Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Allego

DECEMBER 13, 2023

saying those types of events provide the best opportunity to learn about new products or services. In 2024, we’ll see plenty of top-notch conferences for professionals in all industries, especially sales enablement. Below is a list of the top sales enablement conferences for 2024. Music to my ears! But wait, there’s more.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Are you a Sales leader, Sales enablement manager, Sales ops guru, or HR honcho wondering how to deploy MEDDPICC at your Sales Kick-Off? Get ready for the ultimate sales training extravaganza: your annual Sales Kick Off (SKO). Each zeroes in on a specific aspect of your sales strategy.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 22, 2016

Sales Tips: "Trust but Verify" Opportunities. Their primary concern is keeping sales managers off their backs by showing they have adequate activity to get at or near YTD against quota. By doing so the opportunity remains at the milestone. Need some help to increase sales?

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 7, 2020

The Sales Manager's Guide To Greatness! You may have been a top salesperson, and still continue to be, but that doesn’t always qualify you to be a top sales manager. Davis is the author of the book The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading your Team to the Top.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 30, 2018

Frequently I am asked by management teams to attend their sales meetings, to give feedback, and to participate in how my customers are developing their revenue engines. Sometimes they are dialed down meetings, designed to set the vision for the company; others are an opportunity to relax with their colleagues.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 21, 2020

On May 6 and 7 and 8, my friends and I will once again host our annual conference, one we believe to be the very best sales conference on Earth. This year will be the fourth year for OutBound , with each year bringing more salespeople, sales managers, and sales leaders. Opportunity to Learn.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 12, 2013

Managing a Sales Manager . As a result of our one of my readers sending me an email comment regarding his personal situation, I have attached the sample of one our of a tools we have included in our “On Line Sales Manager Tool Kit ” www.AcumenManagement.com. . Acumen Management Group . Sales Metrics.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar.

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SalesLoft

MAY 17, 2018

Coaching is one of the most important contributions to a successful sales organization. Time spent improving skills, implementing best practices, and focusing on the overall development of a sales team pays off tremendously in the long run. Managers weren’t born with an innate knowledge of what it takes to lead a successful sales team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Author: Matt Brown, Senior Vice President of Sales, Lawson Products Salespeople are often described as extroverted with good social and communication skills. This means sales teams need more than a website to gather product and pricing information. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with sales teams. Create a plan.

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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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Trinity Perspectives

JULY 18, 2017

This week my sales management consulting company turned 6 years old. Recently, while travelling to deliver a workshop in the US for a client of mine, I was asked the standard immigration question, “What is your occupation, sir?”. Sales management consultant,” I replied, which was met with a slightly confused look.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: A Brilliant Sales Management Strategy. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A sales manager’s dream is having “A” Players that can carry a branch, district or regional office. It took little time for Bob to manage the top 3 performers.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The account-based approach is an increasingly common undertaking by marketing and sales departments. But the biggest account-based killer is still at large: Lack of sustained focus from Sales. Will I flush enough opportunities out of these accounts I was given? 1 outside sales speaker. Educate, educate, educate.

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Carew International

APRIL 1, 2021

How Top-Management Involvement Impacts the Sales Process. One of the most interesting and conflicting circumstances sales managers, leaders and executives find themselves in is whether to get involved in the sales process with one of their sales professional’s customers. The Five Types of Involvement.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 19, 2014

Sales Training Article: Opportunities or Pipe(line) Dreams? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of BasketMan at FreeDigitalPhotos.net In my first sales management job, I took over an office that had finished 27th out of 28 districts the previous year.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 3, 2017

Sales Tips: What Constitutes a "Qualified" Opportunity? By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Sales leaders and trainers (and their marketing counterparts) spent 2020 trying to figure out how to translate in-person conferences into compelling, engaging virtual events. And because COVID-19 still hasn’t gone away, sales conferences are still taking on a virtual format. 9 sales conferences and events to attend in 2021.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 5, 2012

Take Advantage of the Opportunity. Several years ago, I was speaking in Puerto Rico at a sales conference and while I was waiting for my return flight I was relaxing and started to speak with another flyer. After I explained, he said to me: “ take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime, during the lifetime of the opportunity!”

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sales negotiations can be tense and anxiety-ridden. Sales negotiation is a skill that can be learned which is great news, because let’s be honest, not all of us are born sellers. There are certain strategies that many successful salespeople use to move the sales process forward and close more deals.

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SalesLatitude

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With so much time and money spent to get your sales team together, as the sales leader, shouldn’t you set the standard by engaging with your team and being present? I often facilitate a variety of meetings, team building programs and workshops. Sales management should set the standard for their teams.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in another conference (14th of the year), they are always great times when you can hear other speakers, learn new ideas and meet new people. 3. Still others believed sales must prospect and any leads from marketing were simply “gifts”. . Preparing for 2013.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Has the Great Resignation caused you to re-think your sales team hiring practices? In the last 18 months, millions of employees have voluntarily quit their jobs for other opportunities. And the sales department is not immune to this phenomenon. To reach your sales goals in 2022 preventing a sales talent exodus is critical.

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CommercialTribe

MARCH 14, 2019

This is the second article of a three-part series on sales manager productivity. In Part I, I shared where and why most organizations don’t actually know who their B and C sales managers are, and illuminated the hidden cost they bring to organizational performance. Or are you just saying, “Hey, you’re a sales manager.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Many sales reps feel this way, constantly racing to adapt to the unpredictable. Fortunately, if you’re aiming for peak sales performance in an uncertain world, you’re in the right place. Our guide provides critical strategies and sales readiness tools to ensure your sellers have the core knowledge and skills to thrive.

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Highspot

JUNE 1, 2023

Major advances include: generative AI for sales enablement, enterprise-class training and coaching, and ​​services and success resources that empower revenue teams to scale what good looks like in business-to-business (B2B) selling. Companies everywhere are intent on increasing efficiency, which requires running programs with rigor.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sales Training Article: Is"Sales Manager" An Oxymoron? Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Are you doing more selling than managing? However, it was my internal system.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Are you a CEO, VP of Sales, or Chief Revenue Officer feeling pressured because your company missed its numbers last quarter? If your company needs to find new sales this quarter, this article is for you. It explores the current sales environment and what companies can do to increase their win rates in the next 90 days.

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MEDDIC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Sales coaching has become very popular in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Studies have shown that companies with sales coaching programs boost their win rates by almost 30%. What’s more, statistics show that businesses that use effective sales coaches report annual revenue growth of up to 7%! Let’s take a look.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

Sales training program expert tips for anyone involved in sales management or sales enablement some insight into planning any form of sales training. It sounds simplistic to say that sales training is the act of training salespeople or the sales team on the product and sales process.

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Increase Sales

JULY 19, 2013

Believe it or not, there are still some very stupid people in sales. Internal – the belief system of the salesperson or sales manager. Another example of external stupidity is how sales training is delivered. A one or two day workshop where the participants are so overwhelmed with information is beyond stupid.

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Allego

JANUARY 28, 2021

found herself asking the very question she poses during leadership conferences and sales training alike, this time to herself: . “Do She was able to pivot her 20 years of industry experience into online training seminars and workshops in a matter of weeks. Sales IQ is relatively meaningless without sales EQ , emotional intelligence.

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When your salespeople head into a new quarter or year with a solid sales business plan, they’re more likely to improve sales forecast accuracy, attain quota, and effectively support your organizational goals. Unfortunately, many sales reps fail to prioritize planning. Step 1: Take Measure of the Sales Target.

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