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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

Your Sales Strategy. It is one thing to have a sales strategy. You know you need to begin planning for 2014 now. VPs of Sales are asking the question “What have I done before?”. VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough?

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How Realistic is your 2014 Sales Quota?

SBI Growth

To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. Gain access to guides and tools to help you make the number in 2014. As a sales rep, it’s important to understand how upper management views quota setting. This will then inform your thoughts about your 2014 quota.

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CMO: Are you going to have a job in 2014

SBI Growth

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Poorly executing one of these major initiatives will cost you your job in 2014. User buyer examples: Sales reps by vertical. Buyer insights.

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The Monumental Effort Required to Grow Sales in 2014

Understanding the Sales Force

When you look ahead to 2014 sales, are you using the same assumptions as always? You can''t possibly know whether or not your metrics for sales cycle, margin, closing percentage, retention, or average sale are going to change until you have completed enough sales cycles to collect the data for an appropriate sample size.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.

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5 Ways Every Sales Manager Can Be More Successful

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2014-06-27. Author: Rob Eleveld, Vice President of Sales, WhitePages PRO. Teaser: Nobody said sales management was going to be easy. Nobody said sales management was going to be easy. But there are some ways to increase your odds of being successful. read more'

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The Sales Manager New Year’s Resolution: 3 Do’s & 3 Don'ts

SBI Growth

In this post I want to recommend three ideas to raise your game in 2014. Each recommendation addresses the biggest obstacles every sales manager faces to making the number: Not enough ‘A’ players on the team. Every sales manager is time starved. Every sales manager is time starved. INTERNAL MEETINGS.