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Enabling Your Enablers

Allego

This article originally appeared in Training Journal. Great sales reps aren’t born. For reps to build up their selling skills and gain the insights they need, they require ongoing coaching from sales managers. For one, hybrid work enabled sales reps to work from anywhere. 5 Tips to Improve Sales Coaching.

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Texting While Walking—Not Worth the Risk

No More Cold Calling

The Silicon Valley Business Journal headline—“Apple files ‘transparent texting’ patent to make walking while texting safer”—would have been laughable, had it not been so appalling. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' Apple wants to make it safer to walk while texting. I have a better idea.

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Get Promoted to Sales Management (Advice from 17 Experts)

Sales Hacker

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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[Top Sales Lesson of 2014] You Control the Technology

No More Cold Calling

Phillip Twyford, director of sales and marketing for Tico Mail Works, had the exact same realization, which he outlines in this week’s guest post. Then he became director of sales and marketing for Tico Mail Works, where he created an award-winning new business acquisition mailing for the company on the proverbial shoe string budget.

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Missing Sales Goals Is Worse Than You Think: 3 Steps to Help Reps Fail Better

Hubspot Sales

Dr. Michael Ahearne, a colleague at the Stephen Stagner Sales Excellence Institute at the University of Houston, published an article in the Journal of Marketing, titled, “Learned Helplessness Among Newly Hired Salespeople and the Influence of Leadership.”. Needless to say, that sales interaction did not end well.

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How to sell even when you're awkward and introverted

Close.io

Sales managers often expect their reps to have the charisma of Don Draper. It’s true: The sales profession is often associated with folks that have those qualities—in other words, the qualities of an extrovert. They want you to be suave, they want you to be proactive, and they want you to have a certain way with clients.

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Leading a Negotiating Team—10 Success Secrets for Women in Sales

No More Cold Calling

They believe the only win for your team means exacting lots of concessions from the other party. Your selection criteria must also take personality into account. Filter Out the ‘Butt Kickers.’ If you’re concerned about achieving a ‘win-win’ outcome, avoid ‘win-lose’ people. Go Beyond the Usual Suspects.