Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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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. Let’s look at each one.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve been working on growing sales for over 30 years. First with Nautilus Exercise Equipment, then in the insurance business and for the last 23 years with Anthony Cole Training Group. It’s been at least 25 years since I heard David Sandler, on a cassette tape, say; “there’s no such thing as bad prospects, just bad salespeople.”

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data. What does a sales coach do? Search less. Close more.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a sales manager needs to be poised for the future, you reduce the chances of creating value and growth. The need for courage comes into play all throughout a sales manager’s job.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One area you will want to apply this technique is when you are deciding which prospects to add to your weekly prospecting list. If your current strategy involves calling a random list of prospects, chances are you are not seeing the results you want, or it’s the reason you procrastinate prospecting. New to sales?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first step is to identify ideal prospects is to look in the current customer base by firmqographic details. Stated otherwise, if your best customers are in a specific industry, have a certain number of employees, and deploy a competitive or complementary technology – then companies that also fit that profile will be your best prospects.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most difficult aspects of a salesperson’s job is prospecting. As a sales manager, you can alleviate some of this prospecting pain by engaging your team in targeting and lead scoring. We find the most common cause of poor prospecting is failing to consider who exactly you are trying to reach.

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Nutshell

MARCH 11, 2019

Adjusting to a new sales manager can be difficult, especially if the last person in charge was well-liked by the team. If you’ve been promoted to a manager position from within your organization, you might even encounter some jealousy or hostility from your former peers on the sales floor.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team. From generative AI to conversational intelligence, AI is reshaping how sales managers provide coaching and training to improve sales performance and increase win rates.

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Nutshell

JULY 2, 2020

We interrogated collaborated with our resident communication pro Kristen Gray and compiled a gigantic list of sales call dos and don’ts, as well as a bunch of successful strategies to help boost the quality of your sales calls for good. Creating a positive sales call experience. Listen to recordings of your sales calls.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Like it or not, your goal as a sales manager is not about making numbers. For high-performing reps who’ve moved on to management, this truth is a tough one to swallow. But as Dave Brock , author of the Sales Manager Survival Guide , says, “Your job as a front line manager is to maximize the performance of your people.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Certainly, being articulate is an ingredient in the sales success recipe, but that is not the one that makes someone a sales rock star. Those of us within the profession know that what you say to a prospect is not the secret to winning in sales. Learn more in Lee’s new, groundbreaking book “Sales Differentiation.”

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This is just one example of a sales technology interfering with the customer relationship. Technology is supposed to make it easier and more efficient to reach prospects and sell to customers. A sales manager can spend hours every day inside their technology stack. But for others, this falls on the sales manager.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2018

And while thousands urgently indulge in Cyber Monday, we cringe every time a prospect responds with, "Can you get back to me in a month?". It's very likely that your prospect forgets your name by the time you reach out a month later. At HubSpot, lacking urgency is the number one objection we face in the sales funnel. Rep: “Okay.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

He emphasized the importance of alignment from top leadership and suggested starting with exercises like weekly bold behavior drills to encourage and celebrate bold actions. We discussed the trap of assuming engagement based on conversations with prospects.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It was a room full of 8-year-olds running through call scripts like pint-sized sales reps. Then we had to do the role-playing exercises in front of the entire class (!), That actually isn’t too far off from how some companies train and coach sales reps today. But old-school sales training will only take you so far these days.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 25, 2022

Sales coaching can only be effective if you know how to coach your reps in the first place. Sales managers are busy, meaning companies need to provide the tools, training, and resources to help them deliver effective sales coaches without requiring much prep time. Provide regular training for your sales coaches.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching. Foster a growth mindset.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Sales eXchange – 119. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , HR Management , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. We often do an exercise with teams centered on expectations of roles, the frontline reps and their managers. Who’s Expectations? What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 11, 2013

All of these do have influence but I believe that the influence has to do with 1) How easy is it to engage a prospect or 2) How hard is it to engage the prospect. To really have impact then sit down with each individual and have the discussion on developing strategies and disciplines consistent with the outcomes of the exercise.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2023

A sales manager recently asked, “Is cold calling effective?” My answer was not an attempt to be glib or elusive, but rather a factual observation from working with hundreds of sales teams. There are sales teams who find cold calling effective, while there are others who think it is useless. I replied, “Sometimes.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Sales skills like how to have a good discovery call, pricing and negotiation is like physical exercise – you need to learn the techniques from subject matter experts (SMEs) and then practice repeatedly to gain muscle memory. Part of that is mixing it up so it’s not staid and the exercises are not too easy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 4, 2014

Most of the focus on persistence is related to contacting new prospects. What about the prospects who are far along in the sales process when they suddenly go missing? An alignment of prospects willing to take a stand against salespeople that are getting too close? Is there suddenly an epidemic of rudeness? Just say no.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

What was striking is that for the most part, these “events”, fall in to one of two groups, they are either objective, fact based exercise, leading to a realistic view of their opportunities, with the conviction one gets when one is fully engaged and working the opportunity. Real or Fantasy.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

The B2B sales process is a structured yet flexible journey tailored to meet the unique needs of customers. It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. What is B2B Sales Training?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

You’ll learn what the sales cycle looks like, how to manage it, and how to shorten it. What is a sales cycle? A sales cycle is a series of well-defined events, from when a salesperson engages a prospect until they make the sale. . Sales cycles are often confused with sales processes.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This approach to training, also called “nanolearning,” helps reps develop skills faster because they’re seeking out information to solve an immediate challenge, not as an academic exercise. Whether they need help drafting a quote, following up on an email, or prepping for a prospect meeting, reps can call or chat with someone immediately.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 26, 2020

The starting point for being your own boss is exercising self-discipline. You have to exercise the self-control necessary to do your work when no one is there to tell you what to do and when most of your work has no deadline. An unwillingness to micromanage yourself means you need someone to manage you.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales negotiation strategies are essential for navigating the complexities of deal-making and securing favorable outcomes. Here are some effective sales negotiation techniques that will help you build trust with prospects, close more deals , and streamline your sales cycle: 1.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

AI tools automate and streamline lead scoring and prioritization, based on how likely prospects are to convert into customers. It analyzes multiple data sets including your sales team’s existing interactions with the prospect. AI in sales analyzes customer conversations. AI improves close rates across the sales org.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For customer-facing teams to be successful, they need to be taught and consistently exposed to the information that will help them be as efficient and productive as possible — while also providing prospects and customers with an excellent experience throughout their entire customer journey. Discovery call checklists. Peer-to-peer learning.

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criteria for success

APRIL 15, 2020

Building rapport is obviously a key sales skill, but many people think it’s something that can’t be trained. While some people might find it easier than others, everyone can learn rapport-building skills and improve their interactions with prospects and clients. Here are three ways you can integrate this into sales team training.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 18, 2022

Your sales reps have a different mix of skills and experience. So how do you know if every seller is ready to face your prospects during sales calls? Share this 10-step checklist with your reps, or send it to your sales managers to use in their 1:1 meetings with each rep. I understand how customers use our product.

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