RAIN Group

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For the best sales results, you need to have a highly motivated team bringing their A-game, day in and day out. Often, it's up to sales managers to make sure their team maintains this positive and results-driven attitude. But it’s not always easy.

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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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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sales Success is influenced by many factors. All of these do have influence but I believe that the influence has to do with 1) How easy is it to engage a prospect or 2) How hard is it to engage the prospect. Your sales people have competencies that are either supportive of successful selling or block successful selling.

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Score More Sales

JULY 10, 2014

We are creating an epic list of skills and traits of good sales managers. Some of the sales leaders were phenomenal – like Al Martin who came from IBM. (Who What traits do you admire about your sales manager if you are a rep? The post Traits of Good Sales Managers appeared first on Score More Sales.

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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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SBI Growth

JULY 4, 2013

Sales Manager dashboards have been updated. the Sales VP asks. Download the Sales Manager Execution Guide. It will: Provide you 10 Sales Manager actions you must take immediately to save the year. It will: Provide you 10 Sales Manager actions you must take immediately to save the year.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 14, 2012

I thought I’d take over the Sales Blog today as I have some interesting news about MTD Sales Training’s MD Sean McPheat. Sean has been named as one of the Top 25 Sales Influencers For 2012 , which he is obviously very excited to know. Marketing Manager. MTD Sales Training. Happy selling! Louise Denny.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 16, 2014

As a Sales Manager, you have great results and outstanding performance reviews. Ask your organization for a sales manager scorecard. Spend Time- Statistics show that most managers spend 80% of their time with low performers. You will quickly find out if your new leader can influence without authority.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Sales managers are a rare breed. Most organizations employ one sales manager for every six to 10 sales reps. Making it to the sales management ranks indicates you occupy a spot that roughly 90% of your peers have not. So can sales managers. Congratulations.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 11, 2013

The post Jeffrey Gitomer – Named one of the Top Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2013 appeared first on Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Blog. Sales Sales Management Success Jeffrey Gitomer Sales Training sales sales blog sales training sales training program top sales trainer'

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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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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In Business Services companies, Operations executives usually have more power than Sales executives. Operations leaders often have a disproportionate amount of influence over Sales functions. Sales executives, by contrast, are often viewed as wanting to take foolish risks. Ops says Sales doesn't understand the business.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JULY 21, 2011

Can leaders influence without authority?…Hardly. Tweet Share I just read this quote: “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” The quote should say, “One of the MANY keys to successful leadership today is influence.” Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Top 25 Sales Influencers for 2012. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , execution. Start by downloading our new book: Sales & Consequences. EDGE Sales Process.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

One of the most important parts of influencing a potential customer is to be very specific and be very crystal clear. Another vital part of influencing potential clients is to really listen to what they are wanting, and what feels like a win to them. Getting Crystal Clear. Sell to Humans.

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The Sales Readiness Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

One of the driving forces of sales leadership is influence – the ability to affect the motivations, actions, and behaviors of your sales team. Your positive influence on your team gets things started, builds momentum, and motivates your salespeople to produce great sales results, even when the going gets rough.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. Good Selling!

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2013

Sales VPs need to train their Sales Managers differently. Coaching sales people has changed. 77% of all Sales Managers reported fewer sales calls in 2012. Download the Sales Manager Situational Coaching Tool to immediately change your coaching.). Because buying has changed.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s hard out there for your average sales manager. Sales trends like ever-expanding buyer expectations, changing sales methodologies and nonstop transformation initiatives have coalesced to make their role more challenging than ever. Constant sales transformation initiatives. Enable Sales Managers Directly.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Sales managers normally face a trifecta of shifting demands from buyers, their direct reports and their organization. The COVID-19 pandemic gives sales managers the perfect opportunity to work toward transforming into more capable leaders. Shift From a Sales Manager’s Mindset to Sales Leader’s Mindset.

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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. The fact of the matter is, having been a high-performing sales rep doesn’t mean that they’ll automatically be a great manager.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Are you prepared to succeed today in Sales, Sales Management, Business and Life? Let me take a minute to answer for myself and then I'll get on with the rest of the post: Sales - yes, Sales management - kind of, Business - yes. In sales management you would likely look at sales.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 26, 2023

As a sales manager, you've realized that the sales world is not a constant, static environment. It's a dynamic, ever-changing landscape influenced by various factors, including the seasons.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As a salesperson, you can influence your customers, but you can also really influence your customers. Influence leads to sales. But the real measure of your influence is determined by how your customers behave after the sale. It’s quite another for that influence to endure after you’re gone.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 14, 2015

Great sales leaders must also be great managers. The problem was that sales management had their heads in the sand. So, they neglected the strategies, sales metrics , and processes that could have kept their businesses strong, or at least afloat, when the going got rough. Then the recession hit. We need both.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2019

Here are some sales manager resume tips and templates to calm your nerves and help you get the job of your dreams. Sales Manager Resume Tips. I spoke with Pratik 'Tiki' Biswal , a senior sales manager at HubSpot, and he provided some resume writing tips. Sales Manager Resume Objective.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

To get that inspiration, direction, and motivation we follow mentors on social media like Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn influencers. Without any further ado, let’s jump right ahead to the list of Sales LinkedIn Influencers: 1. Gary Vee is the influencer we all know & follow at least on one social media platform.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2012

In our experience of looking at thousands of win–loss reviews and talking to salespeople and sales managers, in most cases these last-minute surprises are caused by one of two problems: Then came the dreaded call: “Thank you for the proposal, but we’ve decided to go with someone else.” ” So, what happened?

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 4, 2014

They spend more time with your sales people than anyone else in the company. They influence and then bless the account plans. They manage to the quotas. They influence the deal strategies. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

David Hennessy, the VP of Sales at Kite Pharma, is an experienced healthcare leader with over 20 years of experience in the biotech and pharma industries. Similarly, in other sectors, emotional arguments can be made to highlight a product’s or service’s benefits, ultimately influencing customer behavior.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Scale your own management process. Good luck, and happy managing! Assess your strengths as a manager.

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Pipeliner

JULY 8, 2018

The Digital Era of Sales Management. “If This digital era of sales management will dwarf what’s occurred in the information era and the value of the Internet today. Sales management has been impacted by the onset of the digital era, but not always in the ways that people think. Big impact?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 16, 2014

As a Sales Manager, you have great results and outstanding performance reviews. Ask your organization for a sales manager scorecard. Spend Time- Statistics show that most managers spend 80% of their time with low performers. You will quickly find out if your new leader can influence without authority.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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