Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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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Sales Evangelist

MAY 7, 2020

The Sales Manager's Guide To Greatness! You may have been a top salesperson, and still continue to be, but that doesn’t always qualify you to be a top sales manager. Davis is the author of the book The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading your Team to the Top.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ask a sales rep what they will close this month and, without some intensive research, they may be hard pressed to give you an answer. Even then, that response may be more of a “wish list” than an accurate forecast. It’s pretty difficult to budget for expenditures without a good forecast of expected revenues. Rep training.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 18, 2022

Today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist launches a new series on forecasting! When it comes to forecasting, there are a ton of strategies and tactics you can use to develop a solid background on it. In this episode, Donald discusses the three things you must know about forecasting before starting. Know your data.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 18, 2022

Today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist launches a new series on forecasting! When it comes to forecasting, there are a ton of strategies and tactics you can use to develop a solid background on it. In this episode, Donald discusses the three things you must know about forecasting before starting. Know your data.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Tony," you might be asking, "what does this have to do sales management and sales management tools?" Well, reader," I''m thinking, "it has a lot to do with sales management and sales tools, and it also gives me a chance to reflect on my dad and my youth spent on the farm." The key is to be effective.

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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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Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

The job of a sales manager is to provide a succeeding environment for salespeople. Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. You might also want to ask, “Why is this role available?

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. The REAL Problem with Sales Training [link] #news #sales. This post has 1 comments.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 12, 2013

Managing a Sales Manager . As a result of our one of my readers sending me an email comment regarding his personal situation, I have attached the sample of one our of a tools we have included in our “On Line Sales Manager Tool Kit ” www.AcumenManagement.com. . Acumen Management Group . Sales Metrics.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

One dictionary defines agile as “relating to a method of project management … characterized by the division of tasks into short phases of work and frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans.”. Scott Brinker , author of Hacking Marketing, a great book about agile practices in marketing, sheds more light. Each associate is trained.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Keith Rosen’s company, Profit Builders, was named one of Selling Power’s Top 20 Training Companies for 2013. ” Representatives for the publication say that editors assembled the list for the benefit of sales leaders that want to reach higher levels of productivity and performance. 5) strength of client satisfaction.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are 5 tips to create a profitable sales pipeline: Reverse engineer the number of opportunities your reps need to hit quota. Commit to forecast opportunities for the week/month/quarter. Ensure your reps take ownership for their individual sales pipelines. Tip 4) Commit to forecast opportunities for the week/month/quarter.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 23, 2014

Consider the length of time that a runner must train to prepare for running a 26.2-mile Someone training for a marathon should run up to 50 miles per week. So perhaps, our top 6% is the group that takes selling as seriously as those runners that train for a marathon. That won’t happen until we raise the bar on sales management.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales eXchange , execution. Given that, why train them?

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 21, 2017

Five Tools Every Sales Manager Should Use. During a recent podcast interview I was asked what I thought were the top five “systems or tools” that a Sales Manager needs to be successful. After thinking about all the possibilities and responsibilities that any sales leader faces I answered the question with the list below.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 23, 2015

Why can’t I get an accurate forecast? Frankly it is a common phase I have often heard from CFO’s, Presidents and VP of Sales-but what’s the resolution? The velocity of the sale or length of time it has been in the funnel is 90 days longer than the average velocity for your business. The first action is not to ask for a forecast.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 27, 2017

Virtually everything one reads about driving sales performance and productivity focuses on the sales person. 1000’s of books and articles provide endless advise to help improve sales people skills. Billions are spent in training and skills development—all focused on the sales person.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

That question kicks off the new book “Pivot to the Future” by three thought leaders from the consulting giant Accenture. AI and machine learning will play a larger role in forecasting.?One One of the first places Birnes has seen AI take root is forecasting. What AI is not. Business require both capabilities.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Sales Manager’s job is to provide an environment within which their sales people can succeed. Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. The following is an excerpt from my Book, The Joshua Principle.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When I started reading the book, “ The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading Your Team to the Top ,” the first thing I thought was, “Shoot, why didn’t I write this book?” . You’re probably wondering why a sales expert is reading a book on sales management.

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Keith Rosen

JULY 14, 2014

Selling Power Features Keith Rosen’s company, Profit Builders on the 2014 Top 20 Sales Training Companies List. Profit Builders is honored to announce that on June 18, 2014 they were included on the 2014 list of the Top 20 Sales Training Companies that excel in helping sales leaders improve the performance of their sales teams.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Excellent pipeline visibility can make sales managers feel like superheroes. Being able to instantly tell executives the exact number and value of sales in your pipeline is like having spidey senses. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for most sales managers. They help you understand your sales process.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Here''s the premise: Companies that have been rigorously enforcing sales process should stop doing so because it is resulting in longer sales cycles, decreased conversion rates, unreliable forecasts and depressed margins. So they say. Here are some of the many problems with their premise. It was a survey! Sound familiar?

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Gong.io

AUGUST 22, 2022

Forecast revenue more accurately. Accurate forecasts are essential for allocating resources and managing cash flow. Forecasts can also help you align sales quotas and revenue expectations. They can also be used to improve your sales training. Forecast metrics.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 12, 2012

The Sales Manager that Does It All. No matter what size of sales organization you manage the sales leader that assumes they are responsible for everything or solving every problem generally fails to achieve the ultimate objective. The sales manager only plans the training. How does this happen?

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Lessonly

MARCH 16, 2020

How does sales training software simplify your long-term training efforts? That’s because we’re already picturing ourselves painting our newly purchased home, crossing the finish line, or piling up the stack of books we finished over the course of the year. . Start with the beach, the finish line, closing your last book.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 12, 2014

Others say prospects use objections to test your sales savvy or to see how you respond. Either way, moving qualified buyers into your forecast and increasing your sales pipeline means addressing objections—without being defensive. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' Still skeptical?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 11, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Forecast , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Cycle , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Time Allocation , execution. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales & Consequences now on Amazon Kindle. Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , EDGE Sales Process , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Productivity , e-book , execution. 99 cents, you can grab the ultra portable and shareable Kindle version of the book. Book Notice.

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BrainShark

MAY 2, 2024

A sales rep Scorecard is a report that tracks key performance indicators about members of your sales team. It’s used by enablement and sales managers to track and improve the performance of their sales reps by surfacing gaps in training and areas where they’re struggling or succeeding.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This installment: The enablement domain, which is any activity meant to improve the performance of the sales function. Generally, it encompasses talent strategy, training, coaching, and content services. An event focus might look like “train and coast”, or “coaching sprint” then coast.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Your Sales Management Guru Blog on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Blogs” List . It’s quite validating to be recognized professionally for your expertise, although I’m frequently rewarded by my followers who tell me they are successfully using information I share with them in managing their sales organizations.”.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are lots of great books (including Sales Manager Survival Guide), there are a lot of great training programs (including those we offer), but somehow managers continue to struggle in both finding the time to coach and coaching in high impact ways. Their own managers aren’t great role models, as coaches.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was meeting with a very thoughtful sales executive. He was about to make some pretty big investments in training and in technology tools. I asked him why he was making those investments, he replied, “We really need to raise the skills and productivity of the sales people. Sales Managers, Use It Or Lose It.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales Alchemy. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Forecast , Funnel management , Guest Post , Sales Management , Sales Process , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. Book Notice. Book Review. EDGE Sales Process. January 2008.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. A collection of three top sales books, including my award winning book on Trigger Events. A copy of the award winning book on Trigger Events.

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