Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The Sales Manager Boot Camp. Becoming a new sales leader is overwhelming. Suddenly you go from having a quota to managing the quotas of multiple people. Improving your professionalism as an experienced Sales Manager is just as hard. This is what New Sales Manager Boot Camp is all about.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2022

If you are in sales, you likely see yourself as a leader. If you are a sales manager, you must be a leader. But if sales management is a new role for you, it can feel like you are swimming upstream. First Rule of Sales Leadership: Know Your Purpose . What is that purpose of a new sales manager?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are incentives obsolete? Don’t do it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

Author: Bob Junke Recently, I had the honor of being asked by the Sales Enablement Society (SES) to offer my definition of sales enablement as an alternative to the one the SES Definition Working Group came up with. Defining sales enablement is important. The result is a buyer-centric approach to sales enablement.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 20, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the most frequent questions we get from clients has to do with the second most important finding on Objective Management Group''s (OMG) sales and sales management evaluations. As a group, they were guilty of taking their foot off the gas.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What makes an effective sales manager? Acting as sales manager can be a difficult job because you wear two bulls-eyes: one on your front and one on your back. Your senior management is pushing for results, numbers, revenue, and profit. Your sales people are looking to you for guidance. Coach, don't manage.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2017

The driving motivators behind performance can vary greatly from one individual to the next, but there are some groups who are generally fueled by the same set of rewards. By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 21, 2020

Sales training can be one of the most critical investments you make for your team. Salespeople often resist training, viewing it as a hassle that takes them away from their work. In fact, according to Training Industry , more than a quarter of salespeople feel that their sales training is ineffective.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. The REAL Problem with Sales Training [link] #news #sales. This post has 1 comments.

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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. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2015

The driving motivators behind performance can vary greatly from one individual to the next, but there are some groups who are generally fueled by the same set of rewards. By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. This can help organizations get the most from their sales managers, sales coaches, and, ultimately, their sales teams. What Is Sales Management? Developing sales plans. Forecasting. Adaptability.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. Simulations help fill in the knowledge gap for the hiring manager.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. The resulting incentive plan must develop a compensation process that will motivates the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth.

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Allego

MARCH 11, 2021

When it came to building sales relationships, Lotka found herself reverting to the lesson she had learned in Japan. You have to pull the efficiency of that down into much smaller bites where you’ve got an idea that you present in a discussion for the group so that it’s very interactive,” she suggests.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: A Brilliant Sales Management Strategy. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A sales manager’s dream is having “A” Players that can carry a branch, district or regional office. Need some help to increase sales?

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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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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 9, 2017

KEN: Normally I do not use this blog to promote, but I have had many readers inquire about out training programs and I wanted to let everyone know about this special opportunity. The New Sales Manager Boot Camp. We have too much to do, we don’t have time to build a sales organization. For the New Sales Manager.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 20, 2012

I was traveling south on Montgomery Road today and NOT thinking about sales, sales management or coaching sales. I don't know why this small group was on this corner giving away free water. I believe that this also has significant implication about selling and coaching sales people. What I do know is this.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. Phase 3 - Sales Force Design - How many reps and what type?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2012

Objective Management Group identifies five big ones and a dozen or so additional weaknesses that cause problems for salespeople. Sadly, most sales training and sales trainers are unable to help salespeople overcome these weaknesses because their focus is primarly the sales skills and methodology that they teach.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Match specific products and product groups to those partners that are best equipped to handle them and the markets to which they are aimed. New product rollouts and availability should be preceded by training, collateral distribution and sales support materials. Good selling!

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 30, 2020

Kurt Nelson are consultants who have spent more than 20 years working with companies to design incentives that will increase productivity within sales teams. However, once those needs are met, incentives that are more material or experiential in nature move people into greater effort.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 6, 2013

We discussed why only 17% of all sales managers are effective at coaching and the conversation was very enlightening. So why aren’t more sales managers effective at coaching salespeople? Modeling – They did not report to a sales manager who was effective at coaching. Visit: kurlanassociates.com.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 17, 2022

It was not until ten years into my entrepreneurial journey that I received formal sales training. Unfortunately, as my career has developed with international speaking, consulting, and training, I still find that I am the only black woman in the room. On the Scale Your Sales highly-rated podcast.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Key takeaways Sales gamification can improve performance by drawing attention to specific metrics, sales targets, and KPIs. Employee engagement increases when the incentives are worth the effort required to do well. Manage your sales activities twice as fast Increase your close rate by 36% wuth PandaDoc.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

These are all activities that sales people perform or should be performing. These are all activities that should be used as metrics for success because they can give you, the sales manager, a leading indicator as to what will show up in the pipeline and what will potentially be sold. Wrapping this up, it comes down to this.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

These are all activities that sales people perform or should be performing. These are all activites that should be used as metrics for success because they can give you, the sales manager, a leading indicator as to what will show up in pipeline and what will potentially be sold. Wrapping this up, it comes down to this.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 26, 2012

The millennials are coming - what are the implications for sales training? ] but this new study provides some additional points for understanding how to manage millennials: Millennials are more willing to defer to authority than either boomers or Gen Xers. Millenials are not some group apart. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Importance of Sales Management in a Recovering Economy. We have met with Sales Leaders from around the world, lead workshops, presented keynotes and developed new long term relationships with our client base. What is the role or action points for sales manager’s in a recovering economy?

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 13, 2022

Worse, they likely offered discounts or crazy incentives to squeeze every deal out of their sales funnel. This is a continuous cycle which drives sales reps, sales managers, and leadership crazy. Runners that don’t train for marathons fail at the finish line. That means building pipeline. Wait, what???

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CommercialTribe

JULY 6, 2020

If your organization is formulating an improved response strategy, read our recent blog post on building a COVID-19 Management Plan , where we outline our main areas of focus: Who, Where, and How. In this post, we’ll dive into the first principle — the importance of WHO sales managers focus sales coaching effort on.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve rounded up sales productivity stats from the leading research firms and vendors in the sales enablement space to put together stats bucked into a few different categories: customer experience; rep time management; sales managers; sales enablement; and technology usage.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 9, 2017

Sales Management Boot Camp- 8 weeks, online. We have too much to do, we don’t have time to build a sales organization. I am frustrated with my sales team, do I have the right team? I have a problem growing sales profitably. Sales Management Boot Camp maybe for you. For the New Sales Manager.

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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. You’re not simply rolling out a change to one group -- you’re asking multiple external groups to adapt.

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