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Sales Reps Love Their CRM!

SBI

In fact, who doesn’t love a good forecast session with their sales manager? Not only that, sales reps see tremendous value in the information reported back to them from the CRM. It is often a point of contention between sales managers and reps to update their activity and forecast. A HISTORY LESSON.

CRM 95
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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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[Missed Connections]: May Referral-Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Then I’m headed to Slovenia, where I’ll get to meet Tanja, a sales manager I met on LinkedIn who lives in a small town called Ljublana. Can’t travel across the world to meet with your international prospects? We can measure revenue, but we can’t manage it. Want the Inside Track on Your Sales Prospects?

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Amazing New Study on Buyer Behavior

Pipeliner

The RAIN group has just released a powerful new white paper on a subject near and dear to all sales hearts: prospecting. Also interviewed were 489 sellers whose job at least partially includes prospecting. For those that get better meetings and have better conversions into sales, what do they do differently?

Study 45
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Why The Best Salespeople Are Phenomenal Project Managers

Sales Hacker

When you combine the target-oriented paradigm of sales, along with the methodologies and control systems of project management, you get the best outcomes in terms of decision-making and overall performance. What You Get When Sales Is Managed Like A Project. Just like a project, sales consists of tasks and activities.

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The Biggest Sales Excuses You Need to Stop Making in 2018

Sales Hacker

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. There certainly are a lot of things in sales that make life a tad more difficult. Yes, prospects can be frustratingly unresponsive.

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B2B Marketing & Sales Insights from Lori Wizdo of Forrester Research

Pointclear

When we survey marketeers, we ask what percent of their pipeline was the result of a marketing program. Smaller companies might be doing something like 90 or 70 percent, and I’ve even met clients who have 100 percent of their pipeline coming from marketing. B2B marketing and sales teams must agree on the sales-ready lead definition.

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