Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2018

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships. Here are five off-the-beaten-trail tactics you can use to foster those relationships and move toward being an excellent sales manager. Author: Kevin F.

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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. First and foremost, what exactly is a sales manager?

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Sales Hunter tells you what it takes to lead a winning sales team. How often do sales managers generate opportunities and support their teams in customer conversations? Sales execs tell me they don’t have time to coach their teams.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 8, 2014

To start the construction of your own sales goal plan sheet begins with these three presumptions: You have invested the time to construct an overall strategic action plan even if you are just a professional salesperson. You employ a consistent sales process.

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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. Constructing the Commission Plan for Sales Managers: Pay Mix and Upside.

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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. Constructing Commissions in a Sales Manager Compensation Plan.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. In this article, we’ll explore the differences between sales associate and management positions, and what it takes to transition from one to the other. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Over at construction management degrees Elizabeth Johnson has published a list of the Top 100 Blogs to Boost your Sales Skills. 60), I have invited her to write a guest article to give us some insights on what it takes to be successful as a Sales Managers for construction projects. A sales manager has various responsibilities, not the least of which involves being responsible for managing an entire team of sales representatives and others.

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Xactly

MARCH 29, 2018

Whether you’re in sales, finance, marketing, or IT, it’s important that your company can rely on you to get your job done and do it well. As a sales leader it’s important that you motivate your team because nothing kills employee morale like a bad manager. Sales Sales managemen

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2015

businesses are managed by single office/home office entrepreneurs (SOHO), these crazy busy small business owners might think this book Sales Management Simplified by Mike Weinberg is not for them. These SOHO entrepreneurs are the sales team of one as well as the sales manager.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 23, 2015

The same is true of sales managers. If you believe front-line sales managers are the key to a team’s sales success – and we do – the end of Q1 is a good time to look at what’s working, what isn’t working and why. 2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This question was posed over at the small business question and answer forum Focus.com yesterday; What are the essentials to become a great sales manager? Here are a few excerpts from the some of the answers: A great sales manager understands that her salespeople are unique individuals. A mistake sales managers make is trying to force a process on their sales people; a process they can’t do effectively. Are you a great sales manager?

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Sales managers. A few years ago we published a blog on the importance of sales managers assessing their prior year’s performance and incorporating the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. If you believe front-line sales managers are still the key to a team’s sales success, as we do, then the points raised in that post are as important today as when they were first posted and are worthy of another look.

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 2, 2018

One filled with hope and promise – a clean slate – and, yes, new sales goals. Here is a quick checklist for sales managers to make sure you have everyone focused correctly. Each individual salesperson must know what’s expected of them regarding sales. It’s a new year!

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Sales Training Connection

JANUARY 14, 2013

Sales managers. A year ago, we published a post on the importance of sales managers to assess their prior year’s performance and to incorporate the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. Sales coaching – who to and not to coach.

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Sales Training Connection

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

High Performing Sales Manager Puzzle. Sales managers are starting the new year, making plans to meet (and hopefully exceed) sales goals and reviewing their territory for sales opportunities. How can I help my sales team leverage institutional resources?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2018

This article talks about how to become a sales manager in 5 crucial (and doable) steps. How you deal with success and failure is a key indicator of how you’re going to manage others. Sales is an important element of any business. For example, one of the biggest issues within sales is the gap between sales and marketing. As a sales manager, you must be able to receive feedback with humility and also be able to give it without causing offense.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 16, 2013

It’s a follow up to my post which, in a nutshell, I said sales people suck. ——————– “I agree sales people’s performance is not what it should be. Sales structure, systems and discipline can help. Sales Leadership

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Time management is one of the most important priorities for a sales manager. The best sales managers know they need to be dedicating a significant amount of their time each week coaching their salespeople—but which group will bring in the best return on coaching investment?

