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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined. There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? Yes, it should.

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Hiring a Sales Manager - External or Internal?

SBI Growth

"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.

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What Your Sales Manager Doesn’t Know

No More Cold Calling

Otherwise, save your company some money and don’t even bother. In a report by The TAS Group, “ The Key Role of the Sales Manager ,” researchers found that managers only spend 37 percent of their workdays on leadership activities like: Planning—15%. People development—11%.

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9 Things Terribly Wrong With Sales Today: The Sales Tools

A Sales Guy

Too much activity management. “Welcome to the team,” said my new sales manager, as he dropped a giant yellow pages phonebook on my desk. Companies sales stack budgets are bigger than their sales training budgets and that’s a problem. Develop your sales team, that’s where the win is.

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New on the Sales Management Job? Here’s the Essential Technology

Pipeliner

A key factor in a sales manager’s approach is technology. Without the right technology, the sales manager isn’t going to even have the data to view, let alone interpret, and make decisions with. Companies that have tried, especially since the turn of the millennium, have failed. Technology Guidelines.

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The Scalable Sales Manager: the Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential

SBI

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.

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Sales Managers: The Key to Getting Your Sellers to Love Your Tech Stack

Miller Heiman Group

Even if your organization has all the latest and greatest sales tools, technology that isn’t used effectively can’t help move deals forward. As the hub of the sales organization, sales managers play a central role in improving sellers’ adoption of technology. Integrate Sales Technology Into Sellers’ Workflow.