No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. I had to figure out why everyone said referral business was the best business, but no one had a referral system in place.

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Highspot

JUNE 1, 2023

The majority of sales leaders consider enablement as a practice to be mission critical and prioritize their enablement platform as a top three tool in their revenue tech stack, according to 2023 research conducted by Gerson Lehrman Group on behalf of Highspot. To learn more about Highspot’s new suite of product offerings, request a demo.

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Scale Infusion Enterprise Enterprise 98

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. The salient question now becomes, what cannot be sold virtually?

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I proposed based upon my experience that working a partnering-model will bring your organization one salesperson’s quota per year WITHOUT absorbing the cost of sales in hiring another person. Acumen Management Group Ltd. operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank 71

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 4, 2014

This information helps us, the sales person and the sales manager, understand the "root" of the sales symptoms being displayed by the sales person: Not asking enough of the right questions. Conduct joint/observational sales calls. Additional Resources: Workshop - Why Aren''t Your Sales People Selling?

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Decision Maker Analysis Education eBook 180

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Corporate Sales Training. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching. → One-on-One Sales Coaching. Sales Management Training. Overview Training Options for Managers. → Management Web Seminars.

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System Pharmaceuticals Incentives Incentive 49

Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? Get 70+ expert strategies for sales management success in our Sales Manager’s Survival Guide. This is an excellent time to invite your leads to view webinars, workshops, conferences, and the like.

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Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 71

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. The Fix: Don’t do your sales rep’s job for them.

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Sales Leadership How To Hiring Coaching 118

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sales Training Article: Is"Sales Manager" An Oxymoron? Frank Visgatis, President & Chief Operating Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Are you doing more selling than managing? However, it was my internal system.

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Sales Management Training Analysis Pipeline 45

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

MARCH 2, 2010

Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Corporate Sales Training. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching. → One-on-One Sales Coaching. Sales Management Training. Overview Training Options for Managers. → Management Web Seminars.

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Account Sales Management Training Pharmaceuticals 63

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. What type of training is required for a sales manager?

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Training Hiring Construction Case Study 98

Vendor Neutral

JULY 16, 2021

From using a value-based selling strategy to creating a strategic cold calling system, learn the techniques that transform cold calling into an effective, thoughtful part of your overall sales strategy. Learn How to: Implement a successful, scalable cold calling strategy, system, and framework. Actually going in cold!

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Cold Calling Hiring Webinar Metrics Advertising 52

Increase Sales

JULY 19, 2013

Believe it or not, there are still some very stupid people in sales. Internal – the belief system of the salesperson or sales manager. Another example of external stupidity is how sales training is delivered. This really hurts new sales people who lack product experience and squashes their desire to sell.

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Coaching Facebook Training Examples 165

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I just finished reading a chapter from the book – Harvard Business Review on Strategic Sales Management. The chapter is “Understanding What Your Sales Manager Is Up Against” by Barry Trailer and Jim Dickie. This article was no exception, especially when they were writing about the sales process.

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Decision Maker Hiring Buyer Sales Methodology 182

Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 7, 2020

And establishing a sequential flow to any sales conversation is critical. These all make complete sense within the framework of a sales workshop or a sales kick-off. But, if success in sales was just about laying out an account map and telling sellers what to say, everyone would be crushing their sales goals.

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Training Sales Cycle Account Coaching 59

Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Importance of Sales Management in a Recovering Economy. We have met with Sales Leaders from around the world, lead workshops, presented keynotes and developed new long term relationships with our client base. What is the role or action points for sales manager’s in a recovering economy?

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Sales Management Hiring Compensation Margin 65

Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

When I conduct workshops on building a sales metric management system, the first metric that the group usually mentions for inclusion is revenue. There is nothing that sales managers can do to address revenue. Revenue is not a metric. It is a result.

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System Revenue Groups Sales Management 40

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

During a workshop I was teaching I asked the VP Sales (Phil) if he was using their offering to forecast. At that point I told him the reason his forecasts were so accurate was that his system knew how inaccurate each seller had been in the past. Most systems have ways to edit data to eliminate errors.

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Hiring Forecasting Pipeline Discount 63

Pipeliner

MARCH 18, 2018

Last week after presenting a keynote program called Gourmet Living , an attendee came up to me afterwards and discussed her challenges as a sales manager. Since my keynote program had been about creating a Menu for Your Life with many metaphors around cooking, I started thinking about what her sales management recipe should be.

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Hiring Call-back Sales Management CRM 72

Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Other tips: Your website must be a sales tool- make sure your salespeople use it in your sales process and that it includes customer testimonials. Instead of lunch workshops, making them “business breakfast sessions”, especially for net new prospects. Salespeople should also continue to develop their network of referral sales.

