Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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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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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

VP’s of Sales and Marketing and Business Unit Heads can relate to this. They are the people in commercial organizations responsible for both strategy development and sales execution. You and your marketing team have worked relentlessly over the past two months. Do you have a formal strategy execution process in place?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As we settle into 2021, maximizing trust is a top priority for sales managers and professionals, company leaders, and entrepreneurs. How can you maximize trust in your business while managing to keep energy and finance costs down? Here are four ways to maximize trust in your business and prevent excess in 2021.

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Vengreso

APRIL 23, 2019

The leaders of every organization want to maximize sales effectiveness and productivity. But the ever-changing digital sales landscape can make it hard to keep up. That’s why I wanted to bring Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Effectiveness for CenturyLink on as my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Whether it’s an individual seeking to maximize her performance, or a team struggling with a change initiative or even collaborating effectively, the things they face are similar to those our customers face–yet the context is slightly different. The post Sales Manager, What Value Are You Creating?

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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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim has been writing a series on sales management, Why Can’t We Build Better Sales Managers? In this particular article, Tim suggests we may not need traditional sales managers anymore. My immediate reaction was, “What is the role of a sales manager?” ” Absolutely!

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

ValueSelling Associates’ Julie Thomas and Highspot’s Kelly Lewis break down how to maximize the impact of revenue enablement Love it, hate it – or do everything in your power to work around it – when it comes to the revenue enablement function, everyone’s a critic. It all comes down to strategy.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Automate : There are more and more tools on the market that remove the need for sales people to do non-selling tasks. Sales people may be doing these tasks out of habit, or as a reason to avoid doing tasks they perceive as hard, like prospecting. Sales management. They do not produce important results.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management. I’ll stop here.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2019

Sadly, too many managers seem to mindlessly echo the same meaningless mantra from some hopelessly outdated sales manager playbook. It helps us maximize the results and outcomes of everything we currently do. As a result, we maximize the utilization and impact of all our resources. It’s tough work!

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2024

3- Understanding the Ideal Client Profile Identifying and understanding the ideal client profile allows sales reps to focus their efforts on prospects with the highest likelihood of conversion. Coaches can assist reps in developing a clear picture of their ideal client by analyzing past successes and market data.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2022

I wasn’t hearing anything about sales management–both top sales executives in setting the overall goals and priorities of the organization, and front line sales managers. The words “sales management” were not uttered in the conversation.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Mike shares the 12 building blocks, tied together with systems thinking and communication management, sitting on a base of (optional) sales support services. It turns out, sales enablement isn’t just training, or content, or technology. A Managed Process. Mike highlights the risk of ignoring the frontline sale manager.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

Look at our market cap, we are unicorns!” Our jobs as leaders is to maximize the performance of every part of our business. But it seems we aren’t driven to maximize their performance. What is this costing us–in expense, opportunity, reputation?” We are scaling at unbelievable rates!

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The Sales Readiness Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

As buying behaviors continue to change, so does the market. To stay competitive, organizations need to find ways to maximize their current opportunities and generate new ones. In this article, we will introduce 5 ways to increase sales performance in 2024 and help your team surpass last year’s figures.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A sales training reinforcement program is designed to let your sales reps practice these skills with real opportunities while being guided by expert sales coaches. Follow these 4 keys to maximize the ROI of your sales training reinforcement program and permanently shift the performance of your sales team.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Let’s explore the key success factors for manufacturers to maximize sales through indirect channels. While indirect channel partners purchase your product from you, they are not your product’s end-user, a distinction some manufacturers struggle to understand in relationship management. Clearly Define Your Channels.

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Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Among the negatives: the on-the-spot feedback that was vital to the relationship between a manager and his reps is now less common. Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. percent were quality.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A sales training reinforcement program is designed to let your sales reps practice these skills with real opportunities while being guided by expert sales coaches. Follow these 4 keys to maximize the ROI of your sales training reinforcement program and permanently shift the performance of your sales team.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And the first step is clear—team managers and leaders must understand and admit that obsolete management practices are resisting innovations outright. Because AI empowers leaders to maximize human strengths rather than getting dragged into metric minutiae. But what’s next? Today’s blog starts right there!

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2018

Moving into the role of Sales Manager is a challenge for everyone. Often, new managers don’t get great coaching from their managers. Often, new managers don’t pay attention to the coaching they get from their managers. Too many new managers fail in their first 90 days, yet never know it.

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Increase Sales

JULY 11, 2013

Every day my inbox is crowded with poorly constructed email marketing messages with everyone looking to sell me something. These folks are still engaged in product based or sales based marketing instead of education based marketing. Here is the email marketing message I received with my initial gut reaction in red.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!”

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

MARCH 5, 2024

Distribution is exceptionally competitive, and finding ways to maximize your sales opportunities can help you with that competitive edge. Here is an overview of its functionalities so you can unlock its potential for driving strategic sales growth. Ready to take the next step?

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? Sales Core Competencies I. Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Sales Core Competencies II. Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. Sales Force (5).

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 25, 2014

Coaching sales strategy. Ask sales managers and salespeople what makes them successful. Sales managers can’t help salespeople become more talented, but they can help them become more skilled. However like a lot of good ideas, coaching sales strategy is easy to say but no so easy to do. How many accounts?

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To be successful in sales, the most important thing is to prepare and execute well. Signature sales and marketing is a proven tool, and sales email signatures are an easy way to start making it work for you. 1 – Pair Your Work Calendar and Sales Manager Email Signature. With the role of HR Manager.

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