Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. They would observe calls, ask questions to help the sales rep evaluate what worked well and didn’t work, and have the rep come up with ways they would commit to improving their selling skills. From being on the road to working from home.

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Coaching Face-to-face Selling Skills Sales Coaching 290

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2020

Author: Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Excellence, Upland Software Sales teams are often one of the most expensive resources within a company, yet the average frontline sales manager spends only 9% of his or her time developing direct report sellers. . Leaders, Take Part!

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Hiring Training Lead Rank Health Care 234

Steven Rosen

APRIL 14, 2024

Hiring sales superstars is critical to building a high-performance sales team. These tools are designed to assess and predict, providing a scientific basis for forecasting a sales candidate’s success. They help identify cultural fit, manage different sales approaches, and offer developmental feedback.

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Hiring Forecasting Exercises Retention 156

Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the strategy of simultaneously setting learning and sales goals. They explore the intricate relationship between continuous learning and improving skills for sales leaders, stressing the need for a balance. In this article, we’ll look at the connection between sales and learning goals.

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Sales Goal Top of Funnel Social Media Coaching 156

Pipeliner

MARCH 19, 2024

CRM and Sales Performance: An Empirical Study Authored by Daniel P. Strunk , Professor Emeritus and CRM Curriculum Developer, this research systematically examined Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems within business enterprises.

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CRM Survey System Pipeline 69

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

I would work with small companies to develop their sales strategy, sales process, and sales goals, and incorporate these into their business plan. My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. Decrease the cost of sales. Flash Sale.

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Referrals Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Outbound 385

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And that, somehow, leads me to sales performance. If they haven’t been exposed to professional selling methodologies and sales processes, and had those demonstrated to them via expert, unscripted role-plays, then they would have no clue that the presenting and proposing they have been doing is woefully inadequate.

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Outsourcing Services Territories Proposal Sales Methodology 193

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

A pillar of success for any sales organization is an effective business development strategy. Of course, changes in the sales landscape and marketplace have a profound effect on your business development strategy. Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies introduced measurement at the macrolevel.

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Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy Analysis 62

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Virtually every organization I work with has a real misunderstanding of Selling Processes and Sales Methodologies. A Sales Methodology focuses on “how” we execute our Selling Process. What is our unique approach to value creation, valued development, value communication, value delivery, and value realization?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Or it may be a methodology, process, objection handling technique. Don’t mistake my discussion as a suggestion that we abandon methodologies, processes, tried and true strategies, and so forth. Within our organizations we promote that mechanization and strict compliance to our scripts, playbooks and methodologies.

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Ideal Customer Profile Guidelines Lead Rank Lead Scoring 95

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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Sales Management Face-to-face Promotion Proposal 195

Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Developing Master Sales Coaches. Do you have a team of master sales coaches? Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? Unfortunately, as you know, this won’t maximize your sales nor improve the competencies of your sales team.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Maximizer Selling Skills 322

Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 18, 2023

Lars Nilsson is the VP of Global Sales Development at Snowflake. Before that he was the VP of Global Inside Sales for Cloudera. Lars has also served in sales exec roles at ArcSight, Hewlett Packard, Riverbed Technology, and Portal Software, all three of which achieved IPOs.

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Hiring Loyalty Sales Methodology Referrals 98

The Pipeline

JANUARY 31, 2022

Craig brings a deep wealth of knowledge about sales and revenue success. Sitting at the intersection of sales tech and sales methodology. Craig has a proven and unique ability to identify trends that impact sales and how to either leverage the good, and avoid the risky. Craig’s Gartner Blog: [link].

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Margie Olson , an executive coaching and leadership team development expert, to gain insights into this profound topic. It requires intentional training and development to cultivate the skills needed to overcome common leadership pitfalls. We also discussed some key misconceptions.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Recently, I wrote Which Sales Methodology , suggesting the 21 plus sales methodologies may not be sufficient as we look to the future. I’m not sure I’ll present a methodology for the future, but I will suggest design principles for a Next Gen Sales Methodology.

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Sales Methodology Analytics Face-to-face Churn 105

Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2021

There's no denying that sales can be chaotic. Sales technology might be unreliable, and every rep is bound to deal with their share of curveballs here and there. Sales orgs need to do what they can to keep things on as even a keel as possible. That said, many organizations leverage it to inform the full sales lifecycle.

