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5 Principles for Setting Expectations in Your Sales Organization

The Brooks Group

Resist the urge to simply hand new employees a book of company guidelines and performance expectations. Instead, work with your sales reps to establish short-term goals and long-terms goals together, using two-way communication. How many calls/outside sales meetings are they expected to make per week?

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Managers Don’t Know What Their People Are Doing

Keith Rosen

Due to it being such a relevant concern to managers across the globe, I wanted to share my reply with you. The question was: With respect to observation of outside sales teams, are there other tactics to accomplish this other than joining them on a sales call? Global Managers and Foreign Languages.

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The Ultimate Guide to Channel Sales

Hubspot Sales

Do you need a partner with an outside sales team, an inside sales team, both, or neither? Process: Your partner’s sales process should be compatible with yours. Ideally, there’s a natural point in their sales or services process for introducing or upselling your product. Channel Sales Manager Job Description.

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How to Enable Your B2B Sales Team to Convert Inbound Leads

Sales Hacker

In this follow-up to our Organic B2B Inbound Marketing Playbook , I teamed up with Outbound View owner Blake Johnston to break down the best practices for coordinating marketing and sales to convert your sales qualified leads to warm opportunities (and eventually deals). Hire, Organize and Segment Your B2B Sales Team.

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Should Sales People Be On Quota?

Partners in Excellence

Pat went on to describe that many sales managers he talks to have other goals/metrics they use–certain numbers of activities, other measures. He said his sales people never had been on quota, they had certain guidelines on things they should be doing (activities) and some metrics associated with those activities.

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The July Edition of Top Sales Magazine is Published

Jonathan Farrington

Our regular feature writers, Barb Giamanco, Nancy Nardin, Babette Ten Haken and Tamara Schenk are joined by sales management guru Keith Rosen. As usual we also announce this month’s Top Sales Article and Top Sales Blog Post, and you will find all the details on nominating your favorites for the 2013 Top Sales & Marketing Awards .

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All you need to know about sales incentives

Salesmate

This is happening in both inside and outside sales tactics. Because of this, the sales reps are not in full control of the buying process. Sales managers, thus, have to focus on both individual-selling as well as collaborative-selling to determine the ideal ratio for success. Passes for an upcoming sales event.