Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Fashion Software Software Training 105

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Analysis Territories Scale SalesForce 130

Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. Good Selling!

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Sales Management Hiring Territories Coaching 82

Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

The job of a sales manager is to provide a succeeding environment for salespeople. Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. Download a free trial now.

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 94

Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Believe it or not, expanding within your existing customer base can yield better returns than braving new territories. CEOs should focus on insightful data interpretation, emphasizing process-oriented coaching, adept tech use, and consistent training. 18:23] Slow progress in implementing artificial intelligence for sales. [20:08]

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GoldMine Survey Territories Ideal Customer Profile 84

Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Coaching 73

Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2024

Dating back to 1977, my entire career was as a B2B sales rep or I was managing a B2B sales team. For those who may not be familiar with this system, it was a “shoebox” with 12 monthly separators and 31 day separators. What are some of the general company benefits from a well managed CRM … Increased revenues.

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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 Management Hiring Forecasting Energy 81

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There’s a lot of stuff written about what sales managers have to do and their key job responsibilities. Some of the laundry list items include: Make sure the team makes the number, develop the strategy, manage the forecast/pipeline, manage performance, recruit, train, coach, and on and on. No related posts.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. In order to maximize performace at the 100m, athletes train and diet – you will find that some do it through drugs, but that is like lying to the customer. New Concepts Driving Greater Performance .

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Territories SalesForce Incentives Incentive 40

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What do you like and dislike about the sales process? What training method is most effective for new reps? Sales Manager Interview Questions.

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Analysis 142

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Sales Manager’s job is to provide an environment within which their sales people can succeed. Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. What more could you possibly ask for?

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 86

Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2012

The other day I wrote about the “Almost Perfect Sales Management Article.” ” That post stimulated a flurry of questions about a Sales Management Standard Operating Process/System. There are a few key building blocks to the Sales Management/Leadership Process.

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Sales Management Hiring Top of Funnel Territories 86

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One of the managers on the call told this story, “I went to the university and got all sorts of training that was very powerful (he was getting a degree in computer science), the problem was, I had a lot of knowledge, but it didn’t help me much in doing my job. Tools, systems, processes, training are not enough.

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Sales Enablement Territories Face-to-face Maximizer 88

Sales Training Connection

APRIL 4, 2014

Sales manager with a new sales team. As most in sales leadership would share – the front-line sales manager is the pivotal job for building and sustaining sales success. And, perhaps the most critical time for any sales manager is when first taking over a new sales team.

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Sales Management Pivotal Coaching Sales Coaching 119

Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Forecasting 115

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I once spoke to a sales manager who was complaining about how many salespeople he had lost in the previous three years. The overall cost of advertising, screening, hiring, training and coaching a new salesperson can run into many thousands of pounds. Managing Director. MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling!

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Hiring Policies Ideal Customer Profile Salary 175

Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

Even worse, the content they get from marketing doesn’t match the messaging used in assets from the product team or the information drilled into them during training, so they confuse your buyers and end up creating their own content, wasting several hours per week. First, sales enablement is about a lot more than technology.

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Sales Enablement Lead Rank System Buyer Persona 134

SBI Growth

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. They cross collaborate with manager peers, their reps, and the VP. Reps that fail are re-trained.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation 334

Lessonly

MAY 3, 2021

Systems are a beautiful thing. Without systems, you cannot test hypotheses, track progress, or repeatedly deliver exceptional results. In personal and professional development, these systems and procedures are, ultimately, habits.”. Systems are habits. Systems and habits are good. Building out a territory?

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this episode, sales strategists Ken and Nick Valla, co-founders of The Valla Group, discuss how their firm helps B2B sellers maximize performance. Learn why organizations must transform their training approach in a hybrid work environment , what sales leaders should do differently, and the key skills sellers need today.

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Google Maximizer Territories Groups 93

MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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Sales Management Hiring Referrals Energy 40

MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

Sales Management 40

Sales Management Hiring Referrals Energy 40

Sales Training Connection

MARCH 1, 2017

New Sales Managers. Customers now want sales reps who are trusted advisors not product facilitators. All this means that in order for a sales team to be successful in the years ahead, front-line managers need be highly skilled. Let’s look at how a new sales manager can get off on the right foot.

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Sales Management Pivotal Territories Coaching 50

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It’s every Sales Manager’s struggle. You’ve had an open territory for some time. HR is done with the new-hire training. Most sales managers do not identify the key metric for onboarding success. Most onboarding programs focus on a mixture of internal processes and product training. Product Knowledge.

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Hiring How To Buyer Persona Demand Generation 202

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

In The Way to Create Value , a recent eBook we created in partnership with LinkedIn, we suggested three ways that sales leaders can create the structure, culture and systems to start building high-performing sales teams that deliver more value for buyers. Define a Sales Methodology. Layer Sales Technology.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Sales Methodology 100

Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 11, 2011

High-Performance Sales Management. Building a strategic and effective sales management system is just like building anything else: It takes time, refinement and follow-through. Sales concepts get recycled, too. Sales managers must direct and mobilize their teams to achieve desired results.

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Sales Management Hiring Trade Show Penetration 56

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. They have to provide the coaching, training, systems, processes, tools, and support to enable their people to achieve their goals.

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Coaching Sales Management Face-to-face Analysis 48

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 8, 2014

I’m normally one to watch a movie, read a book or listen to a song and tie it to sales and/or sales management. And, even though I use a lot of sports analogies, I rarely use sport stories or examples in my blog post or Sales Brew Newsletters. During this run, the Huskies stopped executing their system – their offense.

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Territories Sports Call-back System 151

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Guard your time – a bit of advice given to me years ago by a wise sales manager that I’ve always worked to remember. Because of everything you do in your sales career, time is the one thing you cannot recoup. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth.

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Territories Maximizer Buying Cycle Pivotal 73

Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Unless you are a sales manager with your own territory (which is an untenable position), you don’t produce revenue. It’s an important point that too many in sales management don’t understand. The job of the sales manager is to maximize the performance of each person on their team!

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Revenue Sales Management Face-to-face Maximizer 50

Steven Rosen

JUNE 25, 2013

As the head of sales it doesn’t matter if you are involved directly in the process, what matters, is that you have in place a top-notch sales selection system. Without a clear process your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub optimal results. Self-manager. R – Rigors.

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Hiring Territories eBook Sales Management 309

InsightSquared

JANUARY 8, 2018

I could see leads that were over 15 days old, so I drilled down into them and could see that they were being routed to the wrong rep, in the wrong territory, selling the wrong product. I can then work with marketing to create a targeted campaign for the rep’s product line or in their territory. We host lunch and learns, training etc.

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Opportunity Closing System Lead Rank 54

SBI

JULY 24, 2018

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. Sales reps do not love their CRM and see little value in it. The system, the process, the technology, it all needs fixing.

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CRM SAP Forecasting Incentives 95

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

If you’re in a position to fill a sales role, you’re likely already feeling the pressure, because your revenue targets are built on the assumption that your team is fully staffed. Essentially, achieving your goals is only possible with a full roster of sales reps who know their territories and are ramped to full productivity.

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Hiring Compensation Territories Sales Talent 76

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Both mature SMBs and newly minted sales teams love Pipedrive for how newcomer-friendly the CRM is. The no-strings-attached free trial, a couple of tutorials, and a bunch of courses allow any user to successfully set up the system and start tinkering with the available features. CRMs have always been about managing your sales pipeline.

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Lead Rank SalesForce Hubspot Lead Scoring 52