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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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Is it up to managers to provide all the coaching reps need, or are they better off bringing in outside support? If you’re considering a future in sales coaching, continue reading to understand the key competencies of the role, common mistakes to avoid, and take the quiz below to test your sales coaching knowledge.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 16, 2021

As we know, sales is a very communicative role that often requires in-person conversations to build relationships and read body language. And having business development calls or sales team meetings from the kitchen table while family members are whirling around isn’t an ideal work environment. Blue Light Glasses .

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2022

Running a constructive team effectiveness assessment rests on your ability to understand the qualities that have the most bearing on your team's immediate success. Even if your team effective assessment is positive, look back at the individual answers and see where you underperformed, relative to the others.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This places an additional burden on sales managers to do more with their coaching, which is like being short on peanut butter while having a full jar of jelly. In that spirit, here are seven high-impact activities for sales managers to prioritize in their coaching: One-on-One Meetings. Team Activities.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

For many leaders, when we hear the term remote sales management, our blood pressure starts to rise. Sales teams are hard enough to manage already, let alone remotely.". Let’s explore some crucial components you can keep in mind when constructing your own sales enablement strategy. There is no need to fear.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Front-line service departments like sales and support thrive when they receive a substantial number of calls daily. But do sales representatives really know how to pitch their products and services to potential clients? Where is your team succeeding, and what do you need to adjust in the sales process?

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Allego

MARCH 2, 2021

Read on for four key takeaways from their discussion and some helpful ideas on how sales leaders can successfully coach in a virtual environment. What is surprising is the disconnect between sales managers’ intent in the coaching they provide and the way sales reps receive that coaching.

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Chorus.ai

MAY 17, 2021

In it, Michael and Jan meet with Christian. Having originally arranged to meet in a hotel room, Michael astonishes Jan by taking Christian to Chili’s. Jan then watches while Michael completely ignores the sales pitch she wrote. Successful sales can tell your prospect’s story through your product.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. What is a cold call? What is the purpose of cold calling?

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CommercialTribe

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Adam and Kelly connect for a pre-call prep session. Adam and Kelly follow-up for a post call debrief after the call. After all, he’s a competitive and motivated sales professional with potential. After a prolonged pause, Adam says, “They are going to get back to me. So, how can sales leaders help?

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Gone are the days of cold calls and one-size-fits-all pitches. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Yet, neglecting it might be what’s holding your team back. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building. Provide constructive feedback to refine messaging.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Have the Sales Managers train the reps. It’s called Train the Trainer. Have L&D sit in the back of the room and get your manager up on stage. If you had to train your managers, wouldn’t you know the process cold? Every time you go on a field ride with a rep to see a customer-- fill out a call plan.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Veronika Riederle , Co-Founder & CEO at Demodesk , a customer meeting platform company she launched in 2018 that’s bringing in seven figures with a global hybrid remote team. The virtual meeting space has barely begun to evolve. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We had lots of fun constructing them with our friends, and then seeing how far apart we could get and still hear each other. It’s called FOMO—fear of missing out. Your Sales Career Is at Risk Technology addiction isn’t just bad for your personal relationships. It can also kill your sales career.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 6, 2019

But, that’s a lot easier said than done — especially if you’re only bringing your team together for conventional meetings. Now, this article isn’t some sort of new age, millennial, “everything you know about sales doesn’t matter anymore” hit piece on conventional sales meetings. What’s the Sales Huddle?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. AI is no longer a construct of the future. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. 85% of sales professionals say that AI makes their prospecting more effective.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 10, 2022

As conversation intelligence platforms become a cornerstone of the sales tech stack, sales leaders and their teams are exploring how sales managers can use them to boost results and create a team of top performers. Call scoring and analytics. It suggests relevant content that reps can review to prepare for calls.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

They won’t be reluctant to ignore cold calls, marketing emails, or business proposals if their criteria aren’t met. 3) 43% of buyers think impression matters So, when the “common” sales tactics are futile, how do you make a sales pitch work?

