The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does this mean for sales teams? If you’re responsible for reaching demanding sales targets, you must be more dynamic and strategic in 2024. But, if cost-efficiency is a top priority, then extensive sales hiring is an expensive last resort– not a dependable solution. B2B sales has an average turnover rate of 35% ( source ).

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2019

Author: Matthew Sunshine As a sales manager, you spend serious time and care setting clear expectations; this is how you help your salespeople approach their work with purpose. A sales manager I once knew was in love with a particular metric: the number of calls each seller made in a day. You’ve got so much on your plate?

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 12, 2020

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 28, 2020

The sales management activities that we perform today create the results that we achieve today. What activities are you doing now that are creating your current unsatisfactory results? How can you change them?

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

Conversational intelligence tools — programs that use artificial intelligence to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze hours of sales calls — are becoming a staple of a growing number of sales organizations' tech stacks. How Managers Can Use Conversational Intelligence. Better understand the voice of your customer.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 17, 2024

After devoting nearly 40 years to sales development, I can tell you this with absolute certainty: Those who believe they need help, do need help, but it’s never as bad as they think it is. Sales managers who spend at least 50% of their time coaching salespeople have salespeople who are on average 20% more effective than those who don’t.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 17, 2023

From a sales strategy and process perspective, positioning value not only requires a great VALUE PROPOSITION but also supporting Will to Sell, Sales DNA, and Sales Competencies. Using data from just one of our dozens of community bank clients, this is what we found out about top 25% of the team vs the bottom 25% of the team.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2023

Prospect : W hy should I do business with you or your bank / company? In part 1, I gave you a sample of how the ‘selling value’ discussions sounds. Here it is again.

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Zendesk Sell

JULY 16, 2019

The sales world is changing fast. The tools and tactics that got the job done 10 years ago don’t stand a fighting chance of enabling sales or closing deals in today’s market. Staying competitive in sales means understanding changes in the customer journey and adjusting strategy accordingly. Agile methodology defined.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 25, 2024

The dream of every dedicated sales leader and the key to achieving sales team excellence is understanding what drives and inspires their people to perform at their highest potential. What are the competencies and behaviors of those leaders who seem so talented at helping others achieve their very best?

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 12, 2024

The sales performance management activities that we are performing today are creating the results we are achieving today. You must ask yourself, what activities are you, or your sales manager, doing now that are creating your current unsatisfactory results?

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Increase Sales

MAY 8, 2014

Math sometimes seem to be a poison to those in sales management. These industrious folks have a tendency to jump on board with the latest so called best practice without actually doing the math to see if their sales team can meet the goals. Then visit 10 of the home encircling the open house home. Share on Facebook.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. studying sales methodologies, you know that you are obsessed. Action – If you're sitting reactively doing email, if you're sitting period – you’re failing in sales. Bank on it! Sales is the transference of belief. is more cowbell!

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Sales Call Best Practices. Retail Sales Trends. Sales Managers Have the Hardest Job in Sales. Mark’s Insights on PRICING.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 21, 2018

SCENARIO: For the first time in a long time, you have sales positions open, but the most talented salespeople likely are already employed elsewhere. Well, this scenario is one managers often find themselves in. Recruiting and filling your talent bank is important.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Trying to build a high-impact sales team? Heads up: Your team will only ever be as good as its manager. In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find.

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Increase Sales

MAY 9, 2014

After a extremely cold and snowy winter, sales people are out in force attempting to achieve the sales goals set by sales management. The problem is many of these sales managers have failed to do simple math to learn if these goals are realistic. By doing the math, probably2 sales people could be terminated.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 1, 2024

However, with practice, you can be an immediately likable person and in sales, that may be enough. Likability is among the most basic effective sales techniques, but it develops only with consideration for your prospect’s personality. SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 8, 2023

So let’s assume that we are talking about a traditional sales organization with traditional salespeople who have responsibility for both finding and selling opportunities. The seven reasons most often to blame are: Sales Managers. In both scenarios, one of the assessments from Objective Management Group (OMG) can help.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment. Unfortunately, we also know that less than 10% of sales managers are considered highly effective at this critical role of coaching.

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Allego

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To put it mildly, 2022 was an up and down year for sales teams and their companies. These turbulent times will be with us as we enter 2023, making the sales manager’s role more important than ever. These turbulent times will be with us as we enter 2023, making the sales manager’s role more important than ever.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 28, 2014

Last week I was speaking with a VP of Sales of a well-known software company. George was not pleased with the performance of his sales team and was under intense pressure from the senior team to turn things around. Sales were off in 4 out of 5 regions and he felt that the sales team was just not motivated. By Steven A.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 16, 2022

As sales managers, we need to treat recruitment the same way. The most effective way to ensure you’re able to hire better talent is to build and maintain a strong talent bank. We are always asking our salespeople to prospect and keep their eyes open for new potential clients.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 28, 2023

Excerpt from Objective Management Group’s recent webinar on The Data Behind Sales Managers of Elite Teams. Through a deep analysis of sales evaluations and coaching frequencies, we uncover the impact of consistent coaching on various aspects of sales performance.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2022

This may be my own ignorance of programs leading sales enablement organizations are implementing. It’s driven by an observation about discussions I hear among sales enablement folks and observations from perusing my feeds. ” Reflecting back numbers of years, my first customers were major money center banks.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 4, 2018

Managers often reach out to us looking for creative ways to recruit people to their companies.

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Allego

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2024, we’ll see plenty of top-notch conferences for professionals in all industries, especially sales enablement. Sales enablement conferences and other events offer the ideal opportunity for you to build your career skills, learn about new technologies, and hear about new approaches to sales enablement. See you out there!

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Coaching Competency is the most critical part of a sales manager's responsibilities; it is also the most difficult skill set to learn and master. Of course, all of these point to the importance of constructive sales feedback while coaching. Not all coaching is helpful and constructive.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Without goals, your team lacks the key elements it needs to win — a direction to follow and the encouragement to stay motivated in sales. Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve written on this subject, talked about it at workshops/keynotes and presented it to our clients in our Sales Managed Environment ® Certification program for over 20 years. It’s still something that we get asked about when we present at the Community Bank CEO Network and other venues. It’s still in the news.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Cespedes, Yuchun Lee and Mark Magnacca A lot of sales training misunderstands how salespeople learn. Most learning in sales is through peer learning in specific contexts, and the effects are cumulative because modeling behavior is a big driver of how salespeople develop. Citizens Bank has cut its training time in half.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 29, 2011

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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