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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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 4, 2014

While persistence has always been important in sales, we are in uncharted territory. And then, when they can''t get their prospects to return calls, they blame the prospects when the real problem was that the salespeople sucked, their sales process sucked, their sales management sucked and as you would expect, their results suck.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 19, 2019

A creative sales team name can help unite your team, foster collaboration, and help individuals learn, grow, and reach personal and team goals. For sales managers, a positive and productive team dynamic is crucial to your team's success. This is a fun exercise that can get everyone's creative juices flowing. Team Central.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pharmaceutical sales training faces several unique challenges that require tailored approaches and solutions. These challenges include: No insight into field activities Traditionally, it has been difficult for sales managers to gain visibility into the daily activities of their sales reps in the field.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 11, 2019

Enter, the sales operations manager. Sales operations exists to help the team use technology effectively, implement training exercises, align sales and marketing, set territories, evaluate compensation plans, and more. Director of Sales Operations Job Description.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

You have 15-25 years of experience starting as a sales rep. You became a Sales Manager, followed by a Sales Director. You deserve credit for the value you create in the sales force. Sales leaders need to reshape the definition of market value. This exercise will give you evidence to what you are worth.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It’s every Sales Manager’s struggle. You’ve had an open territory for some time. Most sales managers do not identify the key metric for onboarding success. A sales manager should define a set of onboarding activities that drive the right selling behavior. The best sales managers set up a Fast?Start

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We already know that planning for a company event in 2020 will take your team into a new territory that wasn’t necessary to navigate in years past. Your virtual sales kickoff will look different, feel different and require extra planning if you want to pull off a truly memorable event. Sales people don’t learn by listening.

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Closer's Coffee

APRIL 10, 2019

Pilates is a corrective exercise regimen created by Joseph Pilates originally named Contrology. Anyone in the sales profession has at one point or another struggled with concentration, control, and finding balance. I just finished my first 6 months here and I am at the top of the leaderboard in sales performance.

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Step 1: Take Measure of the Sales Target. Before your rep can begin creating an effective business plan, they need to be comfortable with the sales target you've set for them. Then, meet individually with each salesperson to review their previous performance data, and present them with their new sales quotas. Conclusion.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Sales managers often motivate their reps with SPIFFs and sales contests that award cash prizes. This is a tried and true sales motivation strategy, and monetary rewards generally produce results. However, they don't really motivate the entire sales force -- only the top performers likely to win. Use leadership.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2019

Grow our share of account/territory Constantly learn and improve Leap over tall buildings… (Oops). As managers we know we have to: Hire, onboard, develop, retain the very best talent. Sales Managers Need Coaching And Development Too! Stop Wasting Your Money On Sales Training!

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Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

Some of the top challenges financial services enablement teams face include: No insight into field activities Traditional sales managers find it difficult to gain visibility into the daily activities of their account managers and sales representatives in the field.

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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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criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

How will marketing support sales with LinkedIn targeting ? It’s not enough to conduct a one-time exercise to identify your ideal targets. Is there an opportunity for expansion, such as a new territory or a complementary offering? As you work with marketing, you’ll be able to continually refine your targeting.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 12, 2021

One of the things we have learned over the last 14 months is that shaping the right attitude and mindset for effective selling — without the traditional office setting — can be uncharted territory for many sales professionals on the grind. Create a community that’s "digitally on-call.".

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When presented with empirical and unassailable evidence to the contrary, namely a list of salespeople who are succeeding with the same pricing and the same competitors, they suggest those reps are lucky (a factor outside their control) or their territory is different (another factor outside of their control). You need to make sales.

