Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. A few years back, someone in Wing’s position might have faced a long slog full of trial and error and manual research. After a call, they can review recordings and use the notes to swiftly follow up with prospects on any next steps.

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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?”. Think back to when you were a sales person not so many days ago.

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Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you build a healthy sales culture? Why is it important to create balanced sales territories? On a recent episode of the Reveal podcast, we connected with Michelle Benfer, VP Sales at HubSpot, for answers to these and other questions that are top of mind for revenue leaders. Creating Balanced Territories.

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SalesLatitude

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The first-line sales manager is one of the most rewarding, yet overworked positions in the sales chain. Client and team meetings, account and territory planning, financial and administrative work, management requests, and sales rep coaching are just a few of the sales manager’s responsibilities.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers. No value to the sales person.

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Sales Management Forecasting Top of Funnel Sales Cycle 91

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 3, 2014

However, once I got into sales, sales management, sales training and became a president of a company, I think I finally understood. I really don’t care about all the reasons you can come up with for not providing the feedback, coaching and mentoring that your sales people deserve. Did you like today’s blog?

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. To others, it means weekly call patterns. We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Incorporating defined processes can make it easier to measure, manage, and coach salespeople.

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

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. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts. Territory Adjustments.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. ” A desire to spend too much time preparing to make sales calls as an excuse to not actually have to call.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. In this post, we’ll delve into some of the components that go into an effective hiring and onboarding sales strategy. What did his predecessor do right?

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Hiring Sales Talent Compensation Lead Rank 62

Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 20, 2019

One day, an ad for a business development representative (BDR) popped up in the search results, and caught Grace’s eye: “It was a sales role that involved cold calling and emailing, sourcing pipeline, generating meetings, and the like. because I had felt the pain as a sales manager of not having a solution like it,” she says. “I

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s why: the sales quota is a key variable in many of the equations that dictate core business functions. These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 8, 2014

I’m normally one to watch a movie, read a book or listen to a song and tie it to sales and/or sales management. And, even though I use a lot of sports analogies, I rarely use sport stories or examples in my blog post or Sales Brew Newsletters. Defend the territory. You could see it. Summary: Grit. Take Chances.

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Territories Sports Call-back System 151

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

Before the year is over, he’s back in the field or on the street. This role confusion doesn’t stop at the manager level. Frequently, the top manager gets the nod for the VP of Sales. However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. This can have catastrophic consequences.

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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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Promotion Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 79

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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Retention Sales Coaching Coaching Scale 98

Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Unless you are a sales manager with your own territory (which is an untenable position), you don’t produce revenue. It’s an important point that too many in sales management don’t understand. The job of the sales manager is to maximize the performance of each person on their team!

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Revenue Sales Management Face-to-face Maximizer 51

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. Typically dispersed across territories far and wide, and always on the go, face-to-face communication is often overridden by email, voicemail and text.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this week’s post on performance metrics, I’ll take a step back. Rather than looking at a specific metric, I’ll spend a little time talking about the differing points of view on metrics—the sales person/individual contributor’s view and sales management’s view.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Murrow, played by David Strathairn , you’ll be transported back to a pivotal era in TV broadcasting: the early 1950s. This was the generation of so-called “latch-key” kids. The Lesson for Salespeople This isn’t just dangerous territory for families; it also makes for bad business.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

Criteria setting: When you’ve narrowed down your list, you should clearly establish what criteria you’ll use to assign leads to sales reps. Decide on a lead distribution strategy (which we’ll come back to in a moment). Sales rep communication: Finally, communicate with your sales reps.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 12, 2014

I asked what expectations are set either in terms of activities, pipeline coverage, or territory contact/coverage/penetration. Now we all know if I went back and asked them what their favourite ball player’s batting average, or RBI numbers were; or +/- in hockey, they would know it. Apparently, they don’t like to exceed quota either.

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Penetration Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Coaching 267

Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Sales managers. A few years ago we published a blog on the importance of sales managers assessing their prior year’s performance and incorporating the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. A good starting point is to reflect on their past performance as a sales manager.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Before jumping the gun and hiring a seasoned veteran or promoting a rep from your (relatively) green team to Sales Manager, you should consider a middle ground: a team lead role for the inbound crew. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise. Are There Risks Associated with A Team Lead Role?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 169

Steven Rosen

JUNE 25, 2013

As the head of sales it doesn’t matter if you are involved directly in the process, what matters, is that you have in place a top-notch sales selection system. Without a clear process your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub optimal results. S – Systematic. A – Assessments.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Before jumping the gun and hiring a seasoned veteran or promoting a rep from your (relatively) green team to sales manager, you should consider a middle ground: a team lead role for the inbound crew. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise. Are there risks associated with a team lead role?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 130

Hubspot Sales

JULY 12, 2021

One of the things we have learned over the last 14 months is that shaping the right attitude and mindset for effective selling — without the traditional office setting — can be uncharted territory for many sales professionals on the grind. Create a community that’s "digitally on-call.".

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Energy Social Media Face-to-face Call-back 122

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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Banking Face-to-face Revenue Territories 83

SBI Growth

MARCH 28, 2013

Download the Sales Ops Field Kit Here. Think about the last big effort you drove for sales. Rolling out a new CRM tool or territory structure. Face it – many sales managers and directors are too biased. Use your time in the field to validate or call into question your approach. Step 3 – Bring Back the Goods.

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Face-to-face Quota Territories CRM 276

Partners in Excellence

MAY 1, 2020

Likewise managers want to make sure they have the right people, doing the right things. They want to see the right activity levels, the progress with opportunities, full pipelines, strong account/territory plans. We need to step back, asking ourselves, “Why is this happening? What is causing these outcomes?”

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Pivotal Call-back Pipeline Territories 86

InsightSquared

MAY 3, 2019

Often times what happens is sales and other business leaders are pulling data into Excel and trying to reconcile forecast numbers across multiple Excel files and versions. For a sales manager, director or head of sales, it’s difficult to understand what is happening to their forecast in real-time.

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Forecasting Hiring Sales Forecasts Territories 98

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. And now, with an estimated 36.2

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s call it a sense of purpose. He reminded me of another person I had an opportunity to know a long while back. When he came to town, I took the opportunity to bring him along on an important sales call with a large defense manufacturer. We treat our territories like our own businesses. John Morgridge.

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Hiring Call-back Commission Up-Sell 120

SBI Growth

AUGUST 14, 2012

If your top sales rep resigned today, how long would it take you to recover? Imagine this scenario: Your sales manager calls you up “Bob, are you sitting down?” Drew (the top sales rep in the company) just resigned. It happened to me when I was a Regional Sales VP for a Fortune 250 company. Can we save him?

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Hiring Quota Call-back Territories 257

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations. What Is B2B Sales Prospecting? B2B sales prospecting is the act of looking for potential buyers, customers, or clients to convert into new business.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The rest was easy, I just watched who was hanging around the rest of the week, and who was “out there” Sure enough, the reps who were at the top of the leader board were usually out during the day, and when they were in, they were doing things, looking like they were in a hurry to get back “out there” again.

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