Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Sports teams from the professional level to high school invest significant sums of money in their facilities to obtain peak productivity from their athletes. The problem of split incentives. One challenge to increasing the focus on healthy commercial buildings is that of split incentives.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2020

This is a toxic combination for sales reps and their managers. Sales leaders that fall back on run-of-the-mill motivation techniques struggle to drive their reps toward aggressive growth targets. Invest in sales management coaching. Plan a sales contest. Sales contests are another engaging way to propel reps forward.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or fully on board, it’s important to educate yourself about how sales reps are using AI.

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Pipeliner

APRIL 11, 2018

Information hits sales managers from all sides on the subject of creating high-performance sales teams. Provide constant feedback, hire the right people, incentive programs, create compensation plans that drive behavior…the list goes on and on. Yard sales’ occur every day in the sales profession.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 26, 2022

Salespeople make sales calls. But the best sellers know each sales call is an opportunity. For most sellers, sales is a process-oriented profession. However, the best outcomes begin with the best process, and the best sales calls start with a plan. As part of discovery, sales calls follow prospecting. Offer Value.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In sales, the terms “manager” and “coach” are common titles. Afterall, for each, their primary objective is supporting sales teams to boost performance and achieve success. In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. What Is Sales Management? Developing sales plans.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being a sales manager today is less about managing and more about developing, inspiring and growing the skills of your team. This is not easy and can leave a lot of sales managers chasing their tails trying to work out how to improve the performance of their team. Coaching improves your skills.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 10, 2014

Over the last 5 years, when conducting keynote sessions or workshops, presidents and senior sales executives overwhelmingly want to know – How do I motivate my sales people and keep them motivated? Your sales people don’t give a rat’s a** about shareholder value and year over year growth of the division or the department.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being a sales manager today is less about managing and more about developing, inspiring and growing the skills of your team. This is not easy and can leave a lot of sales managers chasing their tails trying to work out how to improve the performance of their team. Coaching improves your skills.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

To stay active, he likes to play padel and train at the gym, and in his leisure time, he enjoys cooking and watching tv shows. Brenna Oberg, Sales Development Representative Brenna was born and raised in Minnesota and currently lives in Lakeland, Minnesota with her husband Chase. He later found a passion for data science.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Taylor Montero, Sales Operations Analyst. He grew up playing a lot of team sports, later moving to extreme sports in snowboarding and wakeboarding. Billy has been in sales/sales management his entire career and previously spent five years at Capshare. Avi is a big sports and pop culture fan.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Lulu has experience in customer service, sales, onboarding, data analysis, and languages (he speaks three). Noah Park, Sales Development Representative Noah is from a town in Central Illinois called Champaign. He would describe sales in four words which would be to make friends and solve problems!

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Sales is all about pursuit: pursuit of the right prospects, pursuit of the right message, pursuit of the right applications. Aventioninc.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2018

As sales leaders, most of us assume that many aspects of our sales machine will become inefficient during hypergrowth. As we think of ways to improve sales performance, a number of growth pains may come in the way: High acquisition costs. In the last six months at Weave, our sales team managed this balancing act.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Coaching is one of the most crucial aspects of a sales leader’s role. That suggests most sales reps aren’t getting the training they need to succeed which, in turn, can hurt the company’s bottom line. When the sales coaching process is broken, it prevents modern businesses from scaling kick-ass sales teams successfully.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 27, 2018

Tim Blaney is the Founder and CEO of SalesMaps , a Freemium Navigation App designed for sales people and anyone else who drives for work. He has over 10 years’ experience in Customer Service, B2B Sales and Recruiting. I was a C Student, and gave all my extra time to sports and friends. Three months were spent in sales training.

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SalesLoft

JULY 2, 2015

A couple of weeks ago , we asked a few of the industry’s top sales development reps to see what they’ve found to be the most effective motivator on a daily basis. When I was an SDR manager, I motivated with incentives like cash spiffs and tickets to ball games. Now it’s time to hear from their bosses.

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Showpad

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sales managers at any organization are in a position to guide and motivate those they lead, similar to the coach of a sports team. So it would make sense to give managers the proper training for sales coaching, right? Unfortunately, many sales managers do not know how to coach properly and aren’t being held accountable.

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Xactly

AUGUST 30, 2018

Sales team management plays a big role in the success of an organization. As the bridge between executives and sales reps, managers communicate corporate goals with their teams and keep reps on track to hit their quota. It’s important for sales leaders to manage their teams effectively. It takes a multi-pronged approach.

