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Onboarding In Sales: Training + Leadership

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Excellence, Upland Software Sales teams are often one of the most expensive resources within a company, yet the average frontline sales manager spends only 9% of his or her time developing direct report sellers. . Leaders, Take Part!

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Drive sales innovation by bottom up entrepreneurialism

Sales Training Connection

Drive sales innovation. A good case in point is the health care market where the Affordable Care Act plus other social and economic trends are transforming the health care landscape. Senior managers expect salespeople to have a good handle on their needs and interests before sales calls.

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Medical device sales – the sales process is changing

Sales Training Connection

Medical device sales. Worldwide sales for 2011 are estimated to be more $300 billion in 2011 with the U.S. However, all isn’t rosy; the medical device industry faces several issues – pricing concerns, health care reform, reimbursement pressures, and increasingly regulations. Health care reforms in the U.S.

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Getting MedTech Sales Strategy Right – A FREE Sales Momentum White Paper

Sales Training Connection

Shifting decision-makers, rising number of new influencers, pricing pressures, increasing consolidation, and consumerizing healthcare will require MedTech salespeople to redefine their sales strategies to continue growing the business. Sales Momentum today is publishing a FREE white paper – Getting MedTech Sales Strategy Right.

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Selling medical devices that are evolutionary not revolutionary

Sales Training Connection

What does this mean for the sales force? Historically, a medical device sales team primarily focused their efforts on selling the clinical benefits of a product to physicians. In some cases, the medical device sales rep will be making this economic case on their own. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 100 – Personalize

Score More Sales

If you are an inside sales person, it is important to put yourself in the receiver’s shoes – the person who you are trying to connect to. I get a lot of these calls and messages from eager sales reps every week, and I can tell you that there is one thing overall that shuts a conversation down quicker than anything else for me.

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Seven fundamentals for selling to physicians

Sales Training Connection

Medical device sales. The sales rep who does not adjust and adapt to these changes is unlikely to prosper. This means medical device sales reps must be respectful of the implanter’s time and the consequences of their presence, such as the doc going “off schedule” 3. There are multiple decision makers in the practice.