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 6, 2013

Management, and particularly sales management, operates on and obtains its results from the staff that are managed. The manager has to define tasks, set proper objectives and maintain firm control. A sales manager may or may not be an outstanding salesperson.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 17, 2013

Many of my clients are now in the process of doing midyear reviews with their sales people. Whether you are doing a midyear or year end review it is important to provide constructive feedback to help your sales reps improve. Blame their sales manager or head office for issues.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2015

Sales is a team sport and like in any sport, a sales team without a great coach is a team that will never win, regardless of the talent and skill of its individual members. Effective sales coaching is about helping your sales people get better at what they do.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Invariably, each drive back home has taken twice the time it should have because of road construction. 4 traffic delays because of road construction delayed us for another 2 and 1/2 hours. Nearly every coaching call with a sales manager is about a salesperson with a delayed closing.

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2014

To build a great sales team, a meaningful and consistent sales management process must be in place organization wide. The 8 Components Of A Best-In-Class Sales Management Process. Sales managers need to be recruiting constantly.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 20, 2009

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Martin: Heavy Hitter Sales Linguistics: 101 Advanced Sales Call Strategies for Senior Salespeople. Sales Career Advice. Sales Tips.

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Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 1, 2011

Part of any manager's role is to make the people around them better. Whether it's mentoring someone to take over your role when you ascend the corporate ladder, or taking a rep with just enough potential under your wing, ultimately, the job of a manager is to improve his or her team. The Sales Manager is always looking for better performance from a team, and in order to get that, you've got to give a little. That's what having impossible sales goals are like.

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Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

If sales managers have a perceived weakness, it’s most likely their ability to motivate everyone on their team. Instead, many managers and leaders have a one-size-fits-all approach. The common belief is that salespeople are in sales because they are money-motivated.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And no one enjoys seeing carefully constructed business deals ebb away before their very eyes. He sets up the story of two architects—a child constructing a sandcastle and an adult building his business. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business

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Bernadette McClelland

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Get Some More Sales INDIA now! Together with my promoter, Tanuja Vashisthi, founder of BRICCKS, we successfully launched Sales Mastery India to a little under 200 B2B sales leaders and sales people, on October 17-19th and are already gearing up for Sales Mastery India, 2013.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Yet finding top sales people , especially those who will become long-term loyal assets to your firm, remains a difficult task. . However, with all of our advanced technology, word-of-mouth is still a powerful and effective tool, not only in selling, but in recruiting sales people as well.

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LevelEleven

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a manager, your employees, well-being should be one of your top priorities. What to look for: Unable to tolerate or listen to constructive criticism Short or limited patience for tackling challenging tasks Getting stuck on minute details.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Today if I was employed as someone in sales management, I would create and modify a hiring process that would include this one sales talent assessment tool – The Attribute Index to ensure the hiring would not cost small business sales.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2013

A recent blog post on behavioral assessments, Learn How to Increase Sales with These 5 Assessments, sparked a somewhat curious response by one person who suggested these performance (including sales) diagnostic tools were a pseudo science.

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Sales managers and SMB owners are scrambling to schedule their next Sales Kick Off meeting. One the screen is the predetermined annual sales goal broken down into quarterly goals based upon the last five years of sales per quarter.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We had lots of fun constructing them with our friends, and then seeing how far apart we could get and still hear each other. Your Sales Career Is at Risk Technology addiction isn’t just bad for your personal relationships. It can also kill your sales career.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Semil Shah , General Partner at Haystack and Venture Partner at Lightspeed. If you missed episode 72, check it out here: PODCAST 72: How to Break Down Sales Stereotypes and Hire Better SDRs w/ Rahim Fazal.

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LevelEleven

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, coaching is crucial to success in sales. According to CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Report , “Sales coaching is a leadership skill that develops each salesperson’s full potential.”

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Referral selling is by far the most effective sales strategy out there. Sale s has always been social. Or you can make the connections you already have stronger—a strategy that’s much more likely to grow your referral network and fill your sales pipeline with hot leads.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Sales managers can take a few lessons from Don Corleone’s leadership style. What if we could use some of his insights to manage our sales teams? So how do you encourage constructive conflict among your sales team?

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

One of the biggest challenges for those in sales management is communication consistency. When communication is inconsistent, the results are inconsistent and contribute to poor morale and a dysfunctional sales team.

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