SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

“Freedom lies in being Bold” – Robert Frost Are you consistently bringing bold sales strategy ideas to the VP of Sales? To be a world class Sales Operations leader, pick up the pace. Focused on identifying game changing market opportunities. Quantifying the potential impact for their sales leader.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Also, I did not include the article that was awarded a Gold Medal for Top Sales & Marketing Article of 2013 earlier this week. Here they are in no particular order - My Top 10 Articles of 2013: SALES. The Key to Powerful Sales Conversations. SALES MANAGEMENT. Which one gets you upset?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 11, 2013

The post Jeffrey Gitomer – Named one of the Top Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2013 appeared first on Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Blog. Sales Sales Management Success Jeffrey Gitomer Sales Training sales sales blog sales training sales training program top sales trainer'

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Interviewed VP of Sales, Product Leaders, and Sales Manager to understand what they were seeing in the market. But what they are doing is gathering data from an inward-out perspective when they should be looking at the market from an outward-in perspective. Marketing is making the buying decision 90% of the time.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2012

Marketing, do you have a sales quota tied to Lead Generation ? Sign up for our Make the Number Tour if you would like to see how your peers are allocating people, money and time in 2013. Over the last 12 months we: Surveyed over 10,000 sales representatives. Surveyed over 4,500 sales managers. What to do?”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2012

He had only been VP of Sales for 6 months. He rose from junior sales associate to become his division’s top rep. Then, as sales manager, he turned around a struggling team. Then he spent a year in Marketing. In Robert’s company, Sales VPs reported to the CSO. It was clear he deserved the job.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 22, 2014

Objective Management Group (OMG) measures sales-specific capabilities, has configurations for all of the various sales roles, and further customizes those configurations for the specific business, market, competition and decision maker to be called or visited. June 5 11:00 AM Eastern Register here.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I’ve heard a lot of talk about “ Content Marketing.” It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. Well, it’s true.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Speaking of Top Sales World, they just published a page showing all of the greats (I'm honored to be included) that have been inducted into their Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame in the past 3 years. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan I will share the article I wrote for EcSell below. What did you learn? (c)

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2014

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! You see, only 18% of all sales managers are any good at coaching and only 66% of them can be coached up.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads? Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

Are your sales resources properly aligned with growth opportunity ? The Sales Leader is about to receive the 2013 Revenue Number. He will rely on you, the Head of Sales Operations, for sales strategy advice. Have you conducted growth opportunity analyses in your market? What is wrong with this picture?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

One of the biggest problems a VP of Sales faces is prioritization. Prioritization through 3 lenses: What sales productivity problems should you fix in 2013? This post is written for the VP of Sales trying to determine which sales productivity problem to prioritize and which ones to ignore. You don’t run Marketing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

It''s their sales managers, who are almost as much in the dark as their salespeople. Want an example of sales management being in the dark? End of Quarter Closing is a great example of sales management dysfunction! And please vote for OMG, a finalist for Top Sales Assessment Tool. (c)

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 2, 2013

But you can excel in 2013 because of your shortcomings in 2012. And with these answers come chances for improvement in 2013. Talent Assessment of Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Build specific competency and accountability based scorecards for Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. Lead Generation.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan My vision, of how the future of selling is shaping up, appears in today''s (the December 18, 2013) issue of Top Sales Magazine. This issue also features the 2013 Award Winners of the Top Sales & Marketing Awards in 18 Categories.

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Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. Top Sales Books to Read in 2013.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2013

There are several GREAT speakers in the general sessions, but it is not a conference where you will find constant discussions about the art and science of selling or sales management. Whenever I hear a talk, a message or a point of view, I find myself automatically translating it to sales and sales management.

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Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Among the negatives: the on-the-spot feedback that was vital to the relationship between a manager and his reps is now less common. Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. percent were quality.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 17, 2012

That was a direct quote from one of our clients, referring to how sales looks at the leads his marketing department was generating. This is the classic battle between marketing and sales: Marketing generates leads of dubious quality and sales cherry picks only those leads they deem "qualified."

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

The third of four regional stops to nail down 2013 budgets for the Sales EVP and the CFO. Many marketing purists focus on the mechanics of segmentation work. Take the following steps with any segmentation work: Educate Sales Management along the way – Show them how the segmentation was done in layman’s terms.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The argument I hear is how sales leadership is something that only involves top performing sales people, sales managers or those who work for a company with huge market share. Sales leadership is a fundamental to anyone in sales who is striving to grow their sales and profit.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 4, 2012

A post for Sales and HR leaders to ensure success of 2013’s Sales compensation plan. Fast forward to April of 2013. A Chief Sales Officer is meeting with Sales VPs and the VP of Sales Operations. They are trying to decide between keeping and scrapping the recently-implemented Sales Comp Plans.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

It''s being perpetuated by extremist marketers who are claiming that inbound will become the be-all end-all. The latest proof can be found in this July 2013 USA Today article. The article also said that "T hirty-five percent of sales managers couldn''t find qualified candidates for open positions." It''s simply not true.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 5, 2013

Your Sales Management Guru Blog Author on “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers” List . Speaker, consultant, and author Ken Thoreson’s updated Sales Manager’s Tool Kit now available . One of the new approaches we’re taking with sales organizations is Business Guidance Selling.” .

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It''s amazing what Harvard Business Review will print on their pages when it comes to the subject of sales. The November 2013 issue featured an article titled Dismantling the Sales Machine. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' It was a survey! 5 Steps don''t make a process.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Download our Quota Validation Guide for Sales to see which metrics align to realistic quotas. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. These include Territory Vacancy Rate and Talent Level (sales rep).

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! 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. Focus on new product sales. Obtain market penetration projections.

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Bernadette McClelland

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Together with my promoter, Tanuja Vashisthi, founder of BRICCKS, we successfully launched Sales Mastery India to a little under 200 B2B sales leaders and sales people, on October 17-19th and are already gearing up for Sales Mastery India, 2013. How does communication get bridged?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2012

." - Jack Welch Are you questioning the ability of your sales leader to take your revenue performance to the next level? In your next board meeting, they will ask what you will do differently to make the number in 2013. To hire a top-performing sales leader, you have to remove legacy aspects of your recruiting strategy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2013

Issue Date: 2013-07-08. Teaser: They are questions that keep sales managers up at night: “ Why didn’t we win? ” A win or loss usually boils down to one factor – sales team actions. They are questions that keep sales managers up at night: “ Why didn’t we win? read more'

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving. This should actually be an ongoing task of the HR leader to have frequent discussions with Sales Directors and Sales Managers to keep pulse on which Reps may be at risk for leaving. Has any documented issues of “disconnect” with sales management.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Preparing for 2013. I thought I might simply highlight a few points from both sessions since there are pertinent for everyone as we move into 2013. There were four panelists -all with real world experience in selling and marketing. Still others believed sales must prospect and any leads from marketing were simply “gifts”. .

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

They had to go door-to-door, sell an overpriced luxury item, in the same market, over a 3-day period. 5 people were placed on each team based on the following carefully selected scores from OMG''s Sales Candidate Assessment: 1 team had the best Sales DNA. And you can read more about sales management here and sales coaching here.

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SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

The market outpaced him. You will learn if you possess the relevant skills of an “A” player sales leader. Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. He did it as a District Sales Manager. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas. Dave became VP of Sales for the Americas.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 30, 2013

Yet many front-line sales managers are slow to respond. Because speed requires more time and effort from a sales manager. The average sales manager will avoid these requirements. This post will explore ideas sales managers can implement to increase their speed. Or at least a few of them.

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