Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

Sales Management 218

Sales Management Hiring Compensation Scale 218

The Pipeline

MAY 26, 2016

Brock writes a book on a critical subject like sales management, it is an opportunity to learn and share with others in my circle. Sales Manager Survival Guide: Lessons From Sales’ Front Lines , is a book I wish I had way back when I was promoted from being territory rep to sales manager.

Sales Management 180

Sales Management Coaching Sports Promotion 180

Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“In my experience a lot of sales managers are keeping deals in their heads and they spend a lot of time discussing what they think is going to close and why. and free up time for managers to coach the reps on how to add more value in their territory for better outcomes.” Companies want “one throat to choke!”

Conversion 195

Conversion Amdocs Territories Forecasting 195

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?

Coaching 73

Coaching Sales Management Hiring Territories 73

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

Retention 98

Retention Sales Coaching Coaching Scale 98

Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

As the head of sales it doesn’t matter if you are involved directly in the process, what matters, is that you have in place a top-notch sales selection system. Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results. Time & Territory Management.

Hiring 386

Hiring Territories Energy Sales 386

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There has been lots written about the common mistake companies make in selecting new sales managers; specifically the habit of promoting some of their best sales people to the management ranks, whether they are suitable or not. But they need to have excelled in the role of a coach. What’s in Your Pipeline?

Hiring 296

Hiring Lead Rank Sales Management Lead Scoring 296

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.

Promotion 94

Promotion Sales Management Territories Coaching 94

SBI Growth

MAY 15, 2013

"Should we hire an external Sales Manager or promote from within?". Open Sales Management positions are bad for sales organizations. Having the wrong Sales Manager (SM) is worse. This post helps you decide between hiring an internal or external Sales Manager. It depends.

Hiring 300

Hiring Sales Management Forecasting Inside Sales 300

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

In reality, sales professionals and managers need to have access to the best available sales planning tools to help them boost sales productivity and close more and bigger deals. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. With this tool, you can schedule emails directly from your Gmail.

Tools 108

Tools Closing Territories Hubspot 108

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. I am a big advocate of face-to-face coaching.

Sales Management 310

Sales Management Face-to-face Decision Maker Travel 310

Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. Forecasts, spreadsheets, CRM reports and territory reviews always seem to dominate their calendars.

Coaching 88

Coaching Sales Coaching Survey Motivation 88

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the HubSpot Blog's recent survey of over 500 sales professionals, we tried to see what sales leaders hope to achieve when training reps and the top sales coaching tactics they use to get there — and our survey produced some interesting insight on both fronts. Sales Leaders' Primary Coaching Goals.

Sales Coaching 113

Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Survey 113

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. CEOs should focus on insightful data interpretation, emphasizing process-oriented coaching, adept tech use, and consistent training. 18:23] Slow progress in implementing artificial intelligence for sales. [20:08]

GoldMine 84

GoldMine Survey Territories Ideal Customer Profile 84

LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

SalesManager 52

SalesManager Sales Management Strategy How To 52

Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

Very few managers sit down with their people and develop a plan to help them learn, grow, and contribute at higher levels. Mostly, if managers are coaching performance at all, it’s tactically oriented; how do we win this deal, how do we fill the pipeline, what are you doing in this next call… ? So think about it.

Territories 163

Territories Maximizer Compensation Account 163

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?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

Sales Management 73

Sales Management Hiring Promotion Coaching 73

Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Managers sit squarely at the intersection of these trends, yet for most organizations, sales management strategies have hardly changed. In fact, the changes that have occurred in the managerial ranks have intensified managers’ internal and administrative focus.

Trends 65

Trends Study Hiring Sales Management 65

criteria for success

APRIL 7, 2021

If you're in the market for some DIY sales management training, you've come to the right place. We've compiled 5 checklists for you to use with your sales managers in any organization. We often talk about the importance of process in selling, but good sales management is a process too. Review weekly reports.

Sales Management 85

Sales Management Training Journal Forecasting 85

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. No related posts.

Sales Management 104

Sales Management Territories Incentives Incentive 104

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. They have to provide the coaching, training, systems, processes, tools, and support to enable their people to achieve their goals.

Coaching 48

Coaching Sales Management Face-to-face Analysis 48

VuVan

DECEMBER 31, 2013

As a sales manager, one of the top priorities is to help your team set and achieve goals they set for themselves. These goals are not only sales goals but also include goals of action items individuals on your team wants to accomplish to help them build the territory and the business. In coaching my […].

Sales Coaching 54

Sales Coaching Coaching Tools Territories 54

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. The Deal Manager – Manages Deals, Doesn’t Lead. The deal manager isn’t going to lead you.

Sales Management 78

Sales Management Ideal Customer Profile How To eBook 78

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What made you successful as a sales rep? How will your processes inform how you manage your team? What do you like and dislike about the sales process?

Sales Management 140

Sales Management Hiring Promotion Analysis 140

Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 52

Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 52

Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers. No or poor coaching.

Sales Management 90

Sales Management Forecasting Top of Funnel Sales Cycle 90

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management. I’ll stop here.

Sales Management 93

Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Maximizer 93

Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

From delivering winning doses of inspiration to transforming rookies into all-stars, coaches are a key component of any winning team — and not just in sports. In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence.

Sales Coaching 78

Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Remedy 78

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

HR can help the Sales leader to improve recruiting results and play a vital role in making the sales number in 2013. Begin today with the ideas and free tools offered in this post. HR and Sales leaders often fail in the execution of convincing the top talent to make the career move. Avoid a Myopic Focus. Hot product.

Sales Talent 312

Sales Talent Territories Compensation Quota 312

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.

Hiring 74

Hiring Sales Management Company How To 74

Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You get the idea -these are key sales management actions to be thinking about. On Wednesday, November 12th we have assembled many of the recognized thought leaders on Business to Business Sales Management together, in one broadcast and asked them to share their key recommendations to you as sales leaders.

Sales Management 118

Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank 118

Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three.

Sales Management 153

Sales Management Hiring Territories Compensation 153

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

There seem to be no end of articles on who and how managers should invest their time in coaching. Clearly, if we have only 2 people to manage, that makes sense, but then one wonders, why not coach both? Yeah, we want to ignore them, they are such a pain to work with and coach.) So let’s re-rerun the math.

Coaching 48

Coaching Territories Maximizer Sports 48

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

One of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) most successful partners had an opportunity to work with young business leaders that had never sold. They were assessed with OMG''s tools, and assembled into 5 teams, all selling the exact same product. Our partners provided two identical coaching sessions for each team. Register. (c)

Case Study 289

Case Study Study Lead Rank Lead Scoring 289

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. This may end up contributing to a lack of direction and belonging many sales professionals experience, and ultimately may negatively impact performance. Simulations help fill in the knowledge gap for the hiring manager.

Hiring 62

Hiring Sales Talent Compensation Lead Rank 62

Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

The other day I wrote about the “Almost Perfect Sales Management Article.” ” That post stimulated a flurry of questions about a Sales Management Standard Operating Process/System. There are a few key building blocks to the Sales Management/Leadership Process. Overall Sales Strategy.

Sales Management 86

Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Territories 86