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Five Tips for Being a Better B2B Sales Manager

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. Leading a team of salespeople in a world of ever-changing purchasing trends, a proliferation of new engagement channels, and highly educated customers, is stressful. There are many moving parts in the sales process, and it’s not easy staying on top of them all.

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CPQ Software and Multiple Channel Sales Management

Cincom Smart Selling

If your sales strategy includes moving your product and services through multiple selling channels , you know very well that all channels are not created equal. Different channels imply different markets , different values and different expectations. Sales volume and velocity. This is, of course, hooey.

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Introductions all around: It’s Time for Online to Meet Offline

No More Cold Calling

Thankfully, there are plenty of opportunities to develop and manage your referral network. While social media can help you begin conversations, turning those connections into relationships means socializing the old-fashioned way—offline. Use social channels to find out what’s going on with them.

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Rethinking Sales Enablement

Partners in Excellence

To be honest, I have a “love/hate” relationship with sales enablement (not the people in sales enablement.). I think it’s a critical function to support and enable sales people. It may be failures on the part of sales managers and sales people, failing to implement the programs sales enablement people develop.

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Virtual Selling Is Not The Future Of Sales! Part 2

Partners in Excellence

It’s become high fashion to declare the future of selling is “virtual.” For example, sales people can make back to back sales calls through the whole day. Customers are buying differently–and they are reducing their need/preference to use sales people in that process.

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New Sales Comp Plan? HR's 5 Must Dos.

SBI Growth

Ultimately, Sales Managers are the crucial key to any kind of Sales force adoption. But to ensure the highest adoption, Sales must leverage HR. World-class HR is a center of excellence for Change Management. Sales Managers that are not onboard – can you spell failure? 100*0=0 Effectiveness.

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The 30 best sales resources on the internet

Nutshell

Below are the 30 best online resources for sales professionals to sharpen their fundamental skills and learn some new tricks. We’ve divided the list into three different categories for your convenience: podcasts, YouTube channels, and blogs. Past topics include AI in sales, character development, and creating better habits.