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5 Unconventional Tactics of Excellent Sales Managers

Sales and Marketing Management

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships. Author: Kevin F.

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Book Review: The Gamification Revolution

SBI Growth

A few weeks ago I got an email from a client telling me “ You have to read this book.” The book, The Gamification Revolution , by Zichermann and Linder, discusses how to leverage game mechanics to beat the competition. The concept of gamification is catching on in B2B sales and marketing. The book could be cut in half.

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Stop Reading (Just) Sales Books!

Partners in Excellence

It’s not just blogs or trade magazines, they are actively reading books, doing deep dives into their own professional development. I love learning what they are reading, partly to help me identify books I need to read. (By Study those books, thinking, “How can I take these ideas and apply them to what I do?”

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7 skills you’ll need to become a sales manager

Close.io

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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The No. 1 Skill Top Salespeople Must Master

Sales and Marketing Management

Those of us within the profession know that what you say to a prospect is not the secret to winning in sales. Many people within the profession think the number one sales success factor is listening. I constantly hear sales managers preaching the importance of “listening skills” to their salespeople.

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My Favorite Sales Books

Partners in Excellence

Particularly to a group of outstanding people, many of whom are friends–authors of sales books. At this moment, I’m writing “blurbs” for several soon to be published books, by friends, on selling and sales management. Recently, I was asked to name my top 3 sales books.

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1:1 Sales Coaching Should Provide Every Seller a Clear Path to Success

SalesLoft

Done well, 1:1 sales coaching can make every seller a top performer. . But for many of the sales managers we talk with, the current state of coaching isn’t working. Managers are spending hours listening to call recordings, cross checking multiple spreadsheets, and digging through hand-written notes to prepare for 1:1s.