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What Sales Managers Do That Make Them So Ineffective

Understanding the Sales Force

Earlier this week I wrote an article on why so many sales managers are so bad. In today's article, I'll share what makes them so ineffective. The easiest way to explain this is to start with a baseball analogy. Our son, who is now 14, is a very talented baseball player. In addition to me, he has been coached in some capacity by approximately 15 other baseball coaches with varying degrees of effectiveness.

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It’s Not Your PowerPoint, It’s You

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-28. Author: AlexAnndra Ontra. Teaser: What's wrong with PowerPoint? In and of itself, nothing. It's how we are using it that's counterproductive. What's wrong with PowerPoint? In and of itself, nothing. It's how we are using it that's counterproductive.

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A Practical Playbook for Account Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

Looking to give a your sales a boost? There is a renewed interest in Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and it currently has two definitions: 1) a strategy for marketing to existing clients for the purpose of cross-selling or expanding presence within an account, and. 2) an alternative to “buyer persona marketing,” whereby named accounts are micro-segmented with messaging that is hyper-specific to their needs.

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Einstein Selling – The Most Popular Form Of B2B Selling Today

The Pipeline

Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. Earlier this year I attended an interesting presentation examining barriers to sales people “hitting” quota, personally I like to exceed quota, but I can understand why for many “hitting” it is a great objective. I enjoyed the presentation, very credible, and in expected fashion, it started out with a big bold revelation to engage the audience.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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10 Things Salespeople Need to Do to Save Time

The Sales Hunter

The most valuable asset any salesperson has is their time. It’s not what they sell or the customers they sell to; it’s their time. How we use our time is what will make a much bigger impact on our success than nearly anything else. Below are 10 things you must be doing to help save your […].

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The trick that makes sales training stick

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-29. Author: Dan Siedman. Teaser: Most training focuses on learning objectives as the outcome. In the selling world, your outcome should be behavior change. Learning objectives? Who cares if you have the smartest sales pros on the planet and they don't put what they know into practice? Most training focuses on learning objectives as the outcome.

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Sales 2.0

Nice post today on the Pipeliner CRM blog from that smart man Dan McDade of Pointclear about how you should not buy into the proposition that waiting for your prospects is the right sales strategy. I agree. We’ve overcooked the concept of “inbound marketing” if we’ve convinced sales people to rely on their marketing group to “catch leads in a big net” and deliver them to the sales people.

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Do Women in Sales Lack Confidence?

No More Cold Calling

The greatest challenge for many women leaders isn’t gender discrimination; it’s self-doubt. Women in sales don’t have to think or act like men to become rainmakers; we have the natural-born skills and grit it takes to be top-tier sellers. We know how to build relationships. We are hardwired to be nurturers, connectors, and collaborators. So it’s no wonder that men say the best salespeople they know are women.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Strategic Leader vs. Tactical Manager

The Sales Hunter

Ask yourself, “Are the decisions I make tactical or strategic?” I see far too many leaders spending all of their time making tactical decisions. By this I mean decisions that impact such things as today’s business, this quarter’s volume, a person’s work schedule, etc. All of these types of decisions do need to be made, but are they […].

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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Not Just For Kids: How Gamification Can Help Fill Your Channel Pipeline

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-07-25. Author: Lynn Smith, COO, Focused Impressions. Teaser: Gamification has taken the business world by storm. It's the concept of injecting competitive elements of games into non-game environments to increase user engagement and drive results. It does so by relying on two dynamics - measurement and competition - to improve performance.

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How to Blend Sales Strategy and Execution Masterfully

SBI Growth

As a sales leader, driving the execution of your sales team is critical. It requires discipline, and the ability to manage your team in the long term. SBI recently interviewed Scott Tapp, the executive vice president of global sales, marketing.

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10 Questions ALL Sales People Must Ask Themselves At The End Of The Month

MTD Sales Training

I love the expression “Questions are the answer”. It reminds us all that the quality of the answers we get in life are determined by the quality of the questions we ask. Much of what we experience in life goes over our heads, created by things that are out of our control. What we focus on will get us our results. And that focus is very often derived by the questions we ask.

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Successful Sales Coaching Best Practices

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales is tough and ongoing sales development is a never ending process. In order for a company to succeed, it needs to have a well-developed, well-trained team — one that is able to authentically connect with customers and set more meetings, schedule more demos, and close with confidence. In even the fastest growing organizations, there is always room for improvement.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Sales Motivation Video: What’s Your 20-Year Goal?

The Sales Hunter

What’s your 20-year goal? Every successful person I know has a 20-year goal AND a plan to get there. Grab a vision for your life and think further down the road than this year or the next year. Your sales motivation depends on it! Copyright 2016, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” Sales Motivation Blog. Mark […].

