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Three Recent Hurricanes Show the Path to More Effective Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. Objective Management Group (OMG) has assessed nearly 2.4 Salespeople who reach THE decision maker are 341% more likely to close the business than those who fail to reach the decision maker.

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AE Closes Furniture Store Digital Ad Campaign Using AdMall’s Digital Audit

SalesFuel

Challenge: Creating a furniture store digital ad campaign that doesn’t waste impressions Josh Stratton, a senior advanced advertising sales manager from Spectrum Reach , has been selling media for over 10 years and has used AdMall for much of that time. Since the 1980s, imported furniture has captured an increasing share of the market.

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Taking sales to the next level

Sales 2.0

Closing : Closing cycles that fail 80% of the time are the norm (where 1 in 5 deals in the pipeline closes.) One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company. Sales time sucks. Sales management. Where does this time go?

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Sales Managers: The Software Stack To Turbocharge Your Team in 2022

Gong.io

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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[Note to the Sales Manager] Why Your Sales Reps Can’t Close

No More Cold Calling

Think your team has a “closing” problem? How often have you heard leaders say, “My salespeople can’t close”? If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. But failing to close is never the real problem. If his team wowed the client, they had an opportunity to close a million-dollar deal.

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The Simplest Way to Close More Expiring Bids and Quotes

Sales Management Plus -- SMP

When you add focus on expiring quotes to your sales management process, you establish a sense of accountability within your sales team. Each sales rep is aware that prompt follow-up is necessary to secure deals before they expire. The report is grouped by sales rep – that visibility adds an extra layer of accountability.

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Finding the Right Sales and Sales Management Candidates

Understanding the Sales Force

For example, just 7 years ago, a company may have needed salespeople who could hunt and/or close. The competencies of an inside salesperson, hunter, closer, consultative seller and even account manager are vastly different, so it is imperative that we not only define those competencies, but use tools to measure them.