Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 24, 2017

What can a proposal generation tool do for you? Imagine that you are a sales manager. You are gazing out through the glass windows of your plush office across the vast expanse of desks where your sales force performs their in-office tasks. The answer comes back, and you are reassured by hearing, “working on proposals!”.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 11, 2024

The takeaway: So, the next time you consider proposing a sales closing via email, you might want to reevaluate. Done correctly, these probes not only gain understanding but also drive the conversation with purpose and clarity. The sales closing may be the beginning of your valuable connection with this client.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our content is aimed at empowering sales leaders, sales management, sales professionals and entrepreneurs to achieve new heights of success. What to check out: Save Time & Create Proposals Directly. Because every sale starts with a connection. Sales Management Blog. Sales Gravy.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2023

For a sales development rep, those could be meetings scheduled and sales accepted opportunities. On the other hand, for a field sales rep, those activities might be opportunities discovered, VP-level conversations, face-to-face meetings, and proposals sent. They might need help writing proposals.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. Pre-qualification call. Discovery call.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

If your team has trouble closing, go back to the beginning—qualifying prospects—and examine your entire sales process for missing links and ineffective tactics. Ask yourself: How are sales reps sourcing leads? How are sales reps qualifying their leads? What is their sales plan for following up? And that’s referral leads.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. I asked my client how the sales reps prepared. ” Was their sales manager clueless, or what? You are now a true sales manager.

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Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

The importance of defining sales pipeline stages. 18 ways to improve conversion from stage to stage. Management best practices. A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where sales prospects are in the buying process. Sales pipeline stages represent the various points a buyer may be in the buying process.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A well-defined sales pipeline makes your sales process transparent, allowing you to see your deals in the sales funnel, where they’re getting stuck, and how long the entire process takes. It also makes it much easier for you, as a sales manager, to forecast revenue. . Your average sales cycle length.

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Zendesk Sell

MAY 2, 2019

Maybe you’re a new sales manager, stepping out of your sales rep role and wanting to find the best management practices. Or maybe you have been managing a team for some time now but are struggling with hitting your targets. The right sales management process helps a sales team (and company) thrive.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Science Reveals the Actual Impact of Sales Coaching More Sales Assessment Imposters Exposed The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople What Percentage of Sales Managers Have the Necessary Coaching Skills?

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 24, 2023

Here, we’ll examine two key activities, calling/emailing new prospects and proposals sent. Phone Calls/Emails Phone calls are a bread-and-butter staple for sales professionals. However, in relation to other indicators, such as conversion rate, it can show the rep’s overall productivity. By itself, it might not mean much.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 18, 2019

That’s why our ideal B2B sales processes draw on our Three P’s – prepare, probe and propose. Some tips to understand your counterpart include reviewing their LinkedIn profile, maintaining notes from previous conversations, or searching for media stories. What’s basic value proposition can you offer?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Davis In a SMMConnect webinar I delivered to over 100 sales managers recently, I talked about eight instincts they developed as salespeople that are now harming their effectiveness as team leaders. Interestingly, about 30 percent of the participants said that the sales instinct they struggle with the most is “avoiding conflict.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. Go Beyond the Standard Conversation. Now, even if you’re not talking to a future sales superstar, this information is not breaking news. The reason?

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While these conversations aren’t easy, they are often necessary. How to Justify Price Increases Because cost is a highly sensitive topic, sellers need to prepare for these tough conversations with clients. SalesFuel shares some advice on navigating tough conversations and how to keep a handle on emotions.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Competition is greater than ever, buyers are cautious, your industry is constantly changing, and sales managers have little time to ensure their reps get the coaching they need. Leading sales organizations recognize the power of automation and are adopting technology to help both their sales managers and their sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

There have been many times during my career as a sales executive at Chorus and InsightSquared where I blamed reps for things that were really a result of my broken sales process. Why did we submit this proposal without getting it approved!?” Don’t make the sales process too cumbersome to adopt. Sound familiar?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople. Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Qualified Opportunities 1.35

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Chorus.ai

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As any manager knows, it is a completely different ball game when you have to motivate, guide, coach, and assist others into hitting their quota - so that you end up hitting yours! But some sales managers excel at taking the challenge on and end up building stellar teams. Sales managers use Chorus.ai

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 26, 2019

My frequently traveling friends in sales try to fill up travel time by: Creating proposal and presentations Calling their managers or team members for a quick check in Responding to emails Responding to Slack messages Watching videos of cats taking down dogs The inevitable question that hounds anyone in sales — " How can I use my time effectively?"

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Apptivo

AUGUST 25, 2021

Salespeople follow up right from capturing a lead, converting it to sales qualified lead, moving it into pipeline opportunities, and improving the customer conversion rate. In short, sales teams have a significant role in increasing the revenue of a company. Kick-off the conversation. Make a proposal.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

To help you out, I did the work for you and found some of the top GPTs for sales professionals. Below you’ll find GPTs for sales coaching, sales content, sales leadership, sales management, and sales strategy. Suggested prompts: Write a sales pitch for [your product].

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

In addition to tools that to help us reach customers, other tools and technologies helped us manage other aspects of our jobs. Other tools helped us with proposals, demos, research. There are somewhere around 20,000 sales/martech tools available to help improve our ability to use our time, reach our customers.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 11, 2020

In the modern world of B2B sales, you need to close a series of commitments that lead to what would have been “the close,” using a consultative approach that makes asking for the business simple and straightforward. Understanding Conversations and Commitments. Recognizing the Nonlinearity of the Sales Conversation.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This is the 8th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Here are the others: Organic Sales Growth and Its Impact on Sales Architecture. Overlooked Conversation Between Sales Managers and Salespeople.

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BrainShark

MARCH 3, 2024

You can counter this by presenting a well-informed proposal to your decision-makers. You should know enough about the market to answer questions and explain how your proposed solution will be more effective than the status quo. Your proposed solution should make the most sense for your current business needs.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2014

As sales processes go, the steps could be as simple as the following: Appointment. Watch Dennis Connelly''s 3-minute video on this topic: The methodology required to convert that process to a productive and effective conversation would be challenging to say the least. This is a horribly designed sales process! Qualification.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The jump from salesperson to sales manager is extremely challenging. A manager has an entirely different job: Leading, inspiring, coaching, and training a team. But if the team is functioning well, an authoritarian manager will breed resentment and probably damage its performance.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2020

A great client and I were having a conversation about sales performance. He’s the manager of a high performing sales team–but it hasn’t always been that way. Ironically, the sales people became pretty good at meeting their activity goals.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 26, 2018

We approached it from a different angle, and interviewed the sales team to find out if motivation really WAS the main issue. We found that low morale was, in fact, the RESULT of everything else going on, rather than being the CAUSE of the decrease in sales. Managing Director. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2016

or maybe I’m just more aware of it, but it seems that too many sales managers are focused on killing the sales organization. Researchers constantly remind us that buying is changing, that buyers prefer to minimize contact with sales, reducing it to the last 20-43% of their buying process.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2013

If, we’ve done it correctly, we get the customer interested and the conversation begins. The conversation is the most important–and perhaps the most difficult. ” Our conversation has to move through a number of levels–each of which requiring great knowledge. But that’s where the tough work starts.

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A while ago we received a call from a company wanting to talk about coaching training for their front-line sales managers. They were real cheerleaders – they believed sales managers were the pivotal job for sales success and coaching was the sales managers’ key responsibility. Here’s why.

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