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Market Research: How to Understand Your Playing Field

SBI Growth

Market research is mission critical to winning in the market place, and against your competition. It should influence your overall sales strategy, and govern how you allocate your resources.

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Use These 2 Examples To Uncover Prospect Needs

MTD Sales Training

You’ve probably been on courses where you’ve discussed the different types of questions that are available to you. You’ll have heard of open questions and closed questions. You’ll be familiar with probing questions and possibly leading questions, too. But the truth is that this can bog you down into thinking you’ve got to vary your questioning type and it can lead to confusion and a lack of flow in the conversation.

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How to Avoid Wasting 75% of Your Marketing Spend

Pointclear

Most companies admit to generating only a 10-25% follow-up of their sales inquiries. With so little follow-up, they’re reaching, on average, only 25% of available buyers. This means that 75% of the marketing dollars spent on lead generation are wasted. Why it’s Important. “If your company is average, you are only following up 10-25% of the leads you give your salespeople which means you are wasting 75% of your lead generation budget!”.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Impact of Conflict Avoidance on Sales Teams

Increase Sales

In reading some research by VitalSmarts, the impact of conflict avoidance suggested employees (and sales teams are made up of employees) waste an average of $1,500 and an eight hour workday for every crucial conversation they avoid. Can you hear the cash register just ringing away? Credit www.gratisography.com. This research further reveals 95% of the employees avoid directly speaking up to their colleagues about their concerns.

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An Inside Look at Implementing a Hunter-Farmer Sales Organizational Structure

SBI Growth

SBI recently spoke with Todd Skiles, the senior vice president of sales at Ryder. Ryder is a Fortune 500 company in the commercial fleet management and supply chain solutions business with approximately $6.5 billion in annual revenue. Todd leads the.

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Transitioning to sales manager – a rubicon moment

Sales Training Connection

New sales managers. Congratulations! You’ve done it! You have crossed over! You are now a sales manager. So, what do you do now? Even after some initial guidance from colleagues, most new sales managers find themselves struggling to figure out how to balance the requirements of the position. The mountains of paperwork about HR concerns and other administrative requirements take most new sales managers back a step or two.

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The Mental Place You Need to Get Your Prospect If You Want to Win the Sale

A Sales Guy

In this video, I talk about the place your prospect or customer need to get mentally before you can make a sale. We don’t talk about this much, but it’s hard to sell if you can’t get your customer to do this. Selling is a relationship, and key to a relationship is working together. Learn how to get your prospect to this place and you’ll see your sales processes turn around.

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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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Sustainable Sales Success - Tip 06 - Cold Calling Etiquette

Increase Sales

With caller ID, many SMB people are reluctant to answer their phones. For me, if I want sustainable sales success, I answer all calls. What I have noticed is many who engage in cold calling have failed this important aspect – etiquette. Cold calling interrupts the sales leads from doing what they are doing. For me in many instances, it is working on the back end of executive coaching clients’ engagements, doing administrative work or engaging in content article marketing such as thi

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SBI’s First Ten Years

SBI Growth

Every Sunday morning we will publish a photograph of an SBI’er “in action” which is meant to illustrate how much fun we have working with you. This project has one purpose: to celebrate you, our clients and followers. Companies, firms, and fads.

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The 5 Why Questions Sales Prospects Ask

Anthony Cole Training

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Angela Duckworth Author of the Best Selling Book GRIT, LIVE Today at 1:00 EST

A Sales Guy

Author of grit, Ted speaker, and University of Pennsylvania Professor Angela Duckworth is going will be live on The Word today, via blab. If you want to understand the psychology to success and what truly separates the successful from the unsuccessful, you don’t want to miss this. Register here: . We’ll be talking live questions, it’s your chance to meet Angela and learn how you can get to the next level.

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Customizing for Every Customer: How 1:1 Personalization Drives ROI

Personalization has moved beyond segmentation. It’s now a proven strategy to transform customer relationships, drive business growth, and increase marketing ROI. In this eBook, Salesforce explores why it’s important to communicate with your customer as an individual and how you can: Create personalized experiences across channels with data, AI, and machine learning Increase the ROI of every site visit Build customer loyalty with trust By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact infor

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Wow I Never Thought of Those Sales Questions

Increase Sales

One of the results of this blog and my LinkedIn Pulse postings is the request to do podcasts from other sales experts to entrepreneurs. These interactions usually are around specific sales questions that the listeners may find of interest. Credit www.gratisography.com. Having over four decades of sales experience, asking asking questions that no one else has asked is something I do fairly consistently.

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The Impact of Brand Positioning on Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

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Business Productivity Close

Tom Hopkins

Business productivity is a great topic to include in your sales presentations. Who doesn’t want their staff members to be more productive? With some products such as software, increasing productivity is a given–after the learning curve has been completed with training. However, with other products, it may not be so obvious that they’ll positively impact […].

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