Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Time management.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. Reps crave training from their managers.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned sales manager or a frontline rep hustling for results, we get it – the struggle is real. Read on to discover how reps can confidently approach each closing conversation with closing sales training that works. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work?

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Vengreso

APRIL 23, 2019

The leaders of every organization want to maximize sales effectiveness and productivity. But the ever-changing digital sales landscape can make it hard to keep up. That’s why I wanted to bring Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Effectiveness for CenturyLink on as my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboard and Train New Hires. As a sales manager, you're a motivator for your reps.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s no secret that salespeople often fail as sales managers. Nonetheless, many of the best reps within an organization often end up in management positions. Whether you’re actively seeking a role as a manager or have already gotten a promotion, you should understand the most difficult aspects of the transition.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This sales strategy example can also act as a template to document your sales plans and goals. Developing a robust sales strategy, one that can be implemented and measured is a vital cog in every company’s growth plans. Before we go into a sales strategy example, lets cover four important pre-planning actions.

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

ValueSelling Associates’ Julie Thomas and Highspot’s Kelly Lewis break down how to maximize the impact of revenue enablement Love it, hate it – or do everything in your power to work around it – when it comes to the revenue enablement function, everyone’s a critic. So, why do such polarized opinions persist?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management. Are you setting the right example?

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 9, 2020

Take the Ouija board for example, which can reveal all with just a board and a pointy plastic device. In business, turning an investment into sales training into real, profitable results takes a dedicated combination of commitment, moxy – and a top-to-bottom organizational focus on reinforcing the training lessons for the win.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We provide training, tools, content to reduce their ramp time. Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. It’s to maximize the performance of each person on the team.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

New sales managers. New sales managers face a lot of new challenges. As they seek to develop the skills to work through new challenges, there is a tendency to gravitate back to what they know how to do – in the case of new sales managers , it’s usually selling. ©2013 Sales Momentum, LL.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 28, 2019

For many companies, the ramp-up time for new sales professionals typically is 6 months or more, but inside sales has changed. Sales automation tools like email and dialing technology have turned SDRs into revenue-generating machines. Tools training. Here’s an example of an SDR 2-week onboarding schedule: 2.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

Author: Greg Flynn Imagine a marathon runner starting a race without having trained or even stretched beforehand. So why is it any different with sales? Accordingly, onboarding is a critical component in maximizing reps’ performance and ability to positively impact the bottom line. It’s not!). Clearly, it’s time for a change.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 7, 2020

The Sales Manager's Guide To Greatness! You may have been a top salesperson, and still continue to be, but that doesn’t always qualify you to be a top sales manager. Davis is the author of the book The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading your Team to the Top.

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this episode, sales strategists Ken and Nick Valla, co-founders of The Valla Group, discuss how their firm helps B2B sellers maximize performance. Learn why organizations must transform their training approach in a hybrid work environment , what sales leaders should do differently, and the key skills sellers need today.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

MARCH 5, 2024

Distribution is exceptionally competitive, and finding ways to maximize your sales opportunities can help you with that competitive edge. Here is an overview of its functionalities so you can unlock its potential for driving strategic sales growth. Ready to take the next step?

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, there are many great options open to CEOs for networking opportunities, for example, TEC (The Executive Committee) in Canada or Vistage around the world. Turning the sales strategy to organization action. Improving sales force effectiveness. Developing a great sales management team. Measuring performance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 6, 2020

Unfortunately, many organizations miss this opportunity: Brainshark’s State of Sales Kickoff Meetings survey found that 62% of companies do not deliver pre-work before sales kickoff meetings. This clearly illustrates the need for sales kickoffs to be viewed as an ongoing process, rather than a discrete point in time.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The job of the sales leader is to maximize the performance of the organization. The sales leader has to make sure the organization is working as effectively and efficiently as possible, executing the corporate strategy with the customers. We have to have a Sales Management Operating System.

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Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where sales prospects are in the buying process. Sales pipeline stages represent the various points a buyer may be in the buying process. A C-suite executive, sales manager or sales director typically creates the sales stages. Perform sales call coaching.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 19, 2016

Perusing my news feeds this morning, an article entitled, “Should Sales Managers Coach” caught my eye. Is it a super closer/sales person? The job of the front line sales manager is to maximize the performance of each person on the team! It’s management forsaking a key responsibility.

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MEDDIC

JANUARY 30, 2024

A New Course Helping Sales Leaders Building Teams The Why of the Inifinite Sales Leadership training You may wonder why the Infinite Sales Leadership course. This belief drove me to create “Infinite Sales Leadership.” Click here to begin your transformation today!

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 4, 2015

Sales managers and the time trap. For sales managers Public Enemy # 1 is time. The more successful a sales manager, the more demands on their time. One simple answer is enough is enough when there is not enough time left to manage and coach your sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 7, 2014

So if you’ve provided all the tools and training they need to succeed long-term, and they’re still more trouble than they’re worth, it’s time to make some tough decisions. Here’s his take: “Our clients are constantly asking us where sales managers should spend their time. Where Should Sales Managers Spend Their Time?

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Highspot

JUNE 15, 2023

Often, the sales department is a company’s highest expense, which means that maximizing the potential of every rep to scale productivity is mission-critical in today’s economy. Increasing sales productivity ensures that you drive more revenue with each rep you have. Sales productivity is how companies drive consistent revenue.

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Highspot

JULY 20, 2023

Managers juggle many duties, from taking care of current business to training new sales reps. At the same time, account executives must keep up with new product features and customer needs, manage their deals, and meet their sales goals. What Is an Example of Conversation Intelligence?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 3, 2020

Billions are spent on training of all sorts. Sales performance numbers continue to decline (for example % of sales people making quota). ” As sales leaders, it’s similar, “How am I helping my people maximize their performance?” Billions are spent on tools, content, consultants.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Your sales processes should be definable, measurable, and repeatable. If your lead generators aren’t scheduling enough appointments or if your sellers aren’t closing deals, you can train and coach them to hit their desired outcomes—as long as you have a methodology that is fully developed, documented, tested, and refined. Go get ‘em!

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 15, 2022

I hope I’m not adding to the confusion, but I wanted to begin addressing some of the fundamental issues, bad information, horrible practice: Coaching is a management responsibility! It’s our job as managers to coach and develop those people that report to us. Second my company invested $1000’s in training.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. These cover things like comp/metrics, training, forecasts, hiring, sometimes even coaching. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. We have to do the whole job.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry.

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