Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. Pick Up The Damn Phone!

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 25, 2015

As Harvey Mackay says, “The worst mistake a manager can make, especially a sales manager, is to make a bad hire. That’s why I recommend that sales leaders spend 15 to 20 percent of their time in “recruiting mode.” It’s the number one challenge in the channel, hiring top talent. Need more sales management resources?

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Think about it: You take the (upfront) time looking for high-quality leads best suited for your B2B sales efforts. Then, you run them through a sweet nurturing system full of emails and points of contact that warms up the prospects and weeds out the suspects. As a result, that energy might be channeled away from the work.

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Apptivo

JUNE 22, 2023

Why is it important in sales management? CRM Functions to Speed Up the Sales Process 5. Footnotes In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective sales management involves more than just charm and persuasion. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. What is a CRM? What is a CRM?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

It’s used at all levels of the education system. Here are two presentations for constructing a new city. When you hit the nine-minute mark, you need to change channels in your buyer’s brain. It’s a natural reaction when you trigger their analytical system. This is a great way to set yourself up for failure.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. Where I'm going with this is that Trigger Event selling is a science irrespective of technological channel.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Prior to Slack, Kevin spent four years as VP of Sales at Dropbox, where he helped build the outbound sales team covering SMB through large enterprise. Prior to that, Kevin spent 10 years at Salesforce where he moved from an AE role to various senior sales management operations and recruiting roles.

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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. Be creative with your social media game — be visual, be funny, go cross-channel.

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Crunchbase

MAY 5, 2022

Use factors that are logical, systemic and unbiased. For example, let’s say you’ve reached the end of Q3, and you ask your sales manager to provide forecasts for the upcoming quarter. Based purely on the anecdotal evidence of this model, the company predicts that it’ll experience an increased sales volume of 10 percent.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 21, 2023

Business Development Representative (BDR) A Business Development Representative (BDR) is a sales professional responsible for prospecting, qualifying, and generating new business opportunities for a company. It involves the sale of products, services, or information directly to end-users or customers for their personal use or consumption.

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Bigtincan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To solve this, most enterprises create new folders to store collateral or start using a new repository and expect sales teams to adapt to the new way of working. Sales reps will have to spend time learning the new system and adjusting their workflows. The highest level in this three-tier system is the tabs. Showpad Coach.

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Apptivo

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Real Estate industry is a developing arena forming a significant part of the construction sector. By integrating your business with a real estate CRM, you can effortlessly capture, assign, and manage all your leads in a single system. 5 Ways To Manage Your Real Estate Leads. Automate The Process.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Companies operating in less-digitized industries (construction, healthcare, real estate, etc.). Here are seven real-life examples of SaaS companies taking advantage of field sales at different revenue stages. This is a somewhat unorthodox system, but it works well for Data Skrive. Rifiniti: $150k ACV and $3M ARR.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How it works: With this methodology, salespeople should focus on connecting buyers with relevant content and continually engaging them via a number of channels, such as social media or in-person events. This is achieved by creating constructive tension — or by challenging the status quo — in order to make the cost of doing nothing clear.

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John Barrows

APRIL 5, 2018

The organic, constructive methods we had used for growth stopped mattering. But when I went into my first meeting with their sales management team, they had nothing to offer. And second, the strategy I presented involved sales reps using the corporation’s CRM, or Customer Resource Management system.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 14, 2020

We encourage everyone on the team, from sales to engineering, to contribute to our online brand and work together as a team to create momentum. Internally, we have a Slack channel to support the social posts that team members create. At Vendr, we use a buddy system where a team member edits for grammar before the writer presses send.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? I currently manage a team of 15 SDRs in 5 locations.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How is this information gathered from sales and channeled back to pricing? People saw two main ways for pricing and sales to interact, and the interaction model determined how data should flow between pricing and sales. Pricing as Governor; Sales as Driver. Pricing and Sales as a Mutually Reinforcing System.

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DialSource

JANUARY 16, 2020

They will expect your sales reps to be familiar with their organization’s market space and challenges, and demand to know exactly how your product/service will help them. Sales teams need to be smarter when it comes to serving the new digital consumer. 5 Essential Components of Digital Transformation.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, several of the other sales skills we’re breaking down here today are going to be best learned (and actually retained) by seeking regular mentorship from the right sales managers and fellow reps who’ve been around the block a few more times. Want to master today's most important sales skills?

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, several of the other sales skills we’re breaking down here today are going to be best learned (and actually retained) by seeking regular mentorship from the right sales managers and fellow reps who’ve been around the block a few more times. Want to master today's most important sales skills?

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