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Hey Sales Manager, Get Your Head Out of That Spreadsheet

No More Cold Calling

million per sales manager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”. I wrote that 15 years ago in my first book, NO MORE COLD CALLING: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust. million per manager.

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Customers And Sellers, Conflicting Systems

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been writing a series on the importance of systems thinking in buying and selling. A fundamental issue we have to understand is “What happens when two independent systems intersect and have to work together?” And these may include buying, it they determine that is critical to their change management process.

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A Sales Management System

InsightSquared

A global “best in class” sales function will consistently produce a quarterly forecast with a margin of error within 3 points—1% on the downside and 2% on the upside. This is especially challenging in larger sales functions with many sales regions but equally difficult in newer higher-growth businesses with new sales teams.

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Selecting Platforms and Systems

Pipeliner

How deeply do you evaluate your company’s preferences when selecting a platform or system? Note that I’m addressing larger companies, with established sales teams, that require care when implementing automation. Not Done Overnight For a company, selecting a platform or system takes time and effort. What should the metrics be?

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.

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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.

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Transforming the CRM From a System of Record to a System of Insight

Zoominfo

Over the last two decades, customer relationship management (CRM) systems have become the center of the universe for enterprises and small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) alike. And that doesn’t include long-term costs of bad CRM data linked to limited agility, lower sales output, low morale, and dissatisfied customers.

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