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Sales Methodology Sales Process Report Survey 124

Alice Heiman

JANUARY 23, 2024

Forget the traditional sales pitch; it’s all about relationships and networks. This was the sage advice from Eduardo Coll, when he talked with Alice on “Sales Talk for CEOs.” Prioritize Relationship-Building: Train your sales team to focus on establishing relationships first. Key Takeaways for CEOs 1.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I asked my question because I believe being really interested in selling is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to be successful in SALES. One can be interested in selling but for the wrong reasons, which then becomes a hindrance for sales success. To answer even your first question:” Are you interested in Sales?”

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Customer 102

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

Why I Love Sales Sales was never a career option I aspired to. I had to quickly immerse myself in my client’s new offering, ideal clients, what mattered to their buyers, and even their sales methodology. Afterword: Jill is giving away a huge amount of the materials she has developed over the years.

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Face-to-face Sales Methodology Compensation Segment 105

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This makes two movie posts in a row as I used Sound of Freedom to illustrate that companies don’t know what they don’t know about sales. Commonality with Sales While I thought it had a lot in common with selling, the twelve central figures: Were not professional investors although they did invest in GameStop.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Recently, I wrote, The Next-Gen Sales Methodology. In it, I posited that project management and problem solving methods are core to a much more modern sales methodology. Develop the launch, marketing, and sales plans. What’s this mean to sales? In this case, milestones might be to 1.

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Sales Methodology Face-to-face Tools Sales Process 154

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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Outsourcing Services Training Hiring Workbooks 62

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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Siebel Oracle Sales Methodology Engineering 188

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

The sustained growth that can only come from retaining and expanding your customer base relies on sales reps who consistently build genuine relationships with customers. Planning: How to Create a Data-Driven Strategy In my experience, there are four key steps for developing a clearly defined execution plan with measurable success metrics.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. I had worked with enough of these companies to know that, while they all had a business plan, you couldn’t find a section on business development if you tripped on it. I was thinking big picture business development. Was this company asking?

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2020

I’ve gone through training in countless sales methodologies. Our own company has developed and implemented sales methodologies used by thousands of sales people–though all of our work is customized to the strategies, priorities, culture/values of the organizations we work with.

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Sales Methodology Face-to-face Retail Consultative Selling 103

Steven Rosen

JUNE 3, 2020

Unleash the 10X Factor to Close the Sales Gap. Do you want to close the sales gap? Now is the time to get sales on track. Even though we are still social distancing and face to face selling may not resume until 2021, you are still responsible for sales results. Sales managers are the key to driving sales performance.

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Sales Leadership Closing Face-to-face Coaching 394

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

I want to stay in the game long enough to see the old sales practices retired and the new digital selling model take hold.” Initially, I provided the models to sales teams. You could feel the positive energy, and I realized the impact sales can have across a company – I was hooked.

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Hiring Lead Rank B2C Conference 95

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with KaTom CEO Patricia Bible to discuss what it takes to lead and sustain a hyper-growth company. Retaining top performers through continuous development, recognition, and providing pathways for advancement within the organization.

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Company Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Face-to-face 95

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to your target market. Business development can concern anything your company does to expand its market reach. At its most basic level, business development involves prospecting and lead generation.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona Scale 130

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

business-to-business senior sales leaders to identify the mindsets, attributes, and behaviors of top-performing salespeople. The findings revealed there are seven actionable habits of top sales performers ; these habits are a combination of learned skills and inherent traits and set the best salespeople apart from the middle-of-the-pack reps.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Data 117

Salesmate

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Business owners always employ sales playbooks, frameworks, and various strategies. Sales methodologies have played a significant role in helping businesses realize the revenue goals. Sales have gone through many changes in the past decade. The methodology intends to guide sales professionals while selling.

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Sales Process Sales Methodology Decision Maker Scale 135

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All too often, sales reps accidentally adopt a “one size fits all” approach to selling. We’ll also share some of the key challenges and benefits of making the shift to the solution-selling methodology. The solution sales methodology was developed back in the 1970s. What is the solution sales process?

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Solutions Selling Ideal Customer Profile Sales Methodology Consultative Selling 59

MEDDIC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A Time Limited Offer You Can’t Refuse Earlier this month, we at MEDDIC Academy soft-launched Infinite Sales Leadership , a groundbreaking course designed to redefine the essence of sales leadership in the modern era. It focuses on leveraging the MEDDPICC methodology to enhance team performance and sales execution.

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