Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Ways To Win Prospects And Contacts At A Networking Event. If you network smart, it’s the easiest way to make sales contacts. If you network smart, it’s the easiest way to make sales contacts. Hot sales contacts. ways to win prospects and contacts at a networking event: 1. Get Sales Blog Updates.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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Conversion Sales Management Scale Call-back 102

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2013

I spent last week at a Sales Management training event with a client. As a Sales Operations leader, you must be allocating the right resources to training. They set the organization up to hit their objectives now. Turn managers into leaders. Demand Sales Force Automation adoption. Gamify the training.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 31, 2011

Book Release Event Photos. Tweet Share Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the book release event for Social BOOM! Here are some photos from the event: Do you have photos from the event? Get Sales Blog Updates. Overcoming Objections. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Hire Jeffrey.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today's article has a collection of links to help you, your sales managers and your salespeople become more effective. It's a nice collection of important reminders, tips and insights for all things sales. A new book by Adon Rigg, Insightful Selling , launched today.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 13, 2023

Turning Obstacles into Opportunities: Managing Behavioural Issues I have had the privilege of working with numerous sales managers, guiding them through the challenges they face in leading high-performing teams. One recurring issue that has surfaced frequently is managing behavioural issues among their salespeople effectively.

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Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

Objection handling is tough. Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 3, 2014

Sales coaching – leverage trigger events. Sales coaching – sales leadership talks about it all the time. Sales consultants advocate it and sales managers say they would like to do more of it. The “it” of course is sales coaching. Sales Coaching and Trigger Events.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Objection handling is tough. Sales objections come in many forms, and it takes experience and a quick wit to get used to them. It’s not just reps fielding sales objections who think so, either. As many as 35% of sales leaders believe objection handling is the biggest challenge their reps face.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 73

InsightSquared

AUGUST 1, 2019

“There’s no stronger time than now, where a sales executive needs a really strong partnership with business ops or sales ops or revenue ops,” said Todd Abbott, as he opened his presentation at Ramp 2019, the revenue ops event of the year hosted by InsightSquared.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 1, 2024

“With your prospects, share with them insights about your product, about the market, how your product is positioned in the market, why your company’s unique, and why they should trust you and buy from you,” advises sales professional Shawn Casemore. This prevention-focused approach cuts down on potential objections you face later.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 5, 2018

I’ve always maintained that a truly great person responsible for a team of sales professionals doesn’t “manage” at all. Traditional sales “managers” spend their time enacting what the sales discipline prescribes. how to manage their sales funnel more productively. how to author a good sales proposal.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 30, 2018

These meetings are often designed around team building events on a beach or at a resort with a golf course. Recently, I’ve sat back to consider what makes a good sales manager great. A manager’s primary role is to develop the sales rep. There are four competencies that a manager needs to master to become great.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 12, 2013

Managing a Sales Manager . As a result of our one of my readers sending me an email comment regarding his personal situation, I have attached the sample of one our of a tools we have included in our “On Line Sales Manager Tool Kit ” www.AcumenManagement.com. . Acumen Management Group .

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 2, 2018

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.

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Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Funnel 105

Pipeliner

MARCH 9, 2018

As sales managers, you all know how important it is to be effective at managing your sales staff and sales pipeline. At times, being reminded of 3 Steps to effective sales management can have a profound impact on your effectiveness. Once a sale is closed, what post sales follow-up is needed?

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Above I referred to these rituals as an “event”, when they need to be ongoing process, reviewing the specific actions of the buyer, and planning and taking the next appropriate steps; do that and your pipeline and the opportunities in them, will fare better than if you’re just performing a CYA routine. Real or Fantasy.

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The Pipeline

JULY 26, 2012

Starting with that definition of value, participants will then learn the five step process to leveraging that value right through the sale, from the initial engagement to winning the client. The overarching goal of the process is to focus on the buyer’s objectives, and delivering specific means of helping the achieve those objectives.

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Pipeliner

MAY 9, 2023

In business, a successful sales team can make all the difference. Creating high-performing sales reps means supplying them with everything they require to reach their objectives, from motivation and professional growth. Building a successful sales team requires the right talent, strategy, and leadership.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. The Death of Event-Based Training. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

The event was a culmination of thorough planning and conscious decisions about the learning objectives, content, fun and logistics. This is different for every company, of course and likely driven by the preceding year’s success, prospects for the new year and the tone that sales management wants to set.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. Unfortunately, this feedback often doesn't result in significant behavior change from the sales representative. Sales Coaching Benefits 1.

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DialSource

MAY 28, 2020

Whether they typically attend sales events or are accustomed to the types of in-person tools and strategies that allow them to remain as efficient and productive as possible. Now, the same objectives remain in terms of customer management and selling. KPIs Every Sales Manager Needs to Track During the Pandemic.

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Sales Management Face-to-face System Outbound 56

BrainShark

AUGUST 16, 2022

When used regularly, sales enablement and readiness platforms increase your sales team’s skill, performance, and revenue. They also make a huge impact on the effectiveness of sales kickoff events, which are basically intensive, multi-day sales training sessions (with a bit of celebration thrown in).

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2017

Sales Management Thought Leadership: efficient effectiveness. What does this have to do with sales management? As a manager you must be prepared-at all times for almost any event. Check out our Sales Management Boot Camp, starts May 12 th , 8 weeks of online, interactive training: [link].

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

CSO Insights reports that implementing formalized sales coaching leads to double-digit improvements in win-rates and quota attainment. But despite all this, 76% of organizations don’t provide enough sales coaching ( Sales Management Association ). How would you respond to these common objections?” “How

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 12, 2012

The Sales Manager that Does It All. No matter what size of sales organization you manage the sales leader that assumes they are responsible for everything or solving every problem generally fails to achieve the ultimate objective. The sales manager only plans the training. How does this happen?

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

But I do have a fear… and that is that many sales leaders who say they want their teams to do something different are still feeding them stuff that is old, or god forbid! And if the sales team can’t stretch their thinking then how will they help the buyer stretch theirs? not giving them anything at all.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Enterprise Enterprise 195

Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

Account executives (AEs) AEs are responsible for taking leads from BDRs and SDRs and guiding them through the sales cycle. Sales managers An inside sales manager oversees a team of inside sales reps. Outside sales teams – also referred to as field sales – meet with prospects face-to-face.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In this guide, we’ll help you follow in the footsteps of the successful sales rep described above. You’ll learn what the sales cycle looks like, how to manage it, and how to shorten it. What is a sales cycle? Sales cycles are often confused with sales processes. Why is a sales cycle important?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

You held a big rollout event. No call objectives are stated or achieved. Many sales processes are devoid of an adoption and reinforcement plan. You spend all your energy upstream of the training event. The event happens and it’s a huge success. Team meetings are run by sales managers. Creating tools.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Sales Management Thought Leadership: efficient effectiveness. An estimated 400,000 people flock to the river front to watch the event; boats on the river, people lined up on the docks, roads and every home, parking lot and condo packed with friends and neighbors. What does this have to do with sales management?

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

I spoke this week to a group of sales professionals at the new monthly Sales Accelerators event at Hubspot in Cambridge, MA. It is a new event here in the Boston area for sales reps to network, meet and mingle with others. Work to improve 1% every day.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Conservatively, it can cost $75,000+ for a 50-person sales team to attend your SKO plus the cost of other people in your company who attend too. That doesn’t even account for event planning costs, or the lost opportunity cost due to non-selling time while salespeople attend the event. Planning beyond the event.

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