached up.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

“CRMs are just another tracking tool.”. You’ve heard the complaints from your sales team about using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. No one wants to invest in a tool that statistics show to fail (mostly) because a sales team is reluctant to use it.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

Involving frontline managers in the decision-making process increases buy-in and accountability. 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.

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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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Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2023

And it can have a profound effect on your sales management, as backed up by the statistics. In this article, we take a deeper look at how you can make the most of marketing automation for improving sales management and growing your business. However, you need to choose the tools that suit your needs and setup.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

Full Episode Article: Title: “Are You the Chief Rescue or Chief Revenue Officer?” Byline: By sales leadership and coaching experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen Introduction Welcome to the Sales Leadership Awakening Podcast, where we tackle the age-old issue of bridging the knowing and doing gap in the sales leadership realm.

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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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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

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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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12). sales development (55). sales excuses (15). Sales Force (5). sales goals (29). sales improvement (22). Sales Jobs (5). sales leadership development (4). sales management (49). sales people (8).

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. 1) Outreach.io

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

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?” ” As with the other articles, most of the hacks are very well known. Hacking sales management is pretty simple.

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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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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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Increase Sales

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

How long has this discussion being happening with the small business and management worlds? This is where it is imperative for those in sales management roles to employ WAY SMART goals instead of just SMART goals. The other aspect that was not mention directly was emotional intelligence specific to relationship management. (Tip

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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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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12). sales development (55). sales excuses (15). Sales Force (5). sales goals (29). sales improvement (22). Sales Jobs (5). sales leadership development (4). sales management (49). sales people (8).

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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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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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InsightSquared

MARCH 18, 2020

While we cannot impact the behavior of your buyers, we can ensure that you and your sales organization do not skip a beat during this time of uncertainty. The following are four free tools that integrate directly into your Salesforce* function and bring both stability and predictability to your sales process. Pipeline History.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

What Are the Best Sales Tools for Small Businesses? Documents tool. Inventory and order management software. Survey tool. Email management tool. If you run a small business, here are the nine tools that will dramatically upgrade your productivity and results. Documents Tool. Survey Tool.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12). sales development (55). sales excuses (15). Sales Force (5). sales goals (29). sales improvement (22). Sales Jobs (5). sales leadership development (4). sales management (49). sales people (8).

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Anthony Iannarino

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Stringing together the 14 tools you need to nurture your dream clients will allow you to become known as someone worth a meeting. The Phone : You may not have expected this tool to be first on the list, but it belongs here. But if your company creates relevant, compelling content, you have an excellent tool for nurturing relationships.

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Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You get the idea -these are key sales management actions to be thinking about. On Wednesday, November 12th we have assembled many of the recognized thought leaders on Business to Business Sales Management together, in one broadcast and asked them to share their key recommendations to you as sales leaders.

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