Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 21, 2012

Sales Leadership: Increasing Wallet Share with Cross Sell/Up Sell Strategies. Over the many years as a sales leader and as a consultant, when potential sales looked weak, the first action I would take would be to analyze all existing clients as to what products and services they currently use or have implemented.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 26, 2024

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. It doesn’t have to be.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 2, 2015

Two of the hottest markets for “tools” are Sales and Marketing Automation markets. There are thousands of vendors/solutions, growing by 100’s every year. All of the vendors clamor for attention and visibility. All of these vendors want to “teach” us, which seems right. themselves.

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SBI

JUNE 4, 2014

What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Duncan: The buying process has changed dramatically in the last decade and today as much as 70% of the buying cycle happens before a prospect ever reaches out to a vendor. As their manager, do you know what they know? It’s prettyscary to think about.

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PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2024

million small businesses , which constitutes up to 99.9% Such huge numbers equate to huge revenue potential in terms of SMB sales. Selling to small and medium businesses is different from B2C deals, where people are ready to make a purchase without extra persuading. In the U.S. alone there are about 33.2

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The second week of my first job, the Sales Manager asked for my forecast for sales at the end of the month? As you can imagine, anger built up inside me, but I instead smiled and asked a question as I modeled my selling style. I was tasked with inputting future sales in my sales pipeline.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2016

On to Day 3 of Dreamforce 2016 , we’re jam-packing the day with sessions, joining sales leaders from across the country to share tips and best practices around modern selling. And what better place to discuss modern sales as it relates to the evolution of the tech scene in the past few years than Dreamforce.

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2020

Is your Team Ready for Virtual Selling Success in Q3: 5 Key Questions to Ask. Sales teams have faced a long list of challenges this year due to the pandemic. Virtual selling—working a deal remotely when you can’t be there in person—is the new normal. But the rapid shift to virtual selling has not been uniform.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 30, 2014

To sell successfully, we must make it easy for customers to buy. In this month’s guest post, Brian Hansford, director of client services for Heinz Marketing, explains why he won’t buy from vendors who make him look up their phone numbers: . Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' If not, why?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database. And unlike most these applications, CRMs fail to help selling professionals, you know, sell. In fact, just 17% is spent meeting with potential vendors. In a profession where time is money, this is devastating.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2016

or maybe I’m just more aware of it, but it seems that too many sales managers are focused on killing the sales organization. Researchers constantly remind us that buying is changing, that buyers prefer to minimize contact with sales, reducing it to the last 20-43% of their buying process.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

They educate customers on products and services to finalize a sale. Regional sales managers oversee sales reps for a determined district and are focused on helping their team meet sales goals. A regional sales manager has an average salary of $124,000 yearly with bonuses and commissions.

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SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I recently read 52 Sales Management Tips – The Sales Manager’s Success Guide by Steven Rosen. Written for sales managers and small business owners, this is a guide every sales leader will benefit from. It’s packed with excellent tips and ideas to help you take your sales force to the next level.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Our RevTech stacks used to be much simpler… today we have an overwhelming amount of tooling and it can be hard to keep up. AI-guided selling: Drives seller effectiveness and efficiency by delivering feedback on deal-related efforts and prescriptive guidance on what actions to take next, based on AI analysis.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. in addition to presentations there were a number of vendors. All around the other vendors all were accepting credit cards, bit my man! All around the other vendors all were accepting credit cards, bit my man! A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Home About The Pipeline.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 23, 2017

If your sales strategy includes moving your product and services through multiple selling channels , you know very well that all channels are not created equal. Forcing a sales relationship model that works for selling into the heavy-industrial-equipment world upon a market that serves financial services is a recipe for failure.

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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. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? positive or negative,” he writes.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

We loaded up our Mercury Meteor and after endless hours of driving across the wasteland of Kansas, we final crossed the border into Colorado. I kept asking my dad to stop the car so I could just “run over to that mountain” and climb up to the top. Goals – Successful selling and deliberate goal-setting work together very well.

