The Brooks Group

MARCH 11, 2020

Remaining strong – and in fact, stalwart – in the face of this uncharted new landscape represents a generational challenge for many in positions of sales management. Sales Management Strategies. Decide if you want to prosper or perish. Track, train, and educate.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2014

Low Pay - At the college level, the name of the game is recruiting - an extremely time-consuming, travel-centric job. It got me thinking about the road most often taken to sales management. Compared to the rocky road to coaching in the NFL, the road to sales management absolutely sounds like a road paved with gold!

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The loss of a talented sales manager is troubling. Learn more about the right way by downloading the Exit Interview Tool. We’ve also written on Sales Rep Exit Interviews. So far we’ve covered: Signs your Sales Team Isn’t Happy. Why Your Best Sales Reps Leave. A’ Player Rep – Download the Exit Interview Tool.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2023

And it can have a profound effect on your sales management, as backed up by the statistics. In this article, we take a deeper look at how you can make the most of marketing automation for improving sales management and growing your business. Using the tool to your advantage is where the nuance and trick of automation lie.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One of the most effective reward tools is a non-monetary point system. Above their comp plan, a rep might earn 1,000 points for every $100,000 in new sales during the quarter. Good incentives with reasonably precise rules and rewards allow sales managers to send positive signals about the company’s priorities and transparency.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And this dynamic has merely accelerated a long-term trend of B2B companies shifting their sales capacity from field-based to virtual models. Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

With a quality sales tracking platform, you can easily tell which of your sales strategies are working and which should be kicked to the curb. Keep reading to learn what sales tracking software is, what a proper sales tracker tool looks like, and the eight best sales tracking software options available to you in 2020.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. They estimate total air travel could drop between 19% and 36% permanently due to changes in business travel.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Sales managers who are nervous about their team working outside of the office can take heart in a recent study that ranks sales representative as the No. In fact, the study from MagnifyMoney shows that 13% of sales representatives already worked from a home office prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Author: SMM staff.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

We used to be limited in the time we could spend with customers by the time it took to travel to meet with the customer. Mobile devices, email, Zoom, and so many other technologies help us reach prospect and customers more easily, eliminating travel time. New tools and technologies continue to help us gain leverage over our time.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? There are some significant perks to becoming the boss: less travel, more money, maybe a private office. Then we’ll give you eight actionable tips to make your sales management dreams a reality.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

Designing sales compensation and recognition programs. Turning the sales strategy to organization action. Improving sales force effectiveness. Developing a great sales management team. All too soon, I found the excitement and new tools learned from my course slipping away. Measuring performance.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 2, 2017

Making Remote Coaching Work in Sales Organizations. Coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. Sales managers that grow and develop their salespeople will grow their business. Sales coaching is both a skill and a process. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2020

Sales teams have faced a long list of challenges this year due to the pandemic. Travel restrictions and meeting cancellations have put quotas at risk. Sales managers leading geographically dispersed sellers are doubling down on the fundamentals. Relying on PowerPoint and video conferencing tools such as Zoom isn’t enough.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 7, 2014

Salespeople not performing, dragging you down, and compromising your team‘s sales effectiveness? Perhaps you didn’t equip them with the skills and tools to do their job. On-boarding a new sales rep requires more than providing a desk, a phone, and a password. Where Should Sales Managers Spend Their Time?

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

When it comes to sales one of the most potent superpowers a sales manager can have is the ability to coach effectively. But why do we still think sales managers should be able to coach without any training or practice? Just like Superman, sales coaches need to learn how to walk before they jump.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

When it comes to sales one of the most potent superpowers a sales manager can have is the ability to coach effectively. But why do we still think sales managers should be able to coach without any training or practice? Just like Superman, sales coaches need to learn how to walk before they jump.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2012

” The result of this “product presenting” sales approach is that the company is only selling its core legacy products and very few of its new products that are strategically important to the company. This scenario is in no way an isolated case from my travels around many small firms. Will sales management coaching do it?

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you need a refresher, here’s everything you need to know about sales enablement. Sales Management Association research discovered that organizations considered “laggards” in adopting sales technology saw their sales goal achievement drop 12 percent from year to year. What is a Sales Enablement Tool?

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Showpad

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you need a refresher, here’s everything you need to know about sales enablement. Sales Management Association research discovered that organizations considered “laggards” in adopting sales technology saw their sales goal achievement drop 12 percent from year to year. What is a Sales Enablement Tool?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products. Because travel is expected, you can anticipate greater compensation. Because of this, 72.4%

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

By bringing digital technologies to bear, sales enablement organizations can actually improve onboarding effectiveness. Scorecards are also a valuable tool for the pre-boarding and onboarding process, providing valuable insight into each rep’s journey from initial pre-boarding activity to full productivity. Are you digital-ready?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

If you don’t already have contingency plans and processes in place, the time is now to build and hone frameworks to support a work-from-home period and travel freezes for your sales team (and organization at large). It’s important that managers are well-versed in the technologies that reps will be using to conduct work remotely.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. In one of my posts I provide guidance to sales managers on who belongs in their sales team and how do they decide who needs to be managed-out?

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The evidence clearly shows that a gender-diverse sales team historically outperforms a non-diverse sales team. A 2019 study by Xactly that researched 100,000 women in sales roles, including sales reps, account managers, and sales managers, found that 86% of women achieved quota, compared to only 78% of men.

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Allego

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You get to meet, share ideas, and have fun with other sales enablement managers, sales managers, learning and development professionals, and revenue enablement folks. Below is a list of the top sales enablement conferences for 2024. We love meeting with our Life Sciences customers here each year!

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Allego

JULY 29, 2021

Most recently, Cespedes published a new book—his sixth—entitled Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing. . The combination of Cespedes’ academic experience and his knowledge of real-world selling makes him one of the foremost authorities on the topics of sales and sales management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. They estimate total air travel could drop between 19% and 36% permanently due to changes in business travel.

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Allego

JUNE 2, 2021

Escape velocity depends on how far the object has already traveled, considering that, without new acceleration, it will slow down as it travels. I agree and see an opportunity for improving how sales training is conducted. That experience-based learning, which illustrates what excellence looks like, permeates our environment.

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Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales reps sell from their office, in stark contrast to outside sales, where sales reps travel to visit clients and close deals on the road. Inside sales teams use phone, email, video, and social media messaging to sell to potential customers. . Outside sales reps, by contrast, sell on the road.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. We were honestly amazed at the great tools we found. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Cycle.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Today’s Sales Teams Need a Learning Ecosystem. Sales teams need modern tools that deliver continuous learning, micro-learning, and learning in the flow of work. They need a mobile-first tool that allows them to access information in their moment of need, and from any location. Sales Teams Need More than an LMS.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

By 2025 0 % of B2B sales interactions will happen via digital channels When it comes to inside sales, you may have questions like: What is inside sales? How is it different from outside sales? What skills and tools do reps need for success? What is inside sales? What are the tools needed for success?

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Distribution Pricing Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Striking an optimal balance between remote and on-site work can bolster effective decision-making and foster a cooperative atmosphere among pricing managers and their teams. At the risk of alienating some of our sales managers in our audience – bear with us – pricing managers don’t always trust direct feedback from individual reps.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 13, 2014

Sales Training Article: The Sales Manager''s New Year''s Resolutions. By George De Los Reyes, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) I am big on New Year''s resolutions. Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ''A'' players on the team.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 28, 2021

Your sales team is the backbone of your company, and your employees are just as vital to business success as your customers. In today’s age of digital transformation, sales management teams must adapt their sales training strategies to evolving consumer trends and the global shift towards remote work. Image Source.

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