Fri.Mar 03, 2017

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How Executives Steer Clear of the Expectations Treadmill

SBI Growth

Executives are hired to create value for their shareholders. It’s no secret that revenue growth is essential to a higher valuation. The dilemma lies in how to stay ahead of the curve. Gone are the days of slow and steady.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Leadership is About Impact and Influence

The Sales Hunter

I talk a lot about the role of leadership in sales and how the way others see you determines how they treat what you say. Leadership is about making a positive impact and influencing them in a manner that encourages them to achieve a greater outcome. The more we look at leadership, the more we […].

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4 Sales Team Weaknesses that Inhibit Revenue Growth

DiscoverOrg Sales

A few weeks ago, I spent Saturday afternoon playing Super Mario Kart on Nintendo Wii U with a friend of mine and our two six-year-old boys. After hastily picking my character, vehicle, and tires, I noticed that my friend was carefully cycling through different vehicle options. Somehow, he had enabled a dialog box with ratings for each vehicle attribute including: Speed, Acceleration, Handling, Drift, etc.

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4 Keys to Successful Sales Management Meetings

SBI Growth

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Comment on 6 Tips to Make Your Modern Sales One-on-Ones Great by How to successfully onboard sales management

LevelEleven

[…] expect your managers to have weekly one-on-one sessions with each member of their team, so you need to do the same. Sit down with your sales managers once […].

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5 Sales Hiring Mistakes You’re Probably Making and How to Fix Them

The Brooks Group

Hiring salespeople can feel like a headache, but it’s one of the most important business decisions you can make. Be sure your time and effort don’t go to waste by avoiding these 5 common sales hiring mistakes that we’ve seen organizations make time and time again. Hiring Mistake #1 - You don’t define exactly what the position needs. Too often, salespeople are hired based on likeability.

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[Research] SiriusDecisions: Sales Training and the Coaching-Measurement Connection

Mindtickle

Sales training organizations have long struggled with how to achieve long-term behavioral change, and how to prove it. The research brief from Sirius Decisions explains how combining coaching with enhanced measurement can actually deliver the visibility and accountability that you’re looking for. Sales coaching is often left up to managers to execute as part of on-the-job training.

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5 Sales Hiring Mistakes You’re Probably Making and How to Fix Them

The Brooks Group

Hiring salespeople can feel like a headache, but it’s one of the most important business decisions you can make. Be sure your time and effort don’t go to waste by avoiding these 5 common sales hiring mistakes that we’ve seen organizations make time and time again. Hiring Mistake #1 - You don’t define exactly what the position needs. Too often, salespeople are hired based on likeability.

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My Top Five Travel Tips | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

People ask me all the time what my tips are for travel because I travel all the time.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Win-Loss Analysis: It’s Rarely the Product

Product Management University

How much time should we spend on win-loss analysis? There’s an age old adage that people buy from people, and it’s no different in B2B. So when you win it’s largely because of your salesperson. Ditto when you lose! Product deficiencies are just the most convenient excuse. When asked about a win, customers will readily admit they bought because they felt more comfortable dealing with your organization than the competition.