Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!”

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2020

million Americans worked from home nearly half the time — just a small fraction of the population. At the same time, businesses have had to adjust quickly to learn how to manage their new remote workforce — something many have never dealt with. . . What happens to the sales force and their commission-based structure?

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Alice Heiman

MAY 4, 2023

Leading indicators, lagging indicators, qualitative data, and quantitative data might sound like boring topics for your sales meetings. Sales revenue is a lagging indicator of success. You need data daily and weekly that tells you what to do before it’s too late. Chapters: [00:00] What Is SalesOps? [08:27]

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 25, 2024

If HR isn’t your specialty, consider fractional HR support. But the thought of sitting back to watch the money roll is unrealistic. Truthfully, small business growth brings a collection of unique headaches. The goal is to help empower your desire to succeed with small business growth! But more money means more problems.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

APRIL 9, 2020

I talked with Mary Grothe , Sales BQ CEO & Founder to better understand how behavioral intelligence plays into the success of salespeople and the sales managers leading their teams. We start by talking about what BQ – Behavioral Intelligence is and how a keen understanding of BQ impacts sales success.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 29, 2012

The word “professional” is loosely defined by most simply as, “Someone who gets paid for what they do…”, and that may apply to many professions. A high-level sales professional’s income will easily rival or exceed that of a world-renowned brain surgeon. Time management. Or something like that. So, here is a question for you….

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The trend toward hiring fractional executives is proving to be an effective solution for some companies. Here's what to know about fractional CMOs. The post 5 Key Differences Between a Fractional CMO and a Full-Time CMO appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The trend toward hiring fractional executives is proving to be an effective solution for some companies. Here's what to know about fractional CMOs. The post 5 Key Differences Between a Fractional CMO and a Full-Time CMO appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here are 10 things that would happen if product management, product marketing, sales and customer success all had a common view of your target customers. There’d be a common understanding of what customers are trying to accomplish, why those business goals and outcomes are critical to their success and how they measure success.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2012

A few things happened to me this week that remind me how long It can take for new sales techniques to be adopted – and become a habit with sales people. I was discussing a situation with one of my sales consultant friends where they are seeing a sales force where solution selling is still only a skill of the minority.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2023

So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. What happened, when something went wrong? People would assess the problem, understanding what was causing it, figuring out how to fix it. One of the biggest areas of waste is the product itself.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 4, 2023

For example, chat GPT can be used in software development and sales, such as generating code and writing personalized emails. But what’s next for chat GPT? This will allow users to ask to chat GPT a question and have it perform five or six tasks that a virtual assistant could have done, but in a fraction of the time.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This week, I’m breaking down what we’re seeing and hearing in the market and what candidates can do to differentiate in the hiring process. Ask/understand exactly what the hiring process looks like from here and set next steps on the call. Lots of talented folks are seeking jobs. Yet not a lot of positions are getting filled.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Kristina and Will look at common email mistakes (using real examples) and rewrite them so that you can learn what to do differently. In short, we help high-growth companies fill gaps in their finance departments on a fractional basis. Have a question about your sales email?

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are also numerous moving parts that you must manage daily. Instead, figure out in what areas you can improve and be willing to put in the hard work it will require to do better. You can get the most out of a program such as Salesforce by working with a professional fractional Salesforce team.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 17, 2024

It’s the exact same goal product managers aim for when they’re building new features and products. Then your poor customer success managers are left holding a big bag of issues to resolve just to get customers to the point of success they expected up front. What’s the ultimate business outcome the customer wants from my product?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2019

It’s difficult to make a direct correlation between free food and employee performance, says Sales & Marketing Management columnist and behavioral science aficionado Tim Houlihan. Big Ass Fans, a fan manufacturer, has a beer refrigerator that is unlocked if the day’s sales goals have been met.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leads, opportunities, sales: That’s the natural sequence of the sales process, right? Below, we’ll discuss the impact that a robust opportunity management process can have on your bottom line. Below, we’ll discuss the impact that a robust opportunity management process can have on your bottom line.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For the most part, management could care less about employees, especially the females on their teams, which plays into our Blog title, ‘Are you an empathetic leader?’ What set me back on my heels about the study is the finding that women are far more likely to put themselves in the shoes of others to find agreement.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Spending money is a constant, but when you are alert to what works best, the expenditures work better on your behalf. You will likely see a noticeable return on investment with your sales investments upon implementing the varying strategies. Outsourcing is typically more affordable and can be a fraction of the cost.