Lead Rank 54

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 54

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 24, 2014

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In my first sales management position I soon noticed that one of my salespeople seldom made calls alone. He called on mid-level IT staff and whenever possible brought our Systems Engineer (SE) with him on his calls.

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Engineering Sales Cycle Resources Sales 81

Allego

JANUARY 28, 2021

She was able to pivot her 20 years of industry experience into online training seminars and workshops in a matter of weeks. Stanley describes one of the most telling exercises she conducts during her sales management workshops—she asks sales leaders for their worst hire stories. “I They’re not.”.

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Hiring How To Face-to-face Pivotal 77

InsightSquared

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Pipeline cleanliness is critical to managing your reps, controlling your pipeline, and making an accurate forecast, but it’s a challenging and lofty goal. We recently hosted a small customer workshop for sales ops leaders to compare their successes, and collaboratively develop the Pipeline Cleanliness Playbook: Four Lessons Learned.

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Pipeline Guidelines Forecasting Follow-up 85

SalesLoft

JANUARY 15, 2019

In Search of Sales Trainers. Sales Ops Stars. Frontline Sales Managers. Account Managers or Success Managers. Be sure to consider the workshops on March 11th – there’s something for everyone. Sales Ops Stars. However, these are can’t-miss sessions for sales ops stars.

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Conference Sales Methodology Networking Face-to-face 52

Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 26, 2013

It is recommended that an on-going “Executive Forum” or workshop event is scheduled for the same time/same day each month. Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. Sales Management Systems'

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Pipeline Direct Mail Ideal Customer Profile Vendor 76

Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2022

It’s months out of date, it’s been extracted from their CRM systems or something provided by Sales Ops. They open a standard report in their CRM system, not the most useful but it’s been created for them, it’s the one they are used to, having used it for years. One of four things happens.

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Data Report Quota Pipeline 91

Vengreso

JUNE 16, 2022

All by now have implemented virtual sales training or online sales training programs that have had a better impact on sellers’ behavior than a face-to-face training session ever was able to achieve. Is Online Sales Training Effective? Virtual training workshops just had a stigma. It turns out, they were right.

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Benefit Training Retention Ideal Customer Profile 59

Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I ran a workshop yesterday for one of the best technology companies on the planet and we discussed how to best qualify a prospect. Most sales people are familiar with some of these qualification frameworks: But qualifying is not just about eliminating time-wasters and nor should these be framed as clumsy closed questions.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Forecasting 97

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With AI, sales teams can automate those important tasks for which they neglected to allocate resources due to their high labor intensity. AI-powered CRM systems like Salesforce can automatically log details, adjust inventory, and set strategic follow-ups, which is simply impossible within a strict meeting schedule.

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Lead Rank Sales Process Lead Scoring Outsourcing Services 52

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 12, 2015

My purpose over the next several blog posts will be to answer the question: Why Are Your Sales People Not Selling As Expected. When I deliver this topic as a webinar, keynote or workshop, it is titled, Why Aren’t Your Sales People Selling? The role of your sales manager. The required skills of your sales manager.

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Hiring Intent Up-Sell Revenue 120

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 5, 2016

I mention Belichick’s “next man up” approach because sales managers, sales executives and CEO’s often rely heavily upon their “A” Players that comprise the top 10% of their sales staff to achieve top-line revenue. The Patriots have a system that helps each positional player understand their role.

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Face-to-face Enterprise Enterprise Coaching 74

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 14, 2020

Most Sales Managers would agree that completing prospecting activities and hitting sales goals are critical to success.

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Hiring Sales Goal Sales Management Prospecting 180

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2015

When you are evaluating your sales people for success, there is success and then there is SUCCESS. Too often, when I sit down with a CEO, president, sales executive or sales manager to discuss sales results and success, I get a description for success that has a great deal of variability to it.

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Hiring SME eBook Call-back 120

Braveheart Sales

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We sometimes use the following Sales hiring mistake calculator with our clients to demonstrate the impact we can have from a hiring perspective. The only system I know of that comes out of the box designed to enable salespeople to progress through a process in this way is Membrain. Learn more about it here.

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Negotiation Hiring Proposal Groups 104

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 11, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success?

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Energy Demographics 191

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Remember, if the data that goes into the system is biased, the output will face the same problem. “If If we're letting biased data enter our sales platforms, that means any analyses, recommendations, and steps taken could be skewed and negatively affect our DEIB standards. Consider offering training sessions or workshops on the topic.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 31, 2010

I can remember leading a sales management workshop 10 years ago when at a break it seemed almost everyone ran to a phone to check in and “put out fires”. There are a few rules in leading a high performance sales team when out of the office. Ken Thoreson, president of Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Constant Contact System Sales Leadership Travel 61