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Is Sales a Solo Activity or a Team Sport?

The Sales Hunter

Success DOES love company and that’s why I believe sales is a team sport! Early in my career, my territory consisted of 1/3 of the state of Oregon. The size of the territory was bigger than territory in 4 other states I covered driving my company-supplied Buick. Sales is a team sport. It’s boring!

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Don Mulhern

Partners in Excellence

You initiate the work: securing meetings, creating opportunities with prospects and clients, and closing deals that produce revenue for your company (and income for you). Whether it’s territory planning, account planning, deal planning or sales call planning, YOU create the strategies and the plan. It isn’t prescribed for you.

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Digital Sales Strategies Using Event Campaigning

SalesforLife

These events could be localized events, sporting events, experiential events, conferences, trade shows, or user conferences. If you read our blog, you know that account executives are responsible for building TAM maps for their particular geographic territory. This is a most basic, but fundamental strategy.

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3 Lessons I Learned About Sales from My Trip to South Africa

Shari Levitin

I’m not a sports nut, so I don’t know if this is true, but I do believe in a similar philosophy: everything you need to know in life can be learned from immersing yourself in nature. How disciplined are we when it comes to hunting for new prospects? Prospect first thing in the morning before checking your email.

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You Don’t Need To Be Manager To Be A Leader

The Pipeline

Second, is a territory that flourished under the rep in question, now sits vacant while the “new manager is replaced”, risking customer satisfaction and retention. They are able to lead prospect through a range of choices, challenges, noise and alternatives, cheaper and easier solutions, and get them to arrive at choosing them.

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5 Outcomes to Expect When You Implement Effective Sales Coaching [New Research]

Hubspot Sales

Just like a sports coach, a sales coach is focused on an individual's development. This starts by using soft skills to build trust with those you're coaching the same way you would build trust with a prospect or client. On a day-to-day basis, the manager's focus is on quota attainment and delivering revenue.

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Is A Sales Team Lead Role Worth Exploring?

Zoominfo

By splitting your team, you’ve been able to deploy measurable processes to maximize strategies, as well as identify areas for iteration to improve results. . But the team lead role, for my money, is part of the reason we’ve been able to build out a world-class go-to-market strategy. I’ve seen this happen, first-hand. And work well.

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