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 14, 2020

Some of the advice will be supported by “data,” a survey used to prove the idea, even if it is weak, poorly constructed, and taken out of context. The contacts you call on may not yet recognize a threat to their business or an opportunity that is available to them. You can call this “the relevance test.”

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

In 2016, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings completed construction and moved to Golden 1 Center, a state-of-the-art indoor arena complex in an emerging lifestyle, entertainment, and retail neighborhood in Sacramento, known locally as DOCO, or Downtown Commons. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools.

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Mindtickle

MAY 31, 2023

This helps sales reps better understand what a potential buyer needs and when. Let’s say the sales pipeline really is like a road. That would mean you need two perspectives: Construction What processes are required to build the road? Other approaches, such as cold calls and events, may require sales team input.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Holding back my laughter and amazement I picked up the phone and turned it off. At that moment I was embarrassed because I realized my wife and I were doing them a disservice by always texting another parent if they wanted to have a friend over or setting up FaceTime to call their grandparents. I asked, “Why is the phone off the hook?”

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A sales order pipeline is a series of tasks, including prospecting for leads, generating new ones through cold calling or email outreach (or both), meeting with prospects in person to close the sale, following up on deals after they have been made. The Art of Constructing a Sales Pipeline.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mary: “Before I got into sales, my field was going to be teaching, but I ended up getting a sales job. Then there were opportunities for me to do training, before it was called sales enablement. I taught other people what I knew from my sales role and then went back in the field again.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The expectation to Always Be Closing: Sales teams often operate under the belief that the customer or prospect always comes first, even when it means the wellbeing of the sales rep takes the back seat. Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

But it can just as easily be summed up in a few statistics: Per a survey conducted by the Association of Talent Development (ATD) in 2021, over a quarter (28%) of median sales people didn’t meet their company’s sales goals during the last fiscal year. Sales Management Training Programs.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

What makes a good sales presentation? It ends with a strong call-to-action. Hate the thought of doing sales presentations ? But the best reps have sales presentations down pat, even if it’s not their favorite activity. The best sales reps know that when done right , sales presentations are a high-earning skill.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every potential client is unique and no rep, manager, or sales leader can predict every outcome for every deal. By developing and implementing an effective sales coaching program , sales managers and leaders can pass on their expertise to reps in a more meaningful way. This often includes data-backed insights. .

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Close.io

JANUARY 28, 2020

You need cold hard data, and your sales CRM must capture all necessary information on the deals closed by your reps. To improve your sales effectiveness and make informed data-backed decisions, you need to conduct sales analysis regularly. Predictive sales analytics. Sales pipeline analysis.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

An SQL is a lead that has passed both the marketing vetting process and the sales vetting process (e.g., Unfortunately, MQLs are often sent too soon — they don’t meet the criteria set by sales. Therefore, sales is often frustrated when leads aren’t actually worth pursuing (and are also a waste of time and money).

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2019

For example, your sales reps can ensure their contact details are completely filled out. As a sales manager, you can use data in your CRM to see how your team is performing. How long is the typical sales cycle for your reps? As a sales manager, you'll want to work with your marketing team to generate leads.

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John Barrows

APRIL 5, 2018

Given that employee morale is one of the most important drivers of success, allowing it to diminish was a bad call. The organic, constructive methods we had used for growth stopped mattering. The corporation’s point person for the acquisition wanted to have individual meetings with some managers, including me.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 5, 2021

Developing your sales strategy first requires that you diligently build up a concept of your target audience — otherwise known as your buyer personas — before setting goals and constructing your sales funnel. Average cold call conversion rate: How many prospects are your reps qualifying per call?

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

To align marketing and support departments with sales, sales managers can construct an ongoing, interdepartmental job-shadowing program. Put marketing and support staff in a sales-shadowing rotation once a month to sync knowledge and skills. Call it “ sales rep for a day.”. Follow-up calls.

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