article thumbnail

Proven Strategies for Effective Sales Management

Highspot

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

article thumbnail

A Powerfully Effective Sales Contest To Motivate Your Team

MTD Sales Training

Sales incentive contents can be a positive force to help motivate your sales people to new levels of productivity and loyalty. Alternatively, poorly constructed or inequitable sales challenges can result in anti-productive activity, resentment and rebellion. Lead By Example.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Are You Continually Repairing Issues?

Smooth Sale

But the cheaper construction materials used entailed an unfortunate mishap. The construction company had to pull resources together to fix the patio that fell. Countless times in corporate, sales managers would say, ‘we can’t afford it,’ or ‘we can’t compete, do your best.’ The balcony was located on the sixth floor.

article thumbnail

Are You a Visionary Sales Leader?

Closer's Coffee

For example, a visionary leader would explain to their team why they should be hitting their sales targets , and would also ensure that outcomes are tied to intrinsic motivation. By contrast, a typical sales manager would most likely use extrinsic methods of motivation, enforcing and reinforcing the carrot-and-stick approach.

Scale 45
article thumbnail

How to write a monthly sales report to improve sales performance

PandaDoc

After you’ve brushed up on monthly sales report criteria, you can take your reporting software a step further. Sales performance data from any time period can be an extremely powerful reporting tool. We will dive into how sales managers can leverage performance reports that help them analyze and improve their sales team’s performance.

Report 45
article thumbnail

Soft Skills Sales Training

The Digital Sales Institute

The rise of social media has eroded your grip on pricing, discounting, and financing, and has stripped you of your trained sales techniques or “tricks of the trade.” ” Now, the connection between salesperson, purchase and subsequent post purchase experience is what builds a customer’s trust, loyalty, and further spending.

article thumbnail

So How Do You Develop A First Class Sales Team?

Jonathan Farrington

The primary objective of a professional Sales Manager has to be: “ To achieve consistently superior results through the performance of every key individual.”. Yesterday I provided you with an opportunity to complete the “Sales Manager’s Health Check” – if you missed that post, do simply scroll down.