Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 21, 2017

Five Tools Every Sales Manager Should Use. During a recent podcast interview I was asked what I thought were the top five “systems or tools” that a Sales Manager needs to be successful. However, let me first say this; the most important aspect of sales management is recruiting top talent.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2017

A Sales Manager’s Recipe: What’s Cooking in 2017? Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living, an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Become a Detective : In sales management workshops we always talk about inspect what you expect.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Sales Management and Discipline. I received a call from a former client that was concerned about the status of their sales team and VP of Sales-it seems that their revenue was off more than $2M over the previous year and below their growth goal! Build a weekly/monthly/quarterly sales management checklist.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 16, 2016

7 Steps to Success for Sales Managers. -A After being a VP of Sales, consulting on sales management for 19 years and after writing four books on sales management, Max Cates, author of 7 Steps caught my attention in the first five pages. A book review-. Hire for Traits, not Skills.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Power of Sales Leadership and Emotion in Sales Hello everyone, I’m John Golden, your host from SalesPOP! Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM. The Power of Belief Systems in Sales and Leadership During our discussion, we also delved into the significance of belief systems in sales and leadership.

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SBI

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Gerhard Gschwandtner launched Selling Power magazine in 1981 with a vision to create the number one industry resource for sales professionals. Widely recognized as a thought leader and industry trailblazer, he has trained more than 10,000 salespeople around the world and is the author of 17 sales management books.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 21, 2014

Management has not asked for an ROI on Marketing. Salespeople don’t use the CRM system, so what can I do? Sales management refuses to enforce lead follow-up. I don’t manage the people who control the final step in reporting: salespeople. Don’t have a CRM System? I don’t know where to start.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Sales Management and the Impact of Social Media. While in the process of writing a future magazine column on the future of sales and social media I interviewed three people and posed several questions in order to get their view points. Is your sales process? Acumen Management Group Ltd. Ken Thoreson.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 14, 2016

Sales Management: What is your goal—today? . Sales leadership is a constant focus on many various facets of business-it’s one of the reasons sales management is a one of the most difficult jobs in any business. It is because of these numerous aspects that many sales managers get distracted or lose focus.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 17, 2015

Ignite Your Sales Team: Sales Management on Fire! Everyone wants to lead a high performance sales team, but have you made the right investment to make it happen? We see many organizations struggling simply because they have not figured out the importance of investing in training their sales managers.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 3, 2016

Sales Management Shouldn’t be a Horse Race. That happens because of many reasons; lack of good pure sales management training programs, lack of previous exposure to sales leadership mentors or poor management styles. It happens in so many aspects of the job of sales leadership. What do I mean?

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Transforming Marketing Chaos into a Structured Success As the host of the Sales POP Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM podcast, I recently had the pleasure of hosting Austin LaRoche, the CEO of Attack Interactive. A Success Story Austin shared a success story of a company in the environmental services industry.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 29, 2015

Sales Management: The need for creativity! This past week I had opportunity to work with a great client at their worldwide sales conference in Miami. What was the most creative sales tactic you have used? Need more sales management resources? Check out his Sales Management Tool Kit or the Acumen Project.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Sales Management: How Does March Look? In magazine columns and other blog postings I have written about being a proactive strategic sales manager rather than a reactive, fire-drill crazy, un-organized sales manager. Acumen Management Group Ltd. Leave a comment and let me know.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 17, 2010

During many of our sales management consulting engagements we initially are confronted by the existing sales manager and or members of the sales team-if no sales manager is in place. First, you need to determine where your current sales management program is and where it may need assistance.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2015

Andrew Grove, former CEO at Intel, told fast Company Magazine that there is at least one point in the history of any company when the organization must change dramatically in order to rise to the next performance level. They have also adopted the Sales Managed Environment® and Effective Sales System as their own.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 26, 2017

Summer is also a good time to improve your professionalism but creating your own Sales Management Training plan. Something new is available to help you position your organization for growth, Acumen’s online Sales Leadership training program. Building a Sales Culture. Sales Compensation.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 6, 2015

