Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. The most important exercises you’ll need to undergo in each area are outlined below. Good luck, and happy managing!

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or training to add emerging practices to your sellers’ skill sets. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. But, the SPIFF incentive didn’t completely go to the sales rep.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 13, 2014

The best way to motivate your sales reps is to believe in them. Sales managers can wreck a sales career or launch it. They can motivate reps who seem hopeless or derail the efforts of rising sales stars. Rene Zamora, a sales management thought leader and this month’s guest blogger, has a unique perspective.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? Get 70+ expert strategies for sales management success in our Sales Manager’s Survival Guide. FREE DOWNLOAD Why is sales productivity important? Motivate with incentives Keep team morale high through inter-team competitions and incentives.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Ever heard of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve ? Get creative!

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

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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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Therefore, the cost of sales reps with average sales skills is a number most companies cannot afford. The post-pandemic sales boost has faded, and now companies are scrutinizing how they allocate their more limited resources. Organizations across all industries are exercising greater caution given the macroeconomic uncertainty.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 24, 2023

Here, you may consider coaching or training that targets prospecting. Here, you want to ensure reps track their proposals and keep the momentum of the sales process moving forward. Whether exercising, watching sports, or doing your job, you can’t ignore the numbers. Of course, sales is a people-first career.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. A business plan lays out your goals -- a sales plan describes exactly how you’ll make those happen. Who writes sales plans? What is a sales plan template? A typical sales plan includes the following sections: Target customers.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 31, 2019

To align marketing and support departments with sales, sales managers can construct an ongoing, interdepartmental job-shadowing program. Put marketing and support staff in a sales-shadowing rotation once a month to sync knowledge and skills. Present the plan to your sales team. Training material.

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Keith Rosen

AUGUST 24, 2013

Whether at work or at home, becoming a more powerful leader than you ever imagined will not be achieved through training, further skill development, a better coaching system, a better product or service, or even a better team of salespeople. And to become an invincible manager takes vulnerability. Exercise The Law of Reciprocity.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Unattainable or irrelevant goals: In sales, reps live and die by their quotas. Yet, quota setting is one of the areas that comes most difficult to sales managers. In fact, 61% of sales managers cite quota setting as their biggest challenge ( source ). This poses a huge issue in sales departments.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The best way to approach the need for coaching among your Sales teams is to deliver it through a combination of methods. But as a Sales manager, you’ll benefit greatly from balancing that with training visualizations and other exercises that staff can complete on their own.

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ExecVision

JUNE 14, 2018

The biggest coaching hurdle for sales managers is finding the time. When you first propose this cultural shift to your manager, illustrate the power of knowing why top performers succeed. This information will help managers drive their average performers to become top performers with coaching.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

Customer success: If your customers need training, onboarding, implementation support, and service, partnering with vendors who offer these services lets you focus on closing new business without sacrificing your existing users. Wondering if channel sales is right for your organization? How to Recruit Channel Sales Partners.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. They’ll rip apart your CRM and replace your opportunity fields with their proven-and-trusted sales methodologies and scoff if you try to rehearse Sandler, Challenger, or MEDDIC selling to them.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 28, 2014

Wrong or no training – Insufficiently developed. Wrong or no stimulation – Not stimulated by appropriate incentives. Wrong or no executive action – Not adequately supported by a competent manager. If you are a sales manager, consider your part in this equation. Hopefully you can say yes!

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the same way, salesforce effectiveness is made up of different elements – the right go-to-market strategy, salesforce organisation design, role definition and candidate selection, the right incentive design, and the right sales processes. Finally, deployment of an automated solution generates improved sales performance.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2018

After a long day at the office, Netflix is usually more appealing than cracking open a sales book or streaming a sales training video on YouTube. Fortunately, there’s a simpler way to learn new sales techniques without having to set aside extra time in your day -- through podcasts. Sales Gravy. Length: 30 minutes.

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Chorus.ai

MARCH 24, 2021

Sales management must assess its sales team’s basic ability to find leads and nurture relationships with prospective clients when trying to improve sales growth, but it’s not enough by itself. You may even find yourself in legal trouble , none of which is good for your sales growth.

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PandaDoc

JULY 11, 2022

The best sales professionals in the world can’t make a positive contribution to your company if you don’t have the capacity to onboard and train them. Before you begin sifting resumes, take a good look at your current sales flows. How much time / what resources do you have to train a new hire?

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2014

Last year, The Brooks Group partnered up with Training Industry, Inc. - a sales training industry analyst and research organization - to conduct a study to help us identify best practices for building the most effective sales coaching program possible. Give your sales managers the right coaching tools.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

He may upgrade to a shiny new machine that speeds up the cinnamon roll-making process in order to increase the margin on cinnamon rolls, biting the bullet on the investment of purchasing the technology and training the bakers to use it. What are the things that have “always been done that way”?

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OpenSymmetry

JUNE 22, 2017

After a couple weeks of using this makeshift post-it system, I was called into a meeting with my manager who told me that, whether or not I liked it, I had to get trained in the CRM system and the post-its needed to be gone. This may include sales managers, finance, sales ops, comp admins, and even sales reps themselves.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 14, 2012

Wrong or no training – Insufficiently developed. Wrong or no stimulation – Not stimulated by appropriate incentives. Wrong or no executive action – Not adequately supported by a competent manager. If you are a sales manager, consider your part in this equation. Hopefully you can say yes!

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

My last post inn this series was “ Super Hero Sales Managers.” ” I hesitated for a moment discussing this topic–sales compensation plans. I can barely scratch the surface on this topic, sales people, sales executives, and non sales executives invovled in compensation are likely to be unhappy.

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 26, 2013

Whether at work or at home, becoming a more powerful leader than you ever imagined will not be achieved through training, further skill development, a better coaching system, a better product or service, or even a better team of salespeople. And to become an invincible manager takes vulnerability. Exercise The Law of Reciprocity.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Previously successful: Has a track record of success, whether in sales or sports, school, another job, etc. If you have a few (or several) different selling functions, do this exercise for each role. The former should probably have 0-2 years of sales experience, while the latter will have 3-5 years. Sales Managers.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the great things about working for a relatively small company is that it trains you to be very pragmatic. Sales Enablement. You’ve heard the message loud and clear, and have decided to launch a formal sales enablement program at your company. Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement. Sales Coaching.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2020

His focus on sales enablement and sales ops skills combined with a proven metric-based SaaS model has generated over a billion dollars in revenue across five major enterprises. I immediately got into sales management. So I got into sales management pretty quickly with EarthLink Wireless.

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