No More Cold Calling
JANUARY 9, 2020
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.
Steven Rosen
JANUARY 13, 2024
In the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley stress the lack of coaching and support for sales managers, underscoring the need for coaching for these managers. Evaluating sales managers’ success should exceed sales quotas and include turnover and team development metrics.
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No More Cold Calling
JANUARY 16, 2020
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. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings.
Pipeliner
APRIL 23, 2021
Another important foundational aspect of account management—and sales itself—is the handling of quotas and forecasting. From my observation, only a few companies manage the problems for quotas and forecasting well. To start with, it doesn’t work to push quotas and targets onto salespeople without their agreement.
SBI Growth
JANUARY 10, 2014
You just got your new quota and it’s gone up. Now you need to roll it out to your management team. Top sales leaders know how to communicate and roll out a sales plan. As soon as the new quota is approved- it’s time to get moving. As soon as the new quota is approved- it’s time to get moving. Start Early.
Mindtickle
APRIL 23, 2024
In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. What is sales management training? This approach simply doesn’t work.
Sales and Marketing Management
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Now the role might be aligned more to sales opportunities rather than specific accounts. . For instance, more than a decade ago, Cisco Systems installed an on-demand portal that has a wiki knowledge base, virtual product demos and an expert locator.
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