Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Now that most sellers are virtual, sales leaders should consider incorporating some of the following activities into their 2021 plans: Host engaging, inspirational speakers at all-hands meetings or virtual kickoffs. Show prerecorded videos during virtual sales meetings highlighting top performers and organizational successes.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Freddy wrote: “My biggest AHA was really making sure I talked with the owners instead of going to ‘Marketing or IT’ I worked the [Well-Know Manufacturer] channel for 9 years and never once went to the owners first. However, working with them also lengthens the sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. There’s a lot to consider, including bias, data management, permissions, and more. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly. But how do you do that ethically?

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Deb Calvert, The Sales Experts Channel provides today’s Blog Story and her Proven Resource! Why I Created the Sales Experts Channel to Be A Proven Resource: I launched The Sales Experts Channel in 2017 with this stated Mission: “ _.”. Is the Channel for You?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2015

Slammed: For the First Time Sales Manager. For first time sales managers ” by my friend and sales management guru Ken Thoreson. This is his 4 fourth in a series of books written under the banner “Your Sales Management Guru’s Guide To:”. Sales is a corporate priority. Chapter 24.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Virtual sales professionals must have the ability to effectively connect with their prospects and overcome communication barriers. It’s challenging to showcase your performance How do you stay on top of your manager’s mind and show off your skills and results when you never meet face to face?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

A recognized consulting, she has designed and delivered coaching, and training solutions for world class companies such as companies, including Cisco, Autodesk, Citrix Systems, Adobe, and others. JF: Today’s inside sales organizations are growing rapidly – for every 15 inside salespeople being hired, only one field person is being hired.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021?

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Channel sales present a challenge for several industries, but it’s a particular concern for manufacturers. Additionally, some organizations struggle to clearly define the difference between channel customers and the end-user. Let’s explore the key success factors for manufacturers to maximize sales through indirect channels.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of B2B sales interactions will occur via digital channels. But it will only continue to grow.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Once upon a time, “personalized training” meant printing the names of workshop participants on their handout folders. Today, this key component of modern learning means exactly what it says – sales training that is genuinely personalized , genuinely “just for me.”. What are the advantages of personalized sales training?

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 21, 2014

Partner Hiring and Training Lessons from Sage Summit. Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. In building a channel as a vendor or building a partner organization, that’s the No. 1 job of management. The next piece is ongoing training. By Ken Thoreson.

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Troops

AUGUST 27, 2019

We’ve discussed this in previous posts, but the average discovery meeting costs over $700. We all know that doing your research before an initial meeting is important, but how many of your reps are actually doing more than a cursory glance at a LinkedIn profile? The Reality of Pre-Meeting Research. SMB sale ?—

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

She also highlights the role of executives and managers in fostering collaboration and the potential costs of not prioritizing teamwork. She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams. She emphasizes the need for teamwork in selling and highlights the critical role of trust in B2B sales.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In general, though, program failure is often attributable to one or more of these six causes : Training isn’t the right solution to the problem(s). Sometimes, training is simply the wrong solution to the performance problem in your organization. In these cases, training the sales force again – or at all – won’t solve the real problem.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

CEOs should focus on insightful data interpretation, emphasizing process-oriented coaching, adept tech use, and consistent training. Barry’s revealing Sales Performance Scorecard survey shows just 53% of reps hitting or surpassing their quotas, signifying a pressing need to revamp strategies. Want to dive deeper?

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Allego

AUGUST 4, 2019

When the sales training team at one medical device maker was facing budget cuts, they decided to move forward instead of scaling back. By adopting sales learning and enablement technology , they were able to dramatically improve the company’s sales enablement program with fewer resources. New Product Launches.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As you’d expect, the industry’s evolution is driving major change in the way firms train and support their wholesalers. We’ve had a front-row seat to watch leading distribution teams reinvent sales learning and development to ensure their reps succeed in today’s tough environment. They also created an on-demand best practices library.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. It was a rough start, but within three years I'd been promoted to a sales manager.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Therefore, it’s more critical than ever for sales organizations to make sure that customers perceive every interaction with an organization as relevant and valuable. By doing so, an organization meets and exceeds buyer expectations, setting themselves up as a more trusted partner to solve business problems than their competition.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2021

Not only are the techniques that sellers deploy different today, but remote training requires a unique set of best practices as well. Sales training is just one of the many organizational functions that can be enhanced through the use of technology. The goal isn’t to recreate in-person training environments online.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 30, 2018

The current level of sales management is failing companies. Average tenure of a sales leader has dropped from 26 months (bad) to 18 months (horrible). 80% plus want to meet with a sales person only after they have developed the need and a shortlist. Thus almost all sales solutions are people-based solutions.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Allego

JUNE 7, 2022

Every time we do this research, we find more channels being used by customers. And sales organizations that offer more channels tend to grow faster. Jennifer Stanley is a partner at McKinsey & Company where she leads the Sales & Channel Management Practice for North America.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 9, 2018

As sales managers, you all know how important it is to be effective at managing your sales staff and sales pipeline. At times, being reminded of 3 Steps to effective sales management can have a profound impact on your effectiveness. How is your staff trained on products?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 1, 2014

One-person sales consulting firms, self-appointed experts, telling, but not doing, what they say. If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021?

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Highspot

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Then, work to drive clarity around what “great” looks like at each stage of the sales talent lifecycle, both to understand whether or not talent is meeting goals, as well as to create transparency around growth and professional development opportunities. Empower Your Sales Managers. September 10, 2021).

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 6, 2015

11 Actions Sales Management Must Take Now! Sound investment portfolio-management advice ranges from “hold firm with your existing stocks” to “take advantage of a great opportunity to buy at today’s basement prices”. This also is an opportunity to build a better sales team that will increase your market share as competitors lag.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Anthony Iannarino has some bad news for sales leaders who are depending on 20 year old sales models. Tell me about your problems and let me tell you about my solution” won’t even get you a second meeting.”. Listen to the entire episode to learn how to build your modern B2B sales strategy and team.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

Parsa Rashidinia, a Channel Account Executive at HubSpot, says "My biggest tip to someone starting a remote sales role is to invest in your workspace before you start. Katie Carlin, a Channel Account Manager at HubSpot, says "At home, you don't have the built-in break you might have throughout a day in the office.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Is it just another term to check off your buzzword bingo card at the next sales meeting you attend? It simply means having robust conversations, exchanging ideas, providing insights, and sharing expertise—whether we’re online, on the phone, or meeting in person. Message to Management]: 14 Things Top Sales Managers Do.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to be successful– but sometimes, that’s easier said than done. Sales reps face a number of obstacles that can keep them from their goals and it’s your job as their manager to help them overcome these challenges. Facilitate better sales and marketing alignment.

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