11 Actions Sales Management Must Take Now! Sound investment portfolio-management advice ranges from “hold firm with your existing stocks” to “take advantage of a great opportunity to buy at today’s basement prices”. This also is an opportunity to build a better sales team that will increase your market share as competitors lag.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last week I was in Chicago keynoting an international association’s sales conference, in preparation I had been making notes and clipping interesting ideas from a variety of sources, one of them was Success magazine. As a Sales Leader or Executive these 3 secrets will also help propel your sales organization to the next level.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Then those kinds of prospects with similar demographics become your only targets for marketing and for sales prospecting. If you purchase data bases, those demographics become your criteria, in your CRM system call frequency patterns are set to connect with all the A’s , B’s, six times a year. Sales Management Systems'

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In this format there maybe a series of marketing campaigns, tele-sales people and a well-designed CRM reporting system. In other organizations there is limited marketing of this nature with an expectation that sales will build relationships that lead to additional business opportunities. Sales Management Systems'

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Many organizations fail because they simply don’t focus on executing the fundaments of a sales process or management process. Building Organizations Through the Execution of Strategic Sales Management. Are you as a Sales Manager organized? Do you have systems in place to Inspect what you Expect ?

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 16, 2011

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10).

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 6, 2022

Jay is one of the most visible and respected thought leaders in global channels, having been named 2021 Channel Influencer of the Year by Channel Partners Magazine. He was also included in the “Top 40 Under 40” by The Business Review and was recognized on many other channel magazines’ top influencer lists.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I proposed based upon my experience that working a partnering-model will bring your organization one salesperson’s quota per year WITHOUT absorbing the cost of sales in hiring another person. Salespeople should also continue to develop their network of referral sales. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 1, 2013

Sales Management and Mowing Your Lawn. The first quarter is over and sales leaders are capturing forecasts for the next two months and hopefully celebrating the achievement of their first quarter results. Resources : Top Sales World web site and magazine for April! Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What I also liked is the author’s ability to keep me active with an understanding of the Monkey Brain, Gator Brain and the Elephant’s Tether and how each example teaches the reader how they think and why the model/system must be used to be that innovator or creative solution solver. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2020

Inside Sales Managers are getting too hung up looking for the perfect sales cadence formula — the perfect combination and spacing of phone/voicemail + phone/no voicemail + email + social touch that will generate results. As you can see, the primary factor for any sales cadence is action. Outbound Sales Cadence Example #2.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Through its unique, account-specific revenue signals and automated outreach, the enterprise cloud solution is promised to accelerate sales in a way that CRM and AI alone cannot. Sales teams aren’t the same, and software shouldn’t be one size fits all. Opportunity Management. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Buying Technology.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 18, 2014

For a management book, this is an excellent page turner. The methodology and systems they discuss can be implemented by small to medium business as well as major corporations, especially those that want to unleash the power of their people. For New Sales Managers was published this summer. Published by McGraw Hill.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 7, 2012

Top Sales Magazine Names Consultant to Cisco and Microsoft Partner Programs a Top 50 Sales/Marketing Influencer. **revised Posting. The magazine describes this elite group as “resources that can assist companies in becoming the best that they can possibly be.” KNOXVILLE , Tenn., KNOXVILLE , Tenn.,

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 30, 2012

If Jonathan is right, your current sales process, current sales team and management systems will begin to change over the next 18-24 months. Jonathan is a global sales thought leader; the quote is from an editorial he wrote in our Top Sales World magazine.

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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. Opportunity Management. What are the smartest selling tools?

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2017

As a Sales Manager, wouldn’t you like to be in the positon of Nick Saban, coach at Alabama, as they refilled their talent pool, Alabama actually turned down players that were highly rated. Recruiting must be a constant focus of sales management. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 22, 2011

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10).

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2015

I am not a gourmet cook; I find something in a magazine or see something on the Food Network and I give it a shot. When you are evaluating your sales people for success, there is success and then there is SUCCESS. In any one discussion, the descriptors for sales results/success can sound like this: Hitting the ball out of the park.

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