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Five Skills to Help New Sales Managers Succeed

Miller Heiman Group

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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The ultimate guide to solution selling

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That’s why it is especially effective in software development, the chemicals industry, medtech, and other business niches. Use the information gained through the previous step to prepare a questionnaire. The book also describes many sales techniques proven by real salespeople with real customers, as well as research data.

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Channel Visibility Reveals Unique Sales Workflows in Multi-Channel Organizations

Cincom Smart Selling

This selling partner addresses an entirely different market; their customers use industrial chemicals and gasses. All of the dimensional and weight information is required as before, but now there are additional basic information categories to satisfy. Material composition – solid, liquid or gas? OSHA hazard classification.

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Enabling Growth: Solving New Product Challenges with CPQ

Cincom Smart Selling

It requires concerted effort, time and the ability to quickly absorbed lots of information and understand it at the most practical levels. Just for grins, I looked at sales job descriptions involving Steam Turbine Generators and it appears that while a few prefer engineering degrees, most just want an undergraduate degree.

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Who was your sales mentor, and what was their greatest lesson?

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The Sell to Win Playbook collects 55 of the best expert sales tips we’ve ever published. Steven Benson , Founder and CEO of Badger Maps : My first Sales Manager at Google, Mark Flessel , was a mentor to me. These feelings were the underpinnings for my foray into sales. Download it today! GET THE PLAYBOOK. Research is key.

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Who was your sales mentor, and what was their greatest lesson?

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Steven Benson , Founder and CEO of Badger Maps : My first Sales Manager at Google, Mark Flessel , was a mentor to me. Jeffrey Orens, retired chemical industry executive: All my success in business was based on what I learned in selling, most of it from two mentors. These feelings were the underpinnings for my foray into sales.

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Lessons in Sales Leadership with Alice Heiman

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Now, when I first left Miller Heiman, I still had a lot of my big clients; Fidelity Investments, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, some real giants. I need to go where I can get the information I need. Pull the information together, tell the story that brings insight to the CEO and that will help tremendously.