Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Let’s look at each one.

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Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2020

As a sales leader, your team’s sales pipeline is everything. Without a robust pipeline your team cannot make their quota and your job is ultimately at risk. Pipeline drives key decisions including how you assess and coach your reps to success. What Is a Sales Pipeline? How did the lead become an SQL?

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2023

From “Maybes” to Closed Deals: A Deep Dive into Predictable Sales Processes Hello everyone, I’m your host, and today I’m excited to share some valuable insights from a recent expert interview episode where I had the pleasure of hosting Jakub Hon , co-founder and CEO of Sales Doc.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

One of the biggest mistakes sales managers and sales people make is spending too much time focusing on the health of the pipeline. Managers are constantly holding pipeline reviews. They are constantly asking, “What’s changed since we reviewed the pipeline yesterday?” Why more?

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CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If the sales process is WHAT to do, a sales methodology is HOW to do it. And in today’s modern sales organization, this investment is no longer nice to have, rather it is table stakes. A sales management process is the only way to gain credible answers to these questions. Let’s explore why.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Believe it or not, most people still believe that sales success boils down to getting a lot of people to agree to watch a demo. Dave Kurlan Inbound Marketing sales methodology closing sales performance sales selelction' I''m sure I''ve missed a few but you get the gist.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 13, 2019

Sales Management is without doubt the most important link in the revenue chain. It’s also the toughest role in a company because it’s where the person is squeezed between the relentless expectations of executive management and sellers who struggle to differentiate in ferociously competitive markets.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

A classic issue in sales forces is promoting one of the top performing sales reps to the manager of a sales team, then having them fail in this new role. I just became much clearer on why this happens and what can be done about it, by reading just one section of David Brock’s book “The Sales Manager Survival Guide”.

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criteria for success

MAY 17, 2022

If you’re in the process of building a winning sales training program for your team, you've come to the right place. Here at Criteria for Success, we help companies strengthen their sales teams and build out training processes that ensure sales best practices are being put to use. Create a Sales Training Program That Sticks.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Halloween is here and there are spooky things all around us, but your sales pipeline should not be one of them. Take the knowledge of the characteristics of a winning opportunity and apply that to your current pipeline. However, these social norms don’t necessarily translate during a sales engagement.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Many sales leaders think they’ve put a simple sales process in place, but they get frustrated when their reps don’t follow it. That’s because the sales processes leaders come up with are often not as clear, actionable, or repeatable as they’d hoped. These 3 Sales Process Tips Will Make You Unstoppable. Sound familiar?

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CRM Basics: Marketing and Sales Concepts. Simply put, a lead in B2B (business to business) sales and marketing process is a person at a company who has an interest in your products or services. These leads are discovered, qualified, and handed over to a salesperson to go through a sales process. What’s a lead?

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CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Having been a frontline sales manager at Gartner years ago, this article is written to all of those currently in the role and hopefully reflects the sentiment and experience from all 2nd, 3rd, and beyond-line managers. . If you’re still reading (and I hope you are), becoming an effective sales manager takes time and discipline.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a sales manager, you’re like a general marshaling your troops (or sales reps) into battle. That’s why having a strategic sales plan is vital. It sets out everything your sales team needs to know about your sales process, including what they need to do at every stage of the B2B sales funnel to convert high-value leads.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Christian Maurer , a Sales Leadership Methodologist , had 2.5 After Siebel was absorbed by Oracle, the assets of the sales consulting department were sold to the TAS Group, where he continued his role as Solution Practice Director. Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! careers during his professional life.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The true mark of a successful sales team lies in their ability to transform hurdles into stepping stones. In their pursuit of conquest, large sales teams demand strategic finesse and collaborative ingenuity. Such relatively primitive tracking methodology fails to account for the flood of crucial data pouring through the funnel.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? We’ll explain what sales qualification is and why it’s important. What is sales qualification?

