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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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CPQ Perspectives: Sales Management

Cincom Smart Selling

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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Is Coaching Salespeople Different than Managing Them?

Janek Performance Group

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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33 Stats to Know if You’re Considering or Planning a Sales Career in 2023

Hubspot Sales

Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Glassdoor predicts the average yearly salary of an outside sales rep to be $72,000.

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When Sales Leaders Don't Lead With Their Strengths

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today I received a request for all of my articles to date which reference Objective Management Group's Sales VP/Director Assessment. Out of nearly 1,000 articles, I hadn't referenced OMG's Sales VP/Director Assessment even once! I'll fix that right now.

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Inside sales – it is a new dawn and sales training needs to shine

Sales Training Connection

Inside salespeople are no longer just engaged in small commodity type sales or as backup for completing the secondary tasks of the outside sales group. As Steve Martin pointed out in an HBR blog companies are increasingly creating inside sales groups who are independently handling accounts in the mid-market.

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What Is the Make up and Function of the Ideal Sales Force?

Understanding the Sales Force

I''ve written four White Papers over the last several years, all backed by science and data from the more than 700,000 salespeople and sales managers that Objective Management Group has evaluated and assessed. The Science of Sales Longevity. Why Did the Move from Outside Sales to Inside Sales Take so Long?

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