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[Missed Connections]: December Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )? And which tactics will help us keep our pipelines full in 2015 and beyond? Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. Learn more.)

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Performance Management/Metrics. Sales Effectiveness/Sales Efficiency. Incentives/Compensation. Analytics/Big Data. Gamification.

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Sales Leadership: 5 Steps to Exceed 2015 Quota

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. The end of the year is rapidly closing in and while everyone in your organization is focused on achieving their targets; as a sales leader it is crucial you are also focused on the new year. Plan what major sales training your team requires.

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New Managers Want to Succeed! Are You Helping Them?

Steven Rosen

Congratulations you have been promoted and you are now the sales manager! Sales organizations tend to promote their top sales reps into sales manager jobs. We all know that this promotion leads to the sales organization losing on two counts. Unheard of? Top performers may end up leaving the company.

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2015 Sales Compensation Plans

Your Sales Management Guru

Some pay commission based on sales, while others only pay on margin; still others blend both with incentives and special bonus plans. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. No matter which approach you use, success depends on awareness.

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Sales managers – a new pathway to leadership

Sales Training Connection

You have to act like a leader before you’re appointed to a leadership position, and you have to manage your own leadership path … only be exiting your comfort zone can you develop “outsight”— the term she coins to describe the valuable perspective gained through actions.”. So let’s translate this message to sales management.

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Sales Contests: Building a Culture of High Performance

Your Sales Management Guru

Building a Culture of High Performance: Sales Games. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for the 4th quarter and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. Never run contests to the last day of the month or sales period.