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Highspot

MAY 20, 2021

SEATTLE, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Highspot , the sales enablement platform that increases the performance of sales teams, today announced its Spring ’21 release, delivering robust enterprise capabilities that help companies build a scalable, repeatable revenue engine. Turn C-Suite Strategies into Actions with Scorecards.

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SBI

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Mediafly , a leader in sales enablement, interactive content and value selling, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InsightSquared , a leader in revenue intelligence, forecasting and analytics. What happens in the sales meeting is no longer the sole indicator of deal health.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. Today, sales is driven by insights. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations of all sizes are turning to sales engagement platforms to manage this workload.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: TIM RIESTERER Sales training and enablement leaders, it’s time to level up. As a result, your content can’t be just a companion to a sales-led customer conversation?— There are four forever changes transforming sales training and enablement from here on out: Marketing is the sales development team. Takeaway: ?Sales

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 31, 2021

While it will do some sales managery things, it’s really not built for managers and particularly for those who are data and report driven. How can I manage my salespeople without my reports!?” Instead, you must learn how to manage your salespeople in new and better ways. So, what makes Nimble the salesperson’s CRM?

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 26, 2012

Listening skills… Every sales manager and director tells you how important they are but do they actually tell you how to improve them! As sales people elevate their sales skills in other areas, often the area of listening begins to suffer, and usually it is the more experienced pros who are the biggest culprits.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They personally match all of their candidates and specialize in recruiting for revenue generating roles, such as sales, marketing, customer success, and business development. If you’re like most of us, the answer is a lot. If you have yet to use YouTube in your professional life, this blog post is for you. Watch here 2. Watch here 3.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Today’s sales teams have the ability to use tools that would simply blow the mind of someone who first came up in the industry just 10 years ago. What’s the difference? Instead, this is what the average sales rep’s day really looks like: You start the day by checking your email. The other asks what you’re offering.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The strongest marketing and sales campaigns are data-driven. What does that mean? It means your marketing and sales are at their peak when you base them on valuable metrics like click-through rate (CTR) and lead close rate. But what is lead close rate? What is lead close rate? Why does it matter?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2022

We are “happy,” with response rates in fractions of percentage, we know we can generate volume just by doing more. But what astounds me is how poorly we manage those leads we get. In my news feed, I saw an article about an interesting research study on sales performance/productivity.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2011

An interesting post by SoftwareAdvice.com’s Derek Singleton— What Does Social Manufacturing Look Like? In most cases, marketing and sales teams are only able to cover a fraction of their market, and this means that only a fraction of potential deals are being closed.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 20, 2020

Guest post by Scott Leese, CEO & founder of Scott Leese Consulting , and founder of The Surf and Sales Summit. Or you’re used to coaching your team on the sales floor. ” A better question is: “What’s one thing I should work on if I’m struggling to get past gatekeepers?” Want mentorship?

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Pipeliner

MAY 6, 2021

Cost management. There are a lot of different ways to manage money. By intentionally understanding the management of the money, we better understand how money goes in and out and can make better decisions to scale our business. Cost Management. Managing costs is crucial for building an enduring business.

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SBI

APRIL 9, 2014

As it goes for business, so it goes for Sales. Do you employ leverage to get the most from your sales organization? One way to accomplish that is to deploy sales tools. Back in 2010 when I first wrote about the topic of leverage in Sales, I talked specifically about DiscoverOrg. What technology do they currently use?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. Focus on new product sales.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 11, 2020

I’m always stunned by the number of sales people and leaders that don’t know their numbers. Some readers will push back, “I know my quota and the revenue I produced…I know what I have to do each month, quarter!” They are, ultimately, the numbers we produce by effectively managing performance.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 27, 2023

The sales philosophy is to make the selling process credible and communications simple, all to increase the desire to begin a new relationship and encourage a ‘Yes!’ What matters equally is the follow-through on every detail and all promises; otherwise, there will be a leakage in interest and clientele.

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