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Keith Rosen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Discover why it’s such a challenge for managers to make the long term, fundamental shift from salesperson to sales coach and what you can do to truly evolve and sustain positive change. Here is the all too familiar career track and process many managers have gone through when transitioning from salesperson to sales manager.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 21, 2014

It may be a sales person’s territory plan, forecast, or pipeline review. It may be a sales manager or executive reviewing their overall business plan. It may be a marketing manager reviewing a new marketing program and the expected results or a product manager talking about a product forecast or launch.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

Reena Chadha, an Enterprise Territory Manager at HubSpot, says "I used to think of this as a time waster, but since I've changed the lens to a networking one, I take it more seriously.". Rachael Plummer, a sales manager at HubSpot, says "Get ready for the day. How to Manage Remote Sales Reps.

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CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Having been a frontline sales manager at Gartner years ago, this article is written to all of those currently in the role and hopefully reflects the sentiment and experience from all 2nd, 3rd, and beyond-line managers. . If you’re still reading (and I hope you are), becoming an effective sales manager takes time and discipline.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

HubSpot Account Executive Sarina Kowaguchi found that setting and clarifying the next steps in the sales process increases the likelihood of closing the sale. Ian Byrne , Enterprise Territory Manager for HubSpot, says the key point in all aspects of closing a deal is to not make assumptions. "If Don't make assumptions.

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HeavyHitter Sales

AUGUST 12, 2012

.   Somehow, “successful” sales training has become associated with a thick binder of material the salesperson lugs home from the class (never to open again). There is little interaction, practical exercises, or meaningful conversation about the difficult “real-world” obstacles that need to be overcome.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 24, 2020

No one wags a shaming finger at former industry executives whose sales strategies created that ugly archetype. The result of saturating territories with dealerships and forcing the owners to accept quotas of slow-selling vehicles to get the hot selling ones. Above all, make it safe for employees to speak and exercise their values.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Tamara makes a tremendous point that seems to be too often lost on managers and sales people alike. Sales people groan. They view the template as just another exercise or management conspiracy to waste their time. For managers, it’s not about the form or template either.

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Xactly

APRIL 11, 2018

How Do You Get Salespeople and Sales Managers to Believe in the Plan? Speaking of buy-in, ensuring that first-line sales managers and salespeople believe in the plan is absolutely critical to success. Do You Know What Makes a Good Sales Compensation Plan? Bob and Justin also cover: Territory alignment.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

those valiant guardians of shareholders “rights” and “value” Remember everything goes as long as there are profits at the end of the exercise, and the opposite is true, regardless of the social merits. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Time is the enemy in sales. For many of us, selling truly is an exercise in futility. This has been dogging management consultants, thinkers like W. Very little has been written about proactive sales management but it's an important science to understand from rep level all the way to the corner office.

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The Brooks Group

JULY 31, 2014

Is our organization's approach to the sales hiring process rigorous enough? Sales managers must have as much information as they can on potential hires. The right approach to the sales hiring process should include: Resume screen. Do sales reps know exactly what the sales position expects and requires of them?

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A Sales Guy

MAY 9, 2014

They were the kick ass sales person who was promoted because they could sell, but lead, manage, well not so much. For the rest of the sales leaders, it’s less an issue of not knowing how and more of an issue of not doing it right. Most sales leaders treat coaching as an ad hoc exercise.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

From a sales person’s perspective, they get no value from it, but managers need it to make sure the business in control. At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.” Why is it important for sales people to analyze the pipeline to improve performance?

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The Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2014

If your coaching program participants can’t tie coaching they're getting from their managers to their on-the-job selling reality, then sales coaching basically becomes an intellectual exercise. Peer-to-peer coaching can be just as valuable as the sales coaching provided by the managers.

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Keith Rosen

DECEMBER 14, 2013

We simulate different scenarios (individual interviews, group interviews, simulation exercises, writing exercises, shadowing or joint field rides with other current employees or salespeople, etc.) so they feel confident and prepared for every question, exercise, challenge and request that’s thrown at them.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 26, 2016

If you’re going to do exercises make those about fun.”. The outcome should tie into your theme, in Steve W Martin’s example above, “meeting attendees were given different colored company baseball hats and jerseys that designated which group they were part of for team-building exercises.”

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