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you’re in the depths of the sales process, how do you know what step to take next? Just focusing on the desired outcome—a new sale—won’t get you there. That’s where the next-action-based selling methodology comes in—an approach to sales that focuses on the activities that truly drive results.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What rules your sales team – order or chaos? Do your reps follow a consistent and repeatable process that makes it easy to predict quarterly sales? Some of the best sales teams start that way. Some of the best sales teams start that way. It can be easily done by building a simple and repeatable sales cycle.

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Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

People in all industries use generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to create content, analyze data, write software, create sales strategies, develop employee training, manage teams, and more. Say Hello to Custom GPTs for Sales Gen AI creators aren’t resting on their laurels. Want a GPT for sales content?

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The Sales analytics category has exploded in recent years, both in number and diversity. Metrics are the bedrock of any sales function (in fact, one could argue that no enterprise function is tracked, measured and analyzed more than sales!). Here are 3 key sales metrics you may be missing: 1.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Quantity vs. Quality and Making Sales Numbers. At the start of my sales career my manager set targets for me for how many calls per week to make, how many proposals per month to issue, the number of cold prospecting calls that should be made each week, etc. As a sales manager I noticed something curious….

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Too often, as executives look to improve sales performance, they look to doing something new or different. It may be adopting a new methodology, new technologies or tools, changing your go to customer strategies. Any of these can improve sales performance, but the come with their costs. Hyperfocus on your ICP.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 8, 2023

Vague excuses and shallow explanations frustrate all sales professionals. Surprisingly, sales leaders tolerate and perpetuate this frustration with the term stalled deals. ” When sales professionals characterize deals as stalled, they are vague and shallow. .”

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Explore a range of sales process examples and learn how to align with the customer’s journey for better buyer engagement , relationships, and sales success. What is a Sales Process? A sales process is a structured set of steps that guides salespeople through the sales cycle.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A sales manager without sales reports is like an explorer without a map. While sales reports may seem like another task on your never-ending list of things to do as a sales manager, they offer amazing insights into your sales teams and processes. . What is a sales report?

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Gong.io

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news: the principles behind managing a team are the same whether they’re in the same room… or remote in their living room. 1 Make Pipeline Reviews Strategic. Getting information to flow in your team will allow you to start the week strong with *actual* pipeline reviews. But sales reps need individual recognition too.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline? Slightly more to the right would be Sales VP’s as they are more involved in the implementation. Few organizations try to sell their sales staff on benefits they may derive from CRM software. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 9, 2020

In this post, he recommends ways that sales enablement leaders can implement sales transformation strategies. As a global sales enablement professional and leader, one of the chief lessons I try to teach is moving sales enablement from the perception it’s purely a training function or just a new word for training.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Guest blogger Donal Daly explains how sales managers can become sales leaders. Then your sales force needs the right tools for success. You need a system that management can use to coach behaviors, not criticize outcomes. Just as importantly, you need sales leaders , not just sales managers.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sales operations managers are the unsung heroes behind a high-performing sales team. They design sales processes, sift through sales data, and predict futures. Their role is to set up the sales team for success. What Does a Sales Operations Manager Do? To improve sales outcomes.

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

In this edition, I’ll be discussing why you as an executive in a sales, marketing or CX leadership role play a mission-critical part when it comes to making sales enablement successful in your organization. . Another aspect is how to make sales enablement the engine of your digital transformation efforts. .

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

In B2B sales, activity leads to results. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. This means your sales force will be in more deals. This is how your pipeline gets built. You reduce the number of sales reps to cut costs. You know this.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 23, 2020

This methodology ensures that businesses follow a customer-centric behavior and align sales activities with customers’ decision-making process. Robert Miller and Stephen Heiman have urged salespeople not to lead with a sales pitch. Confirmation questions that help reaffirm the information collected by your sales team.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before we dive into sales cycle management, let’s first focus on what a sales cycle is and the sales cycle steps. What Is a Sales Cycle? A sales cycle is a term used to describe the sales process steps, beginning when a sales rep identifies a potential customer to follow up after closing the sale.

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