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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals.

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Proven Strategies for Effective Sales Management

Highspot

Building and Leading a High-Performing Sales Team Only 31% of sales managers had strong confidence in their sales team’s ability to meet key business objectives. Creating a high-performing team is a cornerstone of sales management success and requires excellent sales leadership.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

Companies are spending more money on sales force evaluations, sales training, consulting, sales leadership development, sales process, infrastructure and sales recruiting services than 5 years ago. And selling has changed more in the past 5 years than ever before. Yes, it should.

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Sales Leadership: Closing Summer Business

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: Closing Summer Business. Now in reality, working the sales process effectively, increasing the number of opportunities and creating creative sales strategies are the fundamentals for a successful summer. This will increase the power of pressure as well as reassure the prospect of your commitment.

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How to Lead a Sales Team: 14 Key Tips to Help New Managers Thrive

Hubspot Sales

That's why we put together a list of some key tips aspiring sales leaders can refer to as they find their footing as managers. Even the strongest, most refined sales leadership skills can only take you so far if the team you're leading is unruly, unmotivated, and underqualified. Clearly articulate how your sales process works.

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Straight Commission Can Deliver Twisted Results

The Pipeline

I love the process of establishing trust with what were once arms-length prospects. And now that we’ve got a compensation system that motivates us to show the customer just how much we can offer, we’re all incented to go that extra mile. Sales Process' Can commission-only work in the corporate world?

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The Value of Cross Referrals – Sales eXchange 158

The Pipeline

Last week I was working with a group, we were looking at more effective prospecting, when we got around to discussing referrals, I got back some familiar comments. The specific comment was that the rep was reluctant to ask prospects/clients for referrals “because what if the person or company they refer are out of my territory?”

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