Anthony Iannarino

JULY 2, 2020

Many decades ago, the theory about how to close deals faster was to use a trial close, followed by increasing pressure, regardless of your prospective client’s objections (which were unresolved concerns). The most popular theory now is to improve your sales velocity, the speed at which you complete “the sales conversation.”

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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Xactly

AUGUST 13, 2018

Let’s cut to the chase–if you’re not using data to drive your sales territory mapping, your territories might be hurting your sales performance more than they are helping it. Sales territory mapping software offers more benefits than sales managers may realize. Take Assessment.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 29, 2020

You’ve moved from being an individual contributor to managing a team. How do you transition from being a great sales person into being a great sales manager. The job of sales manager is different. Our personal ability to successfully manage and close deals made us successful as individual contributors.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Xactly

AUGUST 2, 2018

The sales territory is a geographical area that is managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by sales potential, history, geography, or a combination of the above. The objective is to make sure sales territories are balanced to help increase revenues. .

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. A recent study showed that only 11% of organizations train their sales managers. If you are a new manager, you are asking, “What do I do now?”. Sales Manager Killers. Control Your Destiny.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sales organizations face a paradox: although many continue to increase hiring, attrition is on the rise, according to our 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report , creating a major pain point. Poor hiring practices prove costly to sales organizations in many ways. How Sales Organizations Can Improve Hiring Decisions.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Sales Managers should be spending 75% of their time coaching their team. POST-SALES SUPPORT. Use the Sales Manager Time Tracker.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Download Guide.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Think back to when you were a sales person not so many days ago.

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Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

For a Sales Representative, climbing the corporate ladder begins with a promotion to Sales Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be recognized by senior management and develop your career options. Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. How Sales Manager Succeed.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

The job of a sales manager is to provide a succeeding environment for salespeople. Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. But he was not able to provide me with a viable territory.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. Good Selling!

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Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you build a healthy sales culture? Why is it important to create balanced sales territories? On a recent episode of the Reveal podcast, we connected with Michelle Benfer, VP Sales at HubSpot, for answers to these and other questions that are top of mind for revenue leaders. Building a Healthy Sales Culture.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are different types of sales managers you run into during your time in sales. These are the seven types of sales leaders you find on the sales floor, six of which you should avoid. These are the seven types of sales leaders you find on the sales floor, six of which you should avoid.

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SalesLatitude

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The first-line sales manager is one of the most rewarding, yet overworked positions in the sales chain. Client and team meetings, account and territory planning, financial and administrative work, management requests, and sales rep coaching are just a few of the sales manager’s responsibilities.

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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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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing a sales manager compensation plan.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Managers should take the lead on driving adoption, but only 26.7%

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

One common perk of a career in sales is the ability to earn more based on your own hard work and selling success. With salary, commission, bonuses, and other incentives, sales professionals often have options and feel in control of the compensation they receive, which can be great for motivation and fulfillment.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. In this piece, we’ll take a top down approach and start by designing the Sales Manager compensation plan.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There’s a lot of stuff written about what sales managers have to do and their key job responsibilities. Some of the laundry list items include: Make sure the team makes the number, develop the strategy, manage the forecast/pipeline, manage performance, recruit, train, coach, and on and on.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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Cincom Smart Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Sales management software tools cover a vast amount of functional territory. The sales management process involves many things that are not directly tied to selling. The problem facing sales managers is finding the time and expertise to do this in a meaningful and productive way. After-sale support.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 10, 2014

Top sales leaders know how to communicate and roll out a sales plan. Get your sales managers involved early in the process. The sales management team needs to have a clear understanding of the new quota. The impact to the individual sellers and their territories. Sales can’t rely on marketing alone.

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LevelEleven

MAY 31, 2018

For sales leaders with teams covering vast territories across multiple countries, it’s difficult to know if each salesperson on your team is focusing on the right things day-in and day-out. Even after you’ve firmly established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), sales reps can easily get their focus derailed when they’re remote.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Sales Manager’s job is to provide an environment within which their sales people can succeed. Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. The following is an excerpt from my Book, The Joshua Principle.

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Closer's Coffee

JUNE 19, 2019

How to Choose the Right Sales Manager for Your Company. The sales manager is arguably the most critical person in the company. Hiring a leader for a sales organization is a decision that is more critical for a company. Many organizations “promote” their best seller to a sales management position.

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SalesLatitude

AUGUST 23, 2018

What is more important in sales, closing deals or building pipelines? I would say the answer is both, but the actions of sales people on average seem to say differently. Are sales managers coaching to the right outcomes? The sales person may make quota for the current year or even exceed it. Why is that?

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