Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The topic of Sales management is very broad, and is covered in an infinite number of books, so we won’t be covering that here. There is also an endless list of material on sales management—and as anyone who has read my previous writings on the subject knows, I consider that management is management.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 7, 2018

Author: Gregg Schwartz Many people think sales management is complicated and mysterious, that there's some unknowable process to becoming a great sales manager, or that great sales managers are born, not made. Here are five choices that great sales managers make – and you can make these same choices too: 1.

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Apptivo

AUGUST 25, 2021

Salespeople follow up right from capturing a lead, converting it to sales qualified lead, moving it into pipeline opportunities, and improving the customer conversion rate. In short, sales teams have a significant role in increasing the revenue of a company. It is not that if there is lead, there will be no opportunity.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 18, 2017

So what are the identifying marks of a weak sales manager ? How can you, as Sales Director, determine the signs that have to be dealt with? You measure your management team on the results they achieve. A weak manager will look for reasons and excuses. Blaming Results On The Poor Sales Team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Targeting is a fairly simple practice, but when sales management doesn't perform this activity for their salespeople (as in, "Mary, call on these 27 accounts.") There is also the case of the salesperson who calls on the right people in the right industries (so far so good), but all of the opportunities are the wrong size.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? The darker dotted line is the trend for the percentage of sales management candidates that were recommended by Objective Management Group for the same time period. Yes, it should.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

Congratulations, you are now a sales manager. Earning the title of sales manager is an important step in your sales career, regardless of the size of your sales team. There is plenty that new sales managers need to learn on their journey to become a sales leader. Trust is reciprocal.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 24, 2020

Finding new opportunities and creating them are two different outcomes. Those who struggle to create enough new opportunities often believe that they need to find opportunities when they need to create them, something that requires a different approach. Finding Opportunities. Creating Opportunities.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

That has led to a progressive trend for sales models: next year, 68% of sales leaders say they plan to keep or implement a hybrid or fully remote sales model. While this year has knocked us all off-balance, opportunities for growth still exist. Recognizing that sales managers are the most stressed.

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SBI

APRIL 2, 2019

Even when employees do locate the right repository, the key information is often buried in a long document or presentation, and sales teams are required to extract the relevant information they need to respond to customer inquiries or help facilitate a conversation. Resources All Blog Article Industry News Interview Video Video Reviews.

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Allego

AUGUST 21, 2023

Frontline sales managers are the powerhouse behind every high-performing sales team. However, many frontline sales managers struggle because they don’t receive proper enablement and coaching. In many cases, frontline sales managers get promoted to that role because they’re a top-performing sales rep.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 14, 2024

The sales teams came from companies of all sizes, from companies with three salespeople to companies with thousands of salespeople; from start-ups to companies more than one-hundred years old; from companies generating less than $5 million USD to multi-billion dollar enterprises; and in more than two-hundred different industries.

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Sell Integrity

JUNE 23, 2020

In their new roles as sales managers, these individuals’ success would now depend on how well they could rally their teams. And everyone knows that in a fast-moving industry like, for example, SaaS , you have to dive in and figure it out. And there’s one specific management responsibility that can unlock all three: coaching.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Let’s take an in-depth look into how data and sales intelligence can affect every aspect of the sales process and the impact it will have on the sales industry in the future. In addition, information such as the company’s top customers and closed opportunities can be used when presenting to the board or executive team.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

One route into the position of a sales manager is promotion from having been a highly successful salesperson. They are suddenly saddled with the responsibility of the entire sales team. Fortunately, though, sales management is a craft that can be learned. This will help a sales manager to get up and running.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If sales is a journey, your strategic plan is the roadmap you'll provide your team to help them reach their destination. It is one of the most important activities you will ever do as a sales manager because, without it, your sales team will have no direction and no instruction manual to follow in order to achieve their targets.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great. What does a sales coach do? When examining what a sales coach does, it is helpful to look at what they don’t do. First, sales coaches are not sales managers.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even if your organization has all the latest and greatest sales tools, technology that isn’t used effectively can’t help move deals forward. As the hub of the sales organization, sales managers play a central role in improving sellers’ adoption of technology. Integrate Sales Technology Into Sellers’ Workflow.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Managers should take the lead on driving adoption, but only 26.7%

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2024

Sales Managers: Get Off Your Butt and Start Coaching Your Reps In today’s highly competitive sales industry, which has endless analytic tools and virtual interfaces, the role of the sales manager has quietly pivoted to that of a ‘dashboard coach.’

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 29, 2018

CRM systems have been utilized throughout many different industries within the sales world. The way that CRM is used has a different impact on each industry, based on how it is used and adopted by the sales force. This article gives insight on how CRM has specifically impacted the printing industry.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 6, 2019

These people are from non-competing industries who will most likely refer you to potential business since they are folks who call on your same target buyers and markets. Remember, you are attempting to map your ideal customer and your ideal opportunity! Type of business – Your product or service may be industry specific.

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Zendesk Sell

JULY 16, 2019

To understand this concept more clearly, take a look at the main differences between a traditional “waterfall” sales process and an agile process: Agile sales management explained. So, how does agile management relate to sales? The benefits of agile sales management.

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Pipeliner

MAY 31, 2018

In this ebook author, Nikolaus Kimla gets very specific, dealing with sales management through CRM. He personally believes (as do a lot of experts today) that utilizing a CRM is the only way to manage a sales team—and in fact, it is practically impossible to manage one without it. Lead Management.

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Highspot

JUNE 9, 2020

For many companies across industries around the world, COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges. But even in the most trying of times, opportunities surface to those who look for them. Leveraging these opportunities will not only help you sustain through the downturn, but will strengthen your enablement program in the long run.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a sales manager needs to be poised for the future, you reduce the chances of creating value and growth. The need for courage comes into play all throughout a sales manager’s job.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

In the sales profession, AI is seen as both a threat and an opportunity. The company has embraced AI and encouraged its sales team to do the same. Conclusion Rob Ulsh’s discussion sheds light on AI’s impact on sales and the importance of embracing this technology.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The win rate is the percentage of opportunities that have successfully closed. It helps you measure how effective your sales reps are at closing deals. For example, if a team member has 50 opportunities in their sales pipeline and turns 10 into buyers, then their win rate would be 20%. Improve win rates.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2015

Slammed: For the First Time Sales Manager. For first time sales managers ” by my friend and sales management guru Ken Thoreson. This is his 4 fourth in a series of books written under the banner “Your Sales Management Guru’s Guide To:”. Sales is a corporate priority. Chapter 24.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

She also highlights the role of executives and managers in fostering collaboration and the potential costs of not prioritizing teamwork. She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams. However, true success in sales requires collaboration with customers and internal teams.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 7, 2018

KPIs for Sales Managers. New Leads/Opportunities. Sales Volume by Location. Sales managers -- and particularly field sales managers -- can often feel like they are trapped in a fog. New Leads/Opportunities. This is the metric that managers most consistently monitor.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hiring and onboarding are an expensive undertaking, so companies are incentivized to train new sales reps quickly and ramp faster. But, many organizations tend to rely on these programs and miss the golden opportunity to continue upskilling sales reps throughout their time at the company. Improve Employee Retention.

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SalesFuel

JUNE 10, 2024

We connected with some industry leaders for their thoughts on some unconventional, ‘under-the-radar’ traits,” he writes. But, the most successful sellers understand that hearing a “no” is part of the sales experience. You’ll find that focusing on building these traits helps you stand out and take your sales to the next level.

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