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Sales Training Advice

OCTOBER 19, 2010

When times are tough and prospects seem to be holding on to every dollar, your job as a sales manager is more important than ever before. Now is the time to roll out a sales contest to generate additional sales and build morale. Offering a contest to your sales team is a smart business decision on many levels.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 16, 2015

Most of the comments seemed surprised or somewhat taken aback as I discussed the topic, others were curious as to how to have fun during the sales cycle. This is the emotional work for sales leadership. Make sure your sales contests are sales games! What kind of sales environment are your creating? Sports events?

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

In sports, teams must create their identity. As sales pros, you might not steamroll, bully, or otherwise menace clients. Here are several tips to develop a winning sales strategy: Define Goals. Of course, all sales organizations want to sell more. It’s akin to a sports team wanting to win games.

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Showpad

AUGUST 31, 2018

Your sales kickoff (SKO) is not just another sales meeting; it’s a time to gather all your reps at the start of the year to review the past 12 months and motivate them as the next 12 ramp up. Follow these tips to guarantee your sales reps stay focused and on track and carry that with them post-SKO. So what should your goals be?

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Sales Training Advice

DECEMBER 6, 2011

If you ask an extremely successful salesperson, “What makes you different from the average sales rep?” The personality tests were given to high-technology and business services salespeople as part of sales strategy workshops I conducted. A high level of inquisitiveness correlates to an active presence during sales calls.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2018

sports, business, education, government, even in marriage and families. We asked veteran B2B sales managers, consultants and coaches how best to build and sustain a high-performing sales team with a clear understanding that a company’s success relies on a lot more than it sales personnel. Consumer companies like Apple.

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Keith Rosen

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Soon after working for this global sales organization, I made a decision to exercise my entrepreneurial muscle and start a business with a few partners. It wasn’t long after that I sold the portion of my business to my partners to become an executive sales coach and further pursue my dream to be a writer. Yes, this is possible.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 11, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan What jump starts sales performance? New Sales Talent? Buying Incentives? Performance Incentives? Optimized Sales Process? Better Sales Methodology? Improved Sales Model? Effective Sales Management? Here are the first 30 I thought of.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 24, 2023

Sports fans obsess over shots made, batting average, and greens in regulation. For sales organizations, these numbers are expressed in raw data we call leading and lagging indicators. Our white paper, The Ultimate Guide to Developing a High-Performance Sales Organization , examines six pillars of successful organizations.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

Why are Sales Compensation Plans Important. A company is nothing if it doesn’t have sales. There are plenty of ways to automate and utilize inbound methods, but having salespeople who take control of the deal and close new sales was the next level. Building sales compensation plans for them can be a difficult task.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2024

What we do, whether long form or short, our outreach/engagement techniques, our processes/methodologies, the metrics and incentives, how we create value, how we coach, develop, and grow our people differs—from company to company, customer to customer, market to market, individual to individual. And it differs over circumstance and time.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2019

Many of these people make their living playing sports… but sales isn’t so different. So why isn’t practice an important part of our sales careers? Why aren’t we spending hours honing our conversational tactics, perfecting our pitches and learning to guide buyers through the sales journey? That place is role play.

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Showpad

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Does your organization have an effective Sales coaching program? Sales Hacker’s recent webinar “ No B.S. Here are some key takeaways from the roundtable discussion and audience Q&A: The Distinction Between Sales Training & Coaching. Many organizations see Sales training and coaching as one in the same.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Your organization needs an effective sales hiring strategy to survive. The average annual turnover for sales teams is around 27% , meaning that if you have 10 reps, you could lose three of them within the year. The only way to maintain — and, ideally, to increase — sales performance is to hire often and well.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Download the "2018 Sales Compensation Administration Best Practices Executive Guide," for incentive compensation trends, best practices, and tips to drive the right sales behaviors to kickoff your sales compensation planning. Invest in Training. Rip Off the Band-Aid. Circle Back After Big Projects.

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CommercialTribe

JULY 9, 2018

Improve your sales manager coaching skills in six actionable steps. As a sales manager, you aren’t just responsible for direct interactions with customers. Studies have shown that your coaching skills have a direct impact on the overall performance of your team, transforming their sales successes.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 28, 2020

We’ve entered a new era of sales training. But today, sales reps expect more creative and comprehensive career development tools, and customers expect salespeople to be valuable industry experts. Sales instruction must now include new methodologies that didn’t exist even 10 years ago. What is Sales Training?

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