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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Pipeliner

MARCH 30, 2018

The current level of sales management is failing companies. Average tenure of a sales leader has dropped from 26 months (bad) to 18 months (horrible). 80% plus want to meet with a sales person only after they have developed the need and a shortlist. of people say they trust very highly information from a sales person.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Athletes and sports teams often talk about reviewing the game tape. In sales, this is called a win-loss analysis. This important collaboration combines the expertise of two sales leaders. One is an authority on collecting and analyzing the data needed for successful win-loss analyses.

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Showpad

JULY 25, 2019

Behind every winning sports team is a great coach. A coach sets the tone for success, creates a strategy, and provides continuous sales training and support so the team can reach its full potential. In order to scale successfully, it’s critical for a Sales organization and its executives to support their front line Sales managers.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Most Important Job of the Sales Manager . With that in mind, the most important job for sales managers is to coach their salespeople to close business. Statistically and anecdotally speaking all the data points to improved sales w hen sales managers learn to coach effectively and spend more time doing it. .

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SalesLoft

MAY 17, 2018

As with sports, coaches must develop their own knowledge and skill set to create a winning team. Managers weren’t born with an innate knowledge of what it takes to lead a successful sales team. That’s why it’s important that a sales manager has a baseline understanding of how to coach a winning team.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Specifically, it can integrate with your lead management software, which can then help a sales team filter out blacklisted or inaccurate numbers. It can also help to streamline contact information, customer history, and lead data. How Does Engage’s Sale Dialer Improve Sales Productivity?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

To borrow an analogy from sports: tactical coaching will help you win a particular game, strategic coaching across multiple seasons helps you to build a winning team. Data-Driven Sales Coaching To provide effective sales coaching support, you need to look beyond top line numbers to identify where each rep has room for improvement.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst. Taylor excels when he dives deep into data and can produce positive changes that have a valuable impact. He grew up playing a lot of team sports, later moving to extreme sports in snowboarding and wakeboarding. Avi is a big sports and pop culture fan.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. This can help organizations get the most from their sales managers, sales coaches, and, ultimately, their sales teams. What Is Sales Management? Developing sales plans. Forecasting. Adaptability.

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BrainShark

JULY 4, 2023

Research firm CSO Insights offers a more formal definition: “Sales coaching is a leadership skill that develops each salesperson’s full potential. ” Coaching is often led by sales managers and facilitated by sales enablement professionals. Why is sales coaching important?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 8, 2014

While there’s little current data about the exact number of people injured while texting, more than 1,000 pedestrians were treated in emergency rooms in 2008 for injuries sustained while using a cell phone to talk or text. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' It’s also funny and brilliant.

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Apptivo

APRIL 27, 2023

Some noteworthy aspects include: Contact management Sales Management Marketing Automation Analytics and Reporting Customization and flexibility Mobile Access Integration with other systems Scalability User Friendliness Contact management Contact management is similar to a well-coached sports team.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Before jumping the gun and hiring a seasoned veteran or promoting a rep from your (relatively) green team to Sales Manager, you should consider a middle ground: a team lead role for the inbound crew. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise. And as a manager, you don’t have time to create one.

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Showpad

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sales managers at any organization are in a position to guide and motivate those they lead, similar to the coach of a sports team. So it would make sense to give managers the proper training for sales coaching, right? Training Sales Managers to Coach.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 21, 2021

I grew up playing sports. But no matter how much I’ve encouraged the idea, my daughters have never wanted to play sports. Then out of the blue, my oldest told me she wanted to play a sport in high school. Are you going to let that stop you from pursuing your dream of trying this sport?” A Very Long Wait. What’s at stake?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Prospect Outreach AI alleviates one of the most time-consuming tasks in sales: prospecting. Based on inputs or data intelligence about the recipient, you can use AI to personalize messages to the format, tone, and goal you want to accomplish. 85% of sales professionals say that AI makes their prospecting more effective.

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Braveheart Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While I was watching ESPN’s College Game Day, I heard Chris “The Bear” Fallica, who is a research producer and sports betting analyst for ESPN, make an observation about betting odds that was a revelation to me. It is really hard to be completely unemotional and unbiased, especially about sports like college football.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Many people forget that selling is a team sport, especially where BDRs are concerned. Second, these meetings create an open dialogue around what’s working and what’s not along with a culture of testing, so we’re basing our work on data. If you’re a sales manager, I highly recommend you try implementing a weekly meeting like this.

