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. Good managers are always asking themselves and others about what they could do better or differently.

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Sales Management Sales Coaching Coaching Face-to-face 82

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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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. A good starting point is to reflect on their past performance as a sales manager.

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Sales Management Construction Sales Leadership Territories 50

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But remember that while the execs are driven by revenue and low customer churn, your sales reps are driven by their incentive compensation plans. Sales reps are trained to track dollars and revenue (yes, you’ve taught them well), so of course they’re going to track their own. Who is the plan structured for?

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Commission Compensation Churn Incentives 75

A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 2013

You have a sales process in place, but the sales manager and sales people are using separate spread sheets with additional stages, because the current sales process doesn’t meet their needs. You’ve built a killer sales portal the sales team never seems to visit. Build Feedback Loops: .

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Top of Funnel Sales Leadership Territories B2B 128

The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Yet, quota setting is one of the areas that comes most difficult to sales managers. In fact, 61% of sales managers cite quota setting as their biggest challenge ( source ). This poses a huge issue in sales departments.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. As a manager (and as a salesperson), I had my pluses and minuses. Sometimes I was patient but, more often, I was not. The simple answer is … I didn’t even try.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Top Asset Managers Said “The New World of W holesaling” is Upon Us. That’s according to national sales managers at advisors’ top 10 favorite asset management firms in the industry. And because they source data from the same places , fund manufacturers’ territory coverage plans converge.

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Pivotal Construction Territories Education 48

Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

“According to Wikipedia, the know it all of all things Internet, coaching is a form of development in which a person called the coach supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training, advice, and guidance.”. Coaching has been proven to work and sales reps find it valuable.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Coaching Webinar Metrics 52

Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

“According to Wikipedia, the know it all of all things Internet, coaching is a form of development in which a person called the coach supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training, advice, and guidance.”. Coaching has been proven to work and sales reps find it valuable.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Coaching Webinar Metrics 52

SalesLoft

JUNE 20, 2019

He’s the CEO of J Barrows sales training. One of the things I love about John is that he is not just a trainer, he’s really a sales professional who happens to train. Jeremey: I mentioned that I very much view you as a sales professional who trains as opposed to a sales trainer.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overpopulating Territories. Scaling your sales team almost always means bringing on new reps. And while that's exciting in its own right, it means that you — as a sales leader — have more balls in the air. Do you have sufficient green space in the territory? Providing Insufficient Training.

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Keith Rosen

MAY 13, 2009

• Am I fully leveraging the power and potential of my CRM solution for prospect, client as well as territory management? After all, it’s one thing to up your game and work on developing and refining your selling skills as well as your sales management skills. Do you have a call report system?

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 8, 2017

“The people we sell to don’t buy our product,” Avi Barr, national sales manager at ASI during his presentation at SugarCon 2017. Getting sales reps on board with standard methodologies is a challenge for any business in any industry. These are influencers like architects, facilities managers, and building owners.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 25, 2018

Saying, “Here’s your territory, here’s your quota, go out and sell,” is insufficient. However, too often, the guidance sales people get isn’t much more than that. how they will be measured, how the manager can support and help them. But too often we don’t let our people do their jobs!

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Hiring Maximizer Construction Coaching 48

Bigtincan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The search functionality will also take into account the location of the seller — If your sales rep is responsible for sales in the Northeast region of your country, Bigtincan will surface results only pertaining to the rep’s role and territory. Showpad supports sales teams with coaching, training, and content solutions.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, several of the other sales skills we’re breaking down here today are going to be best learned (and actually retained) by seeking regular mentorship from the right sales managers and fellow reps who’ve been around the block a few more times. Want to master today's most important sales skills?

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, several of the other sales skills we’re breaking down here today are going to be best learned (and actually retained) by seeking regular mentorship from the right sales managers and fellow reps who’ve been around the block a few more times. Want to master today's most important sales skills?

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

The resulting sales process resulted in an 84% increase in lead traffic for the company. In a sales team, a CRM can assign territories and customers to individual sales people. The right CRM will also guide a sales person on their sales process. This ensures no one else is trying to sell to the same people.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 21, 2017

The resulting sales process resulted in an 84% increase in lead traffic for the company. In a sales team, a CRM can assign territories and customers to individual sales people. The right CRM will also guide a sales person on their sales process. This ensures no one else is trying to sell to the same people.

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Segment 39