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Allego

JUNE 21, 2023

Generative AI, digital selling , and team selling have created an electric buzz not felt since social media was invented. But there’s also concern because sales, enablement, and marketing teams face serious challenges that impact their ability to attract and win over buyers. And in today’s economic climate, you can’t risk that.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2023

This is because the type of tech you'll sell varies depending on the kind of company you work for. For instance, one company might sell computer hardware, like laptops and monitors, while another sells CRM software. Or, they might sell a combination of tech, such as computers with anti-virus software. IT services.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Your company may have pivoted to virtual selling overnight this spring, but now you realize that working and closing deals when you can’t be there in person is the new normal. You also need to add new skills of engagement, technical aptitude, active listening, follow up, and time management to your toolbox of selling techniques.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Now, B2B buyers are on the go, using smartphones, tablets, and laptops to research and evaluate vendors. Now, sellers need up-to-the-minute, continual learning in the flow of work about your customers, market, and industry. Today’s Sales Teams Need a Learning Ecosystem. Sellers want to sell. Self-directed learning.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

In an ideal world, sales reps would spend all day sending emails, taking calls, and ultimately, doing what they do best—selling. There’s a lot more to sales than meets the eye. Other selling tasks include prospecting, administrative work, data entry, market research, etc. Reps only spend 1/3 of their time selling.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

MAY 18, 2022

Two marketing professors from the universities of Miami, Ohio and Missouri-Kansas City interviewed 50-some buyers who had dropped existing vendors for new suppliers. From the responses, the professors concluded that the number one reason companies switched was that their vendor became complacent. Complacency takes many forms.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. If your quality score is low, your ad will show up lower on a search results page — or perhaps not at all. Let’s say your company sells industrial refrigerators.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 29, 2015

While I don’t want to get into the discussion as to whether relationship selling is dead, limping or doing just fine, there some aspects of relationship selling that need to be rethought. Specifically the kind of sales managers that relationship sellers end up being. They present expectations rather than set them.

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Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

They should also have the chance to ask questions and enlist your help to get them set up. And this could give you the opportunity to sell the client additional products or move them to a higher subscription tier, depending on your type of business. DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader? Find out here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From your next promotion or raise to a deal with a client or agreement with a vendor, it’s all negotiable. The art of interest-based negotiating (if you haven’t studied up on IBN, do so right now) is realizing you and the other person both want the same thing: a good deal. And that means that getting a no really just means “not now.”.

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Pipeliner

JULY 21, 2020

Depending on which vendor you reference, a SEP sounds an awful lot like a CRM. But at least one vendor I found goes well out of their way to say that their product, this SEP, was most definitely not a CRM. Yet that same vendor stated that their SEP had “CRM characteristics.” Another SEP calls itself, “The Sales Enablement CRM.”

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I’ve been writing a lot about our Sales Execution Framework and a “Back To Basics” approach to sales management and selling. A lot of the discussion has been around sales training programs, new approaches, or new tools that companies have implemented–or tried to implement.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’ve been writing a series on the importance of systems thinking in buying and selling. ” As we, sellers, look at the various pieces parts of selling—marketing, sales, customer service, etc—we tend to optimize these systems to achieve our separate goals.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 25, 2018

Sales leaders and businesses are paying a hefty price for not developing the selling skills of their people. They’re not only selling less than they could be, they’re also being forced to sell at lower prices than they should be! There are so few in sales who are truly professional sellers. Living in Reactive Mode.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All focus was on maximizing growth, and frontline sales managers were most worried about what to do if their reps were regularly exceeding quota. It’s altered so much of the context surrounding sales, from the kinds of companies able to buy to the language that wins deals. But COVID-19 has drastically changed this environment.

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SBI

JUNE 3, 2014

What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? Duncan: The buying process has changed dramatically in the last decade and today as much as 70% of the buying cycle happens before a prospect ever reaches out to a vendor. As their manager, do you know what they know? It’s prettyscary to think about.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The more I delved into the film’s history, the angrier I became with sales leaders who let their account based selling teams fail to meet quota. We never panicked, and we never gave up on finding a solution.” NASA wouldn’t let their mission fail, so why do sales leaders let their account based selling teams fail?

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s challenging to work in sales management today. Sales managers often resemble Atlas, tasked with holding up the world as their areas of responsibility are ever-increasing: managing their team and market. delivering stronger sales results. Sellers Struggle to Adopt New Selling Methodologies.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I’ve worked with many companies who sell through the channel and complain that their channel partners aren’t selling enough. . For channel sales to be successful, your team must understand how the potential partners will make money with the product or service you want them to sell. Time to Payback.

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