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Pipeliner

JULY 21, 2020

It is not a sports car. This adoption is vitally important on a sales management level as well. Sales managers not only must provide their teams with a working tool but one which salespeople will actually enter data into and use. Another aspect of the sales job that salespeople hate is data entry.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Before jumping the gun and hiring a seasoned veteran or promoting a rep from your (relatively) green team to sales manager, you should consider a middle ground: a team lead role for the inbound crew. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise. And as a manager, you don’t have time to create one.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2014

That’s like passing out participation trophies in youth sports (you don’t want to get me started on THAT discussion.). In your sales meetings, make sure that you highlight success in several areas such as: Highest percentage of goal for the month. Additional Resources: How do I motivate my sales people ? -

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Specifically, it can integrate with your lead management software, which can then help a sales team filter out blacklisted or inaccurate numbers. It can also help to streamline contact information, customer history, and lead data. How Does Engage’s Sale Dialer Improve Sales Productivity?

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Chorus.ai

JULY 16, 2020

Golden 1 Center is reputed to be the world’s most technologically-advanced and sustainable sports and entertainment arena. It’s hardly surprising then that the Kings sales organization is big on technology tools. The adoption was led by Inside Sales Manager, Matthew Johnson, who has been with the Kings organization for nine years.

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SalesLoft

JULY 28, 2023

Your highest performing sales rep may not be the best choice for a sales manager — at least, not without some additional training and support. Oddly enough, the exact qualities that make someone a phenomenal sales rep may make them a terrible leader. Service-oriented leadership Sales is a team sport.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 3, 2020

I cannot impress enough the importance of sales manager coaching and doing it a bunch. Check out this data curated by Objective Management Group on about 5,500 managers and their teams. Think of sports coaches. I have stats to back me up. Ineffective coaching still yields significant improvement. Crazy, huh?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2018

It’s a formula stating that 80% of sales are made by 20% of sales reps, and it sometimes seems as immutable as a law of physics. Sales managers and business leaders try to move the ratio with training, but up to 87% of training content is forgotten within a few weeks. Coaching is no solution either.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

FantasySalesTeam has come up with a gamification solution that does just that based on fantasy sports. And they can form their own fantasy sales teams. Not that you should ditch CRM altogether, just don’t make your mobile Salesforce use it as their main interface for inputting or retrieving data.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

So our office was filled with temps who were basically doing what a predictive dialer would normally do: Dial a lot of numbers at the same time, and put a call through to a sales rep whenever a human being picked up the phone. Based on this data, we decided to invest engineering time into building our own (non-human) predictive dialer.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s knowing their favorite sports team and the names of their children. Their closeness can skew the data. Consider higher-level interviews, such as sales leader to sales leader, or qualified third parties like Clozd. In sales, established customers can get the short end of the stick.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2018

It means providing customers with information and data that can help them run their business. Keenan’s expertise isn’t limited to the sales world. He’s an avid Boston Sports fan. A Sales Guy U is the place on the web for the best sales and sales leadership resources—Keg stands optional.”.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Knowledge of Data Analysis. Your job title hasn’t changed -- you’re still a salesperson, sales manager, sales director, etc. -- but of course, everything else has. In the past, you could usually get away with pretending you were a major sports fan or using cut-and-paste techniques. 6) Knowledge of Data Analysis.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 14, 2011

Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12). sales development (55). sales excuses (15). Sales Force (5). sales goals (29). sales improvement (22). Sales Jobs (5). sales leadership development (4). sales management (49). sales people (8).

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

That being said, role-play is traditionally considered a team sport. Your reps’ messaging needs to be precise and their product knowledge evident during demos, so it’s always a good idea for reps to role-play a product demo with a more experienced colleague or sales manager. Objection handling. Competition.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Over 2 million annual visitors and more than 18,000 community members contribute with the aim to help all sales pros succeed – from brand new SDRs to the head of RevOps. Topics and discussion channels include: Sales management. Sales enablement. Focus areas: Data, data, data! Lead generation.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2020

So when your sales team unexpectedly and hastily goes remote… well, that’s even harder. One of the biggest challenges sales managers face? Especially if you’re a manager who wasn’t prepared for the remote shift, it can feel like you’re suddenly wearing blinders. Every sales manager has a unique coaching style.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 18, 2012

As a rookie salesperson, I learned that when it comes to making sales calls, it’s best to follow the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. Back then, a sales manager and I once drove 45 miles to see one of my early-stage prospects. Along the way, we talked about sports, our past jobs and life in general.

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